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Expression Web and Expression Blend added to MSDN!

April 11, 2007 Apr 11, 2007 04/11/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Back in December 2006, Microsoft released Expression Web, a designer tool that's a great companion to Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio.  You can read about this tool in this earlier blog post that we had made.  Since then, we have received a ton of feedback asking why this as well as Expression Blend are not...

New Beginner Development Learning Center on MSDN

March 5, 2007 Mar 5, 2007 03/5/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Are you a true beginner at web development?  Do you want to know what CSS stands for or how to write your first line of JavaScript?  Do you already know HTML and basic web development, but are new to ASP.NET?  Are you familiar with ASP.NET but are not sure how to add master pages or membership to your application? If ...

Visual Studio Orcas March CTP is available!

February 28, 2007 Feb 28, 2007 02/28/07
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The March CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio Orcas is now available here.  You can either install it (side-by-side with VS 2005) or use via a VPC image.  This is the first CTP that contains significant web tools feature enhancements - the new HTML/Webforms Designer, Jscript Intellisense and Debugging, ...

WPF/E ASP.NET Server Control

December 11, 2006 Dec 11, 2006 12/11/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The other day, I have posted on an entry on my blog showing how to embed videos on your websites using simple IFrame technique. The next thing I wanted to do is to build an ASP.NET Server Control to show how easy it is to integrate rich content into ASPX pages - but Mike Harsh beat me to it. See his post about the WPF/E ASP.NET Server ...

Visual Web Developer Express turns one!

November 9, 2006 Nov 9, 2006 11/9/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This week marks the first anniversary of Visual Studio 2005 and the Express editions.  Almost a year ago to the day - 11/7/2005 to be precise - was the day we launched Visual Studio 2005.  That also marked the debut of the free Express Editions that have since proven to be a huge hit in the developer community.  ...

Beta2 of ASP.NET AJAX (formerly Atlas) has shipped!

November 9, 2006 Nov 9, 2006 11/9/06
Web Development Tools Microsoft
  This Monday we shipped Beta2 of the ASP.NET AJAX framework – formerly known as “Atlas”.  You can visit the ASP.NET AJAX website or Scott Guthrie’s blog article for details.  The bits can be downloaded from here.   We have made sure that the already shipped version of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer...