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Updated NUnit Templates for ASP.Net MVC 1.0 RTM

April 28, 2009 Apr 28, 2009 04/28/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
ASP.Net MVC 1.0 RTM has been out for a while and I noticed that people are still downloading an NUnit sample project I created for ASP.Net MVC Preview 3. Since then an AccountController class and a corresponding set of unit tests have been added to the MVC Application project. I created an updated set of NUnit templates with tests for the Home...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 12

April 6, 2009 Apr 6, 2009 04/6/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Most Recent Posts:Silverlight Tip of the Day #106 - Setting Default Browser from within VS Silverlight Tip of the Day #105 - How to Enable GPU Acceleration Silverlight Tip of the Day #104 - Cool Silverlight Tutorial Blogs Silverlight Tip of the Day #103 - Use Integers for Layout Calculations Silverlight Tip of the Day #102 -...

Hotfix for “Design view does not update HTML” and to “Designer inserts a lot of  “

March 23, 2009 Mar 23, 2009 03/23/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
A hotfix is now available for issues most commonly described as "I make changes in Design view but Source does not get updated" and "After certain actions designer inserts a lot of   in the page". This hotfix can be downloaded from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB967253/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2845 http...

Creating Silverlight 3 applications for PHP

March 19, 2009 Mar 19, 2009 03/19/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Juan Rivera from JCX Software and the developer of VS.PHP has added support for Silverlight 3.  If you’re a PHP developer this is very cool news.VS.PHP is a plug-in for Visual Studio that brings the rich development environment of Visual Studio to PHP.  In addition to the great intellisense Visual Studio provides for JScript, ...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 now Live!

March 18, 2009 Mar 18, 2009 03/18/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now Live.  You can download it right now here.  Also check out Phil Haack’s post on the release.  If you are new to MVC, please check out our previous posts for more information and links to many useful blogs and resources.  Alternatively, check out the official site for tutorials, videos, and more....

Silverlight 3 Tools Beta Released!

March 18, 2009 Mar 18, 2009 03/18/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Silverlight 3 Tools Beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available for download. This installer includes: XAP Compression Improvements The Silverlight 3 SDK creates XAPs compressed up to 40% better than the Silverlight 2 SDK. Support for Cached Transparent Platform Extensions Reduce the size of your ...

ASP.NET Web Development Server Stops Working

March 13, 2009 Mar 13, 2009 03/13/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
A Windows Defender and Microsoft Forefront Client Security signature file (1.53.256.0) was released at 8:45 PM (PST) on March 9, 2009 to address a Win32/PossibleHostFileHijack issue.  This update modified the hosts file to prevent malicious redirection of websites.  As a result, the entry for localhost may have been removed from the ...