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Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Performance

October 22, 2009 Oct 22, 2009 10/22/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is out and we at the Web Development Tools team are pleased to let you know that we have fixed a lot of the performance issues from Beta1. It took a considerable amount of time and effort but we feel it was well worth it. We would like to thank the community for your feedback and in helping us identify a lot of these ...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Web Tools Overview

October 21, 2009 Oct 21, 2009 10/21/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has officially shipped! If you haven’t already, download a copy from here. (image) What New with Visual Studio If you are new to Visual Studio 2010 please check out all our previous blogs to get a understanding of all the changes we made for Beta 1 including this intro blog on beta 1: http://blogs.msdn.com/...

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 ...

Visual Studio 2010 Property Grid Filtering

September 30, 2009 Sep 30, 2009 09/30/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 improves .NET framework multi-targeting by applying framework-appropriate filtering to the property grid and Intellisense. For example, if you select a button on a web form of a .NET 2.0 web project, in the Property Grid you  will see: (image) If you go to the Project Properties and change the Target Framework version...

Dev10 Beta1, Deploy Web application with SQL Express mdf file to host’s SQL server

September 28, 2009 Sep 28, 2009 09/28/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
For many web applications developed using Visual Studio, developers uses SQL express with mdf database file under app_data folder.  If deploying data host requires SQL server, developers have to find ways to deploy the schema and data from mdf file to the host SQL server. Dev10 Beta1 provides an easy solution to publish the mdf file to ...

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 ...