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Visual Studio Orcas March CTP is available!

February 28, 2007 Feb 28, 2007 02/28/07

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The March CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio Orcas is now available here.  You can either install it (side-by-side with VS 2005) or use via a VPC image.  This is the first CTP that contains significant web tools feature enhancements - the new HTML/Webforms Designer, Jscript Intellisense and Debugging, ...

Tip/Trick: Avoid launching 2 instances of IE when using Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista

February 22, 2007 Feb 22, 2007 02/22/07

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I've seen user reports in several forums, where two instances of Internet Explorer get launched when doing F5, CTRL+F5, or View in Browser in Visual Studio 2005 running on Windows Vista. If you are encountering this issue, taking the following two steps should fix it: Install the beta version of the Visual Studio 2005...

How to use the new CSS features in Visual Studio Orcas

January 24, 2007 Jan 24, 2007 01/24/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

One of the questions I have gotten when showing the new CSS features in Orcas to customers is how do these tools help me analyze the styles on my page. Or more specifically, why doesn’t the page look like I think it should. One of the most powerful new tools included in Orcas is the CSS property grid. It looks somewhat like the standard ...

Difference Between Perf Data Reported by Different Tools – 4

January 12, 2007 Jan 12, 2007 01/12/07

maoni

.NET CLR Memory\% Time in GC counter and !runaway on thread(s) doing GC. The 2 common ways people use to look at the time spent in GC are the % Time in GC performance counter under .NET CLR Memory, and the CPU time displayed by the !runaway debugger command in cdb/windbg. What do they mean exactly? % Time in GC is calculated like this: When ...

Tip/Trick: Using Mobile Web Forms with Web Application Projects

January 8, 2007 Jan 8, 2007 01/8/07

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Hopefully, people reading this post are familiar with the "Web Application Projects" feature that was added to Visual Studio 2005 in Service Pack 1.  If you are using Web Application Projects, 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...

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 released – details about changes for web tools

December 20, 2006 Dec 20, 2006 12/20/06

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As many of you may heard Visual Studio 2005 SP1 was officially released several days ago.  There have already been a couple of blog posts announcing the release from ScottGu and Soma.  One item of feedback I saw on those posts was a request for more information about the actual fixes in SP1.I'm writing this blog post to ...

Difference Between Perf Data Reported by Different Tools – 3

December 20, 2006 Dec 20, 2006 12/20/06

maoni

Both the !SOS.gchandles command (added in CLR 2.0) and the .NET CLR Memory\# GC Handles counter show you the number of GC handles you have in your process. The # GC Handles counter is one of the rare counters in the .NET CLR Memory category that doesn’t get updated at the end of each GC. Rather we update it in the handle table code, for ...

Difference Between Perf Data Reported by Different Tools – 2

December 12, 2006 Dec 12, 2006 12/12/06

maoni

Managed Heap Size We have both .NET CLR Memory perf counters and SoS extensions that report manged heap size related data. Difference 2 There are a few .NET CLR Memory counters that are related to the managed heap size: # Total Committed Bytes # Total Reserved Bytes I explained what these counters mean here. Now, how are ...

Difference Between Perf Data Reported by Different Tools – 1

December 12, 2006 Dec 12, 2006 12/12/06

maoni

So, there are many perf tools and some of them report either the same or the same type of data. I want to talk about various differences between the ones related to managed heap investigation. This is not supposed to cover everything..just the ones I think people use frequently. Managed Heap Size We have both .NET CLR Memory perf counters and ...

WPF/E ASP.NET Server Control

December 11, 2006 Dec 11, 2006 12/11/06

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The other day, I have posted on an entry on my blog showing how to embed videos on your websites using simple IFrame technique. The next thing I wanted to do is to build an ASP.NET Server Control to show how easy it is to integrate rich content into ASPX pages - but Mike Harsh beat me to it. See his post about the WPF/E ASP.NET Server ...