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We are pleased to announce that the RTW version of Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2010 is now available for download. If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW (for Visual Studio Professional and higher skus). Installation You can download Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW from the download page (or simply click here to directly download the installer). Features in WDP 2010 RTW The RTW version of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects preserves all the core functionalities of Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects and Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects...

Visual Web Developer 2010 Express offers a great set of features for deploying web applications seamlessly. One of the key features is the ability to publish your web application from VS 2010 to a remote hosted web server along with its dependencies like SQL Server database using “Web One Click Publish”. VS 2010 integrates Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (MsDeploy.exe) to provide a fast, reliable and cohesive way of deploying web applications. Learn more about Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Features . And now that you have been introduced to Web Deployment, you may be looking for a hoster which is compatible with both the new framework (ASP.NET 4.0) and the Web Deployment features included in this release. The following web hosting providers...

Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is available for installation via the Web Platform Installer at http://micorosoft.com/express/web . The English SKU was published on April 12 th , French, German and Japanese went live on April 27 th and Spanish, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean will be released soon. Running the Web Platform Installer on an operating system of one of the available languages automatically selects that language of Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (VWD) to be installed. You can select a different language by using the Options link at the lower-left corner of the main WebPI window. In the “Change Options” dialog, select the language you’d like to have installed. If it’s available, you’ll see...

If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation now with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta. The power tool named “Web Deployment Projects” originally shipped as an out-of-band update for both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 . This power tool provided a simplistic way to replace config sections and to integrate the ASP.NET pre-compiler and merge utilities into Visual Studio’s build process. Although Visual Studio 2010 includes a powerful new packaging and deployment technology based on MSDeploy, it is not backward compatible with the previous releases of Web Deployment Projects. To address this incompatibility we’ve ported the original Web...

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...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the affordable estimated retail price of $549, a saving of $250. If you use a previous version of Visual Studio or any other development tool then you are eligible for this upgrade. Along with all the great new features in Visual Studio 2010 (see www.microsoft.com/visualstudio ) Visual Studio 2010 Professional includes a 12-month MSDN Essentials subscription which gives you access to core Microsoft platforms: Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter. So visit http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/pre-order-visual-studio-2010 to check out all the...

I’m excited to announce – WebsiteSpark – a new program from Microsoft that provides software and support for building web sites, at no cost for 3 years. What You Get Software: WebsiteSpark provides software licenses that you can use for 3 years at no upfront cost (there is only an exit fee of $100 payable upon exit from the program).  Once enrolled, you can download and use the following software from Microsoft: 3 licenses of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition 1 license of Expression Studio 3 (which includes Blend, Sketchflow, and Web) 2 licenses of Expression Web 3 4 processor licenses of Windows Web Server 2008 4 processor licenses of SQL Server 2008 Web Edition DotNetPanel control panel (enabling easy remote/hosted management of...

The public release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available and can be downloaded here . This is one of the most compelling updates to Visual Studio we’ve seen in years.  The entire IDE has been refreshed with a new look and all the code editors including the HTML and ASPX editors have replaced with a new extensible editor based on WPF. One of the reoccurring themes throughout Visual Studio 2010 is developer productivity.  For example integrated into the new code editors is a consume first workflow where you can start calling methods on classes even before they exists.  Then you can have VS generate the new code extending the class as you type. Community is another theme in Visual Studio.  Integrated into the new project...

The IIS team has just shipped the Microsoft Application Request Routing 1.0 module for IIS7!!! Application Request Routing (ARR) enables Web server administrators and hosting providers and to increase Web application reliability and scalability through rule-based routing and load balancing of HTTP server requests. With ARR, administrators can optimize resource utilization for application servers to reduce management costs for Web farms and shared hosting environments. To learn more about the features in ARR, check out the ARR site . To get started with ARR 1.0 – download it now using the Web Platform Installer (Web PI) . The IIS.NET site also has some create tutorial content on how to use ARR . Below is a list of some of the ARR tutorials available...

Today, deploying a web application is not as easy as it should be. Whether you are deploying your web to a shared hosting environment and paying monthly to maintain it OR whether you have a web server/s managed by your enterprise, there are a lot of manual steps involved in getting your application from point A to point B. If you are deploying your web application to a shared hoster then today you have to use technologies like FTP which take a long time to get your web content to the hosted server. After deploying your content you have to manually go to hoster control panel and install your database by running sql scripts and configure various IIS settings like marking a folder as an application to isolate it from the rest of the application...