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Better Javascript intellisense with Silverlight 1.0

August 3, 2007 Aug 3, 2007 08/3/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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.  ...

Orcas Beta2 Gotcha: No ASP.NET controls in toolbox, no ASP.NET intellisense/validation on pages

August 2, 2007 Aug 2, 2007 08/2/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We’ve heard a few reports of cases with VS Orcas Beta2 where ASP.NET controls do not show up on the toolbox and ASP.NET tag intellisense and validation is broken in HTML source view.  All of the cases reported so far have been with Vista.  The root cause of this is that the Orcas Beta2 version of System.Web.Dll did not get ...

Workaround for Beta 2 JavaScript IntelliSense and Colorization Issue

July 30, 2007 Jul 30, 2007 07/30/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We have discovered that in a very limited number of setup scenarios of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, Jscript IntelliSense and Colorization may not work property after installing the product. You will get no IntelliSense in JavaScript code, and all JavaScript code will appear black (i.e., colorization of keywords will be missing). The image below ...

Using VS 2008 to target ASP.NET AJAX 1.0

July 29, 2007 Jul 29, 2007 07/29/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
8/10/2007 UPDATE:  This blog post was edited to include simplified instructions to work around a known issue w/ Multitargeting support in VS 2008 Beta 2.  See “Machine Prerequisites” below.   In a previous post, I described the steps you can take to upgrade your existing ASP.NET AJAX 1.0-based Web sites to use the new AJAX...

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Web.config

July 29, 2007 Jul 29, 2007 07/29/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
  <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration>   <configSections>     <sectionGroup name="system.web.extensions" type="System.Web.Configuration.SystemWebExtensionsSectionGroup, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35">      ...

Upgrading ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Websites and Web Applications to .NET Framework 3.5

July 28, 2007 Jul 28, 2007 07/28/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
8/10/2007 UPDATE:  This blog post was edited to include simplified instructions to work around a known issue w/ Multitargeting support in VS 2008 Beta 2.  See “Machine Prerequisites” below.   Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is finally released, and with it comes a bunch of great new features for writing and maintaining...

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 & Silverlight

July 27, 2007 Jul 27, 2007 07/27/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In case you hadn't noticed, today has been a busy day in Redmond uploading new bits to the download servers. The following are now available for download: Visual Studio Orcas Beta 2 Visual Web Developer Orcas Beta 2 Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (July 2007)We'...

Hotfix Update for “Index was outside the bounds of the array.” Error when Publishing a Website

July 3, 2007 Jul 3, 2007 07/3/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
I am glad to announce that an updated version of a Publish Website hotfix for VS 2005 SP1 is now available for download and includes Vista support.   In April we released a hotfix to address an “Index was outside the bounds of the array” error that prevented a website to be published.  You see this issue in VS 2005 SP1 when you ...

Silverlight "How-to" videos

June 29, 2007 Jun 29, 2007 06/29/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We recently released a set of Silverlight "How-to" videos online.  This includes Scott Guthrie's keynote demo at Mix07 which shows off how to create a Silverlight 1.1 application using the Visual Studio add-in for Silverlight. This is also a good time to let you all know that we have had ASP.Net videos and ASP.Net AJAX videos available ...