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Web Deployment Projects (WDP) for Visual Studio 2008 – December 2007 CTP Released

December 1, 2007 Dec 1, 2007 12/1/07

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Based on the feedback from web development community we just released the Customer Technology Preview (CTP) of Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2008... This release of Web Deployment Projects (WDP) has all the features that VS 2005 WDP release has and in addition has few other enhancements which I will call out later in this post...

Silverlight 1.1 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 available for download

November 26, 2007 Nov 26, 2007 11/26/07

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A quick announcement -- an updated version of the Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 that works with the released version of Visual Studio 2008 is now available! This release provides the same features as the Silverlight Tools Alpha add-on which was previously available for Visual Studio 2008 Beta2...

Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition available for download

November 19, 2007 Nov 19, 2007 11/19/07

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I'm glad to announce that Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition has officially shipped, and is now available for immediate download.  Here is a quick summary of some of the great new capabilities in this release:  Tools to Design Web Pages  Use the new Split View pane which shows both the visual designer as well ...

JScript IntelliSense: A Reference for the “Reference” Tag

November 6, 2007 Nov 6, 2007 11/6/07

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It should be no surprise that JScript Documentation Comments power much of what you see in JScript IntelliSense in VS2008.  Perhaps the most useful of these comments is the "reference" comment.  The "reference" comment allows you to "see" functions and objects outside of your current file in the completion list.  I've gotten ...

First book on Visual Web Developer 2008

October 25, 2007 Oct 25, 2007 10/25/07

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Jim Cheshire who is working in Microsoft Customer Support wrote a new book on the Visual Web Developer 2008 "The Microsoft Expression Web Developer's Guide to ASP.NET 3.5: Learn to create ASP.NET applications using Visual Web Developer 2008". It describes all the new features that VWD 2008 brings for Web designers and, of course, all ...

SQL Database Publishing wizard is now in Visual Studio 2008.

October 15, 2007 Oct 15, 2007 10/15/07

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The SQL database publishing wizard is a very popular web-downloadable add-in for Visual Studio 2005. The publishing wizard addresses the issue where a developer needs to deploy a local database from his development machine to a hosting environment on a remote machine. We received a lot of positive feedback for this wizard and we decided to ...

New VS2008 Feature: “Downgrade” HTML, CSS, and JScript Errors to Warnings

September 19, 2007 Sep 19, 2007 09/19/07

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VS2005 introduced the ability to validate your markup and CSS for standards compliance alongside your code.  It’s a great feature, but it can be frustrating when you’re looking for that one critical compilation error underneath a pile of validation errors.  Well, we heard your feedback and added two new options in VS2008 (post-...

Tip/Trick: ASP.NET Mobile Development with Visual Studio 2008

September 17, 2007 Sep 17, 2007 09/17/07

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If you are using Visual Studio 2008, you might have noticed that it doesn't have item templates for ASP.NET Mobile Web Forms (which were previously available in Visual Studio 2003).   To help users with this scenario, I've created the following item templates for ASP.NET Web Site and ASP.NET Web Application projects: Mobile ...

New Visual Web Developer Resources available at MSDN’s BDLC

August 24, 2007 Aug 24, 2007 08/24/07

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A few months back, we had blogged about the new BDLC (beginner developer learning center) on MSDN.  This is a a centralized learning environment specifically targeted to beginning .NET programmers.  Recently, we have added a couple of Visual Web Developer specific resources at this center.  1. Five online chapters of "...

Better Javascript intellisense with Silverlight 1.0

August 3, 2007 Aug 3, 2007 08/3/07

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If you are using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, and are building applications for Silverlight using Javascript, there is a cool project from Justin-Josef Angel, which I recommend checking out.  Using Justin's library and Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, one can get much richer Javascript intellisense experience for Silverlight.  ...