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Visual Web Developer 2010 Express has Arrived!

April 12, 2010 Apr 12, 2010 04/12/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is a free and robust development environment for building, testing and deploying Web applications across the Microsoft Web Platform including ASP.Net, Internet Information Services and SQL Server. Unleash your creativity with powerful design surfaces for building standards-based Web applications and ...

ASP.NET/HTML Spell Checker 2.3 is available for Visual Studio 2010

March 29, 2010 Mar 29, 2010 03/29/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
ASP.NET/HTML Spell Checker 2.3 for Visual Studio 2010 has been posted on Visual Studio Gallery (also accessible from Visual Studio Start page in 'Extending Visual Studio' section). Direct link: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0db4814c-255e-4cc6-a2c2-a428de7f8949 What's new in version 2.3: For additional information ...

Issue with dependent assemblies when rebuilding a WAP and the Workarounds

March 11, 2010 Mar 11, 2010 03/11/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In Visual Studio 2010, the dependent assembly of a custom control assembly will be deleted from the project’s Bin folder on project clean or rebuild if the project does not contain a reference to that dependent assembly. The result will be a WAP that successfully builds but fails at runtime. When adding a control from such a custom control...

Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from ORCS Web

March 5, 2010 Mar 5, 2010 03/5/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
ORCS Web has updated their Hosting Sandbox for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC.http://vs2010host.comTo learn more about the new Web Deployment features in Visual Studio 2010 check out this Step by Step Walkthrough on Web 1-Click Publish with VS 2010To provide feedback on the RC please visit the Visual Studio Connect site.  You ...

Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls”

March 5, 2010 Mar 5, 2010 03/5/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
A hotfix is now available for issues most commonly described as "Controls are not being recognized in the code-behind" and "Editing existing .aspx regenerates .aspx.designer.(cs), but most of the controls are now missing”. These issues were seen in Visual Studio 2010 RC release.This hotfix can be downloaded from: http://connect.microsoft...

Visual Studio 2010 RC Feedback Channel for Web Tools

February 9, 2010 Feb 9, 2010 02/9/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
As you probably heard the Visual Studio 2010 RC is currently available for MSDN subscribers! You can download it from here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx. General public release is slated for Wed.The Web Development Tools Team has setup a DL that we would like you to use to send us direct feedback on anything web ...

HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer

November 18, 2009 Nov 18, 2009 11/18/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
You all probably know that new HTML 5 standard is coming. We made a new intellisense schema that you can add to VS 2008 or VWD Express 2008 and get intellisense and validation on HTML 5 elements. Note that schema is for markup only, we do not have DOM2 update for jscript intellisense yet. How to install the schema: Download attached ZIP file...

ASP.Net MVC in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

October 23, 2009 Oct 23, 2009 10/23/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 contains ASP.Net MVC 2 in the box so there is no need to install an out of band update to Visual Studio 2010 to develop ASP.Net MVC applications. Phil Haack posted about the in-box experience for Beta 2 andd also provides some info on how to upgrade your ASP.Net MVC 1 apps to ASP.Net MVC 2. From a tooling perspective...

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. 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/webdevtools/...