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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...

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...

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is W3C standard language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Firefox 3+, Opera 9+ and Safari 3+ support SVG rendering. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 8 does not support SVG natively and requires a plug-in. There a plug in from Adobe (although support was discontinued this year) as well as few pulg-ins listed in Wikipedia article on SVG . SVG element is part of upcoming HTML 5 standard which allows inline SVG in HTML documents. Inline SVG is not yet fully supported in modern browsers so you probably still want to use <object> element for now. For example: < html > < head > < title > SVG test </ title > </ head > < body > <...

Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available: Creating Web sites Creating and Managing CSS Styles Applying CSS to Web Forms Debugging ASP.NET Applications You can find link to download at VWD section on ASP.NET Web site (look for Visual Web Developer Books section at the right side) or download ZIP file directly from here . We hope you will find them useful. - Mikhail Arkhipov Read More...

Ctrl +Shift+W does the trick for you. This short cut is mentioned under File Menu -> View in Browser . So if you are still using Select File -> Right click for context menu and then selecting View in Browser as shown below, you may want to start...

Open an existing web site in VWD. Open the page by double clicking on it in solution explorer to which you want to attach the existing style sheet in your web site. Now, switch to Design View of the page and bring up Select Style Sheet dialog by clicking...

We have started a new series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008. Over the course of next few weeks we will be adding many more videos to this series . These video tutorials will range in complexity from beginner to intermediate and will help Web developers build everything from simple Web applications to full featured Web solutions that incorporate Silverlight as well as third-party libraries like jQuery. To view these video tutorials and other helpful content like recent and must read blog posts visit the Visual Web Developer Express section http://www.asp.net/vwd/ . Read More...

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  At PDC 2008 in LA and TechEd EMEA 2008 in Barcelona we announced key new features for Visual Studio 2010 for Web Developers...  Apart from our focus on MVC, Dynamic Data, Silverlight and other key ASP.NET runtime functionality, this was the first time we announced the key investments pillars for Web Developers in VS 2010 ...  Over the next year or so we will be writing in details about these new features, but to start off  I thought it would be great to share various videos which are available to view online today ... Visual Studio 2010 - Web Development Overview In this talk we provided the glimpse of the major investment areas in VS 2010.  The talk is divided into following key areas Design View - Improved CSS 2...

Download: VSSpellChecker.msi What's new in version 2.2: Spell checker now fully supports VS 2008 SP1 Content of <code>, <abbr> and <address> elements is ignored Setup no longer requires COM registration, it uses VS AddIn registration in XML file List of words to ignore (SpellChecker.ignore file) was moved from AppData to AddIns folder Fixed bugs: Add To Dictionary may corrupt Word custom dictionary file dictionary file was not in Unicode Windows update to MSXML may cause "Ignore" and "Add To Dictionary" command to disappear After word was added to dictionary it may continue to be flagged as an error until VS is restarted Note : There is no v2.2 for VS 2005 or VS 2008 RTM. From now on updates will be...