Visual Studio 2010

Working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit in Visual Studio 2010

Web Development Tools Microsoft October 7, 2010 Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10

When working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit, Visual Studio 2010 contains some interesting improvements compared to previous versions of Visual Studio. When adding a particular version of AjaxControlToolkit controls (or other similar third-party controls) to the toolbox using the Choose Toolbox Items dialog, we now show ...

An example of packaging web application containing database upgrade SQL file

Web Development Tools Microsoft August 9, 2010 Aug 9, 2010 08/9/10

A few months ago, we have a blog talking about extending the web publishing pipeline to package database project deployed SQL file. In this blog, I’ll show step by step example of packaging web application with SQL Server database upgrade SQL file using Visual Studio 2010. This way, we can generate a web package with incremental ...

Request for Real-World Web Applications

Web Development Tools Microsoft July 12, 2010 Jul 12, 2010 07/12/10

In preparation for enhancing Visual Studio design-time experience testing, we’d like to collect a catalog of real world applications to use for performance, stress, and ad hoc testing by the Web Platform and Tools team. We’re looking for small, medium, and large applications covering a range of architectures, languages, ...

A practical example of using web application deployment package with IIS7

Web Development Tools Microsoft June 25, 2010 Jun 25, 2010 06/25/10

When a zip package is built from VS2010 web application UI (via Build Deployment Package command), or through command line (msbuild myproject.csproj /t:package), a few files are generated in the destination folder. Here’s some brief description: It’s very common to deploy our package to a IIS7 virtual application under Default...

Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring

Web Development Tools Microsoft June 10, 2010 Jun 10, 2010 06/10/10

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 ...

Survey – ASP.NET development in Visual Studio 2010

Web Development Tools Microsoft June 7, 2010 Jun 7, 2010 06/7/10

Are you currently doing ASP.NET development in Visual Studio 2010? If so, we would love to hear your feedback!We have created an online survey that will only take a few minutes to complete. Click here to take survey All feedback will be carefully considered and thoroughly reviewed during our planning for future release such as VS 2010 SP1....

Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW – Available Now

Web Development Tools Microsoft May 26, 2010 May 26, 2010 05/26/10

We are pleased to announce that the RTW version of Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2010 is now available for download. If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW (for Visual ...

The Aspnet Compiler Build Task in Visual Studio 2010 ASP.Net MVC 2 Projects

Web Development Tools Microsoft May 14, 2010 May 14, 2010 05/14/10

If you crack open the project file in an ASP.Net MVC 2 application (in notepad or unload your project and then click “Edit *.proj”), you will notice an interesting line. <MvcBuildViews>false</MvcBuildViews> This is an option to enable a post build task that will run the Asp_net compiler. This command will compile your ...

Silverlight Tips of the Day Update

Web Development Tools Microsoft May 12, 2010 May 12, 2010 05/12/10

If you are interested in Silverlight 4 based Tips of the Day head over to my new Silverlight blog!So far I have over 20 postings as follows: Thank you, --MikeBlog Site: http://www.michaelsnow.com...

Another Error Creating Control in the Design View with Object Reference Not Set in Visual Studio 2010

Web Development Tools Microsoft May 6, 2010 May 6, 2010 05/6/10

In a previous blog, Controls State: "Error Creating Control" in the Design View in Visual Studio 2010, I have discussed about an Error Creating Control issue related to accessing the Session state in the OnInit() method. Since then, I have discovered that the Error Creating Control will also show in the design view if we try to ...

.NET Blog

Visual Studio 2010 - .NET Blog