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Multiple control selection tips/tricks/workarounds

In an earlier blog, we mentioned that multiple control selection was returning with VS2008 SP1. We also mentioned that it isn’t a functionally complete feature yet due to time constraints. Rather than waiting till the next release of Visual Studio, we decided to deliver the core functionality in SP1. The plan is to deliver a completed ...

Web Development Updates in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 are now available for download.  This blog post highlights the major changes in SP1 related to web development. New Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 The following is a list of new features in SP1 which relate to web development: Class Libraries and Web Application...

ASP.Net Tip of the Week Series

Interested in learning tips for web development? The Visual Web Development team has started a “Tips of the Week” blog series where they will share some great ideas at http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevelopertips/default.aspx. We are going to blog about VWD, ASP.NET and IIS in this series. For example, over the past 2 weeks the following...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 3

3 new Silverlight blogs have been completed for this week. Check them out! GameFest 2008 – Silverlight Game Programming Tip of the Day #21 - How to work with Shapes, Brushes and Gradients Tip of the Day #22 - How to add Sound Effects, Music and Video to your Silverlight App. Thank you.Mike Snow SDET Lead  Visual Studio ...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 2

6 new Silverlight tutorials are completed! Tip of the Day #15 - Communicating between JavaScript & Silverlight. Tip of the Day #16 - StoryBoard versus DispatcherTimer for Animation and Game Loops. Tip of the Day #17 - How to Animate a Rotating Image. Tip of the Day #18 - How to Set Browser Cookies. Tip of the Day #19 - Using ...

Silverlight Tips of the Day

Interested in learning something new about Silverlight almost every day? I will be posting “Tips of the Day” for Silverlight on my blog at http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/default.aspx.For example, over the past few days, I have added the following tips: Tip of the Day #10 - Dynamically loading and displaying images in Beta 2...

Faster switch to design view in VS 2008 SP1 RTM

Some customers discovered that sometimes switch to Design view was very slow. We analyzed submitted reports and tracked the issue down to a code that was discovering available AJAX Extenders and which contols they were applicable to. In order to avoid unnecessary delays we moved discovery of AJAX extenders to a background thread. This ...

Anti-virus programs can affect VS build performance

We have had complaints from some customers saying that their Web Project build performance with VS is very slow and it turns out that for some of the complaints the actual issue was anti-virus programs running on their machines. So, how do anti-virus programs affect VS build? Please take a look at the following snippet from ScottGu's blog...

Multiple control selection in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM

We have been listening to your [strong] feedback and we are now happy to announce that multiple selection and alignment operations in Design view are coming back and will be included in VS 2008 SP1 RTM and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 SP1 RTM.We do understand that designing pages using absolute positioning of elements is a highly ...

ADO.net Data Service reflection class creation in VS2008 SP1 Beta, a breaking change with CTP time

I added a blog "ADO.net Data Service reflection class creation in VS2008 SP1 Beta, a breaking change with CTP time" inhttp://blogs.msdn.com/xqiu/archive/2008/05/13/ado-net-data-service-reflection-class-creation-in-vs2008-sp1-beta-a-breaking-change-with-ctp-time.aspxHope it helps for data service lovers.Xin, SDET in Web Development Tools...