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A High-Value, Undocumented LESS Editor Feature in Visual Studio

November 6, 2013 Nov 6, 2013 11/6/13
VKichline
Recently a very valuable, undocumented feature in the Visual Studio LESS editor came to my attention. This applies equally to Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 and later, and to Visual Studio 2013. The installation of Web Essentials is not required to benefit from this feature.The Visual Studio LESS Editor respects @import statements, and can ...

ASP.NET/HTML Spell Checker 2.3 is available for Visual Studio 2010

March 29, 2010 Mar 29, 2010 03/29/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
ASP.NET/HTML Spell Checker 2.3 for Visual Studio 2010 has been posted on Visual Studio Gallery (also accessible from Visual Studio Start page in 'Extending Visual Studio' section). Direct link: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0db4814c-255e-4cc6-a2c2-a428de7f8949 What's new in version 2.3: VS 2010 version installs ...

Working with SVG files in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer

October 6, 2009 Oct 6, 2009 10/6/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is W3C standard language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Firefox 3+, Opera 9+ and Safari 3+ support SVG rendering. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 8 does not support SVG natively and requires a plug-in. There a plug in from Adobe (although support was discontinued ...

Download four free sample chapters from Visual Web Developer book

September 21, 2009 Sep 21, 2009 09/21/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available: Creating Web sites Creating and Managing CSS Styles Applying CSS to Web Forms Debugging ASP.NET Applications You can find link to download at ...

New series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008

April 20, 2009 Apr 20, 2009 04/20/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We have started a new series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008. Over the course of next few weeks we will be adding many more videos to this series. These video tutorials will range in complexity from beginner to intermediate and will help Web developers build everything from simple Web applications to full featured Web ...

Checkout Tip#24 to Tip#40 on our Tips and Tricks blog

January 4, 2009 Jan 4, 2009 01/4/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Latest on Tips and Tricks Blog. Tip #40: Did you know…How to scope master pages? Tip #39: Did you know… How to cancel a remote web operation in Visual Studio 2008? Tip #38: Did you know...How to use Failed Request Tracing to trace Rewrite Rules? Tip #37: Did you know…How to organize usings? Tip #36: Did ...

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...

Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

November 29, 2008 Nov 29, 2008 11/29/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This version is obsolete. Please refer to Visual Studio Gallery http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/2f3d691d-8838-4d84-ad64-44a02db37e30 for the most up-to-date information and download. For VS 2010 version look here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0db4814c-255e-4cc6-a2c2-a428de7f8949Download: ...

Checkout Tip#13 to Tip#23 on our Tips and Tricks blog

November 13, 2008 Nov 13, 2008 11/13/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Latest on Tips and Tricks Blog. Tip #13: Did you know... How to get the browser agent using ASP.NET Ajax ? Tip #14: Did you know…How to enable debugging of your Web Site? Tip #15: Did you know... How to use tracing with ASP.NET Ajax? Tip #16: Did you know… How to change the default format settings for CSS Editor...