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Announcing .NET 9
Announcing the release of .NET 9, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C#, .N...
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Hot Fix Released for the Issue of Visual Studio 2010 Crashing When Switching to the Design View
When switching to the design view, a page containing numerous controls inside an editing region such as View or Panel may cause a crash in Visual Studio 2010. We have released a hot fix for this issue on Connect at https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=30462&wa=wsignin1.0 and on Code Gallery at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB2201993.Hope this helps. -Anh Phan Visual Web Developer Team.
Request for Real-World Web Applications
In preparation for enhancing Visual Studio design-time experience testing, we’d like to collect a catalog of real world applications to use for performance, stress, and ad hoc testing by the Web Platform and Tools team. We’re looking for small, medium, and large applications covering a range of architectures, languages, frameworks, and features. Your contributions will help us to ensure stability and performance in the areas of greatest interest to you. These additional testing opportunities will also help us ensure that we will have more real world samples to verify every release of Visua...
A practical example of using web application deployment package with IIS7
When a zip package is built from VS2010 web application UI (via Build Deployment Package command), or through command line (msbuild myproject.csproj /t:package), a few files are generated in the destination folder. Here’s some brief description: It’s very common to deploy our package to a IIS7 virtual application under Default Web Site. Since web deploy can generate a virtual application if it’s not exist, we can use the following options:1. Manually import the zip file from IIS manager and change the “Application Path” in the “Import Application Package” Wizar...
In-Proc SxS and Migration Quick Start
This post is meant to help you understand what runtime in-process side-by-side is, how to think about it, how to use it, and how it affects application and component migration to the .NET 4 Runtime. This post is relevant to you if you use native runtime activation APIs, depend on specific runtime activation behaviors, or use mixed mode assemblies built with Visual Studio Managed Extensions for C++ v8 or v9, or if you’re just interested in how we handle pre-.NET 4 and .NET 4 code coexisting on a machine. The problem Prior to the .NET 4 Runtime, any given process was limited to loading only one runtime vers...
CLR Inside Out – F# Fundamentals
The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Luke Hoban of the F# team on F# Fundamentals. The article gives an overview of the language, and details how F# takes advantage of various features in the CLR. You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here.
Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring
Some Best Practices and Guidance for Web Control Vendors Targeting Visual Studio The goal of this post is to provide guidance for control vendors on best practices for writing custom controls with regard to their behavior in Visual Studio. It is designed to give vendors insight into how Visual Studio behaves when performing common actions related to custom controls, as well as suggestions to optimize the experience for their consumers from within VS—largely concentrating on VS versions 2008 and 2010. This post does not cover runtime or control programming concepts such as usage of any control...
Survey – ASP.NET development in Visual Studio 2010
Are you currently doing ASP.NET development in Visual Studio 2010? If so, we would love to hear your feedback!We have created an online survey that will only take a few minutes to complete. Click here to take survey All feedback will be carefully considered and thoroughly reviewed during our planning for future release such as VS 2010 SP1.The more details you can provide, the better.Thank you for your time, --Mike Snow Visual Studio Web Development Team.
Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW – Available Now
We are pleased to announce that the RTW version of Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2010 is now available for download. If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW (for Visual Studio Professional and higher skus).InstallationYou can download Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW from the download page (or simply click here to directly download the installer).Features in WDP 2010 RTWThe RTW version of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects...
The Aspnet Compiler Build Task in Visual Studio 2010 ASP.Net MVC 2 Projects
If you crack open the project file in an ASP.Net MVC 2 application (in notepad or unload your project and then click “Edit *.proj”), you will notice an interesting line. <MvcBuildViews>false</MvcBuildViews> This is an option to enable a post build task that will run the Asp_net compiler. This command will compile your aspx pages and report any errors in the pages at design time. Ordinarily the compiler runs before your site loads for the first time after making a change. This is why you can debug a website or web application with errors in the markup and not see an error until actually ru...