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ASP.Net MVC in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

October 23, 2009 Oct 23, 2009 10/23/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 contains ASP.Net MVC 2 in the box so there is no need to install an out of band update to Visual Studio 2010 to develop ASP.Net MVC applications. Phil Haack posted about the in-box experience for Beta 2 andd also provides some info on how to upgrade your ASP.Net MVC 1 apps to ASP.Net MVC 2. From a tooling perspective...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Intellisense Issue in Javascript/HTML.

October 23, 2009 Oct 23, 2009 10/23/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
If by any chance you are not seeing intellisense in your JavaScript or HTML after installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 you might be running into a known bug that we can show you how to fix. The bug is related to user settings which we don’t remove when Beta 1 is uninstalled. One particular setting under HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftVisualStudio10....

Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Performance

October 22, 2009 Oct 22, 2009 10/22/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is out and we at the Web Development Tools team are pleased to let you know that we have fixed a lot of the performance issues from Beta1. It took a considerable amount of time and effort but we feel it was well worth it. We would like to thank the community for your feedback and in helping us identify a lot of these ...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Web Tools Overview

October 21, 2009 Oct 21, 2009 10/21/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has officially shipped! If you haven’t already, download a copy from here. What New with Visual Studio If you are new to Visual Studio 2010 please check out all our previous blogs to get a understanding of all the changes we made for Beta 1 including this intro blog on beta 1: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 7

September 24, 2008 Sep 24, 2008 09/24/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Silverlight Tip of the Day #46 Title: Font Support in SilverlightSilverlight Tip of the Day #45: Title: Text Formatting with the TextBlock controlSilverlight Tip of the Day #44: Title: Silverlight-enabled WCF Services versus ASMX Web Services. Silverlight Tip of the Day #43 Title: Making it Snow in Silverlight. Demo...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 6

September 11, 2008 Sep 11, 2008 09/11/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Silverlight Tip of the  Day #39 Title: How to Create a Zoom Toolbar. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Zoom%20Toolbar/iframe.html Silverlight Tip of the Day #38 Title: How to Customize the Silverlight Install Experience. Silverlight Tip of the Day #37 Title: How to Dynamically Load and Display ...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 5

August 26, 2008 Aug 26, 2008 08/26/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Silverlight Tip of the Day #32 Title: How to Declare a Custom User Control from a XAML Page. Demo:http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Custom%20UserControl/iframe.htmlSilverlight Terrain Tutorial Part 3 Title: Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity Masks. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/...

Support configuration specific output folders in a Silverlight project

June 10, 2008 Jun 10, 2008 06/10/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In Beta1, VS Silverlight tools doesn’t allow users to maintain separate build output folder for different build configuration, and this causes once you switch from “Debug” to “Release” build configuration, under ClientBin folder the existing debug assemblies will be overwritten by the release version. Unless you switch back to “...

Localizing a Silverlight application

June 10, 2008 Jun 10, 2008 06/10/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
VS Silverlight beta2 adjusted its build functionalities to support the new Silverlight runtime localization model, which essentially is “one language, one xap”. This article provides the steps to take to build a localized app Let us say, you want to localize your app for the culture of “ja-jp”. You have created several resource files ...

What’s new with Silverlight Tools Beta 2!

June 6, 2008 Jun 6, 2008 06/6/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
A number of great improvements and changes were made for Silverlight Tools Beta 2. The following list summaries some of the major changes with details on each below. 1. WCF Templates for Silverlight Enabled. WCF templates are now enabled for Silverlight. If you want to add Web Services to your Silverlight ...