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Upgrade or Uninstall of Office 2007 might cause VS 2008 Web designer to hang

Web Development Tools MicrosoftApril 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, or CSS Apply Styles dialog can all cause the hang. ...

VSDoc for jQuery 1.4.1 Now Available

Web Development Tools MicrosoftFebruary 8, 2010Feb 8, 201002/8/10

We finished generating a new VSDoc for the latest update of jQuery. You can download it from the jQuery Downloads page. A refresher on how to use the file can be found here or here. Happy coding!Jeff KingProgram ManagerVisual Studio Web Tools...

HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer

Web Development Tools MicrosoftNovember 18, 2009Nov 18, 200911/18/09

You all probably know that new HTML 5 standard is coming. We made a new intellisense schema that you can add to VS 2008 or VWD Express 2008 and get intellisense and validation on HTML 5 elements. Note that schema is for markup only, we do not have DOM2 update for jscript intellisense yet. How to install the schema: Download attached ZIP file...

Single Project Add View in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2

Web Development Tools MicrosoftOctober 15, 2009Oct 15, 200910/15/09

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 areas can be found here. If you follow the steps in the walkthrough you will notice that ...

Working with SVG files in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer

Web Development Tools MicrosoftOctober 6, 2009Oct 6, 200910/6/09

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 and requires a plug-in. There a plug in from Adobe (although support was discontinued ...

Download four free sample chapters from Visual Web Developer book

Web Development Tools MicrosoftSeptember 21, 2009Sep 21, 200909/21/09

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: You can find link to download at VWD section on ASP.NET Web site (look for Visual Web Developer Books section at the right side) or download ...

Visual Web Developer – Designer Survey

Web Development Tools MicrosoftJune 23, 2009Jun 23, 200906/23/09

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 VWD designer which provides a WYSIWYG editor for creating and editing Web pages. All ...

New series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008

Web Development Tools MicrosoftApril 20, 2009Apr 20, 200904/20/09

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 will help Web developers build everything from simple Web applications to full featured Web ...

How to use wcftestclient as svc file debugger for VS2008 SP1

Web Development Tools MicrosoftApril 13, 2009Apr 13, 200904/13/09

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 and command line argument for IIS based WCF: 1. Check Use Local IIS Web server and create...

Hotfix for “Design view does not update HTML” and to “Designer inserts a lot of “

Web Development Tools MicrosoftMarch 23, 2009Mar 23, 200903/23/09

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 be downloaded from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB967253/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2845 http...

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