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Page Inspector for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
The upcoming version of Visual Studio introduces a number of improvements focused on diagnosing your Web Applications. One of these is the new Page Inspector. Page Inspector is a new tool that brings browser diagnostics tools into Visual Studio and provides an integrated experience between the browser, ASP.NET, and source code. Using Page Inspector, you can inspect elements in the integrated browser and see exactly which file and lines of code generated that element (HTML literal content and server-side code). It also comes with a DOM Visualizer and CSS Tools in which you can modify the properties and see the ch...
Introducing .NET Framework 4.5
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is now unsupported. Last week at the BUILD conference, we had the pleasure of announcing the next version of the .NET Framework and releasing a developer preview at the same time. We have so many new things in .NET 4.5 to discuss with our developer community – we’re excited to have this opportunity to begin a discussion about each of them. At the BUILD conference, many talks provided a glimpse of what .NET 4.5 has to offer. These are some of our favorite talks: The .NET platform is crucial to s...
So, what’s new in the CLR 4.5 GC?
Last time I posted a "So, what's new" entry was when we release 4.0 ~3 years ago (can't believe it's already been that long..). Now I get to talk about what's new in the 4.5 GC. Actually I just talked about this with Channel 9 and here's the link to the video: https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Maoni-Stephens-CLR-45-Server-Background-GC Enjoy!
New HTML Editor feature in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview has many new HTML editor features, including the following: Scott Gu's Blog: From ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Whitepaper Discussed a little bit more here than in the whitepaper: Smart indentation The indentation of HTML elements has been tightened up so the cursor will always be placed the right place after hitting Enter when inside any empty HTML tag. When the user hits Enter, the closing div tag is moved 2 lines down and indented correctly according to the opening tag. The cursor is ...
New CSS editor features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
The CSS Editor for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is a complete rewrite of the 2010 version, featuring excellent performance and stability. As soon as you start to edit a CSS file or a style block embedded in a web page, you'll feel the difference! CSS 3.0 has expanded the richness and complexity of style sheets considerably, and the new editor steps up to make the change not just manageable, but productive. Select the CSS 1.0, 2.1, or 3.0 schema to work with (default is 3.0) and start typing. The first thing you'll see is an overwhelming number of properties available, over 250. Even more appear if you star...
New JavaScript editing features for Web development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview has the JavaScript design time engine rewritten, sharing base with IE's JavaScript engine. It has faster performance and better memory footprint. The list below shows some new feature and changes comparing with Visual Studio 2010 for Web development scenarios. All feedbacks are welcomed as it's our passion to make JavaScript developing experience as pleasant, reliable and efficient as other languages. IntelliSense XML Document Debug/Breakpoint MicrosoftAjax.js and other library Support Editor display Validation Misc We will have more JavaScript editing fea...
New Features for Web Development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
The public release of Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is now available and can be downloaded. Please visit Jason Zander's Blog for the download links and overview of the new features.We have many great features in the preview. We'll discuss some of them in the future blogs. Scott Guthrie has a blog "ASP.NET vNext Series' which links to the detail of many ASP.NET 4.5 features.Here is a few features included in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Here's more resources to help you start coding: Please note we are shipping some features through Web Platform Installer, such as MVC next and...
Expected NuGet Downtime – August 22 11pm-12am PDT
As mentioned in a previous post, we’ve been working to address some performance problems on the NuGet Gallery.The fixes we have in place include some time-consuming database migrations. During our dry run deployments, we found that virtually all requests to the database will time out while these migrations are running. We have decided to take the precaution of shutting the gallery down during these migrations to ensure the best and fastest possible deployment. We are sorry for the inconvenience this will cause.TimingThe nuget.org website is expected to be down from 11pm-12am PDT tonight. During this ti...
Running ASP.NET MVC 3 Applications on Azure
Microsoft recently released the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 1.4 (August 2011) update which includes a new ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Role project template which makes it easier to deploy an MVC 3 application to Azure. Let’s walk through this process end-to-end. Step 1 – Install the tools Step 2 – Create and run the application (locally) Step 3 – Create an Azure Hosted Service Step 4 – Create a SQL Azure database Step 5 – Package the application for Azure deployment ...