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Tips & Tricks: Start-Up Options and Instances of ASP.Net Development Server in a Multi-project Solution

December 23, 2007 Dec 23, 2007 12/23/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
If you have more than one project in your solution you can use following options of solution properties to set your start up actions...  You can get the below dialog by right clicking your solution and going to its properties: (image)   If you have more than one Web project (either Web Site, WAPs or both) in your solution and choose...

Workaround: Debugging Global.aspx.cs Application_Start() with ASP.Net Web Server within Visual Studio

December 13, 2007 Dec 13, 2007 12/13/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
When you add a global.asax file to your "Web Application Projects (WAPs) like below: (image) and then write code in Application_Start event and try to debug it like below using Visual Studio inbuilt Development Web Server (image)   Then during your first debug the breakpoint is hit but during your subsequent debug runs the breakpoint is...

Visual Web Developer is hiring…

December 12, 2007 Dec 12, 2007 12/12/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The Visual Web Developer team is looking for a few talented and experienced invididuals to join our team.  We have opportunities in development, testing, and program management.  Our team builds Visual Studio features that enable creating applications for ASP.NET, IIS, Silverlight and Sharepoint.Here are ...

Web Deployment Projects (WDP) for Visual Studio 2008 – December 2007 CTP Released

December 1, 2007 Dec 1, 2007 12/1/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Based on the feedback from web development community we just released the Customer Technology Preview (CTP) of Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2008... This release of Web Deployment Projects (WDP) has all the features that VS 2005 WDP release has and in addition has few other enhancements which I will call out later in this post...

First book on Visual Web Developer 2008

October 25, 2007 Oct 25, 2007 10/25/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Jim Cheshire who is working in Microsoft Customer Support wrote a new book on the Visual Web Developer 2008 "The Microsoft Expression Web Developer's Guide to ASP.NET 3.5: Learn to create ASP.NET applications using Visual Web Developer 2008". It describes all the new features that VWD 2008 brings for Web designers and, of course, all ...

New VS2008 Feature: “Downgrade” HTML, CSS, and JScript Errors to Warnings

September 19, 2007 Sep 19, 2007 09/19/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
VS2005 introduced the ability to validate your markup and CSS for standards compliance alongside your code.  It’s a great feature, but it can be frustrating when you’re looking for that one critical compilation error underneath a pile of validation errors.  Well, we heard your feedback and added two new options in VS2008 (post-...