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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...
Silverlight Tips of the Day Update
If you are interested in Silverlight 4 based Tips of the Day head over to my new Silverlight blog!So far I have over 20 postings as follows: Thank you, --MikeBlog Site: http://www.michaelsnow.com
CLR Inside Out – Production Diagnostics Improvements in CLR 4
The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Jon Langdon on Production Diagnostics Improvements in CLR 4. This article talks about some of the new diagnostics features we added in .NET Framework 4 and focuses on how they enable tools that help you find and fix those issues that seem to show up only after you've released your application.You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here. As always, please let us know if you have topics you’d like to see covered in ...
Another Error Creating Control in the Design View with Object Reference Not Set in Visual Studio 2010
In a previous blog, Controls State: "Error Creating Control" in the Design View in Visual Studio 2010, I have discussed about an Error Creating Control issue related to accessing the Session state in the OnInit() method. Since then, I have discovered that the Error Creating Control will also show in the design view if we try to access any object not being instantiated at the design time inside the OnInit() method. For example, in a web application project, in a code-behind file that is adding controls dynamically to a page, similar to what was discussed in the article How To Dynamically Add Controls to...