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A few months back, we had blogged about the new BDLC (beginner developer learning center) on MSDN. This is a a centralized learning environment specifically targeted to beginning .NET programmers. Recently, we have added a couple of Visual Web Developer specific resources at this center. 1. Five online chapters of "...
If you are using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, and are building applications for Silverlight using Javascript, there is a cool project from Justin-Josef Angel, which I recommend checking out. Using Justin's library and Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, one can get much richer Javascript intellisense experience for Silverlight. ...
We’ve heard a few reports of cases with VS Orcas Beta2 where ASP.NET controls do not show up on the toolbox and ASP.NET tag intellisense and validation is broken in HTML source view. All of the cases reported so far have been with Vista. The root cause of this is that the Orcas Beta2 version of System.Web.Dll did not get ...
You may have heard by now that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available for public download. I wanted to take a minute to highlight some of the new web developer features that we've added since Beta 1:
Design view support for configuring AJAX Extenders
If you are using the AJAX control toolkit for .NET 3.5, or ...
8/10/2007 UPDATE: This blog post was edited to include simplified instructions to work around a known issue w/ Multitargeting support in VS 2008 Beta 2. See “Machine Prerequisites” below.
In a previous post, I described the steps you can take to upgrade your existing ASP.NET AJAX 1.0-based Web sites to use the new AJAX...
8/10/2007 UPDATE: This blog post was edited to include simplified instructions to work around a known issue w/ Multitargeting support in VS 2008 Beta 2. See “Machine Prerequisites” below.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is finally released, and with it comes a bunch of great new features for writing and maintaining...
I am glad to announce that an updated version of a Publish Website hotfix for VS 2005 SP1 is now available for download and includes Vista support.
In April we released a hotfix to address an “Index was outside the bounds of the array” error that prevented a website to be published. You see this issue in VS 2005 SP1 when you ...
After Orcas Beta1 released, some web developers mentioned that there is no documentation available for the new CSS editing features. Since I played around with this feature a lot recently, I would like to give it a try and explain it a little.
The first tool I’d like to mention is the style application tool bar. This tool bar ...
This tool window provides a tree hierarchy view of all CSS selectors available from the current page. Users can navigate and find CSS style definitions in source code with this tool window.
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Developers can change the layout of the tree view with the Options button. The first three context menu items will categorize the CSS ...
In Visual Studio Orcas, the CSS property grid renders a red strikethrough when it wants to tell you that a property is either non-inherited or it is overridden by a rule with higher precedence.
Read the tooltip when you see a red strikethrough on your property and it will give you the exact reason for the strikethrough. Here are ...