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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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Controls State: “Error Creating Control” in the Design View in Visual Studio 2010
In VS 2010, if you are accessing the Session state in the OnInit(…) method of your page, similar to the following code snippet: then you will encounter an “Error Creating Control” for ASP.NET controls when viewing the Design view of the page. For example, if you have an ASP.NET button control on the page, the designer will display the error: “Error Creating Control – Button1 Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to true, either in a configuration file or in the Page directive. Please also make sure that System. Web.SessionStateModule or a custom session state module is included ...
Issues between Visual Studio, Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse and Windows 2008 Server
Quite some time ago, when Vista just went RTM, Risk Strahl discovered that when he used Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse, code intellisense and markup validation in Visual Studio stopped working. Since several activities in VS are done in a background on idle (not to be confused with background threads - idle processing is performed on the main thread), it was clear that VS was not getting any idle time slots, i.e. something was keeping OS busy. We tracked the issue down some third party applications as well as to a bug in Microsoft Wireless Mouse driver that was keeping OS busy and prevented OS...
Silverlight 4 Tools Released
This morning we released Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010!The link to download and installs the tools is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177508. The tools will install: Note that this is the RC release of the Silverlight 4 tools. With these tools you can start developing Silverlight 4 applications using Visual Studio 2010.If you are not familiar with what’s new in SL 4 check out Tim’s blog here: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspxIf you haven’t already downloaded VS 2010, you can get the...
Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta – Available Now
If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation now with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta (for Visual Studio Professional and higher skus). The power tool named “Web Deployment Projects” originally shipped as an out-of-band update for both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 (for Visual Studio Professional and higher skus). This power tool provided a simplistic way to replace config sections and to integrate the ASP.NET pre-compiler and merge utilities into Visual Studio’s build proce...
Connect
As hopefully most of you know, Microsoft has a site called Connect where customers can log bugs and suggestions (http://connect.microsoft.com/). Issues for .NET can be found in the Visual Studio and .NET Framework feedback category (http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Feedback) and can be logged from the main Visual Studio Connect page (http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/). One of the complaints we often hear from customers is that they don’t know what happens to a Connect issue after they file it. So I wanted to take this chance to tell you a little about how the process work...
Visual Studio 2010 MVC 2 Upgrade Wizard
Prior to the RTM release of Visual Studio 2010, the only way to upgrade an ASP.Net MVC 1 application to ASP.Net MVC 2 was to use Eilon Lipton’s tool. With the release of Visual Studio 2010 you will now be able to open your MVC 1 projects in Visual Studio 2010 and upgrade them to ASP.Net MVC 2 projects. Also, you can upgrade the target framework of the project to 4.0 or continue to target the 3.5 framework. When you first open an ASP.Net MVC 1 application in Visual Studio 2010, you will see the familiar Visual Studio Conversion Wizard. ASP.Net MVC specific code runs during this wizard and updates all System...
Visual Web Developer 2010 Express has Arrived!
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is a free and robust development environment for building, testing and deploying Web applications across the Microsoft Web Platform including ASP.Net, Internet Information Services and SQL Server. Unleash your creativity with powerful design surfaces for building standards-based Web applications and services. With Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, you can work with Web Standards, JavaScript and ASP.NET. Work within a personalized environment, targeting established and emerging web technologies, including rich internet applications based on AJAX or Silverlight, cloud an...
Spell checker 2.3 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Minor update for the Spell checker add-in for VS 2008 SP1. It is now available at Visual Studio Gallery. Direct link: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/2f3d691d-8838-4d84-ad64-44a02db37e30What's new in version 2.3: You can find extended information on the add-in and possible customization in earlier post. For VS 2010 version look here.ThanksMikhail Arkhipov
Visual Web Developer Team is Hiring
We’re looking for someone who is passionate about web technologies and the developer experience. If you’ve been an avid Visual Studio developer building great web applications and longed for an even more compelling experience in Visual Studio, Now is your chance. Visual Studio already offers the one of the most comprehensive authoring experiences for the web today supporting web standards like HTML, CSS and JavaScript and server technologies such as ASP.Net, MVC, SQL Server and IIS. We’re looking for someone with the passion and energy to help us raise the bar even further in o...