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Win7 Mobile Development Tools

If you haven’t installed the Visual Studio Mobile tools for building Win7 applications I would highly recommend you do so now via one of the following links: The release notes can be found here: Release Notes Programming Resources: http://charlespetzold.com/phone/index.html Channel 9 Training: https://channel9.msdn.com/learn/...

Is That the Right Version of Mscoreei.dll?

After installing .NET 4.0 or later you may notice something a little unusual about your .NET processes. Here is a partial list of the loaded modules of a simple “Hello World” executable compiled with the .NET 2.0 compiler. start end module name 60f00000 61491000 mscorwks C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\mscorwks.dll...

An example of packaging web application containing database upgrade SQL file

A few months ago, we have a blog talking about extending the web publishing pipeline to package database project deployed SQL file.  In this blog, I’ll show step by step example of packaging web application with SQL Server database upgrade SQL file using Visual Studio 2010.  This way, we can generate a web package with incremental ...

Hot Fix Released for the Issue of Visual Studio 2010 Crashing When Switching to the Design View

When switching to the design view, a page containing numerous controls inside an editing region such as View or Panel may cause a crash in Visual Studio 2010. We have released a hot fix for this issue on Connect at https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=30462&wa=wsignin1.0 and on Code Gallery ...

Request for Real-World Web Applications

In preparation for enhancing Visual Studio design-time experience testing, we’d like to collect a catalog of real world applications to use for performance, stress, and ad hoc testing by the Web Platform and Tools team.  We’re looking for small, medium, and large applications covering a range of architectures, languages, ...

In-Proc SxS and Migration Quick Start

This post is meant to help you understand what runtime in-process side-by-side is, how to think about it, how to use it, and how it affects application and component migration to the .NET 4 Runtime. This post is relevant to you if you use native runtime activation APIs, depend on specific runtime activation behaviors, or use mixed mode ...

CLR Inside Out – F# Fundamentals

(image) The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line.  This month we have an article from Luke Hoban of the F# team on F# Fundamentals.  The article gives an overview of the language, and details how F# takes advantage of various features in the CLR. You can find a list...

Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring

  Some Best Practices and Guidance for Web Control Vendors Targeting Visual Studio The goal of this post is to provide guidance for control vendors on best practices for writing custom controls with regard to their behavior in Visual Studio. It is designed to give vendors insight into how Visual Studio behaves when performing common ...