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Making It Better: Updates for ASP.NET 5 in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5

January 16, 2015 Jan 16, 2015 01/16/15
Jeffrey Fritz
It's been about two months since we released the first beta of ASP.NET 5, and today we happy to announce that ASP.NET 5 Beta2 is available. For developers using Visual Studio, you'll find great new tools to support and enhance your development process.  All ASP.NET developers will be able to take advantage of a new runtime and many ...

Creating a Custom Scaffolder for Visual Studio

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14
Joost de Nijs
With the release of Visual Studio 2013 last October, we introduced the concept of Scaffolding to Web Application projects.  Scaffolding is the framework on which code generation for MVC and WebAPI is built.  For more information on Scaffolding or the MVC Scaffolders check the following blog post: http://www.asp.net/visual-studio/...

Building a basic Web Forms application using Visual Studio 2013

December 19, 2013 Dec 19, 2013 12/19/13
balach
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 ...

‘Paste JSON As Classes’ in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC

December 18, 2012 Dec 18, 2012 12/18/12
Anand Paranjape(MSFT)
‘Paste JSON As Classes’ is a cool feature in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC. This feature will help you generate strongly typed classes in C# or VB.NET from valid JSON text. With ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC installed, you will see new menu option like below for C# and VB.NET Website and Web Application projects only. This new menu ...

Knockout Intellisense in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC

December 13, 2012 Dec 13, 2012 12/13/12
VKichline
WTE (Web Tools Extension) 1.2 RC is part of the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC and it’s available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=36053.Knockout Intellisense is an exciting new feature in WTE 1.2 RC.  Knockout is a declarative JavaScript MVVM system for client-side data binding. ...

One-Click Publish – What’s New Since Beta 2

April 20, 2010 Apr 20, 2010 04/20/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Publishing using MSDeploy In-Process Deployment or Remote Agent Through the Beta 2 release, VS 2010 had only supported publishing to servers using MSDeploy's IIS deployment handler technology integrated with the “Web Management Service”, a.k.a. WMSVC. As long as you had an account on a hosting server ...

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-a428de7f8949What's new in version 2.3: For additional information ...

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: You can find link to download at VWD section on ASP.NET Web site (look for Visual Web Developer Books section at the right side) or download ...

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 ...

Updated NUnit Templates for ASP.Net MVC 1.0 RTM

April 28, 2009 Apr 28, 2009 04/28/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
ASP.Net MVC 1.0 RTM has been out for a while and I noticed that people are still downloading an NUnit sample project I created for ASP.Net MVC Preview 3. Since then an AccountController class and a corresponding set of unit tests have been added to the MVC Application project. I created an updated set of NUnit templates with tests for the Home...