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HTML5 & CSS3 in Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Since the release of Visual Studio 2010 SP1 beta last month, there has been a lot of questions regarding the support for HTML5 and CSS3. HTML5 Visual Studio 2010 was originally released without HTML5 support, so does SP1 finally add support for it? Yes, to some extent. The entire HTML5 specification isn’t supported but most of the new elements and attributes are. That means you get both intellisense and validation for HTML5 with SP1. Turn it on After installing SP1 you have to tell Visual Studio to start using the HTML5 schema. Go to Tools -> Options, and then select Text Editor -> HTML -> Validatio...
How to get Razor intellisense for @model in a class library project
Many of us follow a modular architecture and create MVC3 Razor view in a separate class library project. Following is a screenshot of the class library project that I have created. Now if I open a view with @model typed in it, I notice that it shows squiggle for @model and no intellisense is shown. (error: There is build provider registered for the extension '.cshtml') The reason behind the error is that Visual Studio 2010 (for Razor tooling) requires web.config file (with some specific settings) to be in the project so that the MVC Razor host (which adds the @model directive) gets registered ...
How to get Razor syntax support in Visual Studio 2010
What’s Razor?Razor is a simple-syntax view engine that is released as part of ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) 3. Read more about the syntax on ScottGu’s blog or on ASP.NET How can I get Razor syntax support in Visual Studio 2010?It’s simple. Install the MVC3 RTM bits via Web Platform Installer or download the installer directly to run it yourself. Both the options run AspNetMVC3Setup.exe and it installs Visual Studio 2010 support for Razor syntax in addition to other components bundled in the exe.What does ASPnetMVC3Setup.exe install for Visual Studio to support the syntax?The ASP....
Video on Web Deployment using Visual Studio 2010 and MSDeploy
Back in November I participated in Virtual Tech Days which is an online conference presented by Microsoft. In the session I discussed the enhancements to web deployment using Visual Studio 2010 and MSDeploy. Some of the topics which I covered includ: You can download the video & all of my sample files at http://virtualtechdays.com/pastevents_2010november.aspx. In the samples you will find all of the scripts that I used and a bunch of others which I didn’t have time to cover. Enjoy!Note: Cross posted to http://sedodream.com/2011/01/08/VideoOnWebDeploymentUsingVisualStud...
How to Bin Deploy SQL Compact Edition 4.0 and Razor web projects
With the release of VS2010 SP1 Beta1, Web Matrix, and Razor QFE, we can build web projects containing SQL Compact Edition 4.0 sdf file and ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor syntax. However, this might be a problem when you are ready to deploy your project on a server that doesn’t have the assemblies required to run SQL CE 4.0 and Razor pages. To solve this issue, we can make the project “Bin Deployable”, similar to the way we do bin deploy an MVC project. If the hosting machine has ASP.NET 3.5 or later installed, then we just need to include the required assemblies in the bin folder when deploying the project....
How to solve Visual Studio hang problem when working in win7 with Norton antivirus
A recent support email between customer and our developer shows that Norton/Symantec antivirus may affect Visual Studio’s performance in win7 due to the win7 jumplists. Here’s a workaround for it: First, to determine if this is the problem, you may want to disable the antivirus temporarily and see if these hangs still repro.If it’s indeed the case, please create/set the following registry value and restart VS2010.[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftVisualStudio10.0General]"ShowRecentFilesInJumplist"=dword:00000001 With the value set, Visual Studio will not try to remove anymore th...
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta IIS Express Integration
A few days ago Jason Zander blogged about the availability of Visual Studio SP1 Beta (all links below in resources section). I am happy to let you guys know that with SP1 Beta we have enabled integration of IIS Express into Visual Studio. After you have installed SP1 Beta you have to download IIS Express separately for the option to “light up”. After you’ve downloaded and installed IIS Express you can now create Web projects and Websites which use IIS Express instead of Cassini (the default web server used in Visual Studio). For more information regarding the difference between IIS Express and IIS/Cassini please ...
XDT (web.config) Transforms in non-web projects
One of the really cool features that we shipped for Visual Studio 2010 was web.config (XDT) transformations. Because the transformations are so simple and straightforward one of the first questions that someone asks after using it is “how can I use this in my other projects?” Unfortunately this feature is only built into the Web Application Projects (WAP). But it is very easy to reuse this because we just rely on an MSBuild task to do the heavy lifting for us. I received an email from that basically went like this “Hi, I would like to use XDT transformations on my WPF project for both the app.config file as ...
Finalization Uncovered
I’ve talked about finalization before but based on seeing questions related to it it appears that it deserves some clarification. First of all, finalization is a mechanism we provide in the CLR wheras Dispose is a programming pattern. See Clearing up some confusion over finalization and other areas in GC for an explanation why we provide finalization. Inside of the GC, it’s completely not aware of Dispose. People often call GC.SuppressFinalize in their Dispose implementation but that’s just a choice they make when they write code. I will explain exactly what GC.SuppressFinalize does in a ...