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Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from ORCS Web

March 5, 2010 Mar 5, 2010 03/5/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
ORCS Web has updated their Hosting Sandbox for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC.http://vs2010host.comTo learn more about the new Web Deployment features in Visual Studio 2010 check out this Step by Step Walkthrough on Web 1-Click Publish with VS 2010To provide feedback on the RC please visit the Visual Studio Connect site.  You ...

Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls”

March 5, 2010 Mar 5, 2010 03/5/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
A hotfix is now available for issues most commonly described as "Controls are not being recognized in the code-behind" and "Editing existing .aspx regenerates .aspx.designer.(cs), but most of the controls are now missing”. These issues were seen in Visual Studio 2010 RC release.This hotfix can be downloaded from: http://connect.microsoft...

How to package and deploy COM component

March 3, 2010 Mar 3, 2010 03/3/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
I’ll use a walkthrough example to show how to package a web application with speech API COM component using Visual Studio 2010.  I wrote and tested the sample in Win7 x86 with IIS7.5, and packaged and manually installed to win2k3 x86 IIS6 (which only had 3.5 framework installed). 1. Create a C# 3.5 web application 2. Add COM reference...

CLR Inside Out – Migrating an APTCA Assembly to the .NET Framework 4

March 3, 2010 Mar 3, 2010 03/3/10
CLR Team
(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 Mike Rousos on Migrating an APTCA Assembly to the .NET Framework 4.  The article details the changes to the security model in .NET Framework 4 and how that will affect ...

Developer Productivity Survey – Help us build the right product!

March 1, 2010 Mar 1, 2010 03/1/10
CLR Team
With .NET 4 on the verge of being released, we have started working on how we can make the .NET platform even better suit your needs. We have come up with a survey focusing on overall application development lifecycle productivity and some specific areas where we have gotten customer feedback in the past like complexity of the framework,...

How to package .NET assemblies

February 19, 2010 Feb 19, 2010 02/19/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
If we want to package and deploy GACed dll, we need to use gacAssembly web deploy provider and extend our project similarly to the one stated in the how to package registry blog.  The extended projectName.wpp.targets file looks like following:   Then you can use the following command line to package the project with ...

Announcing a new CLR Team Codeplex Project: CLR Runtime Activation

February 16, 2010 Feb 16, 2010 02/16/10
CLR Team
This Codeplex site will feature demos, samples, and helper libraries related to the selection and activation of the CLR: http://clractivation.codeplex.com/With .Net Framework 4 and VS 2010 the new ability to load multiple versions of the runtime has changed the way a version is chosen for any particular piece of managed code and gives ...

Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from Discount ASP.NET

February 15, 2010 Feb 15, 2010 02/15/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Discount ASP.Net has updated their Hosting Sandbox for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC.http://www.discountasp.net/press/2010_02_16_free-asp.net-4.0-RC-hosting.aspxTo learn more about the new Web Deployment features in Visual Studio 2010 check out this Step by Step Walkthrough on Web 1-Click Publish with VS 2010To provide feedback on ...

CLR Inside Out – Formatting and Parsing Time Intervals

February 15, 2010 Feb 15, 2010 02/15/10
CLR Team
 (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 Ron Petrusha on Formatting and Parsing Time Intervals in the .NET Framework 4.  The article contains details on new parsing and formatting support for TimeSpan values, ...