Archives
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ASP.NET MVC 3: Layouts and Sections with Razor
This is another in a series of posts I’m doing that cover some of the new ASP.NET MVC 3 features:
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ASP.NET MVC 3: Implicit and Explicit code nuggets with Razor
This is another in a series of posts I’m doing that cover some of the new ASP.NET MVC 3 features:
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ASP.NET MVC 3: Razor’s @: and <text> syntax
This is another in a series of posts I’m doing that cover some of the new ASP.NET MVC 3 features:
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Update on ASP.NET MVC 3 RC2 (and a workaround for a bug in it)
Last week we published the RC2 build of ASP.NET MVC 3. I blogged a bunch of details about it here.
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Announcing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Release Candidate 2)
Earlier today the ASP.NET team shipped the final release candidate (RC2) for ASP.NET MVC 3. You can download and install it here.
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Class-Level Model Validation with EF Code First and ASP.NET MVC 3
Earlier this week the data team released the CTP5 build of the new Entity Framework Code-First library.
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Announcing Entity Framework Code-First (CTP5 release)
This week the data team released the CTP5 build of the new Entity Framework Code-First library. EF Code-First enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to:
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Dec 5th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, Visual Studio
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series for another on-going blog series I’m working on.
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Announcing Silverlight 5
Today at the Silverlight FireStarter event we unveiled the next release of Silverlight.
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Upcoming Web Camps
Earlier this year I blogged about some Web Camp events that Microsoft is sponsoring around the world. These training events provide a great way to learn about a variety of technologies including ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2010, Web Matrix, Silverlight, and IE9. The events are free and the feedback from people attending them has been great.
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Silverlight Firestarter Event on Dec 2nd
On December 2nd we are holding a free, all-day event focused on Silverlight. You can attend it either in person on the Microsoft campus (where you’ll get to network with a bunch of Silverlight experts, and meet the product team), or watch it streamed live online.
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“Unplugged” online talk with me this Friday
Update (Nov 19th): An audio download of the talk is now available here.
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ASP.NET MVC 3: Server-Side Comments with Razor
Earlier this week we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate. It supports “go live” deployments, and includes a bunch of great improvements/enhancements on top of the features we enabled earlier with the ASP.NET MVC 3 beta and first preview releases.
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A few quick ASP.NET MVC 3 Installation Notes
On Tuesday I blogged about the recent release of the ASP.NET MVC 3 RC build. You can read more about it here.
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Announcing the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate
This morning the ASP.NET team shipped the ASP.NET MVC 3 RC (release candidate). You can download it here.
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Silverlight Questions
Over the last week there has been a lot of confusion/concern about Silverlight that occurred from an interview given at the PDC conference last week. A few days ago Bob Muglia (President of our Server and Tools Division) posted a blog post on the Silverlight Team blog that helped clarify what he said in the interview that caused the controversy. You can read his post here.
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ASP.NET MVC 3: Layouts with Razor
Two weeks ago we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta Release. It supports “go live” deployments, and includes a bunch of nice improvements/enhancements. You can see a summary of the new ASP.NET MVC 3 features in my beta announcement post. Also read my original ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview post to learn about other ASP.NET MVC 3 features that showed up with that initial preview release.
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ASP.NET MVC 3: New @model keyword in Razor
Two weeks ago we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta Release. It supports “go live” deployments, and includes a bunch of nice improvements/enhancements. You can see a summary of the new ASP.NET MVC 3 features in my beta announcement post. Also read my original ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview post to learn about other ASP.NET MVC 3 features that showed up with that initial preview release.
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Patch for VS 2010 “Scrolling Context Menu”
One of the top reported Microsoft Connect issues with VS 2010 has been an issue where context menus scroll even when there is sufficient screen real estate to show the menu in its entirely (with no scrolling required).
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Announcing NuPack, ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta, and WebMatrix Beta 2
I’m excited to announce the beta release of several projects today.
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jQuery Templates, Data Link, and Globalization Accepted as Official jQuery Plugins
The jQuery library has a passionate community of developers, and it is now the most widely used JavaScript library on the web today.
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ASP.NET Security Fix Now on Windows Update
Earlier this week I blogged about the availability of a patch on the Microsoft Download Center to fix the recent ASP.NET Security Vulnerability.
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ASP.NET Security Update Now Available
This morning Microsoft released a security update that addresses the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability that I’ve blogged about this past week. We recommend installing it as soon as possible on your web-servers.
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ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Tuesday, Sept 28th
Update: You can now download the security update here.
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Update on ASP.NET Vulnerability
Earlier this week I posted about an ASP.NET Vulnerability, and followed this up with another blog post that covers some Frequently Asked Questions about it.
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Frequently Asked Questions about the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability
Two days ago I published an important blog post about a security vulnerability in ASP.NET. In it I discussed a workaround that we recommend customers use to help prevent attackers from using the vulnerability against your applications.
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Important: ASP.NET Security Vulnerability
A few hours ago we released a Microsoft Security Advisory about a security vulnerability in ASP.NET. This vulnerability exists in all versions of ASP.NET.
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Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Released
I’m pleased to announce that today we shipped the final release of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools. You can download them here.
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Automating Deployment with Microsoft Web Deploy
This is the twenty-eighth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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Introducing the Microsoft Web Farm Framework
Last month we released a beta of the Microsoft Web Farm Framework. The Microsoft Web Farm Framework is a free product we are shipping that enables you to easily provision and mange a farm of web servers. It enables you to automate the installation and configuration of platform components across the server farm, and enables you to automatically synchronize and deploy ASP.NET applications across them. It also supports integration with load balancers - and enables you to automate updates across your servers so that your site/application is never down or unavailable to customers (it can automatically pull servers one-at-a-time out of the load balancer rotation, update them, and then inject them back into rotation).
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Los Angeles Web Camp
A few months ago I blogged about some Web Camp events that Microsoft is sponsoring around the world. These events provide a great way to learn about ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Visual Studio 2010. The events are free and the feedback from people attending them has been great. We are working to setup many more web camps around the world in the months ahead.
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August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on.
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Patch for VS 2010 Find and Replace Dialog Growing
One of the top reported Microsoft Connect issues with VS 2010 has been an issue with the Find and Replace dialog – which grows 16px each time you use it (which is pretty annoying).
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Search and Navigation Tips/Tricks with Visual Studio
This is the twenty-seventh in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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Debugging Tips with Visual Studio 2010
This is the twenty-sixth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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“Unplugged” online chat with me this Wednesday
I just got back from my trip to India and the UK last week – and will be returning to more regular blogging shortly.
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Some nice code editor features provided by the VS 2010 Power Tool Extensions
I’ve blogged in the past about the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions – a free set of Visual Studio 2010 extensions that provide some nice additional functionality.
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Using EF “Code First” with an Existing Database
Last month I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option. EF “code-first” enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to:
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London “Guathon” Event with Me on August 13th
The (awesome) UK developer community is holding an all day event with me in London on August 13th. The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden). The website for the event is here.
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VS 2010 Web Deployment
This is the twenty-fifth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts
Earlier this week the Visual Studio team released updated VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters. These posters are print-ready documents (that now support standard paper sizes), and provide nice “cheat sheet” tables that can help you quickly lookup (and eventually memorize) common keystroke commands within Visual Studio.
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Introducing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Preview 1)
This morning we posted the “Preview 1” release of ASP.NET MVC 3. You can download it here.
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Entity Framework 4 “Code-First”: Custom Database Schema Mapping
Last week I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option. The EF “code-first” option enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to:
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VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools Update (with some cool new features)
Last month I blogged about the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools Extensions – a free set of Visual Studio 2010 extensions that provide some really nice additional functionality.
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Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4
.NET 4 ships with a much improved version of Entity Framework (EF) – a data access library that lives in the System.Data.Entity namespace.
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Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta Released
Earlier today we shipped the beta of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools. You can download them here.
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July 9th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, WPF, VS 2010
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on.
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Introducing WebMatrix
Last week I published several blog posts that covered some new web development technologies we are releasing:
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Introducing “Razor” – a new view engine for ASP.NET
One of the things my team has been working on has been a new view engine option for ASP.NET.
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New Embedded Database Support with ASP.NET
Earlier this week I blogged about IIS Express, and discussed some of the work we are doing to make ASP.NET development easier from a Web Server perspective.
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Silverlight PivotViewer Now Available
Three months ago at MIX we announced and first demoed the Silverlight PivotViewer control. The Silverlight PivotViewer control enables you to visualize thousands of objects at once, and sort and browse data in a way that helps you see trends and quickly find what you’re looking for. It’s ability to compare information, and navigate it in a way that feels natural and fast, is really unrivaled in the market today.
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Introducing IIS Express
Developers today build and test ASP.NET sites and applications using one of two web-servers:
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Patch for Cut/Copy “Insufficient Memory” issue with VS 2010
We’ve received several reports of an occasional issue occurring with VS 2010 when developers try and do “Cut” or “Copy” text operations of text. In some cases VS incorrectly calculates that not enough memory is available (even though there is memory available) and displays the following error message:
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Preview of MSDN Library Changes
The MSDN team has been working some potential changes to the online MSDN Library designed to help streamline the navigation experience and make it easier to find the .NET Framework information you need.
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jQuery Globalization Plugin from Microsoft
Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is starting to make code contributions to jQuery, and about some of the first code contributions we were working on: jQuery Templates and Data Linking support.
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Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions
Last month I blogged about the Extension Manager that is built-into VS 2010 – as well as about a cool VS 2010 PowerCommands extension that provides some extra features for Visual Studio. The Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager provides an easy way for developers to quickly find and install extensions and plugins that enhance the built-in functionality to VS 2010.
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My VS 2010 and ASP.NET 4 Talks Online
The past 7 years I’ve done an annual all day event in Arizona – organized by the most excellent Scott Cate (who always does a phenomenal job organizing the event and making it a great one). Earlier this month I visited and presented 4+ hours of content covering VS 2010, ASP.NET 4 and ASP.NET MVC 2. The talks are demo-heavy and show off a ton of new features.
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May 20th Links: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, .NET 4, VS 2010, Silverlight
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on.
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Silverlight 4 Tools for VS 2010 and WCF RIA Services Released
The final release of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 and WCF RIA Services is now available for download.
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Worldwide Web Camps
Over the next few weeks Microsoft is sponsoring a number of free Web Camp events around the world. These provide a great way to learn about ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Visual Studio 2010.
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Fun Visual Studio 2010 Wallpapers
Two weeks ago I blogged about a cool new site that allows you to download and customize the Visual Studio code editor background and text colors (for both VS 2008 and VS 2010 version). The site also allows you to submit and share your own Visual Studio color schemes with others.
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“Unplugged” Chat with Me this Thursday
Update: You can now download a audio recording of the chat here.
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Pinning Projects and Solutions with Visual Studio 2010
This is the twenty-fourth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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jQuery Templates and Data Linking (and Microsoft contributing to jQuery)
The jQuery library has a passionate community of developers, and it is now the most widely used JavaScript library on the web today.
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Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager (and the new VS 2010 PowerCommands Extension)
This is the twenty-third in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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April 30th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2010
Here is the latest in my link-listing series.
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Download and Share Visual Studio Color Schemes
As developers we often spend a large part of our day staring at code within Visual Studio. If you are like me, after awhile the default VS text color scheme starts to get a little boring.
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Box Selection and Multi-Line Editing with VS 2010
This is the twenty-second in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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Silverlight 4 Training Kit
We recently released a new free Silverlight 4 Training Kit that walks you through building business applications with Silverlight 4. You can browse the training kit online or alternatively download an entire offline version of the training kit.
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VS 2010 Debugger Improvements (BreakPoints, DataTips, Import/Export)
This is the twenty-first in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post covers a few of the nice usability improvements coming with the VS 2010 debugger.
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Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension
Search engine optimization (SEO) is important for any publically facing web-site. A large % of traffic to sites now comes directly from search engines, and improving your site’s search relevancy will lead to more users visiting your site from search engine queries. This can directly or indirectly increase the money you make through your site.
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Silverlight 4 Released
The final release of Silverlight 4 is now available.
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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Released
The final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 is now available.
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JavaScript Intellisense Improvements with VS 2010
This is the twentieth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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New <%: %> Syntax for HTML Encoding Output in ASP.NET 4 (and ASP.NET MVC 2)
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Automatic Properties, Collection Initializers, and Implicit Line Continuation support with VB 2010
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Optional Parameters and Named Arguments in C# 4 (and a cool scenario w/ ASP.NET MVC 2)
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Cleaner HTML Markup with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms - Client IDs (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
This is the sixteenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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March 21st Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, Visual Studio, Silverlight
Here is the latest in my link-listing series.
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Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight
On Monday I had the opportunity to present the MIX 2010 Day 1 Keynote in Las Vegas (you can watch a video of it here). In the keynote I announced the release of the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (we’ll ship the final release of it next month) and the VS 2010 RC tools for Silverlight 4. I also had the chance to talk for the first time about how Silverlight and XNA can now be used to build Windows Phone 7 applications.
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ASP.NET MVC 2 Released
I’m happy to announce that the final release of ASP.NET MVC 2 is now available for VS 2008/Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with ASP.NET 3.5. You can download and install it from the following locations:
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Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes)
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A few announcements for those in the UK
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No IntelliSense with VS 2010 RC (and how to fix it)
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Patch for VS 2010 RC Intellisense Crash Issue Now Available
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Intellisense Crashing fix for VS 2010
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LIDNUG Online Chat with Me on Thursday Feb 11th
Today we opened up the VS 2010 RC for everyone to download. You can download it here. Jason Zander (who runs the Visual Studio team) has a good blog post that summarizes a lot of common questions about it here.
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VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate
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jQuery 1.4.1 Intellisense with Visual Studio
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Built-in Charting Controls (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series)
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ASP.NET MVC 2 (Release Candidate 2) Now Available
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Nice “Quick Hit” Videos about ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010
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Extensible Output Caching with ASP.NET 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
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About Technical Debates (and ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC debates in particular)
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ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation
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ASP.NET MVC 2: Strongly Typed Html Helpers
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ASP.NET MVC 2
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ASP.NET 4 SEO Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
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ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight 4 Videos of my Talks in Europe
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