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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 ...

Upgrade or Uninstall of Office 2007 might cause VS 2008 Web designer to hang

April 19, 2010 Apr 19, 2010 04/19/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Update (5/3/2010): In addition to the VS designer surface not loading, there are other actions that will cause a hang.  Working with CSS increases your chances of seeing this issue.  For example, bringing up the CSS Manage Styles dialog, the CSS property grid, or CSS Apply Styles dialog can all cause the hang.  ...

Issues between Visual Studio, Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse and Windows 2008 Server

April 15, 2010 Apr 15, 2010 04/15/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Quite some time ago, when Vista just went RTM, Risk Strahl discovered that when he used Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse, code intellisense and markup validation in Visual Studio stopped working. Since several activities in VS are done in a background on idle (not to be confused with background threads - idle processing is performed on the ...

VSDoc for jQuery 1.4.1 Now Available

February 8, 2010 Feb 8, 2010 02/8/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We finished generating a new VSDoc for the latest update of jQuery.  You can download it from the jQuery Downloads page.  A refresher on how to use the file can be found here or here.  Happy coding!Jeff KingProgram ManagerVisual Studio Web Tools...

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

November 18, 2009 Nov 18, 2009 11/18/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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

October 15, 2009 Oct 15, 2009 10/15/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 ...

Working with SVG files in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer

October 6, 2009 Oct 6, 2009 10/6/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is W3C standard language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Firefox 3+, Opera 9+ and Safari 3+ support SVG rendering. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 8 does not support SVG natively and requires a plug-in. There a plug in from Adobe (although support was discontinued ...

Download four free sample chapters from Visual Web Developer book

September 21, 2009 Sep 21, 2009 09/21/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available: Creating Web sites Creating and Managing CSS Styles Applying CSS to Web Forms Debugging ASP.NET Applications You can find link to download at ...

Visual Web Developer – Designer Survey

June 23, 2009 Jun 23, 2009 06/23/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
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 ...