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April 2008 - .NET Blog

Workaround: Empty Design View for User Controls

April 27, 2008 Apr 27, 2008 04/27/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
I've noticed quite a few people run into the issue "Why is design mode empty for my web user control (ASCX)?".  It's not obvious what might be causing this bug, so I thought I'd offer an explanation and a couple workarounds. Problem You have a user control that has a "link" tag to an external style sheet or a "style" tag with local ...

Public alias to report performance issues with VWD 2008

April 24, 2008 Apr 24, 2008 04/24/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
As a part of creating a way for customers to directly communicate with the product team and get help if they are running into performance issues in Visual Web Developer 2008 or web-related features in Visual Studio 2008, the product team has created a public alias to report all performance related concerns about the product. The alias is ...

Dynamic Data Preview 04-23 Refresh Now Available

April 24, 2008 Apr 24, 2008 04/24/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Update to the preceding blog post... we've just made available an 04-23 refresh of the Dynamic Data Release on the Code Gallery website.  This release includes some nice runtime enhancements for routed URLs, Dynamic Data Wizard templates in the Visual Basic language, plus a whole bunch of bug fixes and codegen improvements. ...

ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Released on MSDN Code Gallery

April 9, 2008 Apr 9, 2008 04/9/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
ASP.NET Dynamic Data is a great innovation for creating data-driven Websites.  It provides two key features: The ability to render data by defining templates, either at the page-level (for example, to define default renderings for list, details, edit, and insert pages) or the field-level (for example, to define default renderings for ...

Looking for talented Program Managers to join our team!

April 4, 2008 Apr 4, 2008 04/4/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
If you love the web and are passionate about the developer experience building web applications we'd like to hear from you.These are hot positions focused on cutting edge technologies.  You can learn more about our positions from the links below: Authoring for Web Standards Authoring Silverlight Applications in Visual Studio  (...

Using IIS7 with Visual Studio 2005 & Visual Studio 2008

April 4, 2008 Apr 4, 2008 04/4/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Mike Volodarsky on the IIS team just published some very useful articles describing how to setup and configure IIS7 to properly work with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005.The article covers necessary components needing to be installed, and the required configuration needed to create, edit and debug web applications using IIS7 and ...

Solution: web applications using DHTML Editing Control do not work in Windows Vista

April 3, 2008 Apr 3, 2008 04/3/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Last year, we made a post to the IE team blog about the removal of the DHTML Editing Control from the Windows Vista.The removal of the control affects three types of applications: A Windows application that relied on the DHTML Editing Control would not work in Windows Vista.  Available solution at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...