I'm glad to announce that Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition has officially shipped, and is now available for immediate download. Here is a quick summary of some of the great new capabilities in this release: We hope you enjoy the new product!-Visual Web Developer Team
Jim Cheshire who is working in Microsoft Customer Support wrote a new book on the Visual Web Developer 2008 "The Microsoft Expression Web Developer's Guide to ASP.NET 3.5: Learn to create ASP.NET applications using Visual Web Developer 2008". It describes all the new features that VWD 2008 brings for Web designers and, of course, all other fea...
The SQL database publishing wizard is a very popular web-downloadable add-in for Visual Studio 2005. The publishing wizard addresses the issue where a developer needs to deploy a local database from his development machine to a hosting environment on a remote machine. We received a lot of positive feedback for this wizard and we decided to integrat...
A few months back, we had blogged about the new BDLC (beginner developer learning center) on MSDN. This is a a centralized learning environment specifically targeted to beginning .NET programmers. Recently, we have added a couple of Visual Web Developer specific resources at this center. 1. Five online chapters of "Creat...
If you are using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, and are building applications for Silverlight using Javascript, there is a cool project from Justin-Josef Angel, which I recommend checking out. Using Justin's library and Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, one can get much richer Javascript intellisense experience for Silverlight. Below is ...
You may have heard by now that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available for public download. I wanted to take a minute to highlight some of the new web developer features that we've added since Beta 1: Design view support for configuring AJAX Extenders If you are using the AJAX control toolkit for .NET 3.5, or have bui...
In case you hadn't noticed, today has been a busy day in Redmond uploading new bits to the download servers. The following are now available for download: We'll have more blog posts in the next week or so showing off the new features, so download and tell us what you think.IMPORTANT RELNOTE: If you are doing ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 development with VS...
I am glad to announce that an updated version of a Publish Website hotfix for VS 2005 SP1 is now available for download and includes Vista support. In April we released a hotfix to address an “Index was outside the bounds of the array” error that prevented a website to be published. You see this issue in VS 2005 SP1 when you execute th...
Nikhil Kothari, an architect on the ASP.NET team, has been working in his spare time on a project called Script#. Essentially this allows an Ajax programmer to code in a strongly typed language like C# and compile their code into JavaScript. His original article can be accessed here. Recently he added ASP.NET AJAX support to Scrip...
A while back I posted about some great free refactoring tools for ASP.NET.The folks at Developer Express have just released an updated version (2.2.2), that includes some great new refactorings. Here's a sneak peek at just one of the new refactorings that's available:To check out all the new capabilities take a look at this blog pos...
