April 15, 2010
Blog ArchivesIssues between Visual Studio, Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse and Windows 2008 Server
Quite some time ago, when Vista just went RTM, Risk Strahl discovered that when he used Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse, code intellisense and markup validation in Visual Studio stopped working. Since several activities in VS are done in a background on idle (not to be confused with background threads – idle processing is performed on the main thread), it was clear that VS was not getting any idle time slots, i.e. something was keeping OS busy. We tracked the issue down some third party applications as well as to a bug in Microsoft Wireless Mouse driver that was keeping OS busy and prevented OS from going to sleep or launching screen saver. See Knowledge Base topic for details and workarounds/updates. What about Windows 7? The fix was included…(read more)
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Silverlight 4 Tools Released
This morning we released Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010! The link to download and installs the tools is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177508 . The tools will install: Silverlight 4 RTM Developer Runtime Silverlight 4 Tools RC for VS 2010 Silverlight 4 SDK RTM Silverlight 4 Tools RC Package WCF RIA Services RC Note that this is the RC release of the Silverlight 4 tools. With these tools you can start developing Silverlight 4 applications using Visual Studio 2010. If you are not familiar with what’s new in SL 4 check out Tim’s blog here: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx If you haven’t already downloaded VS 2010, you can get the free Express version…(read more)
Visual Studio 2010 MVC 2 Upgrade Wizard
Prior to the RTM release of Visual Studio 2010, the only way to upgrade an ASP.Net MVC 1 application to ASP.Net MVC 2 was to use Eilon Lipton’s tool . With the release of Visual Studio 2010 you will now be able to open your MVC 1 projects in Visual Studio 2010 and upgrade them to ASP.Net MVC 2 projects. Also, you can upgrade the target framework of the project to 4.0 or continue to target the 3.5 framework. When you first open an ASP.Net MVC 1 application in Visual Studio 2010, you will see the familiar Visual Studio Conversion Wizard. ASP.Net MVC specific code runs during this wizard and updates all System.Web.MVC references from version 1 to version 2. The wizard also updates the version numbers in the project’s Web.config and the Views folder…(read more)
Visual Web Developer 2010 Express has Arrived!
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is a free and robust development environment for building, testing and deploying Web applications across the Microsoft Web Platform including ASP.Net, Internet Information Services and SQL Server. Unleash your creativity with powerful design surfaces for building standards-based Web applications and services. With Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, you can work with Web Standards, JavaScript and ASP.NET. Work within a personalized environment, targeting established and emerging web technologies, including rich internet applications based on AJAX or Silverlight, cloud and web services. Integrated debugging tools let you find and fix bugs quickly and easily to help ensure high quality solutions. Visual…(read more)
Spell checker 2.3 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Minor update for the Spell checker add-in for VS 2008 SP1. It is now available at Visual Studio Gallery . Direct link: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/2f3d691d-8838-4d84-ad64-44a02db37e30 What's new in version 2.3: Updated native code loading mechanism to improve robustness Fixed bug when applying suggestion would also delete punctuation immediately following the word. You can find extended information on the add-in and possible customization in earlier post . For VS 2010 version look here . Thanks Mikhail Arkhipov Read More……(read more)
ASP.NET/HTML Spell Checker 2.3 is available for Visual Studio 2010
ASP.NET/HTML Spell Checker 2.3 for Visual Studio 2010 has been posted on Visual Studio Gallery (also accessible from Visual Studio Start page in 'Extending Visual Studio' section). Direct link: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0db4814c-255e-4cc6-a2c2-a428de7f8949 What's new in version 2.3: VS 2010 version installs from gallery as Visual Studio Extension package (VSIX) In VS 2010 suggestion list is invoked via right button click (instead of double click as in earlier versions). Fixed bug: Fixing misspelled word it may also remove punctuation that immedialy follows it. For additional information please refer to readme.htm included in the download – you can find it in the extension directory, typically C:\Users\USER_NAME…(read more)
Issue with dependent assemblies when rebuilding a WAP and the Workarounds
In Visual Studio 2010, the dependent assembly of a custom control assembly will be deleted from the project’s Bin folder on project clean or rebuild if the project does not contain a reference to that dependent assembly. The result will be a WAP that successfully builds but fails at runtime. When adding a control from such a custom control assembly, both the custom control assembly and the dependent assembly will be added to the bin folder of the WAP. However, only the reference to the primary assembly will be added automatically to the references node of the project, but the reference to the dependent assembly will not. If the dependent assembly is not required at the compile time, then usually, users would not add it to the references node…(read more)
Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls”
A hotfix is now available for issues most commonly described as " Controls are not being recognized in the code-behind " and " Editing existing .aspx regenerates .aspx.designer.(cs), but most of the controls are now missing ”. This hotfix can be downloaded from: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=27117 The update addresses the following Connect bugs: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=532641 : Cannot embed standard asp.net controls in Ajax Control Toolkit TabContainer http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=533071 : Controls in CreateUserWizard WizardStep not visible as before http://connect.microsoft…(read more)
Visual Studio 2010 RC Feedback Channel for Web Tools
As you probably heard the Visual Studio 2010 RC is currently available for MSDN subscribers! You can download it from here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx . General public release is slated for Wed. The Web Development Tools Team has setup a DL that we would like you to use to send us direct feedback on anything web development related for this RC. The DL is: vsweb@microsoft.com Once you have had a chance to use the product please send us feedback on your overall experience with our product. The more details you can provide the better. Also, feel free to shoot us a mail if: You encounter a bug or issue. You have general feedback, suggestions or ideas on our web tools product. If you do encounter a bug please send us a clear…(read more)
