April 2012 Update for Visual Studio 11 Beta is available. For Visual Studio 11 Beta Ultimate, You can install it through Tools->Extension Manager: For Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web, you can download it directly and install: April 2012 Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta. Due to a known issue, i...
Developers often ask for guidance on how to write responsive user interfaces. Reading most books about the .NET Framework over the past ten years, you’ll see coverage of the asynchronous programming model which requires a lot of careful attention while coding. That’s why the async features in the latest versions of C# and Visual Basic are tremendou...
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, team ex...
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 the “...
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 XML Document ...
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 Gabuardi, ...
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 new mod...
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 is a...
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 followin...
Using Page Inspector In Visual Studio 11 Beta, you can see what elements in the source files (including server-side code) have produced the HTML markup that is rendered to the browser. Page Inspector also let you modify CSS properties and DOM element attributes and see the changes reflected immediately in the browser. We have two tutorials li...
