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Error occurs installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta if KB944899 is installed.

May 15, 2008 May 15, 2008 05/15/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
If you have the first release of KB945140 installed on your system you may run across an error when trying to install Visual Studio SP1 Beta. Likewise if you have any previously released hot fix, VS may not install properly even though it reports success.  The work around is to manually remove traces of KB944899 from your system, or you ...

Dynamic Data Website: Setting selection in a list from the URL

May 13, 2008 May 13, 2008 05/13/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Bradley’s earlier post, ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Released on MSDN Code Gallery, outlined the functionality the ASP.NET Dynamic Data is offering and the walkthrough steps of how to create a Dynamic Data website using the wizard. In this post, I just want to explain a little bit how the selection between modules can “magically” work. ...

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

May 12, 2008 May 12, 2008 05/12/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is now available!  You can download it here (though before you do, read the note below).  In SP1, we have added some new features as well as many bug fixes.  In this blog post I’ll attempt to give an overview of the features as well as some of the key issues the Visual Web Developer team ...

Introducing JScript Formatting in VS 2008 SP1

May 12, 2008 May 12, 2008 05/12/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
(image) Colorization, validation, IntelliSense, and formatting comprise the core of any modern editor.  With VS 2008 SP1, we are completing the core JScript editor by introducing code formatting.  Additionally, we have promoted JScript to a dedicated node in “Tools Options” providing a clean separation from the HTML “Tools ...

Error installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta and Silverlight Tools Beta 1

May 12, 2008 May 12, 2008 05/12/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Summary Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 is not compatible with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta.   The good news is that Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is coming soon.  Until then you will not be able to install both Silverlight Tools and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Until Silverlight ...

Silverlight Resources

May 6, 2008 May 6, 2008 05/6/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Looking for an good list of Silverlight Resources? I have created a list of Silverlight Blogs, Tutorials and more that you can find here:http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/05/05/silverlight-resources.aspxI will be keeping this list up-to-date so send me any links you feel are missing!Thank you.Mike Snow SDET Lead  Visual ...

Workaround: Empty Design View for User Controls

April 27, 2008 Apr 27, 2008 04/27/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
I've noticed quite a few people run into the issue "Why is design mode empty for my web user control (ASCX)?".  It's not obvious what might be causing this bug, so I thought I'd offer an explanation and a couple workarounds. Problem You have a user control that has a "link" tag to an external style sheet or a "style" tag with local ...

Public alias to report performance issues with VWD 2008

April 24, 2008 Apr 24, 2008 04/24/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
As a part of creating a way for customers to directly communicate with the product team and get help if they are running into performance issues in Visual Web Developer 2008 or web-related features in Visual Studio 2008, the product team has created a public alias to report all performance related concerns about the product. The alias is ...

Dynamic Data Preview 04-23 Refresh Now Available

April 24, 2008 Apr 24, 2008 04/24/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Update to the preceding blog post... we've just made available an 04-23 refresh of the Dynamic Data Release on the Code Gallery website.  This release includes some nice runtime enhancements for routed URLs, Dynamic Data Wizard templates in the Visual Basic language, plus a whole bunch of bug fixes and codegen improvements. ...