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Running ASP.NET MVC 3 Applications on Azure
Aug 11, 2011
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Running ASP.NET MVC 3 Applications on Azure

Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web Development Tools Microsoft

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 ...

Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Jun 15, 2011
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Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web Development Tools Microsoft

  We are pleased to announce the first Web Standards Update for Visual Studio SP1. It updates the HTML5 intellisense and validation to reflect the latest W3C specifications and fixes some bugs bugs in the current SP1 support for HTML5. Also JavaScript intellisense it updated to reflect many of the new browser capabilities such as Geolocation and DOM storage. Finally, this update adds comprehensive CSS3 intellisense and validation based on the latest specifications from W3C. As the HTML5 and CSS3 specifications mature we will make updates available accordingly to ensure that ASP.NET web developers always ha...

We are Hiring!!
Jun 10, 2011
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We are Hiring!!

Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web Development Tools Microsoft

Do you want to work in a challenging, fun and growth oriented environment leading Microsoft transition to the Cloud? Are you passionate about Web development? Do you want to work with key technologies like ASP.Net, MVC, Razor, JavaScript, Azure, Mobile? Do you want to see how your work can directly impact our customers? If you answer yes to these questions, then the Azure Application Platform team is the right place for you. Currently we have following open positions. You can use the links below to see more details about these positions:    Please apply if you are interested. Thank you, -- Azure Appli...

Walkthrough: deploy a web application with SQL CE 4.0 database to IIS host with SQL Server.
Jun 7, 2011
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Walkthrough: deploy a web application with SQL CE 4.0 database to IIS host with SQL Server.

Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web Development Tools Microsoft

With VS2010 sp1, we added SQL CE 4.0 support. You can view more information about SQL CE 4.0 from the following sites: Here is a walk through of how to deploy a SQL CE database to SQL Server database using web application publish. 1. Create a web application 2. Add a SQL CE 4.0 database via “Add New item”: 3. In server explorer, under the SQL CE database, add a table “Customer”, with 2 columns “ID” and “Name”.  Use “Show Table Data” table context menu to add a few rows of data to the table. 4. Add a web form to the project, and put the following code inside it (I used design view, drag a...

Changes coming to ClickOnce applications running in the Internet Zone
Jun 6, 2011
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Changes coming to ClickOnce applications running in the Internet Zone

CLR Team
CLR Team

We wanted to let you know that we’ll be changing the signature verification process for ClickOnce applications and WPF XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs) in an upcoming update.  This change will help users recognize when they’re running untrusted applications from the Internet Zone, but may require you to make changes to your applications. Currently, applications configured to run “online-only” will not display notifications requesting that the user make a decision whether to run the application or not. After the update, users will see an Application Run dialog commonly encountered whe...

Hardening Server Applications
Apr 1, 2011
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Hardening Server Applications

CLR Team
CLR Team

The Base Class Libraries team, the wider CLR team and Microsoft Research worked hard on this new technology and we are very proud to be able to share the news. Read the full article for details.

Razor tooling for MVC3 RC with Visual Studio 2010 Sp1 RTM
Mar 24, 2011
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Razor tooling for MVC3 RC with Visual Studio 2010 Sp1 RTM

Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web Development Tools Microsoft

Do you see that Razor colorization, intellisense has stopped working after you have installed Visual Studio Sp1 RTM? The reason is that you might have MVC3 RC installed on the box which is not compatible with Visual Studio 2010 Sp1 RTM. To fix, you would need to install MVC3 RTM. Following are the details of the issue.What’s the issue?Razor intellisense/colorization stops working after installing Visual Studio 2010 RTMYou might have MVC 3 RC with VS 2010 RTM that’s causing it.How do I check which version of MVC3 do I have?Simple way to check is to verify that the version of ProgramFilesMicrosoft ASP.N...

Enabling IIS Express support in VS 2010 Sp1
Mar 14, 2011
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Enabling IIS Express support in VS 2010 Sp1

Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web Development Tools Microsoft

  With the Sp1 release of Visual Studio 2010 now available for download, you now have the option to use IIS Express as the development server for your web projects instead of the built-in Visual Studio Development server (aka. Cassini). Here are some previous blog posts explaining the IIS Express integration features in VS 2010 Sp1 Beta, which are also available with this new release of Sp1: VS 2010 SP1 and IIS Express should both be installed to enable IIS Express support To enable using IIS Express as the development server for your web projects, you need to have both the Sp1 release of VS 2010 ...

How to compress CSS/JavaScript before publish/package
Feb 24, 2011
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How to compress CSS/JavaScript before publish/package

Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web Development Tools Microsoft

Today I saw a post on stackoverflow.com asking Using Microsoft AJAX Minifier with Visual Studio 2010 1-click publish. This is a response to that question. The Web Publishing Pipeline is pretty extensive so it is easy for us to hook in to it in order to perform operation such as these. One of those extension points, as we’ve blogged about before, is creating a .wpp.targets file. If you create a file in the same directory of your project with the name {ProjectName}.wpp.targets then that file will automatically be imported and included in the build/publish process. This makes it easy to edit your build/publish...