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Jun 10, 2010
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Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring

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  Some Best Practices and Guidance for Web Control Vendors Targeting Visual Studio The goal of this post is to provide guidance for control vendors on best practices for writing custom controls with regard to their behavior in Visual Studio. It is designed to give vendors insight into how Visual Studio behaves when performing common actions ...

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Apr 19, 2010
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Upgrade or Uninstall of Office 2007 might cause VS 2008 Web designer to hang

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

Update (5/3/2010): In addition to the VS designer surface not loading, there are other actions that will cause a hang.  Working with CSS increases your chances of seeing this issue.  For example, bringing up the CSS Manage Styles dialog, the CSS property grid, or CSS Apply Styles dialog can all cause the hang.  Another...

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Nov 18, 2009
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HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer

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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. ...

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Oct 29, 2009
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Converting a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

Differences between Web Site Projects (WSP) and Web Application Projects (WAP) are highlighted in blogs such as this one. Based on that, if you feel a WAP would be better for your particular needs than a WSP, but have already created a WSP, you may be asking yourself, “Can I convert my WSP into a WAP, without starting from scratch?”. This ...

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Oct 15, 2009
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Single Project Add View in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

Last week we released ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 Sp1. In the box support for single project areas is now included and the Add View tool has been modified to streamline this scenario. A walkthrough that creates two simple single project areas can be found here. If you follow the steps in the walkthrough you will notice that Add ...

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Oct 6, 2009
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Working with SVG files in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is W3C standard language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Firefox 3+, Opera 9+ and Safari 3+ support SVG rendering. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 8 does not support SVG natively and requires a plug-in. There a plug in from Adobe (although support was discontinued this ...

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Sep 21, 2009
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Download four free sample chapters from Visual Web Developer book

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available: You can find link to download at VWD section on ASP.NET Web site (look for Visual Web Developer Books section at the right side) or download ZIP ...

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Jun 23, 2009
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Visual Web Developer – Designer Survey

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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 feedback ...

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Apr 20, 2009
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New series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

We have started a new series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008. Over the course of next few weeks we will be adding many more videos to this series. These video tutorials will range in complexity from beginner to intermediate and will help Web developers build everything from simple Web applications to full featured Web ...

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Mar 23, 2009
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Hotfix for “Design view does not update HTML” and to “Designer inserts a lot of  “

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Web Development Tools Microsoft

A hotfix is now available for issues most commonly described as "I make changes in Design view but Source does not get updated" and "After certain actions designer inserts a lot of   in the page". This hotfix can be downloaded from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB967253/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2845 http://...

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