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Survey – ASP.NET development in Visual Studio 2010

Are you currently doing ASP.NET development in Visual Studio 2010? If so, we would love to hear your feedback!We have created an online survey that will only take a few minutes to complete. Click here to take survey All feedback will be carefully considered and thoroughly reviewed during our planning for future release such as VS 2010 SP1....

CLR Inside Out – Production Diagnostics Improvements in CLR 4

(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 Jon Langdon on Production Diagnostics Improvements in CLR 4.  This article talks about some of the new diagnostics features we added in .NET Framework 4 and focuses on how ...

Another Error Creating Control in the Design View with Object Reference Not Set in Visual Studio 2010

In a previous blog, Controls State: "Error Creating Control" in the Design View in Visual Studio 2010, I have discussed about an Error Creating Control issue related to accessing the Session state in the OnInit() method. Since then, I have discovered that the Error Creating Control will also show in the design view if we try to ...

NGen: Walk-through Series

The CLR Code Generation team blog has a series of new posts featuring hands-on style content around how to use the NGen technology and how to measure performance benefits from it. You can find the series here...

Visual Studio 2010 support with SQL Server

We’ve been getting a few questions by our users about Visual Studio 2010’s support for SQL Server versions.  So I thought it would be good to address them here (when one person asks a question, there are probably others thinking the same question.) Visual Studio 2010 only supports SQL Server 2005+ Visual Studio 2010’s design time ...

General Performance Improvements in VS2010 since Beta2

When we released Beta2 in Oct 2009, there was a lot of customer excitement about the super cool features in VS 2010. However, one recurring complaint from customers was that the performance of VS 2010 was not on par with Orcas. Customers were experiencing general slowness in a lot of features that was hindering them with daily operations. We ...