Showing results for Development - .NET Blog

A while back I posted about some great free refactoring tools for ASP.NET.The folks at Developer Express have just released an updated version (2.2.2), that includes some great new refactorings.  Here's a sneak peek at just one of the new refactorings that's available:To check out all the new capabilities take a look at this blog pos...

At the Mix07 conference this week, I did an overview presentation of the web development features being delivered in Visual Studio "Orcas".  The folks at Mix have been kind enough to make videos of all the sessions from the conference available to the public.Click here to watch my session on Web Development using Visual Studio "Orcas...

We’ve just announced the new Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools support at MIX ’07! Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for building next-gen media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight 1.1 contains a cross-platform CLR, allowing you to use your favorite .NET language rather than JavaScript to build the cl...

HTML / ASP.NET spell checker addin was updated with support for multiple languages. Spell checker is now able to detect lang attribute specified on elements, extracts ISO language and uses it to specify appropriate dictionary for the Office spell checking engine.In order to be able to run spell check in multiple languages you may need to ...

One of the convenient new things in Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is the ability to set the built-in ASP.NET Development Server to use "/" as the Virtual path for when it runs.  This is very useful for development of web apps that will eventually be deployed to the root folder of a web server, or for web applications that&nbs...

Are you a true beginner at web development?  Do you want to know what CSS stands for or how to write your first line of JavaScript?  Do you already know HTML and basic web development, but are new to ASP.NET?  Are you familiar with ASP.NET but are not sure how to add master pages or membership to your application? If you an...

Here's a quick announcement about the release of Expression Web 1.0.If you use Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 to build ASP.NET applications, Expression Web is the perfect companion tool to help you create sophisticated CSS and XHTML designs.  You might be thinking -- "I use Visual Studio in combination with Adobe Dreamweaver ju...

Once you download ASP.NET AJAX, you are ready to start using Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio 2005 for your development. The first thing you will notice when you open up Visual Web Developer is that you now have a new project type called ASP.NET AJAX Enabled Web Site as seen below. Selecting this option will give you a web site with a dif...

Hey Web Developers -- My name is Bradley Millington and I am a Program Manager on the WebTools team.  Lately I've been looking at opportunities for future versions of Visual Studio to better integrate with Windows Vista and IIS 7.0.  In the meantime, however, you can use Visual Studio 2005 to start developing on Vist...

First a quick intro, since this my first post on the team blog.  My name is Omar Khan.  I'm the group program manager for the web development tools team.  I manage the program management team that helps design the web tools inside of Visual Studio. This post is one of a three part series that describes how to factor development of ...