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Expected NuGet Downtime – August 22 11pm-12am PDT

August 22, 2011 Aug 22, 2011 08/22/11
Mads Kristensen
As mentioned in a previous post, we’ve been working to address some performance problems on the NuGet Gallery.The fixes we have in place include some time-consuming database migrations. During our dry run deployments, we found that virtually all requests to the database will time out while these migrations are running. We have ...

Running ASP.NET MVC 3 Applications on Azure

August 11, 2011 Aug 11, 2011 08/11/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Microsoft recently released the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 1.4 (August 2011) update which includes a new ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Role project template which makes it easier to deploy an MVC 3 application to Azure. Let’s walk through this process end-to-end. Step 1 – Install the tools Step 2...

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...