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Microsoft Report Viewer Add-on for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express has been released

December 22, 2008 Dec 22, 2008 12/22/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Microsoft Report Viewer Add-on for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express is now available for download. It includes the RDLC designer and Microsoft Report Viewer 2008. The RDLC designer creates and edits RDLC files with RDL 2005 schema. Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b67b9445-c206-4ff7-8716-a8129370fa1d&...

Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

November 29, 2008 Nov 29, 2008 11/29/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This version is obsolete. Please refer to Visual Studio Gallery http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/2f3d691d-8838-4d84-ad64-44a02db37e30 for the most up-to-date information and download. For VS 2010 version look here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0db4814c-255e-4cc6-a2c2-a428de7f8949Download: ...

Web Platform Installer

November 25, 2008 Nov 25, 2008 11/25/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Yesterday Microsoft released Web Platform Installer (WPI) Release Candidate to the web at http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx.  Betas have been available for a while, but the release version contains several new features.  This is a one-stop-shopping installer for free Microsoft web development ...

Workaround for a slow closing of Web projects

November 21, 2008 Nov 21, 2008 11/21/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
A few users reported that with Web projects located on a remote machine closing project or solution may hang Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express for several minutes. We fould that the issue may be caused by VS logging component that collects information on product usage. This is an opt-in feature activated in Help | ...

So, what’s new in the CLR 4.0 GC?

November 19, 2008 Nov 19, 2008 11/19/08
maoni
PDC 2008 happened not long ago so I get to write another “what’s new in GC” blog entry. For quite a while now I’ve been working on a new concurrent GC that replaces the existing one. And this new concurrent GC is called “background GC”. First of all let me apologize for having not written anything for so long. It’s been quite ...

JScript IntelliSense FAQ

November 18, 2008 Nov 18, 2008 11/18/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
I've been reading through the 70 or so comments on our last 2 jQuery posts.  There have been a lot of great questions.  Apologies for not being able to answer them sooner (I was busy preparing for Dev Connections).  Instead of answering them inline with the comments, I'll try to paraphrase the popular issues here and answer them...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 9

November 3, 2008 Nov 3, 2008 11/3/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Silverlight Tip of the Day #66 Title: How to copy XAML for Silverlight from Expression DesignerSilverlight Tip of the Day #65 Title: Adding a Mouse Wheel Event Listener to your ControlsSilverlight Tip of the Day #64 Title: Deploying a Silverlight Application with a Web ServiceSilverlight Tip of the Day #63 Title: How to Monitor...