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By The Community, For The Community

July 7, 2006 Jul 7, 2006 07/7/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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...

Cannot Create A New Website?

July 3, 2006 Jul 3, 2006 07/3/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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...

DHTML Editing Control and IE7+

June 28, 2006 Jun 28, 2006 06/28/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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.&...

The Web 2.0 and Home grown vs Hosted Solutions

May 31, 2006 May 31, 2006 05/31/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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. ...

Looking for good SDETs to join our team!

May 23, 2006 May 23, 2006 05/23/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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.  Scott Louvau on our team posted a good article regarding what an SDET is and you can read this at http://blogs.msdn.com/scottlo/archive/2005/06/29/...

Custom validation schema video on Channel 9

May 10, 2006 May 10, 2006 05/10/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 is released

May 8, 2006 May 8, 2006 05/8/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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....

Improve Source View Performance

May 5, 2006 May 5, 2006 05/5/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 ...