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Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.Net 4.0 (Beta1)

May 20, 2009 May 20, 2009 05/20/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The public release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available and can be downloaded here. This is one of the most compelling updates to Visual Studio we’ve seen in years.  The entire IDE has been refreshed with a new look and all the code editors including the HTML and ASPX editors have replaced with a new extensible editor based ...

IIS7 Load Balancing & Routing Module Now Available!

February 17, 2009 Feb 17, 2009 02/17/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The IIS team has just shipped the Microsoft Application Request Routing 1.0 module for IIS7!!!Application Request Routing (ARR) enables Web server administrators and hosting providers and to increase Web application reliability and scalability through rule-based routing and load balancing of HTTP server requests. With ARR, administrators can ...

Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS

February 4, 2009 Feb 4, 2009 02/4/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Today, deploying a web application is not as easy as it should be. Whether you are deploying your web to a shared hosting environment and paying monthly to maintain it OR whether you have a web server/s managed by your enterprise, there are a lot of manual steps involved in getting your application from point A to point B. If you are ...

VS 2010 for Web Developer – Videos

December 30, 2008 Dec 30, 2008 12/30/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
At PDC 2008 in LA and TechEd EMEA 2008 in Barcelona we announced key new features for Visual Studio 2010 for Web Developers...  Apart from our focus on MVC, Dynamic Data, Silverlight and other key ASP.NET runtime functionality, this was the first time we announced the key investments pillars for Web Developers in VS 2010...  Over the...

Web Platform Installer

November 25, 2008 Nov 25, 2008 11/25/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Yesterday Microsoft released Web Platform Installer (WPI) Release Candidate to the web at http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx.  Betas have been available for a while, but the release version contains several new features.  This is a one-stop-shopping installer for free Microsoft web development ...

Downloadable Hotfix: False C# compilation errors for ASP.NET code-behind files in SP1

October 31, 2008 Oct 31, 2008 10/31/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008, C# introduced a new feature to provide 'live' reporting of compilation errors. Unfortunately, the introduction of this functionality also introduced a bug where in certain cases, false C# compilation errors appear in the Error List for ASP.NET Website projects.  Specifically the...

Rich IntelliSense for jQuery

October 28, 2008 Oct 28, 2008 10/28/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Update: A new Hotfix is availble to complement this file. A while back we updated VS2008 IntelliSense to not fail when referencing jQuery.  However, getting IntelliSense for chained calls and rich summary/parameter hints still required adding special comments to a few thousand lines of jQuery.  If you didn't have the time, you ...

ASP.NET MVC Beta Released!

October 17, 2008 Oct 17, 2008 10/17/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Today we released ASP.NET MVC Beta, available here on the Microsoft Download Center.  The release is installable to Visual Studio 2008 (either RTM or SP1) or Visual Web Developer Express (SP1 only), and includes a "Go Live" grant in the license.  Scott Guthrie has written an excellent blog post covering the complete details...

Debugging A Web Site With A Host Header

August 13, 2008 Aug 13, 2008 08/13/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
If you have downloaded the RTM version of SP1 for Visual Studio 2008, you may get an error when trying to debug a Web Site with a host header on IIS 6 or IIS 5.1. The error message reads: "Unable to start debugging on the web server. An authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server. Please see Help for assistance.&...

Web Development Updates in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

August 11, 2008 Aug 11, 2008 08/11/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 are now available for download.  This blog post highlights the major changes in SP1 related to web development. New Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 The following is a list of new features in SP1 which relate to web development: Class Libraries and Web Application...