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Using VS 2008 to target ASP.NET AJAX 1.0

July 29, 2007 Jul 29, 2007 07/29/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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...

Upgrading ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Websites and Web Applications to .NET Framework 3.5

July 28, 2007 Jul 28, 2007 07/28/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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...

Spell checker for HTML and ASP.NET: multilanguage edition

April 29, 2007 Apr 29, 2007 04/29/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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.(image) In order to be able to run spell check in multiple languages you...

Visual Studio Beta 1 and Visual Web Developer Express CTP are out!

April 23, 2007 Apr 23, 2007 04/23/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
19th of April we shipped Visual Studio Orcas Beta1. See Soma's blog entry: . Downloads are here. This is also first time Express editions are available for download including Visual Web Developer Express. VWD Orcas Express download is bigger than in VWD 2005 Express largely because of the new HTML designer. Express editions are also ...

JScript Debugging in Visual Web Developer 2005

March 8, 2007 Mar 8, 2007 03/8/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
A lot of people have asked about how to debug JScript in Visual Web Developer 2005. You need to know a few tricks before you can set a breakpoint on an ASPX document (Note that the experience is vastly improved in our Orcas March CTP and I will be making a separate blog post on that soon).  1. Enable client script debugging on IE: (image...

JScript IntelliSense in Visual Studio Orcas

March 1, 2007 Mar 1, 2007 03/1/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The March CTP of Visual Studio marks the debut of a much-requested and long-awaited feature: improved JScript IntelliSense.  We’ve been working on this for almost a year now and I’m pretty excited to finally be able to share it with the public.  There are a variety of topics I’d like to deep dive into, but for today let’s ...

Tip/Trick: Using Mobile Web Forms with Web Application Projects

January 8, 2007 Jan 8, 2007 01/8/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Hopefully, people reading this post are familiar with the "Web Application Projects" feature that was added to Visual Studio 2005 in Service Pack 1.  If you are using Web Application Projects, you might have noticed that it doesn't have item templates for ASP.NET Mobile Web Forms (which were previously available in Visual Studio 2003...