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Building a basic Web Forms application using Visual Studio 2013

December 19, 2013 Dec 19, 2013 12/19/13
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In a previous blog post, we have described the different options you have when creating a new web application with Visual Studio 2013 (VS 2013) and provided an overview of the various ASP.NET features and NuGet packages present in the templates. In this post, I am going to take a specific template in VS 2013, namely the Web Forms template ...

CSS Auto-Sync and JavaScript Selection Mapping in Page Inspector

December 13, 2012 Dec 13, 2012 12/13/12
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With the release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC (details here), we have added a couple of new features to Page Inspector in Visual Studio 2012, namely CSS Auto-Sync and JavaScript Selection Mapping. I explain these features in the context of a MVC 4 Single Page Application (SPA app) below, which is a new template available in this ...

Enabling IIS Express support in VS 2010 Sp1

March 14, 2011 Mar 14, 2011 03/14/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
  With the Sp1 release of Visual Studio 2010 now available for download, you now have the option to use IIS Express as the development server for your web projects instead of the built-in Visual Studio Development server (aka. Cassini). Here are some previous blog posts explaining the IIS Express integration features in VS 2010 Sp1 Beta...

Working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit in Visual Studio 2010

October 7, 2010 Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
  When working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit, Visual Studio 2010 contains some interesting improvements compared to previous versions of Visual Studio. When adding a particular version of AjaxControlToolkit controls (or other similar third-party controls) to the toolbox using the Choose Toolbox Items dialog, we now show...

Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW – Available Now

May 26, 2010 May 26, 2010 05/26/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We are pleased to announce that the RTW version of Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2010 is now available for download. If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW (for Visual ...

Framework .NET 3.5 Sp1 required for targeting frameworks 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 (multi-targeting) using Visual Studio 2010

April 22, 2010 Apr 22, 2010 04/22/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We have had some customers ask why they are unable to target earlier frameworks .NET 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 using Visual Studio 2010. Targeting earlier frameworks (also known as Multi-targeting) is in-fact fully supported in VS 2010, but there is a pre-requisite that .NET Framework 3.5 Sp1 must be installed on the machine for VS 2010 to be able to ...

Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta – Available Now

April 14, 2010 Apr 14, 2010 04/14/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation now with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta (for Visual Studio Professional and higher skus). The power tool named “Web Deployment Projects” originally shipped as an out-...

Multi-targeting of web projects using Visual Studio 2010 Beta1

June 6, 2009 Jun 6, 2009 06/6/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The multi-targeting feature of Visual Studio 2010 allows web developers to develop web applications targeting ASP.NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0. The key benefit of multi-targeting is that you can use Visual Studio 2010 to create and develop new projects that target earlier versions of the .NET Framework (such as 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5). Multi-targeting ...