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I'll switch to French for this post as the talk will be in French. Je parlerai ce soir devant le groupe d'usagers de .NET de Montreal à partir de six heures dans les locaux de Microsoft. Je parlerai de Visual Studio 2008 (et SP1), d'ASP.NET Ajax et du toolkit s'il reste du temps. Venez nombreux! UPDATE: merci à tous ceux qui se sont déplacés, et grand merci au groupe d'usagers , à Dominic Sévigny et RunAtServer pour leur accueil. Read More...

  Wanted to update you on a upcoming web cast that I am doing in support of Visual Studio 2008 launch event... Title : New Enhancements for Web Developers in VS 2008 Date/Day: Tuesday, February 26th 2008 Time: 11am to 12:30pm Pacific Standard Time (PST) Description :Get an overview of how Visual Studio 2008 takes web development to the next level. See highlights of the key new Web tools experiences in the Visual Studio 2008 product including support for multi-Targeting,  JavaScript enhancements, rich support for CSS standards, rapid development of data-bound web pages using LINQ To SQL, and more. Also learn about the new Web Application Project and Web Deployment Project enhancements to Visual Studio which adds an alternative Web application...

We have good news for jQuery fans. The hotfix we released today fixes a bug in IntelliSense where it would fail with jQuery. Any page with jQuery should just work now. While experimenting with this new-found functionality today, I found annotating the library with a few XML Doc Comments really made a big difference. The key is to add a return type of "jQuery" like this: Here's some jQuery chaining with IntelliSense: There were only a few functions that (due to the way they were declared) were not able to be annotated. Special thanks to Brennan where I borrowed the comments from. If anyone will be making a fully annotated version of jQuery, I'd be happy to post a link to it from here. Jeff King Program Manager Visual Studio Web Tools Read More...

I often get the question “Why isn’t IntelliSense working?”. The most common cause is an error in one of the referenced scripts. If there was an IntelliSense update error, the status bar will tell you. Given this situation, the Error List will complement the status bar with one of two messages. Error Message 1: A script failed to execute… This type of error is commonly caused by either a syntax error, calling a member that doesn’t exist, or an infinite loop. The filename/source is provided to help you debug. After the script error is fixed, IntelliSense will automatically retry. Note: I’ve noticed the line number to be off by 1; we’ll be fixing that. Error Message 2: Something more serious… In rare occurrences, our execution/analysis engine Read...

If you are using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, and are building applications for Silverlight using Javascript, there is a cool project from Justin-Josef Angel , which I recommend checking out. Using Justin's library and Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, one can get much richer Javascript intellisense experience for Silverlight. Below is an example of the additional intellisense information Justin's library provides: VS 2008 javascript intellisense for Silverlight w/o Justin's Library VS 2008 javascript intellisense for Silverlight with Justin's Library: For more details about his project and how to use it, check out Justin's blog . --Omar Khan Group Program Manager Visual Studio Web Tools Read More...

We have discovered that in a very limited number of setup scenarios of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, Jscript IntelliSense and Colorization may not work property after installing the product. You will get no IntelliSense in JavaScript code, and all JavaScript code will appear black (i.e., colorization of keywords will be missing). The image below shows how the code would appear if this issue occurs: The same issue will affect JavaScript code in your HTML and ASPX pages. The issue is caused by the Jscript engine not being registered properly during the installation of Visual Studio. There is an easy workaround for this installation issue that will restore full functionality of Jscript IntelliSense. To fix the problem, you will need to modify two...

At the Mix07 conference this week, I did an overview presentation of the web development features being delivered in Visual Studio "Orcas". The folks at Mix have been kind enough to make videos of all the sessions from the conference available to the public. Click here to watch my session on Web Development using Visual Studio "Orcas". You can also check out http://sessions.visitmix.com/ to browse all the other great content presented at Mix07 this week. Enjoy! -- Omar Khan Group Program Manager Visual Studio Web Tools Read More...

The March CTP is of course a "Preview" and does have some bugs. I thought we'd share the top issues seen and offer some workarounds. 1. TypeLibBuilder.exe "has encountered a problem..." If you're seeing this: This a bug where that particular assembly has not been given a Strong Name. The solution is to turn verification off for this one assembly. To do so, place the following text in a text file, rename the extension from "txt" to "reg", then run (double-click) the file. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\StrongName\Verification\TypeLibBuilder,b03f5f7f11d50a3a] Alternatively, you could manually input this if you're handy with the Registry Editor. If you're familar with SN.exe, the -Vr option should do...

The March CTP of Visual Studio marks the debut of a much-requested and long-awaited feature: improved JScript IntelliSense . We’ve been working on this for almost a year now and I’m pretty excited to finally be able to share it with the public. There are a variety of topics I’d like to deep dive into, but for today let’s just take a quick aerial tour of the new features. 1. Proactive Completion List Our old list was a bit lazy and only “awoke” when you typed a period while accessing a member. Our new one is on-its-toes and is wired up to the language grammar. Net effect: it comes up when you would expect it, and you can spend less time pressing ctrl+J. =) 2. Keywords in Completion List In practice, you will spend half of your time typing keywords...