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March 2012 - .NET Blog

Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web new features

March 22, 2012 Mar 22, 2012 03/22/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In earlier blog, we mentioned that Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web is available to download. Besides the common features seen in Visual Studio 2010 Web Express, it provides some new functionalities.   TFS support VS11 Express Beta for Web added TFS support which including all of the TFS client features, such as source control, ...

Improving Launch Performance for Your Desktop Applications

March 20, 2012 Mar 20, 2012 03/20/12
Brandon Bray
Application performance is something we hear about all the time. It almost always falls into one of the top three issues when we aggregate all of the feedback channels from .NET developers. While performance has many characteristics, application startup time is something that everyone can easily relate to. With the .NET Framework 4.5 Beta and ...
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VS11 Beta JavaScript Feature comparison with VS2010sp1

March 15, 2012 Mar 15, 2012 03/15/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In Visual Studio 11 Beta, we have exciting JavaScript editing features for the developers. Last year, we blogged “JavaScript Web development differences between Visual Studio 11 Developer preview and Visual Studio 2010”. Here are the differences between Visual Studio 11 Beta and Visual Studio 2010. IntelliSense...

Visual Studio 11 Beta HTML/CSS editor features

March 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012 03/12/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 11 Beta has some more improvement in HTML and CSS editors over the Developer Preview time. You can see the major feature descriptions through www.asp.net/vnext .  In this channel9 video, Mads Kristensen demonstrated a few great HTML/CSS editor features in VS11 Beta (The video also demos Page inspector features by Jorge ...

Optimizing the .NET Framework Deployment Experience for Users and Developers

March 7, 2012 Mar 7, 2012 03/7/12
Brandon Bray
Rapid development has been one of the enduring themes behind the design of the .NET Framework. We know that authoring application installers is particularly difficult and could be improved. The following post is by Richard Lander from the program management team on the Common Language Runtime. He explains our motivations for introducing a ...
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Visual Studio 11 Beta Razor editor issue workaround

March 6, 2012 Mar 6, 2012 03/6/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We found Visual Studio 11 Beta hits a crash bug when editing a Razor page (cshtml/vbhtml) in a MVC4 project or a Razor2 Website if the indenting option for the HTML editor is set to Block instead of Smart. The workaround is to go to Tools->Options->Text Editor->HTML->Tab and change the indenting option to Smart.HTML smart indenting...

Update 4.0.3 for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4

March 5, 2012 Mar 5, 2012 03/5/12
Layla Driscoll
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is no longer supported. We continue to bring certain features through updates to .NET 4 without having to wait for the .NET 4.5 release. This post covers what the latest platform update has to offer. Vivek Mishra from the .NET Servicing team authored the ...
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New time saving features for Web projects in Visual Studio 11 Beta

March 1, 2012 Mar 1, 2012 03/1/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In planning for the next release of Visual Studio, streamlining the development process was a high priority.  In this vein we are proud to announce two new features in Visual Studio 11 Beta that simplify and improve the development experience: setting the default browser from the toolbar, and quickly adding new items to your project from ...