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ASP.Net MVC for Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 Codeplex

June 17, 2009 Jun 17, 2009 06/17/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
ASP.Net MVC for Visual Studio 2010 is available for download here: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=28527.There is no new functionality but you should be able to upgrade your applications to target the 4.0 framework (or leave them as is) if you would like to play with ASP.Net MVC on Dev10. Please read the ...

Updates to FTP publishing in Visual Studio 2010

June 16, 2009 Jun 16, 2009 06/16/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
With VS2010, we introduced “web deployment tool” as the new publish method; at the same time, FTP publish is still available and supported in VS2010. In web application project system, because we centralized main deployment workflow, so some new features usually introducd at the same time with “web deployment tool” is also available to...

Changes to the Publish dialog in web application project system in Visual Studio 2010

June 16, 2009 Jun 16, 2009 06/16/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This blog explains some modification we made to the publish dialog in the web application project system, mainly to accommodate new web deployment tools from IIS team (aka “MsDeploy”). Changes are summarized as following: 1. Persist your publish settings through creating and managing publish profiles 2. Provide a “publish method” ...

Deploying Silverlight Projects using VS10

June 5, 2009 Jun 5, 2009 06/5/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
With VS10 beta1 environment, you can also install Silverlight 3 beta to combine the power of both. When a Silverlight 3 beta project is compiled, it generates xap file.  The web application or website should take the xap as content for Build Action.  The following shows what the default Siliverlight project has: (image) Having ...

Free Web Hosting to try ASP.NET 4 Beta1, VS 2010 Beta1 and MS Web Deployment Tool RC1

June 1, 2009 Jun 1, 2009 06/1/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Today we are announcing the availability of FREE HOSTING accounts for web developers to try out the new feature sets of Visual Studio 2010 Beta1, ASP.NET 4 Beta1 and Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (MsDeploy) RC1… VS 2010 has great set of features on deploying web applications seamlessly…   One of the key features is the ability ...

Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.Net 4.0 (Beta1)

May 20, 2009 May 20, 2009 05/20/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The public release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available and can be downloaded here. This is one of the most compelling updates to Visual Studio we’ve seen in years.  The entire IDE has been refreshed with a new look and all the code editors including the HTML and ASPX editors have replaced with a new extensible editor based ...

Web Deployment: Web.Config Transformation

May 5, 2009 May 5, 2009 05/5/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We have earlier discussed about Web Deployment and Web Packaging quite a bit, today I wanted to dive into web.config transformation. If you would like to check out the other topics please read through the earlier blog posts below: Usually web applications go through a chain of server deployments before being finally being ...