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• Catch our team at TechEd 2008 - Orlando.

  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... Posted May 30 2008, 03:02 PM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: Ajax, ASP.NET, .NET, CSS and HTML, WAP, VWD, JScript, Announcements, CSS, WDP, ASP.NET MVC Framework, VS2008, customer, Visual Studio 2008, Beta

• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

  Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is now available! You can download it here . In SP1, we have added some new features as well as many bug fixes. In this blog post I’ll attempt to give an overview of the features as well as some of the key issues the Visual Web Developer team has addressed so far in the service pack. New Features : Class Libraries and Web Application Projects in Express Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition now has support for Class Libraries and Web Application Projects. This enables you to leverage features only available in Visual Studio Standard and above before, including project-to-project references and the web application project build system. To create one of these projects, you can simply go to File > New Project... Posted May 12 2008, 04:00 AM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Web, VWD, Announcements, CSS, IE8Beta, VS2008, Visual Studio 2008, SP1

• Absolute and relative positioning in Visual Web Developer 2008 designer

  Design view in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 provides several tools that help with absolute and relative positioning of controls. I'd like to describe how do they work and what kind of visual hints the designer provides. How do I set my control position to absolute? Use Format | Position menu: Unfortunately, because of a bug, the menu is disabled for <span> and <a> based controls. To enable the menu, add style="display:block" to labels or hyperlinks. This will be fixed in the next service pack. You can then use the Position dialog to set positioning mode: In most cases you'll want absolute positioning . After setting the position you should be able to move the control around. There are two... Posted Mar 11 2008, 12:03 PM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, CSS and HTML, Tips and Tricks, Orcas, Development, CSS

• Webcast: New Enhancements for Web Developers in VS 2008

  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... Posted Feb 25 2008, 12:16 AM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, CSS and HTML, IntelliSense, JScript, Development, CSS, JScript IntelliSense Reference VS2008, Debugging, WDP

• Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition available for download

  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... Posted Nov 19 2007, 01:21 PM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: Ajax, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, .NET, CSS and HTML, Web, VWD, Orcas, JScript, Announcements, Web 2.0, Development, CSS

• Style Application Tool Bar

  After Orcas Beta1 released, some web developers mentioned that there is no documentation available for the new CSS editing features. Since I played around with this feature a lot recently, I would like to give it a try and explain it a little. The first tool I’d like to mention is the style application tool bar. This tool bar enables designers to make visual changes on the design surface using CSS and maintain control over where the CSS is generated and how it is applied to the markup. The style application tool bar looks like this. The Style Application drop down has two modes, Auto mode and Manual mode. In auto mode, Visual Studio chooses where the new style gets applied. In manual mode, the user controls where the styling is applied via the... Posted Jun 14 2007, 07:11 PM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: Visual Studio, CSS and HTML, Web, VWD, Orcas, Development, CSS

• Manage Styles Tool window

  This tool window provides a tree hierarchy view of all CSS selectors available from the current page. Users can navigate and find CSS style definitions in source code with this tool window. Developers can change the layout of the tree view with the Options button. The first three context menu items will categorize the CSS selector in different ways. The next three context menu items will modify what the tree show - all Styles available to the current page, styles that have been used somewhere on this page, or styles used on the selection, if a control is selected in the designer. The tool window provides top level nodes for style block(s) in the current page and external style sheet in cascading order. Inline styles will not be displayed in... Posted Jun 08 2007, 04:39 PM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: CSS and HTML, VWD, Orcas, CSS

• What does the red strikethrough in CSS property grid mean?

  In Visual Studio Orcas, the CSS property grid renders a red strikethrough when it wants to tell you that a property is either non-inherited or it is overridden by a rule with higher precedence. Read the tooltip when you see a red strikethrough on your property and it will give you the exact reason for the strikethrough. Here are the different reasons why you might be seeing this red strikethrough in your CSS property grid. 1. Property is overridden by an inline style You will see this tooltip when a CSS property is overridden by an HTML tag's inline style. Let us look at an example: < style type ="text/css"> .MyStyle { color : #808000 ;} </ style > ... < input id ="MyButton" type ="button" value ="button" style ="color: #FF00FF... Posted May 31 2007, 08:02 PM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: ASP.NET, VWD, Orcas, CSS

• Mix07 Video: Web Development using Visual Studio "Orcas"

  At the Mix07 conference this week, I did an overview presentation of the web development features being delivered in Visual Studio "Orcas". The folks at Mix have been kind enough to make videos of all the sessions from the conference available to the public. Click here to watch my session on Web Development using Visual Studio "Orcas". You can also check out http://sessions.visitmix.com/ to browse all the other great content presented at Mix07 this week. Enjoy! -- Omar Khan Group Program Manager Visual Studio Web Tools Read More... Posted May 03 2007, 05:14 PM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, CSS and HTML, Web, VWD, IntelliSense, JScript, Announcements, Web 2.0, Development, CSS