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Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta IIS Express Integration

December 11th, 2010
A few days ago Jason Zander blogged about the availability of Visual Studio SP1 Beta (all links below in resources section). I am happy to let you guys know that with SP1 Beta we have enabled integration of IIS Express into Visual Studio. After you have installed SP1 Beta you have to download IIS Express separately for the option to “light ...

XDT (web.config) Transforms in non-web projects

November 17th, 2010
One of the really cool features that we shipped for Visual Studio 2010 was web.config (XDT) transformations. Because the transformations are so simple and straightforward one of the first questions that someone asks after using it is “how can I use this in my other projects?” Unfortunately this feature is only built into the Web ...

ASP.NET Web Application: Publish/Package Tokenizing Parameters

November 10th, 2010
  Today I just saw a question posted on stackoverflow.com asking Why are some Web.config transforms tokenised into SetParameters.xml and others are not? Let me give some background on this topic for those who are not aware of what the question is. With Visual Studio 2010 when you package your application using the Build Deployment Package...

How to solve JavaScript IntelliSense problems in VS2010

November 8th, 2010
VS2010 should support all of the VS2008 JavaScript functionalities as shown in Scott Guthrie’s VS2008 JavaScript IntelliSense blog.  It includes: 1. Basic type inference 2. IntelliSense from referenced external JavaScript libraries 3. IntelliSense from XML comments for functions, parameters and return types 4. Calling web services ...

Web Deploy: How to see the command executed in Visual Studio during publish

November 3rd, 2010
I just saw a post on Twitter asking the question    Is there any easy way to see the underlying MSBuild command when building in VS2010? Want to see the MSDeploy params. @wdeploy?One thing to know is that when you publish from Visual Studio, by default we use the MSDeploy (AKA Web Deployment Tool) Object Model in ...

ASP.NET Web Projects: web.debug.config & web.release.config

October 26th, 2010
DIsclaimer: You may experience some in-consistent behavior using this technique. If so please let us know. I have heard a lot of questions and confusion regarding web.debug.config and web.release.config. For example here is just one question on StackOverflow. The question states: First let me explain, as I did to that question, the purpose of...

Working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit in Visual Studio 2010

October 7th, 2010
  When working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit, Visual Studio 2010 contains some interesting improvements compared to previous versions of Visual Studio. When adding a particular version of AjaxControlToolkit controls (or other similar third-party controls) to the toolbox using the Choose Toolbox Items dialog, we now show...

How to Create a Custom Item Template and Project Template

September 23rd, 2010
When you’re working on a web project, there are times you wish you could have captured all of the stuff you’re working on often and then re-use it later on, similar to code snippet. For example, if you work with JaveScript, HTML5 a lot, you would want to be able to create a new web project that already has a predefined set of ...

Win7 Mobile Development Tools

September 23rd, 2010
If you haven’t installed the Visual Studio Mobile tools for building Win7 applications I would highly recommend you do so now via one of the following links: The release notes can be found here: Release Notes Programming Resources: http://charlespetzold.com/phone/index.html Channel 9 Training: https://channel9.msdn.com/learn/...

Extending XML (web.config) Config transformation

September 20th, 2010
Sayed recently posted a blog on extending XML (web.config) Config transformation.  If you haven’t read it already, you can find it here...