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Free Video Training: ASP.NET MVC 3 FeaturesA few weeks ago I blogged about a great ASP.NET MVC 3 video training course from Pluralsight that was made available for free for 48 hours for people to watch. The feedback from the people that ... [read more]
Visual Studio 11 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo ScriptsI'm very pleased to announce the availability of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview ALM Virtual Machine along with 6 hands-on-labs / demo scripts. This marks an exciting milestone in our journey t... [read more] 
VS 2010 SP1 (Beta) and IIS ExpressLast month we released the VS 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta. You can learn more about the VS 2010 SP1 Beta from Jason Zander's two blog posts about it, and from Scott Hanselman's blog post t... [read more]
HTML5 & CSS3 in Visual Studio 2010 SP1Since 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 HTM... [read more]
Deploying Microsoft Office Solutions by Using Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Installer (Mary Lee, Saurabh Bhatia)In Visual Studio 2010, you can use the ClickOnce and Windows Installer deployment technologies to deploy Office solutions that target both Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2010. The main adv... [read more]
Visual Studio 11 Beta Razor editor issue workaroundWe found Visual Studio 11 Beta hits a crash bug when editing cshtml/vbhtml razor editor, if the smart indent for HTML editor is set to Block instead of Smart. The workaround is to go to Tools->Opti... [read more]
Announcing release of ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrixI'm excited to announce the release today of several products: ASP.NET MVC 3 NuGet IIS Express 7.5 SQL Server Compact Edition 4 Web Deploy and Web Farm Framework 2.0... [read more]
New CSS Editor Improvements in Visual Studio (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)This is the seventh in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5. The next release of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities. With ASP.NET 4.5 you'll see ... [read more]
How to create a Web Deploy package when publishing a ClickOnce projectThe other day I saw a question on StackOverflow (link in resources below) asking How you can create a Web Deploy (AKA MSDeploy) package when publishing a ClickOnce project. The easiest way to do this ... [read more]
Visual Studio 11 Beta - Unit Testing Plugins ListOne of the things I'm really proud of in the new Visual Studio 11 developer experience is the investment we made in developer and unit testing. We first started talking about this back at the //BUILD/... [read more] |
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Should I expose asynchronous wrappers for synchronous methods?
Lately I've received several questions along the lines of the following, which I typically summarize as async over sync: In my library, I have a method public T Foo();. I'm c... [read more]
Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web new features
In earlier blog, we mentioned that Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web is available to download. Besides the common features seen in Visual Studio 2010 Web Express, it provides s... [read more]
The Visual Studio 11 Beta Survey is Live!
It’s been just 3 weeks since we released Visual Studio 11 Beta, and we’d like to hear what you think! Let us know your impressions by taking the Visual Studio 11 Beta survey. W... [read more]
Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance Part #3
Welcome back to the 3rd and final part of the Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance series. This week's topic is Debugging. As I mentioned in the 1st post debugging is a key component ... [read more]
Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM DemoMates now available
The Visual Studio 11 DemoMates for showcasing application lifecycle management scenarios have been updated based on the beta release. You can download the DemoMates here. DemoMate... [read more]
VS11 Beta JavaScript Feature comparison with VS2010sp1
In Visual Studio 11 Beta, we have exciting JavaScript editing features for the developers. Last year, we blogged JavaScript Web development differences between Visual Studio 11 Dev... [read more]
Is it ok to use nested Parallel.For loops?
Every now and then, I get this question: is it ok to use nested Parallel.For loops? The short answer is yes. As is often the case, the longer answer is, well, longer. Typically ... [read more]
Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance Part #2
Welcome back to part 2 of the Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance series. This week’s topic is Solution Load. We received a great deal of feedback from you clearly telling us t... [read more]
Visual Studio 11 Beta HTML/CSS editor features
Visual Studio 11 Beta has some more improvement in HTML and CSS editors over the Developer Preview time. You can see the major feature descriptions through www.asp.net/vnext . In... [read more]
What's New in Visual Studio 11 Beta Unit Testing
For those of you who haven't been following the changes to unit testing that we first previewed back at the //BUILD/ conference, and for those you who did but want to know what has... [read more]
New Videos: Upgrading to Team Foundation Server 11
The Team Foundation Server 11 beta is available for download, including a "go live" license and support, meaning that you can start using the beta for real proj... [read more]
Visual Studio 11 Beta Razor editor issue workaround
We found Visual Studio 11 Beta hits a crash bug when editing cshtml/vbhtml razor editor, if the smart indent for HTML editor is set to Block instead of Smart. T... [read more]
Are you using TPL Dataflow? We'd love to know!
Are you using the new System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll library, either from its CTPs or from the .NET 4.5 Developer Preview or Beta? We'd love to hear abou... [read more]
Implementing a simple ForEachAsync, part 2
After my previous post, I received several emails and comments from folks asking why I chose to implement ForEachAsync the way I did. My goal with that post w... [read more]
Visual Studio 11 Beta Page Inspector Tutorial live in asp.net
Using Page Inspector In Visual Studio 11 Beta, you can see what elements in the source files (including server-side code) have produced the HTML markup that is ... [read more]