At the recent PDC, Scott Guthrie announced in his Silverlight 4 keynote that we had implemented a new feature, to enable developers to share certain assemblies between Silverlight and .NET. There are many differences between Silverlight and full .NET including WPF, and this new feature doesn’t solve those differences – in those cases, you’ll still ...
The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Jesse Kaplan and Luiz Fernando Santos on In-Process Side-by-Side. The article contains details on this new .NET Framework 4 feature and the problems it solves. It is especiall...
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. Pla...
If you’re at PDC this year and are reading the CLR Team’s blog, there are a few sessions that might be of interest to you. · Future of Garbage Collection is a session by the creator of the CLR’s GC, Patrick Dussud. Come hear him talk Wednesday at 1:00PM in Petree Ha...
One of our team’s field engineers recently sent a link to a Channel 9 video: Steve Michelotti of e.magination on High Performance Web Solutions. This company built a 64-bit web server that handles over 3 billion transactions a day and guarantees a 250 ms response time. And it goes without saying that they built it on top of .NET. The t...
The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Andrew Dai on Exploring the .NET Framework 4 Security Model. This article discusses how the new .NET Framework 4 security model makes it easier to work with partially trusted code. You c...
Differences between Web Site Projects (WSP) and Web Application Projects (WAP) are highlighted in blogs such as this one. Based on that, if you feel a WAP would be better for your particular needs than a WSP, but have already created a WSP, you may be asking yourself, “Can I convert my WSP into a WAP, without starting from scratch?”. This posting e...
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will bring full support for developing applications in Silverlight 3. There’s a few things that have changed since VS2010 Beta 1, and we hope you enjoy the new beta release! Silverlight 2 is no longer supported – long live Silverlight 3 Now that Silverlight 3 has released (including a GDR; the latest version is cur...
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 contains ASP.Net MVC 2 in the box so there is no need to install an out of band update to Visual Studio 2010 to develop ASP.Net MVC applications. Phil Haack posted about the in-box experience for Beta 2 andd also provides some info on how to upgrade your ASP.Net MVC 1 apps to ASP.Net MVC 2. From a tooling perspective, all ...
Dev10 Beta2 DB Deployment property page has some changes from Beta1. Please provide your valuable feedback for us to make it better for you. Thanks. 1. Tab page name changed from “Deploy/SQL” To “Deploy SQL” 2. Customer can use “Import from Web.config” button to import all the connection strings defined in root web.config to the da...
