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If by any chance you are not seeing intellisense in your JavaScript or HTML after installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 you might be running into a known bug that we can show you how to fix. The bug is related to user settings which we don’t remove when Beta 1 is uninstalled. One particular setting under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\HTML Editor\ TargetFriendlyName . For Beta 2, this setting does not match the schema’s we know about. As a result, JScript intellisense will fail to load and most items will be missing in markup as well. The minimum fix is to manually repair the TargetFriendlyName setting in the registry (change it to be just "XHTML 1.0 Transitional”) but due to the fact that more settings could be affected the recommended...

The VWD team is always looking for ways to improve our product for our customers. To help us better achieve this goal we have created a survey that we hope you will take a few moments to fill out. Click Here to take survey This survey centers around the VWD designer which provides a WYSIWYG editor for creating and editing Web pages. All feedback will be carefully considered in our planning. Thank you for your time, Mike Snow SDET Lead  Visual Studio Web Tools Read More...

Most Recent Posts: Silverlight Tip of the Day #106 - Setting Default Browser from within VS Silverlight Tip of the Day #105 - How to Enable GPU Acceleration Silverlight Tip of the Day #104 - Cool Silverlight Tutorial Blogs Silverlight Tip of the Day #103 - Use Integers for Layout Calculations Silverlight Tip of the Day #102 - Bypassing the Image Cache Silverlight Tip of the Day #101 - Silverlight 3 Beta 1 Feature Summary Silverlight Tip of the Day #100 - ComponentArt Controls Silverlight Tip of the Day #99 - Silverlight 3 Game Programming Book Silverlight Tip of the Day #98 - Creating Sprites from 3D Models - EnvyGames Silverlight Tip of the Day #97 - How to get an Image’s Source File Name Silverlight Tip of the Day #96 - The meaning of AG_E_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE...

Most Recent Posts: Tip #93 - Reading XML with Silverlight Tip #92 - How to Load Images from a Stream Tip #91 - How to Apply Themes from the Silverlight Toolkit Tip #90 - How to Edit your CSPROJ File from VS Tip #89 - How to use String Resources Tip #88 - How to handle image AG_E_NETWORK_ERROR errors Tip #87 - How to Change the Startup Class Tip #86 - How to Load External Images Tip #85 - How to Save $$ on the Silverlight MIX Conference Tip #84 - How to Dynamically Load a Control from a DLL Tip #83 - Go to Mix09 Tip #82 - How to Implement Double Click Tip #81 - How to Scale your Silverlight Control Tip #80 - How to Crop an Object Tip #79 - How to Disable HTML DOM Access from your Silverlight Application. Thank you, Mike Snow SDET Lead  Visual...

This link provides a complete Tips of the Day Summary Outline - http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2009/01/02/silverlight-tips-of-the-day-summary-outline.aspx . This page will be kept updated with any changes or additions to the Tip of the Day blog for Silverlight. Most Recent Posts: Tip #78 - Animating Objects with DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames Tip #77 - Creating an Efficient Random Generator Tip #76 - Animating objects with DoubleAnimation. Tip #75 - Where to get the Localized Languages of Silverlight 2 Tools Tip #74 - Monitoring for App.Current Events - Startup, UnhandledException & Exit. Tip #73 - Threading in Silverlight Tip #72 - How to call Page.xaml.cs from App.xaml.cs Tip #71 - New Silverlight 2 Web Site Clean Up Check List...

I am proud to announce we have released Silverlight 2 Tools localized in 7 languages! Please follow the links below to get the language of your choice. DMT page details: Chinese - China Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/8/218414F1-33DA-45B6-9007-18A1566D0D41/Silverlight_Tools.exe   DMT page details: Spanish (Traditional Sort) - Spain Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/B/21BA7418-C2D7-4709-9F22-A2187FAE8153/Silverlight_Tools.exe       DMT page details: German - Germany Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/2/2/E2251D3C-C03B-46F0-B392-D2C45DD7B4B5/Silverlight_Tools.exe       DMT page details: French - France Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/E/4/8E4EDB7F-6002...

Silverlight Tip of the Day #66 Title: How to copy XAML for Silverlight from Expression Designer Silverlight Tip of the Day #65 Title: Adding a Mouse Wheel Event Listener to your Controls Silverlight Tip of the Day #64 Title: Deploying a Silverlight Application with a Web Service Silverlight Tip of the Day #63 Title: How to Monitor HTTP Traffic for Errors Silverlight Tip of the Day #62 Title: How to Create a Hyperlink Silverlight Tip of the Day #61 Title: How to Create a Tooltip Silverlight Tip of the Day #60 Title: How to load a XAML Control From a File or String Silverlight Tip of the Day #59 Title: How to Display Special Characters in XAML Silverlight Tip of the Day #58 Title: Text Wrapping and Line Breaks in TextBlocks Thank you. Mike Snow...

Today I am very proud to announce that Silverlight 2 has been officially released! Grab it today at http://silverlight.net/GetStarted . This is a phenomenal release that provides a powerful solution to creating rich web application. At the link above you can install: The official release version of Microsoft Silverlight 2 (Mac or Windows version). The RC1 of the Visual Studio add-on for Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 or Visual Web Developer Express with SP1. Although this is an RC1 for tools, it does come with the official release version of Silverlight 2. You can expect the RTW version of tools very soon! Microsoft Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1. Deep Zoom Composer. Breaking Changes Make certain to upgrade your beta 1 and beta 2 applications...

Silverlight Tip of the Day #57 Title: How to Dynamically Load a Silverlight Control within another Silverlight Control Silverlight Tip of the Day #56 Title: Accessing the HTML DOM from Silverlight. Silverlight Tip of the Day #55 Title: How to Apply Styles in Silverlight – Part I Silverlight Tip of the Day #54 Title: How to Develop with Silverlight Tools for Free Silverlight Tip of the Day #53 Title: MessageBox is now Available in Silverlight 2 Silverlight Tip of the Day #52 Title: How to Popup a Browser Window Silverlight Tip of the Day #51 Title: How to Enable and Disable Controls Silverlight Tip of the Day #50 Title: Main Game Loop Revisited! Silverlight Tip of the Day #49 Title: How to Implement a Progress Bar EnvDTE.OutputGroup.get_FileCount...

Version 2 of the Silverlight developer runtime along with the Silverlight Tools is now available. This release candidate will give developers the chance to convert their sites from Beta 2 –> Release before the final release of the runtime is out. Also, included below is a link to a patch that will upgrade Blend. Visual Studio 2008 Tools RC0:   http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129043 Expression Blend SP1 RC0:   http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/default.aspx?filter=prerelease   Windows Silverlight 2 Dev Runtime RC0:   http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=129011 For more details please read my blog here: http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/09/25/silverlight-version-2-rc0-released.aspx Thank you...