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• Expression Web 1.0 Released, Perfect Companion to Visual Studio

  Here's a quick announcement about the release of Expression Web 1.0 . If you use Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 to build ASP.NET applicaitons, Expression Web is the perfect companion tool to help you create sophisticated CSS and XHTML designs. You might be thinking -- "I use Visual Studio in combination with Adobe Dreamweaver just fine. Why is Expression Web a better option?" Well the most compelling reason that comes to my mind is its fantastic support for ASP.NET 2.0 controls and its seamless interoperabiltiy with Visual Studio. Beyond those two very useful capabilities, Expression Web 1.0 stacks up extremely well on a feature-by-feature basis with Dreamweaver. I highly encourage anyone doing ASP.NET development to check it out. Expression Web... Posted Dec 11 2006, 04:41 PM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: ASP.NET, CSS and HTML, Dev

• Visual Basic perf fixes to issues with large VS2005 solutions / projects

  The Visual Basic team has released two KB articles that provide information on hotfixes that address performance issues which may occur on large solutions and projects in VS2005. If you are using Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2005, and you are seeing any of the symptoms I list below, I encourage you to call Microsoft Support and see if these hotfixes address them. The contact information for Microsoft Support is at: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&c1=501&prid=9511&gprid=344272 Here is a list of symptoms which these fixes address: KB 917452 - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=917452 When you develop a Microsoft Visual Basic solution that contains large projects in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, you may experience... Posted Jul 24 2006, 10:34 PM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: Dev

• Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

  First a quick intro, since this my first post on the team blog. My name is Omar Khan. I'm the group program manager for the web development tools team. I manage the program management team that helps design the web tools inside of Visual Studio. This post is one of a three part series that describes how to factor development of a single large ASP.NET application into multiple projects inside of Visual Studio 2005 using the Web Application Projects add-in. Part 1 of 3: In this post, I’ll describe the basics on how to setup a sub-project structure using IIS. Part 2 of 3: The next post will describe intricacies with master pages, user controls, and project references when using a sub-project structure. Part 3 of 3: The final part to the series... Posted Jul 01 2006, 01:51 AM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: Dev, WAP, PM

• Improve Source View Performance

  In case you have observed any slowness in your source view around typing or arrowing through code, here are a few tips that may help. 1. Turn off background HTML... Posted May 05 2006, 08:33 AM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: Dev