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Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS

Today, deploying a web application is not as easy as it should be. Whether you are deploying your web to a shared hosting environment and paying monthly to maintain it OR whether you have a web server/s managed by your enterprise, there are a lot of manual steps involved in getting your application from point A to point B. If you are ...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate now available in Web Platform Installer

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC can now be installed with Web Platform Installer: http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx Here is a quick description of Web Platform Installer from the Web Platform Installer website: “The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, ...

Understanding the Binder – Part 1

 This is an introductory post on the internals of CLR Binder.     What does the Binder do? CLR's Binder is a piece of code that, when given an assembly name, determines where the assembly is and binds to it. So how does the Binder locate assemblies? Let's assume that you are loading an assembly (let’s ...

Go to MIX09

(image) MIX Is just around the corner and if you haven’t already registered I highly recommend you do! This is one event I look forward to the most each year. I attended last year and I had the most incredible experience learning about Silverlight and meeting so many intelligent people (OK, and I had a ton of fun playing Poker too). If...

CLR Inside Out

(image) The CLR team has a column in the MSDN magazine called 'CLR Inside Out' where we go in-depth into various aspects of the CLR. The magazine is published monthly, and you can find the list of 'CLR Inside Out' articles over here. If you have topics you'd like to see covered in the article, please let us know! This month, we have an ...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 10

This link provides a complete Tips of the Day Summary Outline - http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2009/01/02/silverlight-tips-of-the-day-summary-outline.aspx. This page will be kept updated with any changes or additions to the Tip of the Day blog for Silverlight.Most Recent Posts:Tip #78 - Animating Objects with ...

Hotfix for Visual Studio 2005 crash when saving pages with linked stylesheets

If you are using Visual Studio 2005 and are experiencing random crashes when saving ASPX or HTML files with linked stylesheets, try this hotfix that we published recenty: Crash in vswebdesign.dll!CStyleSheet::LoadFromURL using Visual Studio 2005 SP1: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=15541&...