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May 2006 - .NET Blog

The Web 2.0 and Home grown vs Hosted Solutions

May 31, 2006 May 31, 2006 05/31/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
I just made a post on my blog about moving from home hosted web applications to hosted web applications.  I'm currently struggling on whether I want to move my photos from my home hosted, and customized verions of nGallery to something larger like Flickr.I'm curious what other people think is the best solution to problems like this. ...

Looking for good SDETs to join our team!

May 23, 2006 May 23, 2006 05/23/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We have a few positions open on our test team at the moment.  The title for these positions is SDET (software design engineer in test) which is somewhat of a unique position at Microsoft.   Essentially we're looking for people who would like to work on enabling ASP.NET/Atlas development via Visual Web Developer.  We are looking for...

Custom validation schema video on Channel 9

May 10, 2006 May 10, 2006 05/10/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In this DevNugget, .net Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie (aka *.net DEvHammer), shows you how you can quickly and easily create and register a custom XSD schema that allows get Intellisense and validation of your schema within the Web Form source view window.* https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=191714   Thanks...

Web Application Projects is released

May 8, 2006 May 8, 2006 05/8/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web Application Projects 1.0 is live! New since RC1:   Web Application Projects now provided a similar development style and compilation model as was used in Visual Studio 2003, but with full ASP.NET 2.0 support. For more information checkout: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wap/default....

Improve Source View Performance

May 5, 2006 May 5, 2006 05/5/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In case you have observed any slowness in your source view around typing or arrowing through code, here are a few tips that may help. 1. Turn off background HTML validation.  Go to Tools / Options and select Text Editor / HTML / Validation in the tree view on the left side.  Uncheck the Show Errors check box.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ...

Have you installed the new spell checker add-in yet?

May 5, 2006 May 5, 2006 05/5/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Mikhail Arkhipov on our team recently developed a spell checker add-in to Visual Studio 2005 that allows you to spell check the contents of your ASP.NET or HTML page in HTML view.  You need to have Office 2003 installed on your machine in order for this feature to work.  See http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2006/04/17/...