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Issues between Visual Studio, Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse and Windows 2008 Server

April 15, 2010 Apr 15, 2010 04/15/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 ...

Silverlight 4 Tools Released

April 15, 2010 Apr 15, 2010 04/15/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 ...

Connect

April 13, 2010 Apr 13, 2010 04/13/10
CLR Team
As hopefully most of you know, Microsoft has a site called Connect where customers can log bugs and suggestions (http://connect.microsoft.com/).  Issues for .NET can be found in the Visual Studio and .NET Framework feedback category (http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Feedback) and can be logged from the main Visual Studio Connect ...

Visual Studio 2010 MVC 2 Upgrade Wizard

April 13, 2010 Apr 13, 2010 04/13/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Prior to the RTM release of Visual Studio 2010, the only way to upgrade an ASP.Net MVC 1 application to ASP.Net MVC 2 was to use Eilon Lipton’s tool. With the release of Visual Studio 2010 you will now be able to open your MVC 1 projects in Visual Studio 2010 and upgrade them to ASP.Net MVC 2 projects. Also, you can upgrade the target ...

Visual Web Developer 2010 Express has Arrived!

April 12, 2010 Apr 12, 2010 04/12/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is a free and robust development environment for building, testing and deploying Web applications across the Microsoft Web Platform including ASP.Net, Internet Information Services and SQL Server. Unleash your creativity with powerful design surfaces for building standards-based Web applications and ...

Spell checker 2.3 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

March 30, 2010 Mar 30, 2010 03/30/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Minor update for the Spell checker add-in for VS 2008 SP1. It is now available at Visual Studio Gallery. Direct link: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/2f3d691d-8838-4d84-ad64-44a02db37e30What's new in version 2.3: You can find extended information on the add-in and possible customization in earlier post. For VS 2010 ...

Visual Web Developer Team is Hiring

March 30, 2010 Mar 30, 2010 03/30/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We’re looking for someone who is passionate about web technologies and the developer experience.  If you’ve been an avid Visual Studio developer building great web applications and longed for an even more compelling experience in Visual Studio, Now is your chance.  Visual Studio already offers the one of the most ...

BCL CodePlex Site Launch

March 30, 2010 Mar 30, 2010 03/30/10
CLR Team
Today the BCL Team is launching a CodePlex site to host samples, previews, and prototypes.  You can find it at http://bcl.codeplex.com. This is a site for the BCL Team to get features to customers to try out without requiring a Beta or CTP of the .NET Framework.  Our goal is to put generally useful functionality on the CodePlex site...