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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 contains ASP.Net MVC 2 in the box so there is no need to install an out of band update to Visual Studio 2010 to develop ASP.Net MVC applications. Phil Haack posted about the in-box experience for Beta 2 andd also provides some info on how to upgrade your ASP.Net MVC 1 apps to ASP.Net MVC 2. From a tooling perspective, all of the new functionality released in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Orcas is available in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 including support for Single Project Areas . Additionally, if you look in the Scripts folder of a new ASP.Net MVC application, you will notice that jquery.validate is included as well as a vsdoc file to go with it. I'll post more on how to use jquery.validate in the coming weeks but...
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...
Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is out and we at the Web Development Tools team are pleased to let you know that we have fixed a lot of the performance issues from Beta1. It took a considerable amount of time and effort but we feel it was well worth it. We would like to thank the community for your feedback and in helping us identify a lot of these issues. There has been some good improvements to Add Reference dialog, first switch to design view etc. Please try using Beta2 and let us know if you find any of the Web Scenarios to be particularly slow. We would like to hear your issues and concerns around performance for Web Scenarios. You can help make the product better by providing us with early feedback. If you encounter a performance issue please...
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has officially shipped! If you haven’t already, download a copy from here . What New with Visual Studio If you are new to Visual Studio 2010 please check out all our previous blogs to get a understanding of all the changes we made for Beta 1 including this intro blog on beta 1: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/05/20/visual-studio-10-and-asp-net-4-0-beta1.aspx What’s New with Beta 2 With this release the Web Tools team has introduced a number of great improvements. A number of these improvements are listed below. New Template Using the default ASP.NET web site template, projects now come with a pre-configured site. This template configures your site to use master and content pages. In addition, it has styles...
Silverlight Tip of the Day #46 Title: Font Support in Silverlight Silverlight Tip of the Day #45: Title: Text Formatting with the TextBlock control Silverlight Tip of the Day #44: Title: Silverlight-enabled WCF Services versus ASMX Web Services. Silverlight Tip of the Day #43 Title: Making it Snow in Silverlight. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Snowfall/iframe.html (Note that beta 2 is required ) Silverlight Tip of the Day #42 Title: How to Create a Web Service for your Silverlight App. Silverlight Tip of the Day #41 Title: Using Bookmarks in your Silverlight Application. Silverlight Tip of the Day #40 Title: 1.05 != 1.05 - Peril with Floating Point Comparisons. See them all at: http://www.silverlight.net/blogs/msnow...
Silverlight Tip of the Day #39 Title : How to Create a Zoom Toolbar. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Zoom%20Toolbar/iframe.html Silverlight Tip of the Day #38 Title: How to Customize the Silverlight Install Experience. Silverlight Tip of the Day #37 Title: How to Dynamically Load and Display Silverlight Applications. Silverlight Tip of the Day #36 Title : How to Create Reflections and Shadows for Images and Text. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Reflection%20and%20Shadows/iframe.html Silverlight Tip of the Day #35 Title : Full Screen Mode Implementation. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Full%20Screen/iframe.html Silverlight Tip of the Day #34 Title: How to Center your...
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...
A number of great improvements and changes were made for Silverlight Tools Beta 2. The following list summaries some of the major changes with details on each below. WCF templates for Silverlight Enabled. Build configurations. XAML Validation now reports build errors. Setup Improvements. Projects created in Beta 1 are prompted for conversion when opening to Beta 2. Linking a Web Site to a Silverlight Application. 1. WCF Templates for Silverlight Enabled. WCF templates are now enabled for Silverlight. If you want to add Web Services to your Silverlight application, this is the route to go. To do this, right click on your web site node in the Solution Explorer and choose “Add New Item”. This will bring up the “Add New Item” dialog. Choose the...
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