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January 2011 - .NET Blog

HTML5 & CSS3 in Visual Studio 2010 SP1

January 27, 2011 Jan 27, 2011 01/27/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Since the release of Visual Studio 2010 SP1 beta last month, there has been a lot of questions regarding the support for HTML5 and CSS3. HTML5 Visual Studio 2010 was originally released without HTML5 support, so does SP1 finally add support for it? Yes, to some extent. The entire HTML5 specification isn’t supported but most of the new ...

How to get Razor intellisense for @model in a class library project

January 20, 2011 Jan 20, 2011 01/20/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Many of us follow a modular architecture and create MVC3 Razor view in a separate class library project. Following  is a screenshot of the class library project that I have created. Now if I open a view with @model typed in it, I notice  that it shows squiggle for @model and no intellisense is shown. (error: There is build provider ...

How to get Razor syntax support in Visual Studio 2010

January 12, 2011 Jan 12, 2011 01/12/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
What’s Razor?Razor is a simple-syntax view engine that is released as part of ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) 3. Read more about the syntax on ScottGu’s blog or on ASP.NET How can I get Razor syntax support in Visual Studio 2010?It’s simple. Install the MVC3 RTM bits via Web Platform Installer or download the installer ...

Video on Web Deployment using Visual Studio 2010 and MSDeploy

January 8, 2011 Jan 8, 2011 01/8/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Back in November I participated in Virtual Tech Days which is an online conference presented by Microsoft. In the session I discussed the enhancements to web deployment using Visual Studio 2010 and MSDeploy. Some of the topics which I covered includ: web.conig (XDT) transforms How to publish to local file system using Visual Studio ...

How to Bin Deploy SQL Compact Edition 4.0 and Razor web projects

January 6, 2011 Jan 6, 2011 01/6/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
With the release of VS2010 SP1 Beta1, Web Matrix,  and Razor QFE, we can build web projects containing SQL Compact Edition 4.0 sdf file and ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor syntax. However, this might be a problem when you are ready to deploy your project on a server that doesn’t have the assemblies required to run SQL CE 4.0 and Razor ...