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Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1

June 15, 2011 Jun 15, 2011 06/15/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
  We are pleased to announce the first Web Standards Update for Visual Studio SP1. It updates the HTML5 intellisense and validation to reflect the latest W3C specifications and fixes some bugs bugs in the current SP1 support for HTML5. Also JavaScript intellisense it updated to reflect many of the new browser capabilities such as ...

We are Hiring!!

June 10, 2011 Jun 10, 2011 06/10/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
(image) Do you want to work in a challenging, fun and growth oriented environment leading Microsoft transition to the Cloud? Are you passionate about Web development? Do you want to work with key technologies like ASP.Net, MVC, Razor, JavaScript, Azure, Mobile? Do you want to see how your work can directly impact our customers? If you answer ...

Changes coming to ClickOnce applications running in the Internet Zone

June 6, 2011 Jun 6, 2011 06/6/11
CLR Team
We wanted to let you know that we’ll be changing the signature verification process for ClickOnce applications and WPF XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs) in an upcoming update.  This change will help users recognize when they’re running untrusted applications from the Internet Zone, but may require you to make changes to your ...

Hardening Server Applications

April 1, 2011 Apr 1, 2011 04/1/11
CLR Team
The Base Class Libraries team, the wider CLR team and Microsoft Research worked hard on this new technology and we are very proud to be able to share the news. Read the full article for details...

Enabling IIS Express support in VS 2010 Sp1

March 14, 2011 Mar 14, 2011 03/14/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
  With the Sp1 release of Visual Studio 2010 now available for download, you now have the option to use IIS Express as the development server for your web projects instead of the built-in Visual Studio Development server (aka. Cassini). Here are some previous blog posts explaining the IIS Express integration features in VS 2010 Sp1 Beta...

How to compress CSS/JavaScript before publish/package

February 24, 2011 Feb 24, 2011 02/24/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Today I saw a post on stackoverflow.com asking Using Microsoft AJAX Minifier with Visual Studio 2010 1-click publish. This is a response to that question. The Web Publishing Pipeline is pretty extensive so it is easy for us to hook in to it in order to perform operation such as these. One of those extension points, as we’ve blogged about...

HTML5 & CSS3 in Visual Studio 2010 SP1

January 27, 2011 Jan 27, 2011 01/27/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Since the release of Visual Studio 2010 SP1 beta last month, there has been a lot of questions regarding the support for HTML5 and CSS3. HTML5 Visual Studio 2010 was originally released without HTML5 support, so does SP1 finally add support for it? Yes, to some extent. The entire HTML5 specification isn’t supported but most of the new ...