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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 ...

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 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 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...

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 ...

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...