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Visual Studio 2010 clean application level web.config
This post introduces you to a small improvement that has been made in Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4 to reduce the size of the ASP.NET application level web.config 3.0 and 3.5 web.config As ASP.NET technology evolved, the application level Web.config had new things added to it. Since the earlier frameworks were using the same set of machine level configuration files, incremental feature that was added subsequent to the 2.0 release resulted in additional config settings included in the file. .NET 4 web.config With .NET 4, the web.config is tremendously reduced in size to improve the simplicity of ASP.NE...
Visual Studio 2010 RC public download available now!
It’s finally here. Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 release candidate is available for everyone to download now.To download the public RC of Visual Studio 2010 go the RC landing page: Since the beta we’ve been focused on performance improvements, reducing memory requirements, increasing stability and fixing customer reported bugs.Here are just a few of the tweets flying around about the RC: Here are few of the posts covering Visual Studio 2010 RC: Scott’s blog post includes a list of known issues most notable are: Several web hosters are also gearing up to sup...
How to extend target file to include registry settings for web project package
Web project package and deployment targets files are written with extensibility in mind. User can easily extend a property to include more functionalities in their package by using msbuild targets and properties. If we check the Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets file under “%Program Files%MSBuildMicrosoftVisualStudiov10.0Web”, we can see the following, which means if file $(WebPublishPipelineProjectName).wpp.targets exists in the project directory, we’ll import it automatically when build package or publish. Here’s steps to create a customized target file to include some registry keys in the web ...
Visual Studio 2010 RC Feedback Channel for Web Tools
As you probably heard the Visual Studio 2010 RC is currently available for MSDN subscribers! You can download it from here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx. General public release is slated for Wed.The Web Development Tools Team has setup a DL that we would like you to use to send us direct feedback on anything web development related for this RC.The DL is: vsweb@microsoft.comOnce you have had a chance to use the product please send us feedback on your overall experience with our product. The more details you can provide the better.Also, feel free to shoot us a mail if: If you do encou...
VSDoc for jQuery 1.4.1 Now Available
We finished generating a new VSDoc for the latest update of jQuery. You can download it from the jQuery Downloads page. A refresher on how to use the file can be found here or here. Happy coding!Jeff KingProgram ManagerVisual Studio Web Tools
Sharing Silverlight Assemblies with .NET Apps
At the recent PDC, Scott Guthrie announced in his Silverlight 4 keynote that we had implemented a new feature, to enable developers to share certain assemblies between Silverlight and .NET. There are many differences between Silverlight and full .NET including WPF, and this new feature doesn’t solve those differences – in those cases, you’ll still need to compile your code twice. But in some cases, developers will write code that only uses features whose behavior is identical between Silverlight and full .NET, and in those cases, we want to enable that code to be shared. This post provides more detail on that sha...
CLR Inside Out – In-Process Side-by-Side
The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Jesse Kaplan and Luiz Fernando Santos on In-Process Side-by-Side. The article contains details on this new .NET Framework 4 feature and the problems it solves. It is especially useful for add-in or COM component developers and those wishing to write managed shell extensions. You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here. It’s a new link this month, as MSDN Magazine has updated their site. As always,...
HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer
You all probably know that new HTML 5 standard is coming. We made a new intellisense schema that you can add to VS 2008 or VWD Express 2008 and get intellisense and validation on HTML 5 elements. Note that schema is for markup only, we do not have DOM2 update for jscript intellisense yet. How to install the schema: Download attached ZIP file. Place html_5.xsd in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Packages\schemas\html Run either x86 or x64 reg file depending on the OS and VS/VWD flavors installed. For example, for VWD Express installed on 64-bit OS run HTML-5-Schema-Reg-x64-VWD...
CLR-Related PDC 2009 Sessions
If you’re at PDC this year and are reading the CLR Team’s blog, there are a few sessions that might be of interest to you. · Future of Garbage Collection is a session by the creator of the CLR’s GC, Patrick Dussud. Come hear him talk Wednesday at 1:00PM in Petree Hall C.· Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests is a session by Mike Barnett and Nikolai Tillmann from Microsoft Research about some of the latest advances in these tools for design-by-con...