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Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 6

Silverlight Tip of the  Day #39 Title: How to Create a Zoom Toolbar. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Zoom%20Toolbar/iframe.html Silverlight Tip of the Day #38 Title: How to Customize the Silverlight Install Experience. Silverlight Tip of the Day #37 Title: How to Dynamically Load and Display ...

What to do when VWD crashes or hangs on you

It is surely frustrating when VS or VWD crashes on you or hangs with "Not Responsing" message. If you do not have reliable repro steps, the best piece of information you can provide to us is a debug dump. He is how you can obtain it.If you are using Visual Studio1. Start Visual Studio. 2. Start another instance of VS. 3. In the second instance...

Visual Web Developer support for out of band releases.

Recently we have received a few requests from customers asking whether our out of band (OOB) releases (Silverlight, Dynamic Data Wizard, Model View Controller and Web Deployment Project) are supported in Visual Web Developer (VWD) Express or not. This blog post lists all the OOB releases that we have shipped during the last year and what ...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 5

Silverlight Tip of the Day #32 Title: How to Declare a Custom User Control from a XAML Page. Demo:http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Custom%20UserControl/iframe.htmlSilverlight Terrain Tutorial Part 3 Title: Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity Masks. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/...

Debugging A Web Site With A Host Header

If you have downloaded the RTM version of SP1 for Visual Studio 2008, you may get an error when trying to debug a Web Site with a host header on IIS 6 or IIS 5.1. The error message reads: "Unable to start debugging on the web server. An authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server. Please see Help for assistance.&...

Multiple control selection tips/tricks/workarounds

In an earlier blog, we mentioned that multiple control selection was returning with VS2008 SP1. We also mentioned that it isn’t a functionally complete feature yet due to time constraints. Rather than waiting till the next release of Visual Studio, we decided to deliver the core functionality in SP1. The plan is to deliver a completed ...