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Here are three new tips on Tips and Tricks Blog. Have a great weekend!Reshmi MangaloreSDET, Web Development Tools
Silverlight Tip of the Day #32 Title: How to Declare a Custom User Control from a XAML Page. Demo:http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Custom%20UserControl/iframe.htmlSilverlight Terrain Tutorial Part 3 Title: Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity Masks. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Terrai...
If you have downloaded the RTM version of SP1 for Visual Studio 2008, you may get an error when trying to debug a Web Site with a host header on IIS 6 or IIS 5.1. The error message reads: "Unable to start debugging on the web server. An authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server. Please see Help for assistance."...
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 are now available for download. This blog post highlights the major changes in SP1 related to web development. New Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 The following is a list of new features in SP1 which relate to web development: Class Libraries and Web Application Proj...
6 new Silverlight tutorials are completed! Thank you.Mike Snow SDET Lead Visual Studio Web Tools
Some customers discovered that sometimes switch to Design view was very slow. We analyzed submitted reports and tracked the issue down to a code that was discovering available AJAX Extenders and which contols they were applicable to. In order to avoid unnecessary delays we moved discovery of AJAX extenders to a background thread. This made swi...
We have had complaints from some customers saying that their Web Project build performance with VS is very slow and it turns out that for some of the complaints the actual issue was anti-virus programs running on their machines. So, how do anti-virus programs affect VS build? Please take a look at the following snippet from ScottGu's blog to u...
We have been listening to your [strong] feedback and we are now happy to announce that multiple selection and alignment operations in Design view are coming back and will be included in VS 2008 SP1 RTM and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 SP1 RTM.We do understand that designing pages using absolute positioning of elements is a highly controversial...
A number of great improvements and changes were made for Silverlight Tools Beta 2. The following list summaries some of the major changes with details on each below. 1. WCF Templates for Silverlight Enabled. WCF templates are now enabled for Silverlight. If you want to add Web Services to your Silverlight applica...
Note: Please see this post for an updated set of templates created for ASP.NET MVC RTM: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/04/28/updated-nunit-templates-for-asp-net-mvc-1-0-rtm.aspx Earlier this week ScottGu announced the release of ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 and outlined some recent changes to the framework. I wanted ...