August 15, 2011
Blog ArchivesTip #109 Did you know … How to speed up build time by *only* building the currently selected project in a multi-project solution?
When working with a solution that contains numerous projects, I find myself often wanting to only build and run the currently selected project. Other projects in the solution might have build errors that I don’t want to resolve at the current time. B…
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Documenting Key End-to-End Deployment Scenarios
The IIS Web Deployment Tool (Web Deploy) and the deployment features introduced in Visual Studio 2010 enable you to automate many deployment tasks, but we have heard you all that many common scenarios not yet documented fully. We are addressing …
Announcing HTML5 & CSS3 support for Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Since the last few months it feels like web standards are moving at pace that we would really like them to move. Every browser is pushing the envelope ahead including our very own IE9. For the first time it feels like web is getting the extra freedom o…
Enabling IIS Express support in VS 2010 Sp1
With the Sp1 release of Visual Studio 2010 now available for download , you now have the option to use IIS Express as the development server for your web projects instead of the built-in Visual Studio Development server (aka. Cassini). Here are some pr…
HTML5 & CSS3 in Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Since the release of Visual Studio 2010 SP1 beta last month, there has been a lot of questions regarding the support for HTML5 and CSS3. HTML5 Visual Studio 2010 was originally released without HTML5 support, so does SP1 finally add support for it? Yes…
How to get Razor intellisense for @model in a class library project
Many of us follow a modular architecture and create MVC3 Razor view in a separate class library project. Following is a screenshot of the class library project that I have created. Now if I open a view with @model typed in it, I notice that it shows sq…
How to get Razor syntax support in Visual Studio 2010
What’s Razor? Razor is a simple-syntax view engine that is released as part of ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) 3. Read more about the syntax on ScottGu’s blog or on ASP.NET How can I get Razor syntax support in Visual Studio 2010? It&rs…
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta IIS Express Integration
A few days ago Jason Zander blogged about the availability of Visual Studio SP1 Beta (all links below in resources section). I am happy to let you guys know that with SP1 Beta we have enabled integration of IIS Express into Visual Studio. After you hav…
XDT (web.config) Transforms in non-web projects
One of the really cool features that we shipped for Visual Studio 2010 was web.config (XDT) transformations . Because the transformations are so simple and straightforward one of the first questions that someone asks after using it is “how can I use …
Working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit in Visual Studio 2010
When working with different versions of AjaxControlToolkit , Visual Studio 2010 contains some interesting improvements compared to previous versions of Visual Studio. When adding a particular version of AjaxControlToolkit controls (or other similar third-party controls) to the toolbox using the Choose Toolbox Items dialog, we now show the version number of the control that is being added. Figure 1 Once various versions of these AjaxControlToolkit (ACT) controls such as ACT 3.0 and ACT 4.0 are added to the toolbox in separate tabs (one tab per version), o nly the latest applicable version of the ACT controls will display as visible in the toolbox. This reduces confusion when different versions of ACT are present. The version number of the control…(read more)
