Silverlight 3 Tools Beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available for download. This installer includes: XAP Compression Improvements The Silverlight 3 SDK creates XAPs compressed up to 40% better than the Silverlight 2 SDK. Support for Cached Transparent Platform Extensions Reduce the size of your Silverlight ...
Today I want to advance our discussions around Web Deployment in Visual Studio 10… To catch up on the previous discussions in this series check out: VS 10 will create Web Packages for you based on your settings in the “Publish” tab of the Web Application Projects (WAPs) property pages. In the Publis...
A Windows Defender and Microsoft Forefront Client Security signature file (1.53.256.0) was released at 8:45 PM (PST) on March 9, 2009 to address a Win32/PossibleHostFileHijack issue. This update modified the hosts file to prevent malicious redirection of websites. As a result, the entry for localhost may have been removed from the hosts...
Web Deployment has taken a huge stride in Visual Studio 2010. I have started a blog series where I have written about web deployment, you can read more about them below: Destination Well the concepts of source and destination are pretty simple but the reason why they are so interesting ...
Under certain conditions opening Web projects from remote sites may become very slow. We've seen quite a few 'hang' reports submitted via 'Send Information to Microsoft' feedback (aka Dr. Watson). The reason is that sometimes XML editor (which is used when you edit web.config) may begin walking remote Web site file structure looking for XML sc...
ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 is live! Check out Phil Haack’s blog, Haacked.com, for information on the new installer and some other general release info. The release is mostly focused on responding to customer feedback but there are some minor tooling improvements and bug fixes that are worth calling out. Tooling Improvements And Important Fixes...
We’ve mentioned Code Contracts over on the BCL Blog a few times now, but never yet on the CLR Blog. Basically, Code Contracts are a way to add preconditions, post-conditions, and object invariants to your code. The goal is to help you catch developer errors earlier in the cycle. In my Introduction to Code Contracts post, I g...
We're currently working on the Beta of .NET 4.0 (no dates to announce) and there are lots o’ new stuff for the Parallel Extensions. We hope you’re as excited about it as we are. Given that we have so much coming down the pipes, we decided to roll out posts on what’s coming in digestible chunks. What’s better to start with than the low-level infr...
If you have been experiencing Visual Studio crashes when opening view pages in design view or having trouble installing ASP.NET MVC due to problems with third party add-ins such as Power Commands, please try out the just released CLR hotfix here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=16827&wa=ws...
Kim Hamilton has a couple of excellent posts on the BCL Team blog. In the first post on Working with the ResourceManager, Kim talks about the basics of resource generation, constructing a ResourceManager and how resource fallback works. The post also covers debugging resource loading failures using Fusion logs, Reflector and Resview. In the...
