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Framework .NET 3.5 Sp1 required for targeting frameworks 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 (multi-targeting) using Visual Studio 2010

April 22, 2010 Apr 22, 2010 04/22/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 ...

Web Deployment: Excluding Files and Folders via the Web Application’s Project File

April 22, 2010 Apr 22, 2010 04/22/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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. (image)   Only files needed to run this ...

Issues between Visual Studio, Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse and Windows 2008 Server

April 15, 2010 Apr 15, 2010 04/15/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 - idle processing is performed on the ...

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

November 18, 2009 Nov 18, 2009 11/18/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Performance

October 22, 2009 Oct 22, 2009 10/22/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is out and we at the Web Development Tools team are pleased to let you know that we have fixed a lot of the performance issues from Beta1. It took a considerable amount of time and effort but we feel it was well worth it. We would like to thank the community for your feedback and in helping us identify a lot of these ...

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

October 15, 2009 Oct 15, 2009 10/15/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 ...

Visual Studio 2010 Property Grid Filtering

September 30, 2009 Sep 30, 2009 09/30/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 improves .NET framework multi-targeting by applying framework-appropriate filtering to the property grid and Intellisense. For example, if you select a button on a web form of a .NET 2.0 web project, in the Property Grid you  will see: (image) If you go to the Project Properties and change the Target Framework version...

Check out the following on our Tips and Tricks Blog

June 30, 2009 Jun 30, 2009 06/30/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Tip#66: Did you know... how to insert quotes values automatically while typing the attrib values?Tip #67: Did you know the list of ASP.Net MVC shortcuts?Tip #68 Did you know… How simple it is to attach an existing style sheet to your web page?Tip #69: Did you know…The keyboard shortcut for View in Browser?Tip #70: Did you know...