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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 ...
Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1
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!!
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.
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
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...