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What does the red strikethrough in CSS property grid mean?

May 31, 2007 May 31, 2007 05/31/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In Visual Studio Orcas, the CSS property grid renders a red strikethrough when it wants to tell you that a property is either non-inherited or it is overridden by a rule with higher precedence.    Read the tooltip when you see a red strikethrough on your property and it will give you the exact reason for the strikethrough. Here are ...

Script# and ASP.NET AJAX

May 23, 2007 May 23, 2007 05/23/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Nikhil Kothari, an architect on the ASP.NET team, has been working in his spare time on a project called Script#.  Essentially this allows an Ajax programmer to code in a strongly typed language like C# and compile their code into JavaScript.  His original article can be accessed here.  Recently he added ASP.NET AJAX support to ...

New free version of Refactor! for ASP.NET

May 8, 2007 May 8, 2007 05/8/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
A while back I posted about some great free refactoring tools for ASP.NET.The folks at Developer Express have just released an updated version (2.2.2), that includes some great new refactorings.  Here's a sneak peek at just one of the new refactorings that's available:To check out all the new capabilities take a look at this ...

Mix07 Video: Web Development using Visual Studio "Orcas"

May 3, 2007 May 3, 2007 05/3/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
At the Mix07 conference this week, I did an overview presentation of the web development features being delivered in Visual Studio "Orcas".  The folks at Mix have been kind enough to make videos of all the sessions from the conference available to the public.Click here to watch my session on Web Development using Visual Studio "...

Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools released!

April 30, 2007 Apr 30, 2007 04/30/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We’ve just announced the new Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools support at MIX ’07! Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for building next-gen media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight 1.1 contains a cross-platform CLR, allowing you to use your favorite .NET language rather than JavaScript to ...

Spell checker for HTML and ASP.NET: multilanguage edition

April 29, 2007 Apr 29, 2007 04/29/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
HTML / ASP.NET spell checker addin was updated with support for multiple languages. Spell checker is now able to detect lang attribute specified on elements, extracts ISO language and uses it to specify appropriate dictionary for the Office spell checking engine.In order to be able to run spell check in multiple languages you may ...

Visual Studio Beta 1 and Visual Web Developer Express CTP are out!

April 23, 2007 Apr 23, 2007 04/23/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
19th of April we shipped Visual Studio Orcas Beta1. See Soma's blog entry: . Downloads are here. This is also first time Express editions are available for download including Visual Web Developer Express. VWD Orcas Express download is bigger than in VWD 2005 Express largely because of the new HTML designer. Express editions are also ...

Expression Web and Expression Blend added to MSDN!

April 11, 2007 Apr 11, 2007 04/11/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Back in December 2006, Microsoft released Expression Web, a designer tool that's a great companion to Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio.  You can read about this tool in this earlier blog post that we had made.  Since then, we have received a ton of feedback asking why this as well as Expression Blend are not...

JScript Debugging in Visual Web Developer Orcas

March 8, 2007 Mar 8, 2007 03/8/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Jeff King made a recent post to show off the new JScript IntelliSense feature in the March CTP of Visual Studio. Now I am going to show off the improved JScript Debugging experience in the March CTP. The first thing you will notice is that when you try to debug an IE page, VS will give you a nice little dialog reminding you to turn ...