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Visual Studio 11 Beta Razor editor issue workaround

March 6, 2012 Mar 6, 2012 03/6/12

Web Development Tools Microsoft

We found Visual Studio 11 Beta hits a crash bug when editing a Razor page (cshtml/vbhtml) in a MVC4 project or a Razor2 Website if the indenting option for the HTML editor is set to Block instead of Smart. The workaround is to go to Tools->Options->Text Editor->HTML->Tab and change the indenting option to Smart.HTML smart indenting...

Update 4.0.3 for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4

March 5, 2012 Mar 5, 2012 03/5/12

Layla Driscoll

Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is no longer supported. We continue to bring certain features through updates to .NET 4 without having to wait for the .NET 4.5 release. This post covers what the latest platform update has to offer. Vivek Mishra from the .NET Servicing team authored the ...

Visual Studio 11 Beta Page Inspector Tutorial live in asp.net

March 5, 2012 Mar 5, 2012 03/5/12

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Using Page Inspector In Visual Studio 11 Beta, you can see what elements in the source files (including server-side code) have produced the HTML markup that is rendered to the browser. Page Inspector also let you modify CSS properties and DOM element attributes and see the changes reflected immediately in the browser.  We have two ...

New time saving features for Web projects in Visual Studio 11 Beta

March 1, 2012 Mar 1, 2012 03/1/12

Web Development Tools Microsoft

In planning for the next release of Visual Studio, streamlining the development process was a high priority.  In this vein we are proud to announce two new features in Visual Studio 11 Beta that simplify and improve the development experience: setting the default browser from the toolbar, and quickly adding new items to your project from ...

New Features for Web Development in Visual Studio 11 Beta

February 29, 2012 Feb 29, 2012 02/29/12

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available to download.  Please visit Jason Zander's Blog for the download links and overview of the new features. We have many enhanced many features in the Beta. We'll discuss some of them in future blog posts.Here are a few web development tools features included in the Visual Studio 11 Beta compared to...

Introducing .NET Framework 4.5 Beta

February 29, 2012 Feb 29, 2012 02/29/12

Layla Driscoll

Update (2017): See .NET Framework releases to learn about newer releases. This release is no longer supported. In September, we released the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview. The Developer Preview was essentially a “feature complete” release, enabling you to “kick the tires” and otherwise get a good sense of what we were in the ...

VS2010 SP1 + MVC4 Beta workaround for cshtml/vbhtml editor’s long pause

February 27, 2012 Feb 27, 2012 02/27/12

Web Development Tools Microsoft

We shipped MVC4 Beta recently, and found it may cause VS2010 sp1 cshtml/vbhtml editor to pause for a long time after typing snippet, JavaScript inside cshtml or vbhtml files, if the MVC4 application has just been created and has not been compiled.The workaround is to compile the project to get the assemblies in the bin folder.  Note, if ...

How to create a Web Deploy package when publishing a ClickOnce project

February 18, 2012 Feb 18, 2012 02/18/12

Web Development Tools Microsoft

The other day I saw a question on StackOverflow (link in resources below) asking How you can create a Web Deploy (AKA MSDeploy) package when publishing a ClickOnce project. The easiest way to do this is to use the Web Deploy command line utility, msdeploy.exe. With the command line you can easily create an MSDeploy package from a folder with a...

KB2650605 QFE : VS2010 sp1 VB web form editor may not become editable during debugging

January 31, 2012 Jan 31, 2012 01/31/12

Web Development Tools Microsoft

We recently released a VS2010 sp1 QFE KB2650605 to solve a VB editor debugging problem.  During VB web form debugging, VB web form may become un-editable if there are server tags inside.  If you develop and debug VB web forms, you might be interested to download this QFE. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/...

Update 4.0.2 for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4

October 27, 2011 Oct 27, 2011 10/27/11

Brandon Bray

Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is now unsupported. With .NET 4, we’ve focused on bringing certain features to market through updates without having to wait for the .NET 4.5 release. This post covers what the latest platform update has to offer. Vivek Mishra from the .NET Servicing team ...