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As you probably heard the Visual Studio 2010 RC is currently available for MSDN subscribers! You can download it from here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx . General public release is slated for Wed. The Web Development Tools Team Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Elmah error logging modules and handlers for ASP.NET is a great module for logging asp.net errors to many different and configurable repositories.  One of the repositories that Elmah works with is email. You can easily set up Elmah to send emails by changing the elmah configuration section in your web.config. You can find a sample of all the different elmah web.config settings here .  The email configuration settings are the following: <errorMail from="elmah@example.com" to="admin@example.com" subject="..." async="true|false" smtpPort="25" smtpServer="smtp.example.com" userName="johndoe" password="secret" noYsod="true|false" /> Only the...

If you have an IIS site that has a mixture of ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0 virtual directories below it, changing the root site ASP.NET settings could affect the virtual directory ASP.NET settings as well since IIS inherits except for explicit overrides. This little PowerShell script will take each setting and persist it to the virtual directory so you are able to freely change the root site settings without affecting the applications below it. Please remember to backup your IIS settings before you do this, just incase it has adverse affects on your IIS server. function Persist-IIsSettings ( $obj ) { Write-Host $obj.Path $obj.Properties.GetEnumerator() |% { $propertyName = $_.PropertyName $value = $obj.Get($propertyName) if ( -not ($value -is [System...

VS2010 RC is out now and available for MSDN users since now. Other guys have to wait until tomorrow when VS2010 RC is made publically available. Reading first news I discovered that most important thing is hardly improved performance of VS2010 RC IDE. All your feedback is welcome to VS2010 RC Connect site . To find out more follow these links: VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate VS 2010/.NET 4 Release Candidate is Available for MSDN subscribers Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) Before installing RC you must uninstall all previous versions of VS2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. It seems like another long nights of hacking and discovering new stuff are waiting for us. :) Read More...

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] A few people have emailed me recently asking about the availability of a Visual Studio –vsdoc intellisense hint file for jQuery 1.4.1.  I blogged about –vsdoc files in the past – they provide additional intellisense help information for Visual Studio, and enable you to get a richer intellisense experience with dynamic Javascript libraries.  If you are using VS 2008 SP1 you’ll want to download and install this patch in order to have VS 2008 automatically use –vsdoc files with intellisense.  VS 2010 has support for –vsdoc files built-in. jQuery 1.4.1 –vsdoc download The good news is that you can download...

A few years back I wrote a post on the size of the .NET Framework . There's historically been a lot of confusion on the site of the .NET Framework. If you search around on the web for ".NET Framework" or ".NET Framework Redistributable" Read More......( read more ) Read More...

I get many (MANY) email from customers who are struggle to answer specific technical problems. As time permits I’m going to start answering them here, I recently received an email from a developer building an application using the Ajax Control Toolkit Read More......( read more ) Read More...

We finished generating a new VSDoc for the latest update of jQuery. You can download it from the jQuery Downloads page . A refresher on how to use the file can be found here or here . Happy coding! Jeff King Program Manager Visual Studio Web Tools Read Read More......( read more ) Read More...

I think you'll find the performance of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate to be vastly improved over Beta 2. Microsoft showed wisdom and courage when it chose to delay the release to make the product better - and faster....( read more ) Read More...

One of the exciting feature of ASP.NET MVC is(?) auto generating the view of the model with DisplayForModel/EditorForModel statement, it gives a nice extension point for the application developers to customize the view. But in the latest release (MVC2 RC2), it looks like the feature is no longer available. No, those methods are still available, but they are not working the same way as they were doing in the earlier versions. In rc2, if your model has any complex object, it will not render it . I know some of you like myself thought, one of the major changes in rc2 is the Input Validation vs. Model Validation in ASP.NET MVC and rest of it is bug fixing and some improvements. I did check the release note doc, where it is mentioned as Templated...