Visual Studio 2010

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May 5, 2010 May 5, 2010 05/5/10

Visual Web Developer 2010 Express offers a great set of features for deploying web applications seamlessly. One of the key features is the ability to publish your web application from VS 2010 to a remote hosted web server along with its dependencies like SQL Server database using “Web One Click Publish”. VS 2010 ...

Visual Studio 2010 support with SQL Server

May 3, 2010 May 3, 2010 05/3/10

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We’ve been getting a few questions by our users about Visual Studio 2010’s support for SQL Server versions. So I thought it would be good to address them here (when one person asks a question, there are probably others thinking the same question.) Visual Studio 2010 only supports SQL Server 2005+ Visual Studio 2010’s design time ...

General Performance Improvements in VS2010 since Beta2

April 30, 2010 Apr 30, 2010 04/30/10

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When we released Beta2 in Oct 2009, there was a lot of customer excitement about the super cool features in VS 2010. However, one recurring complaint from customers was that the performance of VS 2010 was not on par with Orcas. Customers were experiencing general slowness in a lot of features that was hindering them with daily operations. We ...

Design View Performance Improvements

April 28, 2010 Apr 28, 2010 04/28/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Hi, I’m Dan Chartier, I work on the Web Tools designer and helped improve its performance in Visual Studio 2010. For some background, Visual Studio 2008 completely replaced the original trident (Internet Explorer) designer with the FrontPage designer (which is also used by Expression Web). While we gained many improvements with this change, ...

Framework .NET 3.5 Sp1 required for targeting frameworks 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 (multi-targeting) using Visual Studio 2010

April 22, 2010 Apr 22, 2010 04/22/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

We have had some customers ask why they are unable to target earlier frameworks .NET 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 using Visual Studio 2010. Targeting earlier frameworks (also known as Multi-targeting) is in-fact fully supported in VS 2010, but there is a pre-requisite that .NET Framework 3.5 Sp1 must be installed on the machine for VS 2010 to be able to ...

Web Deployment: Excluding Files and Folders via the Web Application’s Project File

April 22, 2010 Apr 22, 2010 04/22/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Web Deployment (see this posting for an overview) offers a set of pre-determined options to allow users to include the most common sets of files for deployment. These options are as follows and can be found under the “Items to deploy” section on the Package / Publish Web property page. Only files needed to run this ...

One-Click Publish – What’s New Since Beta 2

April 20, 2010 Apr 20, 2010 04/20/10

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Publishing using MSDeploy In-Process Deployment or Remote Agent Through the Beta 2 release, VS 2010 had only supported publishing to servers using MSDeploy's IIS deployment handler technology integrated with the “Web Management Service”, a.k.a. WMSVC. As long as you had an account on a hosting server ...

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 ...

Silverlight 4 Tools Released

April 15, 2010 Apr 15, 2010 04/15/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

This morning we released Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010!The link to download and installs the tools is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177508. The tools will install: Note that this is the RC release of the Silverlight 4 tools. With these tools you can start developing Silverlight 4 applications ...

Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta – Available Now

April 14, 2010 Apr 14, 2010 04/14/10

Web Development Tools Microsoft

If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation now with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta (for Visual Studio Professional and higher skus). The power tool named “Web Deployment Projects” originally shipped as an out-...

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Visual Studio 2010 support with SQL Server

General Performance Improvements in VS2010 since Beta2

Design View Performance Improvements

Framework .NET 3.5 Sp1 required for targeting frameworks 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 (multi-targeting) using Visual Studio 2010

Web Deployment: Excluding Files and Folders via the Web Application’s Project File

One-Click Publish – What’s New Since Beta 2

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

Silverlight 4 Tools Released

Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta – Available Now

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