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How to Make the Most of Your .NET Server Code
One of our team’s field engineers recently sent a link to a Channel 9 video: Steve Michelotti of e.magination on High Performance Web Solutions. This company built a 64-bit web server that handles over 3 billion transactions a day and guarantees a 250 ms response time. And it goes without saying that they built it on top of .NET. The team optimized their code to avoid implicit allocations, pool and reuse objects and allocate large collections directly on the Large Object Heap. But they still saw some latencies that were greater than their contract allowed. So they worked with their field engineer and...
CLR Inside Out – Exploring the .NET Framework 4 Security Model
The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Andrew Dai on Exploring the .NET Framework 4 Security Model. This article discusses how the new .NET Framework 4 security model makes it easier to work with partially trusted code. 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 the column.
Converting a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project
Differences between Web Site Projects (WSP) and Web Application Projects (WAP) are highlighted in blogs such as this one. Based on that, if you feel a WAP would be better for your particular needs than a WSP, but have already created a WSP, you may be asking yourself, “Can I convert my WSP into a WAP, without starting from scratch?”. This posting explains how to convert an existing Web Site Project to a Web Application Project in Visual Studio 2010. The most striking differences to a Web Site Project are that WAPs have a project file to include and exclude files, and compile to a single assembly. The guidelines b...
New Silverlight Tooling Support in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will bring full support for developing applications in Silverlight 3. There’s a few things that have changed since VS2010 Beta 1, and we hope you enjoy the new beta release! Silverlight 2 is no longer supported – long live Silverlight 3 Now that Silverlight 3 has released (including a GDR; the latest version is currently 3.0.40818), VS2010 has moved the minimum supported version to Silverlight 3. The new installation experience will include the latest Silverlight 3 developer runtime and Silverlight 3 GDR 2 SDK. If you already have the Silverlight 3 RTW version of the SDK in...
ASP.Net MVC in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 contains ASP.Net MVC 2 in the box so there is no need to install an out of band update to Visual Studio 2010 to develop ASP.Net MVC applications. Phil Haack posted about the in-box experience for Beta 2 andd also provides some info on how to upgrade your ASP.Net MVC 1 apps to ASP.Net MVC 2. From a tooling perspective, all of the new functionality released in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Orcas is available in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 including support for Single Project Areas. Additionally, if you look in the Scripts folder of a new ASP.Net MVC application, you will notice that ...
Dev10 Beta2, Import from web.config file and other changes for DB deployment UI
Dev10 Beta2 DB Deployment property page has some changes from Beta1. Please provide your valuable feedback for us to make it better for you. Thanks. 1. Tab page name changed from “Deploy/SQL” To “Deploy SQL” 2. Customer can use “Import from Web.config” button to import all the connection strings defined in root web.config to the database entries list. For example, if web.config contains the following connection strings: Clicking “Import from Web.config” button, you will get two connection names in the database entries list. Each entry corresponds to a connection string in the web....
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Intellisense Issue in Javascript/HTML.
If by any chance you are not seeing intellisense in your JavaScript or HTML after installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 you might be running into a known bug that we can show you how to fix. The bug is related to user settings which we don’t remove when Beta 1 is uninstalled. One particular setting under HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftVisualStudio10.0HTML EditorTargetFriendlyName. For Beta 2, this setting does not match the schema’s we know about. As a result, JScript intellisense will fail to load and most items will be missing in markup as well. The minimum fix is to manually repair the TargetFriendlyName setting in the...
Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Performance
Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is out and we at the Web Development Tools team are pleased to let you know that we have fixed a lot of the performance issues from Beta1. It took a considerable amount of time and effort but we feel it was well worth it. We would like to thank the community for your feedback and in helping us identify a lot of these issues. There has been some good improvements to Add Reference dialog, first switch to design view etc. Please try using Beta2 and let us know if you find any of the Web Scenarios to be particularly slow. We would like to hear your issues and concerns around performance for W...
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Web Tools Overview
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has officially shipped! If you haven’t already, download a copy from here. What New with Visual Studio If you are new to Visual Studio 2010 please check out all our previous blogs to get a understanding of all the changes we made for Beta 1 including this intro blog on beta 1: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/05/20/visual-studio-10-and-asp-net-4-0-beta1.aspx What’s New with Beta 2 With this release the Web Tools team has introduced a number of great improvements. A number of these improvements are listed below. ...