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May 3, 2007
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Mix07 Video: Web Development using Visual Studio "Orcas"

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At the Mix07 conference this week, I did an overview presentation of the web development features being delivered in Visual Studio "Orcas".  The folks at Mix have been kind enough to make videos of all the sessions from the conference available to the public.Click here to watch my session on Web Development using Visual Studio "Orcas...

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Apr 30, 2007
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Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools released!

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

We’ve just announced the new Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools support at MIX ’07! Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for building next-gen media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight 1.1 contains a cross-platform CLR, allowing you to use your favorite .NET language rather than JavaScript to build the cl...

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Apr 23, 2007
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Downloadable Hotfix: Publish command fails when Virtual Path is set to /

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One of the convenient new things in Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is the ability to set the built-in ASP.NET Development Server to use "/" as the Virtual path for when it runs.  This is very useful for development of web apps that will eventually be deployed to the root folder of a web server, or for web applications that&nbs...

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Apr 23, 2007
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Visual Studio Beta 1 and Visual Web Developer Express CTP are out!

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19th of April we shipped Visual Studio Orcas Beta1. See Soma's blog entry: . Downloads are here. This is also first time Express editions are available for download including Visual Web Developer Express. VWD Orcas Express download is bigger than in VWD 2005 Express largely because of the new HTML designer. Express editions are also considered...

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Apr 11, 2007
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Expression Web and Expression Blend added to MSDN!

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

Back in December 2006, Microsoft released Expression Web, a designer tool that's a great companion to Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio.  You can read about this tool in this earlier blog post that we had made.  Since then, we have received a ton of feedback asking why this as well as Expression Blend are not incl...

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Mar 7, 2007
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Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista Available

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

I recently posted some tips about how to have success doing web development with Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista.  One recommendation in that post was to install the "Beta" release of the Visual Studio 2005 Update for WIndows Vista.  I'm happy to announce final version of the Visual Studio 2005 Update for ...

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Mar 5, 2007
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New Beginner Development Learning Center on MSDN

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

Are you a true beginner at web development?  Do you want to know what CSS stands for or how to write your first line of JavaScript?  Do you already know HTML and basic web development, but are new to ASP.NET?  Are you familiar with ASP.NET but are not sure how to add master pages or membership to your application? If you an...

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Feb 28, 2007
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Visual Studio Orcas March CTP is available!

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

The March CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio Orcas is now available here.  You can either install it (side-by-side with VS 2005) or use via a VPC image.  This is the first CTP that contains significant web tools feature enhancements - the new HTML/Webforms Designer, Jscript Intellisense and Debugging, LINQ ...

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Dec 11, 2006
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WPF/E ASP.NET Server Control

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

The other day, I have posted on an entry on my blog showing how to embed videos on your websites using simple IFrame technique. The next thing I wanted to do is to build an ASP.NET Server Control to show how easy it is to integrate rich content into ASPX pages - but Mike Harsh beat me to it. See his post about the WPF/E ASP.NET Server Control ...

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Dec 11, 2006
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Expression Web 1.0 Released, Perfect Companion to Visual Studio

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

Here's a quick announcement about the release of Expression Web 1.0.If you use Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 to build ASP.NET applications, Expression Web is the perfect companion tool to help you create sophisticated CSS and XHTML designs.  You might be thinking -- "I use Visual Studio in combination with Adobe Dreamweaver ju...

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