Latest Microsoft Blogs : JScript

Tip #80: Did you know… How to show JScript validation errors as warnings?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:54:00 GMT

With Visual Studio 2008 RTM, JScript validation setting is an option on the HTML validation page on the Options dialog. Since Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and later, we added a new option page JScript on the Options dialog, see the blog "Introducing JScript...(read more)

Tip #49 Did you know… how to set the editor to always place open braces on new line for functions in JScript?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:24:01 GMT

In Visual Studio, click Tools -> Options. In the Options dialog on the left pane select Text editor -> JScript -> Formatting. Check Place open brace on new line for functions. Deepak Verma SDET | Visual Web Developer Read More......(read more)

VSDoc for jQuery 1.3.2 Now Available

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:00:00 GMT

jQuery 1.3 was released a little over a month ago. The 1.3 release adds exciting features such as selector performance improvements, "live events" where events can be bound to both current and future elements, and more. Version 1.3.2 was released a few days ago and fixes some bugs include one involving selector performance in IE. I just wanted to let everyone know that we now have VSDoc files for all of the 1.3 releases. You can download them from the jQuery Downloads page ... A refresher on how to use the file can be found here or here . Here's one of the new functions in action... Hope this helps! Jeff King Program Manager Visual Studio Web Tools Read More......(read more)

JScript IntelliSense FAQ

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:30:40 GMT

I've been reading through the 70 or so comments on our last 2 jQuery posts. There have been a lot of great questions. Apologies for not being able to answer them sooner (I was busy preparing for Dev Connections). Instead of answering them inline with the comments, I'll try to paraphrase the popular issues here and answer them centrally. 1. I have a ton of Content Pages, do I need to put script references for IntelliSense in each one? No, you do not need to repeat the script references on each content page. Visual Studio 2008 will auto-detect the presence of a master page and scan for references in that file. Thus, placing references in the master page is all you need to do. 2. I put a vsdoc reference in...(read more)

VS2008 SP1 Hotfix to Support "-vsdoc.js" IntelliSense Doc Files

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:45:00 GMT

Last week I mentioned we would be releasing a Hotfix to accompany our new jQuery VSDoc file . This Hotfix is now available at the MSDN Code Gallery . Here's a direct download link for this small (2MB) patch: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB958502/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1736 I want to emphasize that this patch is intended for all JavaScript files, not just those related to jQuery . Generally, we will opportunistically look for documentation files related to the script file. For example, given "mylibrary.js", we will search in the same directory for: mylibrary -vsdoc .js, then if we don't find it we will search for... mylibrary .debug .js, then if we don't find it we will search for... mylibrary.js The idea...(read more)

Rich IntelliSense for jQuery

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:30:00 GMT

A while back we updated IntelliSense to not fail when referencing jQuery. However, getting IntelliSense for chained calls and rich summary/parameter hints still required adding special comments to a few thousand lines of jQuery. If you didn't have the time, you could download such a file from friendly members of the community such as James and Brennan . As part of our new partnership with jQuery , yesterday we announced the availability of the official IntelliSense documentation file. As you can see, our friends at jQuery have added a new download link for Visual Studio at http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery#Download_jQuery . You can also download the file directly from http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.2.6-vsdoc.js . As you might guess...(read more)

Catch our team at TechEd 2008 - Orlando.

Your Websites, Our Passion! — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:02:00 GMT

Every year we send a team to TechEds to meet you, our customers. They will be at the event site from 8.30 AM to 6.00 PM to answer your questions from June 3rd to June 6th. This time we have the following representatives at TechEd. ASP.NET Team: Kathy Carper, Scott Hunter, Simon Calvert, Clay Compton, Konst Khurin, Mark Rosenberg and Robert Boedigheimer Web Development Tools Team: Barry Tang, John Dundon, Vinaya Bhushana Gattam Reddy and Vishal Joshi So come talk to them and find out more about what our team has to offer. Also, watch out for a demo from Simon and Vishal on the Newest features in ASP.NET and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Web Developer . The session time and code is as mentioned below. Session code: WUX306: A Lap Around the Newest...(read more)

Introducing JScript Formatting in VS 2008 SP1

Your Websites, Our Passion! — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:59:00 GMT

Colorization, validation, IntelliSense, and formatting comprise the core of any modern editor. With VS 2008 SP1, we are completing the core JScript editor by introducing code formatting. Additionally, we have promoted JScript to a dedicated node in “Tools Options” providing a clean separation from the HTML “Tools Options”. We realize many folks have been waiting for this feature and we’re excited to be able to finally provide it. We’re using “beta” period to fine tune the feature for final release. Thus, we would love to hear any feedback you have. There are two areas in particular I’d like to highlight: Correctness – It goes without saying that code integrity is of highest priority. We’ve done extensive testing to make sure nothing beyond the...(read more)

JScript Debugging: Made easy with IE8

Your Websites, Our Passion! — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:59:00 GMT

The feature I'm most excited about in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is ironically one you might not notice at all. Problem If you're reading this, you probably know (and are still untangling the double-negative logic of) the "Disable script debugging" option in IE. Say you just spent 10 hours debugging script. It's time for a break. You read your favorite blog. Suddenly, you are presented with: Needless to say, you probably did not "wish to debug" the rest of the world's script... especially after a day of debugging your own. But you hesitate to uncheck the option because you know you're going to need it again tomorrow. Solution IE8 now enables debugging on-demand. Thanks to a feature we tucked into VS2008...(read more)

Webcast: New Enhancements for Web Developers in VS 2008

Your Websites, Our Passion! — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:16:14 GMT

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...(read more)

JScript IntelliSense: Working with jQuery

Your Websites, Our Passion! — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:20:00 GMT

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...(read more)

JScript IntelliSense: Handling Errors

Your Websites, Our Passion! — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition available for download

Your Websites, Our Passion! — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:21:00 GMT

I'm glad to announce that Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition has officially shipped, and is now available for immediate download . Here is a quick summary of some of the great new capabilities in this release: Tools to Design Web Pages Use the new Split View pane which shows both the visual designer as well as the corresponding markup Build CSS enabled pages with the new Manage Styles and CSS Properties windows to easily design, preview, and apply CSS styles to your Web page Build JavaScript and AJAX-enabled applications more easily with improvements to JavaScript IntelliSense and debugging and built-in support for ASP.NET AJAX Download the free AJAX Control Toolkit which includes over 30 AJAX controls including rounded corners, drop...(read more)

Better Javascript intellisense with Silverlight 1.0

Your Websites, Our Passion! — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:29:00 GMT

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......(read more)

Workaround for Beta 2 JavaScript IntelliSense and Colorization Issue

Your Websites, Our Passion! — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:31:00 GMT

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...(read more)