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 function...
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 ASP.NET ...
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: We'll have more blog posts in the next week or so showing off the new features, so download and tell us what you think.IMPORTANT RELNOTE: If you are doing ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 development with VS...
Nikhil Kothari, an architect on the ASP.NET team, has been working in his spare time on a project called Script#. Essentially this allows an Ajax programmer to code in a strongly typed language like C# and compile their code into JavaScript. His original article can be accessed here. Recently he added ASP.NET AJAX support to Scrip...
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 "Orcas...
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 build the cl...
One of the convenient new things in Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is the ability to set the built-in ASP.NET Development Server to use "/" as the Virtual path for when it runs. This is very useful for development of web apps that will eventually be deployed to the root folder of a web server, or for web applications that&nbs...
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 considered...
Jeff King made a recent post to show off the new JScript IntelliSense feature in the March CTP of Visual Studio. Now I am going to show off the improved JScript Debugging experience in the March CTP. The first thing you will notice is that when you try to debug an IE page, VS will give you a nice little dialog reminding you to turn on scr...
A lot of people have asked about how to debug JScript in Visual Web Developer 2005. You need to know a few tricks before you can set a breakpoint on an ASPX document (Note that the experience is vastly improved in our Orcas March CTP and I will be making a separate blog post on that soon). 1. Enable client script debugging on IE: 2. S...
