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HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer

November 18, 2009 Nov 18, 2009 11/18/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
You all probably know that new HTML 5 standard is coming. We made a new intellisense schema that you can add to VS 2008 or VWD Express 2008 and get intellisense and validation on HTML 5 elements. Note that schema is for markup only, we do not have DOM2 update for jscript intellisense yet. How to install the schema: Download attached ZIP file...

CLR-Related PDC 2009 Sessions

November 17, 2009 Nov 17, 2009 11/17/09
CLR Team
If you’re at PDC this year and are reading the CLR Team’s blog, there are a few sessions that might be of interest to you. ·         Future of Garbage Collection is a session by the creator of the CLR’s GC, Patrick Dussud.  Come hear him talk Wednesday at 1:00PM in ...

How to Make the Most of Your .NET Server Code

November 13, 2009 Nov 13, 2009 11/13/09
CLR Team
One of our team’s field engineers recently sent a link to a Channel 9 video: Steve Michelotti of e.magination on High Performance Web Solutions. This company built a 64-bit web server that handles over 3 billion transactions a day and guarantees a 250 ms response time.  And it goes without saying that they built it on top of .NET. ...

CLR Inside Out – Exploring the .NET Framework 4 Security Model

November 10, 2009 Nov 10, 2009 11/10/09
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 Andrew Dai on Exploring the .NET Framework 4 Security Model.  This article discusses how the new .NET Framework 4 security model makes it easier to work with partially trusted...

ASP.Net MVC in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

October 23, 2009 Oct 23, 2009 10/23/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 contains ASP.Net MVC 2 in the box so there is no need to install an out of band update to Visual Studio 2010 to develop ASP.Net MVC applications. Phil Haack posted about the in-box experience for Beta 2 andd also provides some info on how to upgrade your ASP.Net MVC 1 apps to ASP.Net MVC 2. From a tooling perspective...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Performance

October 22, 2009 Oct 22, 2009 10/22/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is out and we at the Web Development Tools team are pleased to let you know that we have fixed a lot of the performance issues from Beta1. It took a considerable amount of time and effort but we feel it was well worth it. We would like to thank the community for your feedback and in helping us identify a lot of these ...