January 2009

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate now available in Web Platform Installer

Web Development Tools Microsoft January 30, 2009 Jan 30, 2009 01/30/09

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC can now be installed with Web Platform Installer: http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx Here is a quick description of Web Platform Installer from the Web Platform Installer website: “The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, ...

T4 Templates: A Quick-Start Guide for ASP.NET MVC Developers

Web Development Tools Microsoft January 29, 2009 Jan 29, 2009 01/29/09

As mentioned in our recent blog post on the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate, our code-generation features (namely, Add Controller and Add View) now use the T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) templating technology behind the scenes. Because users can customize the templates to a great extent, we wanted to make a post to bring ...

Understanding the Binder – Part 1

CLR Team January 29, 2009 Jan 29, 2009 01/29/09

This is an introductory post on the internals of CLR Binder. What does the Binder do? CLR's Binder is a piece of code that, when given an assembly name, determines where the assembly is and binds to it. So how does the Binder locate assemblies? Let's assume that you are loading an assembly (let’s ...

What’s New For MVC Tools in the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate

Web Development Tools Microsoft January 26, 2009 Jan 26, 2009 01/26/09

The ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC) is finally out, and we wanted to give returning MVC users as well as new MVC users an overview of what the tooling in Visual Studio provides. The MVC 1.0 RC can be downloaded right now here (Release Notes). Please note that this release will work with both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web ...

Go to MIX09

Web Development Tools Microsoft January 16, 2009 Jan 16, 2009 01/16/09

MIX Is just around the corner and if you haven’t already registered I highly recommend you do! This is one event I look forward to the most each year. I attended last year and I had the most incredible experience learning about Silverlight and meeting so many intelligent people (OK, and I had a ton of fun playing Poker too). If you are...

CLR Inside Out

CLR Team January 11, 2009 Jan 11, 2009 01/11/09

The CLR team has a column in the MSDN magazine called 'CLR Inside Out' where we go in-depth into various aspects of the CLR. The magazine is published monthly, and you can find the list of 'CLR Inside Out' articles over here. If you have topics you'd like to see covered in the article, please let us know! This month, we have an article ...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 10

Web Development Tools Microsoft January 8, 2009 Jan 8, 2009 01/8/09

This link provides a complete Tips of the Day Summary Outline - http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2009/01/02/silverlight-tips-of-the-day-summary-outline.aspx. This page will be kept updated with any changes or additions to the Tip of the Day blog for Silverlight.Most Recent Posts:Tip #78 - Animating Objects with ...

Hotfix for Visual Studio 2005 crash when saving pages with linked stylesheets

Web Development Tools Microsoft January 7, 2009 Jan 7, 2009 01/7/09

If you are using Visual Studio 2005 and are experiencing random crashes when saving ASPX or HTML files with linked stylesheets, try this hotfix that we published recenty: Crash in vswebdesign.dll!CStyleSheet::LoadFromURL using Visual Studio 2005 SP1: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=15541&...

Checkout Tip#24 to Tip#40 on our Tips and Tricks blog

Web Development Tools Microsoft January 4, 2009 Jan 4, 2009 01/4/09

Latest on Tips and Tricks Blog. Have a great day!Deepak Verma SDET | Visual Web Developer...

Welcome to the CLR Team Blog!

CLR Team January 2, 2009 Jan 2, 2009 01/2/09

Hello from all of us in the Common Language Runtime (CLR) team. This year, we decided to start a blog to share and to hear from you. From the sharing perspective, we have quite a lot of things to cover - everything from best practices, tips and tricks, what we are working on and all the new features, conferences that we are attending/...

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