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Dec 31, 2007
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Spell checker update 2.1: a few bug fixes and couple of new features

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

Note: this post is obsolete. Please use newer version: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/11/29/spell-checker-update-2-2-full-support-for-vs-2008-sp1-simpler-setup-and-a-few-bug-fixes.aspx Bug fixes: New features: More details here Visual Studio 2005 Add-in downloadVisual Studio 2008 Add-in download &n...

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Dec 31, 2007
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Parallel Extensions on .NET Rocks

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

Joe Duffy, our dev lead, appeared on the 12/25/07 edition of .NET Rocks!, speaking about Parallel Extensions and the Task Parallel Library: "Carl and Richard talk to Microsoft's Joe Duffy about the Task Parallel Library, which promises to make multi-threaded programming easier for us all."Enjoy!

.NET Parallel Programming
Dec 23, 2007
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Tips & Tricks: Start-Up Options and Instances of ASP.Net Development Server in a Multi-project Solution

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

If you have more than one project in your solution you can use following options of solution properties to set your start up actions...  You can get the below dialog by right clicking your solution and going to its properties:   If you have more than one Web project (either Web Site, WAPs or both) in your solution and choose to start onl...

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Dec 19, 2007
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F# and the Task Parallel Library

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

Over on his blog, Don Syme has a post about F# and Parallel Extensions: "Over the coming year I expect we'll be seeing this library used very widely from F#, and we'll eventually be using the TPL as a key underlying technology for F# asynchronous workflows. TPL excels at CPU-intensive parallelism and exploiting multiple cores, especially ...

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Dec 17, 2007
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LINQ 101, “Parallelism Blockers,” and PLINQ

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

PLINQ is a very cool technology, and I believe it will prove useful for parallelizing operations in a wide range of important scenarios.  Moreover, I believe that the programming model it provides will enable a wide-range of developers to easily take advantage of concurrency in their applications.  However, one of the risks involved ...

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Dec 13, 2007
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Workaround: Debugging Global.aspx.cs Application_Start() with ASP.Net Web Server within Visual Studio

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

When you add a global.asax file to your "Web Application Projects (WAPs) like below: and then write code in Application_Start event and try to debug it like below using Visual Studio inbuilt Development Web Server   Then during your first debug the breakpoint is hit but during your subsequent debug runs the breakpoint is not hit. The reason ...

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Dec 13, 2007
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Spell checker for HTML, ASP.NET, JScript, VB, C#, CSS and C++ for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

Following Visual Studio 2008 release I updated my Spell Checker add-in for VS 2008 as well as added some new useful functionality. What's new in version 2.0:Spell checker now supports text verification in: Spell checking is supported in style and script blocks as well as in JS, CS, VB, CSS, CPP ahd H files. There are two separate binaries for...

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Dec 12, 2007
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Another Parallel Extensions screencast

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

Daniel Moth is on a roll.  Two weeks ago he created three great overview screencasts for Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework.  Today, he released a fourth video, covering the Task and TaskManager classes.  Thanks, Daniel!  We'll get this added to the MSDN Parallel Computing developer center soon, but in the meantime, head ...

.NET Parallel Programming
Dec 12, 2007
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Visual Web Developer is hiring…

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

The Visual Web Developer team is looking for a few talented and experienced invididuals to join our team.  We have opportunities in development, testing, and program management.  Our team builds Visual Studio features that enable creating applications for ASP.NET, IIS, Silverlight and Sharepoint.Here are links to ...

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Dec 10, 2007
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Code Snippets for Parallel.For and Parallel.ForEach

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

Introduced in Visual Studio 2005, Code Snippets allow you to quickly insert reusable blocks of code into your project.  For example, if you want to quickly write a for loop in C#, you can simply type "for" into your code file, and IntelliSense shows you the "for" code snippet: Now you press the tab key twice, and Visual Studio...

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