This week marks the first anniversary of Visual Studio 2005 and the Express editions. Almost a year ago to the day - 11/7/2005 to be precise - was the day we launched Visual Studio 2005. That also marked the debut of the free Express Editions that have since proven to be a huge hit in the developer community. We've ...
This Monday we shipped Beta2 of the ASP.NET AJAX framework – formerly known as “Atlas”. You can visit the ASP.NET AJAX website or Scott Guthrie’s blog article for details. The bits can be downloaded from here. We have made sure that the already shipped version of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer 2005 can be used ...
Hey Web Developers -- My name is Bradley Millington and I am a Program Manager on the WebTools team. Lately I've been looking at opportunities for future versions of Visual Studio to better integrate with Windows Vista and IIS 7.0. In the meantime, however, you can use Visual Studio 2005 to start developing on Vist...
This is the Part 2 of a 3 part series on using sub-projects with the Web Application Projects add-in for Visual Studio 2005. Part 1 of the series can be found here. I apologize to folks for the delay in getting this second post out, we've been super busy the past few weeks. This post covers two...
Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm John Dixon, one of the SDET Leads on VWD. I wanted to share some of the recent work the Venus QA team has done to make our life easier. I'll start with a little bit of history. I hope you find it interesting! ****Old School:********In our last release (VS2005) QA would get a new build and based on build verific...
By the Community, For the Community! I'm really excited to announce a new community program on the ASP.NET website called By the Community, for the Community. It's a system to help out everyone, and give some great community members a platform from which to show off their work.&nbs...
Over the last few months, I've seen a number of forum posts from people saying that when they choose "Create New Website", the dialog box that showed them the different types of websites they could create was completely horked. For example, instead of showing this: it would instead show this: Often when we see bugs like this, it's very frust...
I just made a post on my blog about moving from home hosted web applications to hosted web applications. I'm currently struggling on whether I want to move my photos from my home hosted, and customized verions of nGallery to something larger like Flickr.I'm curious what other people think is the best solution to problems like this. Woul...
Web Application Projects 1.0 is live! New since RC1: Web Application Projects now provided a similar development style and compilation model as was used in Visual Studio 2003, but with full ASP.NET 2.0 support. For more information checkout: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wap/default.aspxhtt...
