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HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer

You all probably know that new HTML 5 standard is coming. We made a new intellisense schema that you can add to VS 2008 or VWD Express 2008 and get intellisense and validation on HTML 5 elements. Note that schema is for markup only, we do not have DOM2 update for jscript intellisense yet. How to install the schema: Download attached ZIP file...

Single Project Add View in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2

Last week we released ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 Sp1. In the box support for single project areas is now included and the Add View tool has been modified to streamline this scenario. A walkthrough that creates two simple single project areas can be found here. If you follow the steps in the walkthrough you will notice that ...

Visual Web Developer – Designer Survey

The VWD team is always looking for ways to improve our product for our customers. To help us better achieve this goal we have created a survey that we hope you will take a few moments to fill out.Click Here to take survey This survey centers around the VWD designer which provides a WYSIWYG editor for creating and editing Web pages. All ...

Hotfix for “Design view does not update HTML” and to “Designer inserts a lot of  “

A hotfix is now available for issues most commonly described as "I make changes in Design view but Source does not get updated" and "After certain actions designer inserts a lot of   in the page". This hotfix can be downloaded from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB967253/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2845 http...