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 ...
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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 ...
Last year, we made a post to the IE team blog about the removal of the DHTML Editing Control from the Windows Vista.The removal of the control affects three types of applications:
Just this last week, we released one more solution for web applications that rely on the DHTML Editing Control and do not work in Vista. The solution is ...
I have uploaded a series of tutorials on Game Programming with Silverlight 2 using Visual Studio 2008 Tools beta 2.If you are interested in these topics, feel free to track my blog here:http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/default.aspxMike SnowSenior SDET Lead.Visual Studio Web Tools...
Ext is great framework for adding rich AJAX interactivity to your web application. Unfortunately, JScript IntelliSense currently has difficulties processing the script and it's not uncommon to see this message:
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I just wanted to let everyone know that we've investigated and fixed the issue. This fix will be available in ...
If you previously had ASP.NET MVC Preview 1 (CTP 1) and had already created a few projects on it then you might have to take this additional step to convert your project to ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 (MIX 2008) [After installing MVC Preview 2 (Resources here)]. In ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 we introduced a special MVC Project flavor GUID for ...