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Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition available for download

November 19, 2007 Nov 19, 2007 11/19/07

I'm glad to announce that Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition has officially shipped, and is now available for immediate download. Here is a quick summary of some of the great new capabilities in this release: We hope you enjoy the new product!-Visual Web Developer Team...

First book on Visual Web Developer 2008

October 25, 2007 Oct 25, 2007 10/25/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Jim Cheshire who is working in Microsoft Customer Support wrote a new book on the Visual Web Developer 2008 "The Microsoft Expression Web Developer's Guide to ASP.NET 3.5: Learn to create ASP.NET applications using Visual Web Developer 2008". It describes all the new features that VWD 2008 brings for Web designers and, of course, all ...

SQL Database Publishing wizard is now in Visual Studio 2008.

October 15, 2007 Oct 15, 2007 10/15/07

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The SQL database publishing wizard is a very popular web-downloadable add-in for Visual Studio 2005. The publishing wizard addresses the issue where a developer needs to deploy a local database from his development machine to a hosting environment on a remote machine. We received a lot of positive feedback for this wizard and we decided to ...

New VS2008 Feature: “Downgrade” HTML, CSS, and JScript Errors to Warnings

September 19, 2007 Sep 19, 2007 09/19/07

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VS2005 introduced the ability to validate your markup and CSS for standards compliance alongside your code. It’s a great feature, but it can be frustrating when you’re looking for that one critical compilation error underneath a pile of validation errors. Well, we heard your feedback and added two new options in VS2008 (post-...

Tip/Trick: ASP.NET Mobile Development with Visual Studio 2008

September 17, 2007 Sep 17, 2007 09/17/07

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If you are using Visual Studio 2008, 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). To help users with this scenario, I've created the following item templates for ASP.NET Web Site and ASP.NET Web Application projects: Mobile ...

New Visual Web Developer Resources available at MSDN’s BDLC

August 24, 2007 Aug 24, 2007 08/24/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

A few months back, we had blogged about the new BDLC (beginner developer learning center) on MSDN. This is a a centralized learning environment specifically targeted to beginning .NET programmers. Recently, we have added a couple of Visual Web Developer specific resources at this center. 1. Five online chapters of "...

Better Javascript intellisense with Silverlight 1.0

August 3, 2007 Aug 3, 2007 08/3/07

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If you are using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, and are building applications for Silverlight using Javascript, there is a cool project from Justin-Josef Angel, which I recommend checking out. Using Justin's library and Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, one can get much richer Javascript intellisense experience for Silverlight. ...

Orcas Beta2 Gotcha: No ASP.NET controls in toolbox, no ASP.NET intellisense/validation on pages

August 2, 2007 Aug 2, 2007 08/2/07

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We’ve heard a few reports of cases with VS Orcas Beta2 where ASP.NET controls do not show up on the toolbox and ASP.NET tag intellisense and validation is broken in HTML source view. All of the cases reported so far have been with Vista. The root cause of this is that the Orcas Beta2 version of System.Web.Dll did not get ...

New Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

July 30, 2007 Jul 30, 2007 07/30/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

You may have heard by now that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available for public download. I wanted to take a minute to highlight some of the new web developer features that we've added since Beta 1: Design view support for configuring AJAX Extenders If you are using the AJAX control toolkit for .NET 3.5, or ...

Workaround for Beta 2 JavaScript IntelliSense and Colorization Issue

July 30, 2007 Jul 30, 2007 07/30/07

Web Development Tools Microsoft

We have discovered that in a very limited number of setup scenarios of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, Jscript IntelliSense and Colorization may not work property after installing the product. You will get no IntelliSense in JavaScript code, and all JavaScript code will appear black (i.e., colorization of keywords will be missing). The image below ...

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Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition available for download

First book on Visual Web Developer 2008

SQL Database Publishing wizard is now in Visual Studio 2008.

New VS2008 Feature: “Downgrade” HTML, CSS, and JScript Errors to Warnings

Tip/Trick: ASP.NET Mobile Development with Visual Studio 2008

New Visual Web Developer Resources available at MSDN’s BDLC

Better Javascript intellisense with Silverlight 1.0

Orcas Beta2 Gotcha: No ASP.NET controls in toolbox, no ASP.NET intellisense/validation on pages

New Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

Workaround for Beta 2 JavaScript IntelliSense and Colorization Issue

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