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Another Error Creating Control in the Design View with Object Reference Not Set in Visual Studio 2010

May 6, 2010 May 6, 2010 05/6/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In a previous blog, Controls State: "Error Creating Control" in the Design View in Visual Studio 2010, I have discussed about an Error Creating Control issue related to accessing the Session state in the OnInit() method. Since then, I have discovered that the Error Creating Control will also show in the design view if we try to ...

Design View Performance Improvements

April 28, 2010 Apr 28, 2010 04/28/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Hi, I’m Dan Chartier, I work on the Web Tools designer and helped improve its performance in Visual Studio 2010. For some background, Visual Studio 2008 completely replaced the original trident (Internet Explorer) designer with the FrontPage designer (which is also used by Expression Web). While we gained many improvements with this change, ...

Visual Web Developer – Designer Survey

June 23, 2009 Jun 23, 2009 06/23/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The VWD team is always looking for ways to improve our product for our customers. To help us better achieve this goal we have created a survey that we hope you will take a few moments to fill out.Click Here to take survey This survey centers around the VWD designer which provides a WYSIWYG editor for creating and editing Web pages. All ...