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I’m excited to announce – WebsiteSpark – a new program from Microsoft that provides software and support for building web sites, at no cost for 3 years. What You Get Software: WebsiteSpark provides software licenses that you can use for 3 years at no upfront cost (there is only an exit fee of $100 payable upon exit from the program). Once enrolled, you can download and use the following software from Microsoft: 3 licenses of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition 1 license of Expression Studio 3 (which includes Blend, Sketchflow, and Web) 2 licenses of Expression Web 3 4 processor licenses of Windows Web Server 2008 4 processor licenses of SQL Server 2008 Web Edition DotNetPanel control panel (enabling easy remote/hosted management of...
The IIS team has just shipped the Microsoft Application Request Routing 1.0 module for IIS7!!! Application Request Routing (ARR) enables Web server administrators and hosting providers and to increase Web application reliability and scalability through rule-based routing and load balancing of HTTP server requests. With ARR, administrators can optimize resource utilization for application servers to reduce management costs for Web farms and shared hosting environments. To learn more about the features in ARR, check out the ARR site . To get started with ARR 1.0 – download it now using the Web Platform Installer (Web PI) . The IIS.NET site also has some create tutorial content on how to use ARR . Below is a list of some of the ARR tutorials available...
In SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008, C# introduced a new feature to provide 'live' reporting of compilation errors. Unfortunately, the introduction of this functionality also introduced a bug where in certain cases, false C# compilation errors appear in the Error List for ASP.NET Website projects. Specifically the following is a list of issues you may have experienced due to this bug in SP1: If you have a breakpoint in a code-behind file. On project open, you get incorrect errors in the Error List for that code-behind file (e.g. – button1 is not declared). These errors do not go away until you open that code-behind file. Once you open the code-behind file, the errors go away. When you open a code-behind file,...
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 are now available for download . This blog post highlights the major changes in SP1 related to web development. New Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 The following is a list of new features in SP1 which relate to web development: Class Libraries and Web Application Projects in Express JScript Formatting More Support for External JScript Libraries Dynamic Data Templates SQL Server 2008 Support WCF Renaming Support IIS Module and Handler Templates Multiple Selection in Design View (new since SP1 Beta) For more details on the above features, please see the following articles: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-sp1-beta.aspx http...
Mike Volodarsky on the IIS team just published some very useful articles describing how to setup and configure IIS7 to properly work with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005. The article covers necessary components needing to be installed, and the required configuration needed to create, edit and debug web applications using IIS7 and Visual Studio. For Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer users using IIS7, or wanting to use IIS7, I highly recommend taking a look: VS 2005: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/431/using-visual-studio-2005-with-iis-70/ VS 2008: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/387/using-visual-studio-2008-with-iis-70/ Cheers! Omar Khan | Product Unit Manager | Visual Web Developer Read More...
Last year, we made a post to the IE team blog about the removal of the DHTML Editing Control from the Windows Vista. The removal of the control affects three types of applications: A Windows application that relied on the DHTML Editing Control would not work in Windows Vista. Available solution at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b769a4b8-48ed-41a1-8095-5a086d1937cb&displaylang=en Outlook Web Access does not work in Vista due to removal of DHTML Editing Control. Available solution at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911829 . Web applications that rely on the DHTML Editing Control are affected by the removal of this control in Vista. To date for web applications affected, we recommended rewriting portions of the application...
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