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Visual Studio 2005 vs. Dreamweaver 8

October 16, 2006 Oct 16, 2006 10/16/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Last week, a new set of videos comparing Visual Studio 2005 with Macromedia Dreamweaver8 became available.  You can view these videos here.  This series shows how you can use Visual Studio 2005 to build, debug and deploy web sites more effortlessly than Dreamweaver8.The free Visual Web Developer Express features most of the...

DHTML Editing Control for Windows Vista

August 24, 2006 Aug 24, 2006 08/24/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
WebDevTools is the owner of the DHTML Editing Control; a COM control which can be used in applications or web pages for WYSIWYG HTML editing and which is shipped as part of the Windows operating system.  After a long run (nine years, since IE 4.5) this control will not be shipped as part of Windows Vista. There are two flavors of the ...

A peek into the VWD QA World

August 4, 2006 Aug 4, 2006 08/4/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm John Dixon, one of the SDET Leads on VWD. I wanted to share some of the recent work the Venus QA team has done to make our life easier. I'll start with a little bit of history. I hope you find it interesting! ****Old School:********In our last release (VS2005) QA would get a new build and based on build ...

By The Community, For The Community

July 7, 2006 Jul 7, 2006 07/7/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
By the Community, For the Community! I'm really excited to announce a new community program on the ASP.NET website called By the Community, for the Community.  It's a system to help out everyone, and give some great community members a platform from which to show off their work...

Cannot Create A New Website?

July 3, 2006 Jul 3, 2006 07/3/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Over the last few months, I've seen a number of forum posts from people saying that when they choose "Create New Website", the dialog box that showed them the different types of websites they could create was completely horked.  For example, instead of showing this: (image) it would instead show this: (image) Often when we see bugs like...