Over the past month, we have been doing a round of webcasts titled “Live from Redmond”.   These are technology presentations made by team members working on the various products.  You can get more details on these from Simon Muzio’s blog.  The upcoming web talks are listed below.  In particular, I’d like to draw your attenti...

This week marks the first anniversary of Visual Studio 2005 and the Express editions.  Almost a year ago to the day - 11/7/2005 to be precise - was the day we launched Visual Studio 2005.  That also marked the debut of the free Express Editions that have since proven to be a huge hit in the developer community.  We've ...

  This Monday we shipped Beta2 of the ASP.NET AJAX framework – formerly known as “Atlas”.  You can visit the ASP.NET AJAX website or Scott Guthrie’s blog article for details.  The bits can be downloaded from here.   We have made sure that the already shipped version of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer 2005 can be used ...

Last week, a new set of videos comparing Visual Studio 2005 with Macromedia Dreamweaver8 became available.  You can view these videos here.  This series shows how you can use Visual Studio 2005 to build, debug and deploy web sites more effortlessly than Dreamweaver8.The free Visual Web Developer Express features most of the func...

Hey Web Developers -- My name is Bradley Millington and I am a Program Manager on the WebTools team.  Lately I've been looking at opportunities for future versions of Visual Studio to better integrate with Windows Vista and IIS 7.0.  In the meantime, however, you can use Visual Studio 2005 to start developing on Vist...

WebDevTools is the owner of the DHTML Editing Control; a COM control which can be used in applications or web pages for WYSIWYG HTML editing and which is shipped as part of the Windows operating system.  After a long run (nine years, since IE 4.5) this control will not be shipped as part of Windows Vista. There are two flavors of the control; a sa...

This is the Part 2 of a 3 part series on using sub-projects with the Web Application Projects add-in for Visual Studio 2005.  Part 1 of the series can be found here.  I apologize to folks for the delay in getting this second post out, we've been super busy the past few weeks.  This post covers two...

The test role at Microsoft and specifically the VWD team is somewhat different from a traditional test position in the software industry. Our team is responsible for redefining how professional designers, developers, academics and hobbyists design, develop and deploy web applications.   Testers on our team are basically frontline de...

Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm John Dixon, one of the SDET Leads on VWD. I wanted to share some of the recent work the Venus QA team has done to make our life easier. I'll start with a little bit of history. I hope you find it interesting! ****Old School:********In our last release (VS2005) QA would get a new build and based on build verific...

The Visual Basic team has released two KB articles that provide information on hotfixes that address performance issues which may occur on large solutions and projects in VS2005.  If you are using Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2005, and you are seeing any of the symptoms I list below, I encourage you to ...