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Using VS 2008 to target ASP.NET AJAX 1.0

July 29, 2007 Jul 29, 2007 07/29/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
8/10/2007 UPDATE:  This blog post was edited to include simplified instructions to work around a known issue w/ Multitargeting support in VS 2008 Beta 2.  See “Machine Prerequisites” below.   In a previous post, I described the steps you can take to upgrade your existing ASP.NET AJAX 1.0-based Web sites to use the new AJAX...

Upgrading ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Websites and Web Applications to .NET Framework 3.5

July 28, 2007 Jul 28, 2007 07/28/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
8/10/2007 UPDATE:  This blog post was edited to include simplified instructions to work around a known issue w/ Multitargeting support in VS 2008 Beta 2.  See “Machine Prerequisites” below.   Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is finally released, and with it comes a bunch of great new features for writing and maintaining...

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 & Silverlight

July 27, 2007 Jul 27, 2007 07/27/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In case you hadn't noticed, today has been a busy day in Redmond uploading new bits to the download servers. The following are now available for download: Visual Studio Orcas Beta 2 Visual Web Developer Orcas Beta 2 Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (July 2007)We'...

Style Application Tool Bar

June 14, 2007 Jun 14, 2007 06/14/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
After Orcas Beta1 released, some web developers mentioned that there is no documentation available for the new CSS editing features. Since I played around with this feature a lot recently, I would like to give it a try and explain it a little.   The first tool I’d like to mention is the style application tool bar. This tool bar ...

Manage Styles Tool window

June 8, 2007 Jun 8, 2007 06/8/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This tool window provides a tree hierarchy view of all CSS selectors available from the current page. Users can navigate and find CSS style definitions in source code with this tool window.   Developers can change the layout of the tree view with the Options button. The first three context menu items will categorize the CSS selector in ...

What does the red strikethrough in CSS property grid mean?

May 31, 2007 May 31, 2007 05/31/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In Visual Studio Orcas, the CSS property grid renders a red strikethrough when it wants to tell you that a property is either non-inherited or it is overridden by a rule with higher precedence.    Read the tooltip when you see a red strikethrough on your property and it will give you the exact reason for the strikethrough. Here are ...

Mix07 Video: Web Development using Visual Studio "Orcas"

May 3, 2007 May 3, 2007 05/3/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
At the Mix07 conference this week, I did an overview presentation of the web development features being delivered in Visual Studio "Orcas".  The folks at Mix have been kind enough to make videos of all the sessions from the conference available to the public.Click here to watch my session on Web Development using Visual Studio "...

Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools released!

April 30, 2007 Apr 30, 2007 04/30/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We’ve just announced the new Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools support at MIX ’07! Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for building next-gen media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight 1.1 contains a cross-platform CLR, allowing you to use your favorite .NET language rather than JavaScript to ...

Visual Studio Beta 1 and Visual Web Developer Express CTP are out!

April 23, 2007 Apr 23, 2007 04/23/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
19th of April we shipped Visual Studio Orcas Beta1. See Soma's blog entry: . Downloads are here. This is also first time Express editions are available for download including Visual Web Developer Express. VWD Orcas Express download is bigger than in VWD 2005 Express largely because of the new HTML designer. Express editions are also ...