By the Community, For the Community! I'm really excited to announce a new community program on the ASP.NET website called By the Community, for the Community.  It's a system to help out everyone, and give some great community members a platform from which to show off their work.&nbs...

Over the last few months, I've seen a number of forum posts from people saying that when they choose "Create New Website", the dialog box that showed them the different types of websites they could create was completely horked.  For example, instead of showing this: it would instead show this: Often when we see bugs like this, it's very frust...

First a quick intro, since this my first post on the team blog.  My name is Omar Khan.  I'm the group program manager for the web development tools team.  I manage the program management team that helps design the web tools inside of Visual Studio. This post is one of a three part series that describes how to factor development of ...

The webdevtools team has historically owned a control that shipped with IE5.5 and above.  This control is the DHTML Editing Control.  In order to improve security in IE7+, we took a hard look at this control and decided to remove it from Vista and IE7+.  A post I made yesterday on the IE blog talks about this in detail.  Pl...

I just made a post on my blog about moving from home hosted web applications to hosted web applications.  I'm currently struggling on whether I want to move my photos from my home hosted, and customized verions of nGallery to something larger like Flickr.I'm curious what other people think is the best solution to problems like this.  Woul...

We have a few positions open on our test team at the moment.  The title for these positions is SDET (software design engineer in test) which is somewhat of a unique position at Microsoft.   Essentially we're looking for people who would like to work on enabling ASP.NET/Atlas development via Visual Web Developer.  We are looking for people who ha...

In this DevNugget, .net Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie (aka *.net DEvHammer), shows you how you can quickly and easily create and register a custom XSD schema that allows get Intellisense and validation of your schema within the Web Form source view window.* https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=191714   Thanks

Web Application Projects 1.0 is live! New since RC1:   Web Application Projects now provided a similar development style and compilation model as was used in Visual Studio 2003, but with full ASP.NET 2.0 support. For more information checkout: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wap/default.aspxhtt...

In case you have observed any slowness in your source view around typing or arrowing through code, here are a few tips that may help. 1. Turn off background HTML validation.  Go to Tools / Options and select Text Editor / HTML / Validation in the tree view on the left side.  Uncheck the Show Errors check box.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "ur...