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Style Application Tool Bar

June 14, 2007 Jun 14, 2007 06/14/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
After Orcas Beta1 released, some web developers mentioned that there is no documentation available for the new CSS editing features. Since I played around with this feature a lot recently, I would like to give it a try and explain it a little.   The first tool I’d like to mention is the style application tool bar. This tool bar ...

Manage Styles Tool window

June 8, 2007 Jun 8, 2007 06/8/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This tool window provides a tree hierarchy view of all CSS selectors available from the current page. Users can navigate and find CSS style definitions in source code with this tool window.  (image) Developers can change the layout of the tree view with the Options button. The first three context menu items will categorize the CSS ...

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:(image) To check out all the new capabilities take a look at this&...

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 ...