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ASP.NET Web Application: Publish/Package Tokenizing Parameters

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

Web Development Tools Microsoft

  Today I just saw a question posted on stackoverflow.com asking Why are some Web.config transforms tokenised into SetParameters.xml and others are not? Let me give some background on this topic for those who are not aware of what the question is. With Visual Studio 2010 when you package your application using the Build Deployment Package...

How to solve JavaScript IntelliSense problems in VS2010

November 8, 2010 Nov 8, 2010 11/8/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

VS2010 should support all of the VS2008 JavaScript functionalities as shown in Scott Guthrie’s VS2008 JavaScript IntelliSense blog.  It includes: 1. Basic type inference 2. IntelliSense from referenced external JavaScript libraries 3. IntelliSense from XML comments for functions, parameters and return types 4. Calling web services ...

Web Deploy: How to see the command executed in Visual Studio during publish

November 3, 2010 Nov 3, 2010 11/3/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

I just saw a post on Twitter asking the question    Is there any easy way to see the underlying MSBuild command when building in VS2010? Want to see the MSDeploy params. @wdeploy?One thing to know is that when you publish from Visual Studio, by default we use the MSDeploy (AKA Web Deployment Tool) Object Model in ...

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...