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CLR Inside Out – New Features and Improved Performance in Silverlight 4

November 2, 2010 Nov 2, 2010 11/2/10

CLR Team

(image) Sorry for the late notice, but October installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is available on line. This month we have an article from Andrew Pardoe and Justin Van Patten on the move to a new CoreCLR for Silverlight 4. The article specifically covers new GC capabilities, improved startup performance, ...

ASP.NET Web Projects: web.debug.config & web.release.config

October 26, 2010 Oct 26, 2010 10/26/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

DIsclaimer: You may experience some in-consistent behavior using this technique. If so please let us know. I have heard a lot of questions and confusion regarding web.debug.config and web.release.config. For example here is just one question on StackOverflow. The question states: First let me explain, as I did to that question, the purpose of...

Working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit in Visual Studio 2010

October 7, 2010 Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

  When working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit, Visual Studio 2010 contains some interesting improvements compared to previous versions of Visual Studio. When adding a particular version of AjaxControlToolkit controls (or other similar third-party controls) to the toolbox using the Choose Toolbox Items dialog, we now show...

How to Create a Custom Item Template and Project Template

September 23, 2010 Sep 23, 2010 09/23/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

When you’re working on a web project, there are times you wish you could have captured all of the stuff you’re working on often and then re-use it later on, similar to code snippet. For example, if you work with JaveScript, HTML5 a lot, you would want to be able to create a new web project that already has a predefined set of ...

Win7 Mobile Development Tools

September 23, 2010 Sep 23, 2010 09/23/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

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/...

Extending XML (web.config) Config transformation

September 20, 2010 Sep 20, 2010 09/20/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Sayed recently posted a blog on extending XML (web.config) Config transformation.  If you haven’t read it already, you can find it here...

Is That the Right Version of Mscoreei.dll?

September 13, 2010 Sep 13, 2010 09/13/10

CLR Team

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

August 9, 2010 Aug 9, 2010 08/9/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

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

August 6, 2010 Aug 6, 2010 08/6/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

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

July 12, 2010 Jul 12, 2010 07/12/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

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, ...