August 2008 - Posts
Here are three new tips on Tips and Tricks Blog. Tip #4 Did you know… You can add browsers to Visual Web Developer using the “Browse With…” option Tip #5 Did you know… How to Databind a ListView control? Tip #6 Did you know… About the “Tag Navigator” feature? Have a great weekend! Reshmi Mangalore SDET, Web Development Tools Read More...
Script#-based Ajax development enables you to repurpose existing .NET tools - this posts shows how you can use FxCop to perform static code analysis for script code... Read More...
I installed IE8 Beta 2 and tried CTRL+F this morning and here's what I got: Finally. Quite a lot of nice things in this beta actually... Read More...
Recently we have received a few requests from customers asking whether our out of band (OOB) releases (Silverlight, Dynamic Data Wizard, Model View Controller and Web Deployment Project) are supported in Visual Web Developer (VWD) Express or not. This blog post lists all the OOB releases that we have shipped during the last year and what releases are supported in Visual Web Developer currently. VS 2008 SP1 RTM VWD 2008 SP1 RTM Timeline Silverlight Refresh Supported Not Supported We have plans to add Silverlight Tools support in VWD Express for the Silverlight 2 release. Model View Controller Supported Supported N/A Dynamic Data Wizard Supported Not Supported Dynamic Data Wizard will support VWD Express with our next code gallery release...
Silverlight Tip of the Day #32 Title : How to Declare a Custom User Control from a XAML Page. Demo : http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Custom%20UserControl/iframe.html Silverlight Terrain Tutorial Part 3 Title : Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity Masks. Demo : http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Terrain%20Transititions/iframe.html Silverlight Tip of the Day #31 Title : How to Detect Alt, Shift, Control, Windows and Apple keys with Left Mouse Down in Silverlight Demo : http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Left%20Mouse%20Down/iframe.html Silverlight Tip of the Day #30 : Title : Fast Sprite Animation in Silverlight Demo : http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Fast%20Sprites...
Stephen Walther has a pretty cool post on using the new file-only version of the Ajax Control Toolkit from an MVC application: http://weblogs.asp.net/stephenwalther/archive/2008/08/22/asp-net-mvc-tip-36-create-a-popup-calendar-helper.aspx Read More...
I recently got a copy of Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5 . This promises to be a great book. With .NET Framework 3.5, Ajax is really interesting the mainstream and the Ajax Server Controls make it very easy for the millions of ASP.NET developers to easily take advantage of the power Ajax offers. Enjoy it! This is the first book in the .NET Development Series to come out since I was asked to be on the editorial board for the series. It is great to get a chance to work with John Montgomery and Don Box . While the only pay I get for this gig is free books, I am excited to be able to help connect the industry experts on the most important technologies to the widest possible...
I just released the latest version of the Ajax Control Toolkit for .NET 3.5 SP1. This is an intermediary release that provides a version of the Toolkit that is built against the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. It contains a new control, MultiHandleSlider, built by Daniel Crenna (thanks, Daniel, you're the hero of this release) and integrates patches contributed by the community. A big thank you to all who contributed (see their names in the hall of fame ). The sample web site is not yet updated to this new release, this will be done in a couple of days. I will update this post once this is done. What's next? In the very short term, we will provide a client-side only version of the toolkit, similar to the Microsoft Ajax Library , that enables...
David Kean announces FxCop 1.36 Release Here are a few of the goodness from David's blog: 200+ bug fixes that reduce noise, missing analysis and rule crashes Support for analyzing anonymous methods and lambda expressions New option for skipping analysis over tool generated code Spell checker libraries now ship in the box Changes in the way references are resolved and located Better support for C++/CLI and the Compact Framework Language 'friendly' API names in the UI and resolutions (ie Visual Basic syntax if running over a Visual Basic binary) New globalization, design and usage rules New rule for targeting specific versions of the Framework (I'll talk about this in a future post) Performance improvements that cut analysis by...
Kevin Frie, development lead for core parts of the CLR recently posted about what CLR updates that come in 3.5 SP1 .... NGen infrastructure rewrite : the new infrastructure uses less memory, produces less fragmented NGen images with much better locality, and does so in dramatically less time. What this means to you: Installing or servicing an NGen image is much faster, and cold startup time of your NGen’ed code is better. Framework Startup Performance Improvements : The framework is now better optimized for startup. Better OS citizenship : We’ve modified NGen to produce images that are ASLR capable, in an effort to decrease potential security attack surface area. Better 32-bit code...
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