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Use SignalR Sample Nuget package in VS2013 Preview MVC 5 Project

August 15, 2013 Aug 15, 2013 08/15/13
Xinyang Qiu
We received feedback that the current 1.2 version SignalR sample Nuget package doesn’t work in an MVC 5 project by default. Here are the repro steps and the necessary change to make it work. 1. Create a C# MVC 5 project in VS2013 Preview (image) (image) 2. Install Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Sample NuGet package (image) 3. This ...

April 2012 Update for Visual Studio 11 Beta

April 6, 2012 Apr 6, 2012 04/6/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
April 2012 Update for Visual Studio 11 Beta is available.    For Visual Studio 11 Beta Ultimate, You can install it through Tools->Extension Manager: (image)   For Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web, you can download it directly and install: April 2012 Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta.  Due to a ...

Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web new features

March 22, 2012 Mar 22, 2012 03/22/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In earlier blog, we mentioned that Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web is available to download. Besides the common features seen in Visual Studio 2010 Web Express, it provides some new functionalities.   TFS support VS11 Express Beta for Web added TFS support which including all of the TFS client features, such as source control, ...

VS11 Beta JavaScript Feature comparison with VS2010sp1

March 15, 2012 Mar 15, 2012 03/15/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In Visual Studio 11 Beta, we have exciting JavaScript editing features for the developers. Last year, we blogged “JavaScript Web development differences between Visual Studio 11 Developer preview and Visual Studio 2010”. Here are the differences between Visual Studio 11 Beta and Visual Studio 2010. IntelliSense   XML ...

Visual Studio 11 Beta HTML/CSS editor features

March 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012 03/12/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 11 Beta has some more improvement in HTML and CSS editors over the Developer Preview time. You can see the major feature descriptions through www.asp.net/vnext .  In this channel9 video, Mads Kristensen demonstrated a few great HTML/CSS editor features in VS11 Beta (The video also demos Page inspector features by Jorge ...

Visual Studio 11 Beta Razor editor issue workaround

March 6, 2012 Mar 6, 2012 03/6/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We found Visual Studio 11 Beta hits a crash bug when editing a Razor page (cshtml/vbhtml) in a MVC4 project or a Razor2 Website if the indenting option for the HTML editor is set to Block instead of Smart. The workaround is to go to Tools->Options->Text Editor->HTML->Tab and change the indenting option to Smart.HTML smart indenting...

New time saving features for Web projects in Visual Studio 11 Beta

March 1, 2012 Mar 1, 2012 03/1/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In planning for the next release of Visual Studio, streamlining the development process was a high priority.  In this vein we are proud to announce two new features in Visual Studio 11 Beta that simplify and improve the development experience: setting the default browser from the toolbar, and quickly adding new items to your project from ...

New Features for Web Development in Visual Studio 11 Beta

February 29, 2012 Feb 29, 2012 02/29/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available to download.  Please visit Jason Zander's Blog for the download links and overview of the new features. We have many enhanced many features in the Beta. We'll discuss some of them in future blog posts.Here are a few web development tools features included in the Visual Studio 11 Beta compared to...