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Visual Studio Orcas March CTP is available!

February 28, 2007 Feb 28, 2007 02/28/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The March CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio Orcas is now available here.  You can either install it (side-by-side with VS 2005) or use via a VPC image.  This is the first CTP that contains significant web tools feature enhancements - the new HTML/Webforms Designer, Jscript Intellisense and Debugging, ...

How to use the new CSS features in Visual Studio Orcas

January 24, 2007 Jan 24, 2007 01/24/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
One of the questions I have gotten when showing the new CSS features in Orcas to customers is how do these tools help me analyze the styles on my page. Or more specifically, why doesn’t the page look like I think it should. One of the most powerful new tools included in Orcas is the CSS property grid. It looks somewhat like the standard ...

Tip/Trick: Using Mobile Web Forms with Web Application Projects

January 8, 2007 Jan 8, 2007 01/8/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Hopefully, people reading this post are familiar with the "Web Application Projects" feature that was added to Visual Studio 2005 in Service Pack 1.  If you are using Web Application Projects, you might have noticed that it doesn't have item templates for ASP.NET Mobile Web Forms (which were previously available in Visual Studio 2003...

Part 3 of 3: Creating sub-projects using the Visual Studio Development Server and Web Application Projects

November 27, 2006 Nov 27, 2006 11/27/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This is the Part 3 of a 3 part series on using sub-projects with the Web Application Projects add-in for Visual Studio 2005. Part 1 of the series can be found here. Part 2 of the series can be found here. This post covers the final concept I wanted to share when using sub-projects with the Web Application Projects add-in, that is ...

Getting started with ASP.NET AJAX in Visual Web Developer

November 22, 2006 Nov 22, 2006 11/22/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Once you download ASP.NET AJAX, you are ready to start using Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio 2005 for your development. The first thing you will notice when you open up Visual Web Developer is that you now have a new project type called ASP.NET AJAX Enabled Web Site as seen below. Selecting this option will give you a web site with ...

Visual Web Developer Starter Kits

November 16, 2006 Nov 16, 2006 11/16/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
  Many of you are probably aware of Visual Web Developer/Visual Studio web site starter kits that are available online.  If you have not seen or used these yet, they are complete end-to-end working web site templates that you can either use a starting point for your project or as a learning aid to get more familiar with&...

Beta2 of ASP.NET AJAX (formerly Atlas) has shipped!

November 9, 2006 Nov 9, 2006 11/9/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
  This Monday we shipped Beta2 of the ASP.NET AJAX framework – formerly known as “Atlas”.  You can visit the ASP.NET AJAX website or Scott Guthrie’s blog article for details.  The bits can be downloaded from here.   We have made sure that the already shipped version of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer...