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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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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...
BCL CodePlex Site Launch
Today the BCL Team is launching a CodePlex site to host samples, previews, and prototypes. You can find it at http://bcl.codeplex.com. This is a site for the BCL Team to get features to customers to try out without requiring a Beta or CTP of the .NET Framework. Our goal is to put generally useful functionality on the CodePlex site, and to get feedback on it and have the chance to iterate on the design. Having a feature there does not mean that it will eventually end up in the BCL. Some items are samples that build on top of existing classes, and some features might be ones we were consider...
ASP.NET/HTML Spell Checker 2.3 is available for Visual Studio 2010
ASP.NET/HTML Spell Checker 2.3 for Visual Studio 2010 has been posted on Visual Studio Gallery (also accessible from Visual Studio Start page in 'Extending Visual Studio' section). Direct link: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0db4814c-255e-4cc6-a2c2-a428de7f8949 What's new in version 2.3: For additional information please refer to readme.htm included in the download - you can find it in the extension directory, typically C:UsersUSER_NAMEAppDataLocalMicrosoftVisualStudio10.0ExpExtensionsMicrosoftHTMLASP.NET Spell Checker for VS 20102.3 as well as to the earlier blog post on ...
Extending the Web Publishing Pipeline to package database project deployed SQL file
A Visual Studio solution file may contain both database project and a web application project. When deploying (not building) the database project, it can generate a .sql file containing the full sql file or an incremental upgrade file against a database. This blogs walkthrough one way to package database project generated sql file into the web application project’s package. This solution works for team build scenario as well. 1. Create a Web Application Project 2. Add 2 new “SQL Server 2008 Database Project” to the solution 3. In each of the database project, add a sample table and...
Pre-Order Visual Studio 2010 Professional upgrade today, and save hundreds
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the affordable estimated retail price of $549, a saving of $250. If you use a previous version of Visual Studio or any other development tool then you are eligible for this upgrade. Along with all the great new features in Visual Studio 2010 (see www.microsoft.com/visualstudio) Visual Studio 2010 Professional includes a 12-month MSDN Essentials subscription which gives you access to core Microsoft platforms: Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, and Microsoft ...
Issue with dependent assemblies when rebuilding a WAP and the Workarounds
In Visual Studio 2010, the dependent assembly of a custom control assembly will be deleted from the project’s Bin folder on project clean or rebuild if the project does not contain a reference to that dependent assembly. The result will be a WAP that successfully builds but fails at runtime. When adding a control from such a custom control assembly, both the custom control assembly and the dependent assembly will be added to the bin folder of the WAP. However, only the reference to the primary assembly will be added automatically to the references node of the project, but the reference to the dependent assembly...
Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from ORCS Web
ORCS Web has updated their Hosting Sandbox for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC.http://vs2010host.comTo learn more about the new Web Deployment features in Visual Studio 2010 check out this Step by Step Walkthrough on Web 1-Click Publish with VS 2010To provide feedback on the RC please visit the Visual Studio Connect site. You can also contact the Web Tooling team directly by sending mail to vsweb@microsoft.comBen Byrd | Visual Web Developer
Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls”
A hotfix is now available for issues most commonly described as "Controls are not being recognized in the code-behind" and "Editing existing .aspx regenerates .aspx.designer.(cs), but most of the controls are now missing”. These issues were seen in Visual Studio 2010 RC release.This hotfix can be downloaded from: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=27117The update addresses the following Connect bugs: If you continue to experience these types of issues after applying this fix; please let us know immediately. You can send these issues directly to th...