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Solution / Hotfix: Developing web applications using Visual Studio 2005 and IIS7

June 20, 2007 Jun 20, 2007 06/20/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Bradley Millington on our team posted a while back on required configuration steps for developing web applications using Visual Studio 2005 & IIS7 on Vista. This is an update to that post with information to address issues that you may still encounter resulting in the following errors when doing F5 debugging with web applications on ...

Style Application Tool Bar

June 14, 2007 Jun 14, 2007 06/14/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

After Orcas Beta1 released, some web developers mentioned that there is no documentation available for the new CSS editing features. Since I played around with this feature a lot recently, I would like to give it a try and explain it a little.   The first tool I’d like to mention is the style application tool bar. This tool bar ...

Manage Styles Tool window

June 8, 2007 Jun 8, 2007 06/8/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

This tool window provides a tree hierarchy view of all CSS selectors available from the current page. Users can navigate and find CSS style definitions in source code with this tool window.   Developers can change the layout of the tree view with the Options button. The first three context menu items will categorize the CSS selector in ...

What does the red strikethrough in CSS property grid mean?

May 31, 2007 May 31, 2007 05/31/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

In Visual Studio Orcas, the CSS property grid renders a red strikethrough when it wants to tell you that a property is either non-inherited or it is overridden by a rule with higher precedence.    Read the tooltip when you see a red strikethrough on your property and it will give you the exact reason for the strikethrough. Here are ...

Script# and ASP.NET AJAX

May 23, 2007 May 23, 2007 05/23/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Nikhil Kothari, an architect on the ASP.NET team, has been working in his spare time on a project called Script#.  Essentially this allows an Ajax programmer to code in a strongly typed language like C# and compile their code into JavaScript.  His original article can be accessed here.  Recently he added ASP.NET AJAX support to ...

64-bit vs 32-bit

May 15, 2007 May 15, 2007 05/15/07

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As 64-bit machines become more common, the problems we need to solve also evolve. In this post I’d like to talk about what it means for the GC and the applications’ memory usage when we move from 32-bit to 64-bit.   One big limitation of 32-bit is the virtual memory address space - as a user mode process you get 2GB, and if you use ...

New free version of Refactor! for ASP.NET

May 8, 2007 May 8, 2007 05/8/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

A while back I posted about some great free refactoring tools for ASP.NET.The folks at Developer Express have just released an updated version (2.2.2), that includes some great new refactorings.  Here's a sneak peek at just one of the new refactorings that's available:To check out all the new capabilities take a look at this ...

Mix07 Video: Web Development using Visual Studio "Orcas"

May 3, 2007 May 3, 2007 05/3/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

At the Mix07 conference this week, I did an overview presentation of the web development features being delivered in Visual Studio "Orcas".  The folks at Mix have been kind enough to make videos of all the sessions from the conference available to the public.Click here to watch my session on Web Development using Visual Studio "...

Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools released!

April 30, 2007 Apr 30, 2007 04/30/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

We’ve just announced the new Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools support at MIX ’07! Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for building next-gen media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight 1.1 contains a cross-platform CLR, allowing you to use your favorite .NET language rather than JavaScript to ...

Spell checker for HTML and ASP.NET: multilanguage edition

April 29, 2007 Apr 29, 2007 04/29/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

HTML / ASP.NET spell checker addin was updated with support for multiple languages. Spell checker is now able to detect lang attribute specified on elements, extracts ISO language and uses it to specify appropriate dictionary for the Office spell checking engine.In order to be able to run spell check in multiple languages you may ...