ASP Experts

I talked about some new features that have snuck made their way into the free version of Visual Studio for Web . One of the more useful ones is the Browser Chooser that allows you to quickly launch debug sessions with different browsers from within VS. I've actually been pushing on this for about 18 months, and even blogged about it in August of 2010 in " how to change the default browser in Visual Studio programmatically with PowerShell and possibly poke yourself in the eye ." In Visual Studio 11 Beta you get a nice dropdown with all the browsers (plus the new Page Inspector ). However, I got a good comment from blog reader Abhijit who said: The browser is a welcome addition (though past versions of VS do something similar). I'd…(read more)

There's a bunch of new stuff in Visual Studio 11 Express for Web that I suspect not everyone noticed. Remember that Express is our free version of Visual Studio. Sometimes I hear folks complain that Express isn't advanced enough, even though its free. Unit Testing is Built-into Visual Studio Express For example, no one noticed that Unit Testing is in Express. You can add a Unit Test to an existing Web Solution. I'll add a Unit Test Project, the right click on References and add a reference to System.Web.Mvc to my ASP.NET MVC Application. Note the new Add Reference dialog? It's got a search box, it's multi-threaded, and I can add multiple references by checkbox. That's new stuff, friends. Subtle, but it is one of those…(read more)