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Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools released!

April 30, 2007 Apr 30, 2007 04/30/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

We’ve just announced the new Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools support at MIX ’07! Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for building next-gen media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight 1.1 contains a cross-platform CLR, allowing you to use your favorite .NET language rather than JavaScript to ...

Spell checker for HTML and ASP.NET: multilanguage edition

April 29, 2007 Apr 29, 2007 04/29/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

HTML / ASP.NET spell checker addin was updated with support for multiple languages. Spell checker is now able to detect lang attribute specified on elements, extracts ISO language and uses it to specify appropriate dictionary for the Office spell checking engine.(image) In order to be able to run spell check in multiple languages you...

Downloadable Hotfix: Publish command fails when Virtual Path is set to /

April 23, 2007 Apr 23, 2007 04/23/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

One of the convenient new things in Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is the ability to set the built-in ASP.NET Development Server to use "/" as the Virtual path for when it runs.  This is very useful for development of web apps that will eventually be deployed to the root folder of a web server, or for web applications ...

Visual Studio Beta 1 and Visual Web Developer Express CTP are out!

April 23, 2007 Apr 23, 2007 04/23/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

19th of April we shipped Visual Studio Orcas Beta1. See Soma's blog entry: . Downloads are here. This is also first time Express editions are available for download including Visual Web Developer Express. VWD Orcas Express download is bigger than in VWD 2005 Express largely because of the new HTML designer. Express editions are also ...

Expression Web and Expression Blend added to MSDN!

April 11, 2007 Apr 11, 2007 04/11/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Back in December 2006, Microsoft released Expression Web, a designer tool that's a great companion to Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio.  You can read about this tool in this earlier blog post that we had made.  Since then, we have received a ton of feedback asking why this as well as Expression Blend are not...

He’s live… he’s live not… he’s live…

March 21, 2007 Mar 21, 2007 03/21/07

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I was making some code changes today and thought this was interesting to share. As you know, the WeakReference class has a getter and a setter method to get and set the Target which is what the weakref points to. See Using GC Efficiently – Part 3 for more details on WeakReference.   Note that the code below is only for illustration ...

JScript Debugging in Visual Web Developer Orcas

March 8, 2007 Mar 8, 2007 03/8/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Jeff King made a recent post to show off the new JScript IntelliSense feature in the March CTP of Visual Studio. Now I am going to show off the improved JScript Debugging experience in the March CTP. The first thing you will notice is that when you try to debug an IE page, VS will give you a nice little dialog reminding you to turn ...

JScript Debugging in Visual Web Developer 2005

March 8, 2007 Mar 8, 2007 03/8/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

A lot of people have asked about how to debug JScript in Visual Web Developer 2005. You need to know a few tricks before you can set a breakpoint on an ASPX document (Note that the experience is vastly improved in our Orcas March CTP and I will be making a separate blog post on that soon).  1. Enable client script debugging on IE: (image...

Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista Available

March 7, 2007 Mar 7, 2007 03/7/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

I recently posted some tips about how to have success doing web development with Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista.  One recommendation in that post was to install the "Beta" release of the Visual Studio 2005 Update for WIndows Vista.  I'm happy to announce final version of the Visual Studio 2005 Update for...

JScript IntelliSense March CTP Gotchas + Workarounds

March 7, 2007 Mar 7, 2007 03/7/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

The March CTP is of course a "Preview" and does have some bugs.  I thought we'd share the top issues seen and offer some workarounds. 1. TypeLibBuilder.exe "has encountered a problem..." If you're seeing this: (image) This a bug where that particular assembly has not been given a Strong Name.  The solution ...