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What’s New For MVC Tools in the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate

January 26, 2009 Jan 26, 2009 01/26/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC) is finally out, and we wanted to give returning MVC users as well as new MVC users an overview of what the tooling in Visual Studio provides. The MVC 1.0 RC can be downloaded right now here (Release Notes).  Please note that this release will work with both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web ...

Go to MIX09

January 16, 2009 Jan 16, 2009 01/16/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
MIX Is just around the corner and if you haven’t already registered I highly recommend you do! This is one event I look forward to the most each year. I attended last year and I had the most incredible experience learning about Silverlight and meeting so many intelligent people (OK, and I had a ton of fun playing Poker too). If you are...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 10

January 8, 2009 Jan 8, 2009 01/8/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This link provides a complete Tips of the Day Summary Outline - http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2009/01/02/silverlight-tips-of-the-day-summary-outline.aspx. This page will be kept updated with any changes or additions to the Tip of the Day blog for Silverlight.Most Recent Posts:Tip #78 - Animating Objects with ...

Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

November 29, 2008 Nov 29, 2008 11/29/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This version is obsolete. Please refer to Visual Studio Gallery http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/2f3d691d-8838-4d84-ad64-44a02db37e30 for the most up-to-date information and download. For VS 2010 version look here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0db4814c-255e-4cc6-a2c2-a428de7f8949Download: ...

Where to get the Localized Languages of Silverlight 2 Tools

November 26, 2008 Nov 26, 2008 11/26/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
I am proud to announce we have released Silverlight 2 Tools localized in 8 languages! Please follow the links below to get the language of your choice. Download page details: Chinese (CHS)Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/8/218414F1-33DA-45B6-9007-18A1566D0D41/Silverlight_Tools.exe Download page details:  Chinese...

Workaround for a slow closing of Web projects

November 21, 2008 Nov 21, 2008 11/21/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
A few users reported that with Web projects located on a remote machine closing project or solution may hang Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express for several minutes. We fould that the issue may be caused by VS logging component that collects information on product usage. This is an opt-in feature activated in Help | ...

JScript IntelliSense FAQ

November 18, 2008 Nov 18, 2008 11/18/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
I've been reading through the 70 or so comments on our last 2 jQuery posts.  There have been a lot of great questions.  Apologies for not being able to answer them sooner (I was busy preparing for Dev Connections).  Instead of answering them inline with the comments, I'll try to paraphrase the popular issues here and answer them...