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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. ...
Visual Studio 2010 – Beta 2 : Announcements
· <![endif]>Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 availability – The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 will be available to MSDN subscribers on Monday, October 19th, with general availability on October 21st.![if> · <![endif]>Launch date for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 – The official launch of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is March 22nd, 2010.![if> · ...
Single Project Add View in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2
Last week we released ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 Sp1. In the box support for single project areas is now included and the Add View tool has been modified to streamline this scenario. A walkthrough that creates two simple single project areas can be found here. If you follow the steps in the walkthrough you will notice that Add Controller and Add View are now available in the single project areas in your ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 application. Here are some screenshots that show off the tooling changes. Right-Clicking the Controllers folder of any single project area (Areas –> Blog ...
Working with SVG files in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is W3C standard language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Firefox 3+, Opera 9+ and Safari 3+ support SVG rendering. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 8 does not support SVG natively and requires a plug-in. There a plug in from Adobe (although support was discontinued this year) as well as few pulg-ins listed in Wikipedia article on SVG. SVG element is part of upcoming HTML 5 standard which allows inline SVG in HTML documents. Inline SVG is not yet fully supported in modern browsers so you probably still want to use <object> element...