October, 2009

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...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will bring full support for developing applications in Silverlight 3.  There’s a few things that have changed since VS2010 Beta 1, and we hope you enjoy the new beta release! Silverlight 2 is no longer supported – long live...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 contains ASP.Net MVC 2 in the box so there is no need to install an out of band update to Visual Studio 2010 to develop ASP.Net MVC applications. Phil Haack posted about the in-box experience for Beta 2 andd also provides some...

Dev10 Beta2 DB Deployment property page has some changes from Beta1.  Please provide your valuable feedback for us to make it better for you.  Thanks. 1. Tab page name changed from “Deploy/SQL” To “Deploy SQL” 2. Customer can use “Import from...

If by any chance you are not seeing intellisense in your JavaScript or HTML after installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 you might be running into a known bug that we can show you how to fix. The bug is related to user settings which we don’t remove when...

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...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has officially shipped! If you haven’t already, download a copy from here . What New with Visual Studio If you are new to Visual Studio 2010 please check out all our previous blogs to get a understanding of all the changes we...

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...

The multi-targeting feature of Visual Studio 2010 allows web developers to develop web applications targeting ASP.NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0. Our earlier posts here and here describe some of the multi-targeting capabilities of Visual Studio 2010. Targeting...

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...