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_references.js file’s auto sync feature

October 10, 2014 Oct 10, 2014 10/10/14
Xinyang Qiu
In VS2013 RTM, we shipped a not well known feature for _references.js file: /// <autosync enabled="true" />. If we specify /// <autosync enabled="true" /> in the beginning of ~/scripts/_references.js, then any addition, rename, deletion of JavaScript files in the project will automatically change the content ...

JavaScript Reference group Dedicated Worker

September 30, 2011 Sep 30, 2011 09/30/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Travis Leithead showed a video "Building responsive apps and sites with HTML5 web workers" in BUILD. When editing "Dedicated worker" JavaScript file in Visual Studio 11 Developer's Preview, we need to add the following line in the beginning of the file to get the proper JavaScript web walker IntelliSense in the editor: "Dedicated Worker" is...

Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring

June 10, 2010 Jun 10, 2010 06/10/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
  Some Best Practices and Guidance for Web Control Vendors Targeting Visual Studio The goal of this post is to provide guidance for control vendors on best practices for writing custom controls with regard to their behavior in Visual Studio. It is designed to give vendors insight into how Visual Studio behaves when performing common ...