.NET Blog

Free. Cross-platform. Open source. A developer platform for building all your apps.

Tips & Tricks: Start-Up Options and Instances of ASP.Net Development Server in a Multi-project Solution

December 23, 2007 Dec 23, 2007 12/23/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
If you have more than one project in your solution you can use following options of solution properties to set your start up actions...  You can get the below dialog by right clicking your solution and going to its properties: (image)   If you have more than one Web project (either Web Site, WAPs or both) in your solution and choose...

Workaround: Debugging Global.aspx.cs Application_Start() with ASP.Net Web Server within Visual Studio

December 13, 2007 Dec 13, 2007 12/13/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
When you add a global.asax file to your "Web Application Projects (WAPs) like below: (image) and then write code in Application_Start event and try to debug it like below using Visual Studio inbuilt Development Web Server (image)   Then during your first debug the breakpoint is hit but during your subsequent debug runs the breakpoint is...

Spell checker for HTML, ASP.NET, JScript, VB, C#, CSS and C++ for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

December 13, 2007 Dec 13, 2007 12/13/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Following Visual Studio 2008 release I updated my Spell Checker add-in for VS 2008 as well as added some new useful functionality. What's new in version 2.0:Spell checker now supports text verification in: Spell checking is supported in style and script blocks as well as in JS, CS, VB, CSS, CPP ahd H files. There are two separate ...

Visual Web Developer is hiring…

December 12, 2007 Dec 12, 2007 12/12/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The Visual Web Developer team is looking for a few talented and experienced invididuals to join our team.  We have opportunities in development, testing, and program management.  Our team builds Visual Studio features that enable creating applications for ASP.NET, IIS, Silverlight and Sharepoint.Here are ...

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

December 1, 2007 Dec 1, 2007 12/1/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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...

First book on Visual Web Developer 2008

October 25, 2007 Oct 25, 2007 10/25/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 ...