An open source web framework for building modern web apps and services with .NET.
April 30, 2010Apr 30, 201004/30/10
When we released Beta2 in Oct 2009, there was a lot of customer excitement about the super cool features in VS 2010. However, one recurring complaint from customers was that the performance of VS 2010 was not on par with Orcas.
April 29, 2010Apr 29, 201004/29/10
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pVisual Web Developer 2010 Express is available for installation via the Web Platform Installer at http://microsoft.com/express/web. The English SKU was published on April 12th, French, German and Japanese went live on April 27th and Spanish, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese,
April 28, 2010Apr 28, 201004/28/10
Hi, I’m Dan Chartier, I work on the Web Tools designer and helped improve its performance in Visual Studio 2010. For some background, Visual Studio 2008 completely replaced the original trident (Internet Explorer) designer with the FrontPage designer (which is also used by Expression Web).
April 22, 2010Apr 22, 201004/22/10
We have had some customers ask why they are unable to target earlier frameworks .NET 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 using Visual Studio 2010. Targeting earlier frameworks (also known as Multi-targeting) is in-fact fully supported in VS 2010, but there is a pre-requisite that .NET Framework 3.5 Sp1 must be installed on the machine for VS 2010 to be able to target any of the earlier frameworks 2.0,
April 22, 2010Apr 22, 201004/22/10
Web Deployment (see this posting for an overview) offers a set of pre-determined options to allow users to include the most common sets of files for deployment. These options are as follows and can be found under the “Items to deploy” section on the Package / Publish Web property page.
April 20, 2010Apr 20, 201004/20/10
Publishing using MSDeploy In-Process Deployment or Remote Agent
Through the Beta 2 release, VS 2010 had only supported publishing to servers using MSDeploy’s IIS deployment handler technology integrated with the “Web Management Service”, a.k.a. WMSVC. As long as you had an account on a hosting server using WMSVC,
April 19, 2010Apr 19, 201004/19/10
Update (5/3/2010): In addition to the VS designer surface not loading, there are other actions that will cause a hang. Working with CSS increases your chances of seeing this issue. For example, bringing up the CSS Manage Styles dialog, the CSS property grid,
April 15, 2010Apr 15, 201004/15/10
In VS 2010, if you are accessing the Session state in the OnInit(…) method of your page, similar to the following code snippet:
then you will encounter an “Error Creating Control” for ASP.NET controls when viewing the Design view of the page.
April 15, 2010Apr 15, 201004/15/10
Quite some time ago, when Vista just went RTM, Risk Strahl discovered that when he used Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse, code intellisense and markup validation in Visual Studio stopped working. Since several activities in VS are done in a background on idle (not to be confused with background threads –
April 15, 2010Apr 15, 201004/15/10
Quite some time ago, when Vista just went RTM, Risk Strahl discovered that when he used Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse, code intellisense and markup validation in Visual Studio stopped working. Since several activities in VS are done in a background on idle (not to be confused with background threads –
