Hi, I’m Dan Chartier, I work on the Web Tools designer and helped improve its performance in Visual Studio 2010. For some background, Visual Studio 2008 completely replaced the original trident (Internet Explorer) designer with the FrontPage designer (which is also used by Expression Web). While we gained many improvements with this change, ...
Wow, it’s been almost a year since I last blogged J We just shipped CLR V4.0. Yay!
An internal email thread prompted me to write this blog entry – one very powerful tool I wanted to point out when you need to debug/investigate issues is your debugger (if your debugger is also windbg/cdb that is J since that’s what I use and that...
We have had some customers ask why they are unable to target earlier frameworks .NET 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 using Visual Studio 2010. Targeting earlier frameworks (also known as Multi-targeting) is in-fact fully supported in VS 2010, but there is a pre-requisite that .NET Framework 3.5 Sp1 must be installed on the machine for VS 2010 to be able to ...
Web Deployment (see this posting for an overview) offers a set of pre-determined options to allow users to include the most common sets of files for deployment. These options are as follows and can be found under the “Items to deploy” section on the Package / Publish Web property page.
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Publishing using MSDeploy In-Process Deployment or Remote Agent
Through the Beta 2 release, VS 2010 had only supported publishing to servers using MSDeploy's IIS deployment handler technology integrated with the “Web Management Service”, a.k.a. WMSVC. As long as you had an account on a hosting server ...
Update (5/3/2010): In addition to the VS designer surface not loading, there are other actions that will cause a hang. Working with CSS increases your chances of seeing this issue. For example, bringing up the CSS Manage Styles dialog, the CSS property grid, or CSS Apply Styles dialog can all cause the hang. ...
In VS 2010, if you are accessing the Session state in the OnInit(…) method of your page, similar to the following code snippet: (image) then you will encounter an “Error Creating Control” for ASP.NET controls when viewing the Design view of the page. For example, if you have an ASP.NET button control on the page, the designer will ...
Quite some time ago, when Vista just went RTM, Risk Strahl discovered that when he used Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse, code intellisense and markup validation in Visual Studio stopped working. Since several activities in VS are done in a background on idle (not to be confused with background threads - idle processing is performed on the ...
This morning we released Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010!The link to download and installs the tools is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177508. The tools will install: Note that this is the RC release of the Silverlight 4 tools. With these tools you can start developing Silverlight 4 applications ...
If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation now with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta (for Visual Studio Professional and higher skus).
The power tool named “Web Deployment Projects” originally shipped as an out-...