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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is now available! You can download it here (though before you do, read the note below). In SP1, we have added some new features as well as many bug fixes. In this blog post I’ll attempt to give an overview of the features as well as some of the key issues the Visual Web Developer team ...
(image) Colorization, validation, IntelliSense, and formatting comprise the core of any modern editor. With VS 2008 SP1, we are completing the core JScript editor by introducing code formatting. Additionally, we have promoted JScript to a dedicated node in “Tools Options” providing a clean separation from the HTML “Tools ...
Summary Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 is not compatible with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta. The good news is that Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is coming soon. Until then you will not be able to install both Silverlight Tools and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Until Silverlight ...
Looking for an good list of Silverlight Resources? I have created a list of Silverlight Blogs, Tutorials and more that you can find here:http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/05/05/silverlight-resources.aspxI will be keeping this list up-to-date so send me any links you feel are missing!Thank you.Mike Snow SDET Lead Visual ...
I've noticed quite a few people run into the issue "Why is design mode empty for my web user control (ASCX)?". It's not obvious what might be causing this bug, so I thought I'd offer an explanation and a couple workarounds.
Problem
You have a user control that has a "link" tag to an external style sheet or a "style" tag with local ...
As a part of creating a way for customers to directly communicate with the product team and get help if they are running into performance issues in Visual Web Developer 2008 or web-related features in Visual Studio 2008, the product team has created a public alias to report all performance related concerns about the product. The alias is ...
Update to the preceding blog post... we've just made available an 04-23 refresh of the Dynamic Data Release on the Code Gallery website. This release includes some nice runtime enhancements for routed URLs, Dynamic Data Wizard templates in the Visual Basic language, plus a whole bunch of bug fixes and codegen improvements. ...
ASP.NET Dynamic Data is a great innovation for creating data-driven Websites. It provides two key features: ASP.NET Dynamic Data has been available for awhile in the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview, released in December 2007. I am happy to announce today that there is an updated ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview release ...
If you love the web and are passionate about the developer experience building web applications we'd like to hear from you.These are hot positions focused on cutting edge technologies. You can learn more about our positions from the links below: Authoring for Web Standards Authoring Silverlight Applications in Visual Studio (...
Mike Volodarsky on the IIS team just published some very useful articles describing how to setup and configure IIS7 to properly work with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005.The article covers necessary components needing to be installed, and the required configuration needed to create, edit and debug web applications using IIS7 and ...