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The CSS Editor for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is a complete rewrite of the 2010 version, featuring excellent performance and stability. As soon as you start to edit a CSS file or a style block embedded in a web page, you'll feel the difference! CSS 3.0 has expanded the richness and complexity of style sheets considerably, and the new editor steps up to make the change not just manageable, but productive. Select the CSS 1.0, 2.1, or 3.0 schema to work with (default is 3.0) and start typing. The first thing you'll see is an overwhelming number of properties available, over 250. Even more appear if you start your property name with a "-", revealing all the vender-specific properties available: While the list may look overwhelming...
One of our goals in Orchard is to make it possible and simple to change and customize the markup and style for everything that gets rendered by the application and its modules. Of course, this is made a lot trickier by our other big requirement of making everything a composition of atomic parts. Yesterday, we brought on site a web developer who is a fan of Drupal and is occasionally using Joomla! and WordPress to get some good feedback after her using Orchard on a project. And that we got. One of the many interesting things she told us had one essential quality though: it was immediately actionable. Here is the idea. This is the generated markup for an HTML widget in Orchard: < article class ="widget-html-widget widget" > <...
Today I saw a post on stackoverflow.com asking Using Microsoft AJAX Minifier with Visual Studio 2010 1-click publish . This is a response to that question. The Web Publishing Pipeline is pretty extensive so it is easy for us to hook in to it in order to perform operation such as these. One of those extension points, as we’ve blogged about before, is creating a .wpp.targets file. If you create a file in the same directory of your project with the name {ProjectName}.wpp.targets then that file will automatically be imported and included in the build/publish process. This makes it easy to edit your build/publish process without always having to edit the project file itself. I will use this technique to demonstrate how to compress the CSS &...
These last few weeks I’ve been refraining from starting any deep work on my new Orchard-powered blog because most of what I had in mind involved widgets, which are being built right now. Version 0.8 is just around the corner: the team is just putting the final touches to the new theme engine and to the widget system. In the meantime, there is still some work I could do that I knew would not be throw-away, and that is CSS. My objectives with this new blog is to reflect in design what the content is about and what it is not about. VuLu is about knowledge, science, art and philosophy. It’s not about shiny gadgets, technology or engineering. That of course means I want nothing web 2.0 in here. Good thing as I don’t have much love for rounded corners...
My team is looking for a new full-time developer. The project is to build a completely new open-source CMS based on ASP.NET MVC 2. It’s a lot of fun :) https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=9434&jlang=EN Read More...
Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available: Creating Web sites Creating and Managing CSS Styles Applying CSS to Web Forms Debugging ASP.NET Applications You can find link to download at VWD section on ASP.NET Web site (look for Visual Web Developer Books section at the right side) or download ZIP file directly from here . We hope you will find them useful. - Mikhail Arkhipov Read More...
In today’s post, I’m going to show an interesting technique to solve a problem and then I will tear it to pieces and explain why it is actually useless. I believe that negative results should also be published so that we can save other people from wasting time trying the same thing. So here goes… A few days ago, a post on Ajaxian proposed a new version of a somewhat old technique to implement querySelectorAll on old versions of IE, using the browser’s native CSS engine. That sounds like a great idea at first, and the hack is quite clever. The idea is to dynamically add a CSS rule to the document that has the selector that you want to evaluate, and an expression that adds the matched elements to a global array. When I read this, it reminded me...
If you’re still intimidated by jQuery or DOM manipulation in general, if you need to quickly build web animations, if you’re more a designer guy, if you think tooling makes sense, or a combination of the above, you should probably check out Glimmer . In a nutshell, Glimmer is a visual tool that builds HTML animations, menus, tooltips on jQuery. It builds all the code you need (HTML, CSS and JavaScript with jQuery) at the click of a button. Check it out! http://visitmix.com/Articles/Glimmer-a-jQuery-Interactive-Design-Tool Read More...
We have started a new series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008. Over the course of next few weeks we will be adding many more videos to this series . These video tutorials will range in complexity from beginner to intermediate and will help Web developers build everything from simple Web applications to full featured Web solutions that incorporate Silverlight as well as third-party libraries like jQuery. To view these video tutorials and other helpful content like recent and must read blog posts visit the Visual Web Developer Express section http://www.asp.net/vwd/ . Read More...
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