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Single Project Add View in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2
Last week we released ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 Sp1. In the box support for single project areas is now included and the Add View tool has been modified to streamline this scenario. A walkthrough that creates two simple single project Read More...
Working with SVG files in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is W3C standard language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Firefox 3+, Opera 9+ and Safari 3+ support SVG rendering. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 8 does not support SVG natively Read More...
Download four free sample chapters from Visual Web Developer book
Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available: Creating Web sites Creating and Managing CSS Styles Applying Read More...
Visual Web Developer - Designer Survey
The VWD team is always looking for ways to improve our product for our customers. To help us better achieve this goal we have created a survey that we hope you will take a few moments to fill out. Click Here to take survey This survey centers around the Read More...
New series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008
We have started a new series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008. Over the course of next few weeks we will be adding many more videos to this series . These video tutorials will range in complexity from beginner to intermediate and Read More...
How to use wcftestclient as svc file debugger for VS2008 SP1
Wcftestclient can be used to debug a WCF service. Here are two ways to enable wcftestclient debugging in Visual Studio VS2008 SP1 web applications. Tradition way: In Web application project property page, web tab, one can specify start external program Read More...
Hotfix for "Design view does not update HTML" and to "Designer inserts a lot of  "
A hotfix is now available for issues most commonly described as " I make changes in Design view but Source does not get updated " and " After certain actions designer inserts a lot of   in the page" .   This hotfix can Read More...
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 now Live!
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now Live. You can download it right now here . Also check out Phil Haack’s post on the release. If you are new to MVC, please check out our previous posts for more information and links to many useful blogs and resources. Alternatively, Read More...
Hotfix for Visual Studio hang when opening Web project from a remote site
Under certain conditions opening Web projects from remote sites may become very slow. We've seen quite a few 'hang' reports submitted via 'Send Information to Microsoft' feedback (aka Dr. Watson ). The reason is that sometimes XML editor (which is used Read More...
ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2
ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 is live ! Check out Phil Haack’s blog, Haacked.com , for information on the new installer and some other general release info. The release is mostly focused on responding to customer feedback but there are some minor tooling Read More...
VSDoc for jQuery 1.3.2 Now Available
jQuery 1.3 was released a little over a month ago. The 1.3 release adds exciting features such as selector performance improvements, "live events" where events can be bound to both current and future elements, and more. Version 1.3.2 was released a few Read More...
T4 Templates: A Quick-Start Guide for ASP.NET MVC Developers
As mentioned in our recent blog post on the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate , our code-generation features (namely, Add Controller and Add View) now use the T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) templating technology behind the scenes. Because users Read More...
What’s New For MVC Tools in the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate
The ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC) is finally out, and we wanted to give returning MVC users as well as new MVC users an overview of what the tooling in Visual Studio provides. The MVC 1.0 RC can be downloaded right now here ( Release Notes ). Read More...
Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes
Download: VSSpellChecker.msi What's new in version 2.2: Spell checker now fully supports VS 2008 SP1 Content of <code>, <abbr> and <address> elements is ignored Setup no longer requires COM registration, it uses VS AddIn registration Read More...
Workaround for a slow closing of Web projects
A few users reported that with Web projects located on a remote machine closing project or solution may hang Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express for several minutes. We fould that the issue may be caused by VS logging component that collects Read More...
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