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2004–2008

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2008 133

December 2008

  1. Announcing 10-4! Weekly video podcasts on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0
  2. VS 2010 for Web Developer – Videos
  3. Microsoft Report Viewer Add-on for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express has been released

November 2008

  1. Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes
  2. Where to get the Localized Languages of Silverlight 2 Tools
  3. Web Platform Installer
  4. Workaround for a slow closing of Web projects
  5. So, what’s new in the CLR 4.0 GC?
  6. JScript IntelliSense FAQ
  7. Parallelism Videos Galore
  8. Checkout Tip#13 to Tip#23 on our Tips and Tricks blog
  9. VS2008 SP1 Hotfix to Support “-vsdoc.js” IntelliSense Doc Files
  10. .NET Framework 4.0 Poster for Download
  11. Using Hyper-V with the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP
  12. Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 9

October 2008

  1. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP now available!
  2. Downloadable Hotfix: False C# compilation errors for ASP.NET code-behind files in SP1
  3. Rich IntelliSense for jQuery
  4. Concurrent, Multi-core Programming on Windows and .NET
  5. Dev 10 Performance Improvements Planning
  6. ASP.NET MVC Beta Released!
  7. The Channel 9 videos are rolling in…
  8. A simple Silverlight 2.0 Stock Quotation Demo
  9. Silverlight 2 has been Released!
  10. Native concurrency, tools, and TM
  11. Checkout Tip#10, Tip#11, Tip#12 and Tip#13 on Tips and Tricks blog
  12. Parallel Programming and the .NET Framework 4.0
  13. Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 8
  14. Exclude Files and Folders from WDP Output
  15. Troubleshooting “Visual Studio 2008 Design view hangs” issues
  16. Parallelism in October 2008 MSDN Magazine

September 2008

  1. A simple Balloon shooting silverlight game.
  2. How to reference an ADO.Net Data service from VS2008 SP1
  3. Silverlight Version 2 RC0 has been Released!
  4. Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 7
  5. Checkout Tip#7, Tip#8 and Tip#9 on Tips and Tricks blog
  6. Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 6
  7. What to do when VWD crashes or hangs on you
  8. Webcasts on Parallelism from France

August 2008

  1. New on Tips and Tricks Blog!
  2. Visual Web Developer support for out of band releases.
  3. Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 5
  4. Dynamic Data Wizard Preview 0806 for VS 2008 SP1 RTM is now available
  5. Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 4
  6. Debugging A Web Site With A Host Header
  7. Feedback requested: Enumerating Concurrent Collections
  8. Most Common Performance Issues in Parallel Programs
  9. Multiple control selection tips/tricks/workarounds
  10. Web Development Updates in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
  11. ASP.Net Tip of the Week Series
  12. ParallelWhileNotEmpty
  13. Waiting for Tasks
  14. Feedback requested: TaskManager shutdown, Fair scheduling

July 2008

  1. Custom Loop with Arbitrary Initialization, Condition, and Update
  2. Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 3
  3. Useful Abstractions Enabled with ContinueWith
  4. Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 2
  5. Silverlight Tips of the Day

June 2008

  1. Fork/Join parallelism with .NET CountdownEvent
  2. Faster switch to design view in VS 2008 SP1 RTM
  3. Coordination Data Structures Overview
  4. Introducing ConcurrentStack
  5. Anti-virus programs can affect VS build performance
  6. Multiple control selection in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM
  7. PLINQ Ordering
  8. Parallel Extensions Demo Fun on Channel 9
  9. ADO.net Data Service reflection class creation in VS2008 SP1 Beta, a breaking change with CTP time
  10. Support configuration specific output folders in a Silverlight project
  11. Localizing a Silverlight application
  12. Image Colorizer Sample in the June 2008 CTP
  13. Announcing the “Parallel Programming in Native Code” Blog
  14. More Channel 9 Parallel Extensions Goodness
  15. Mandelbrot in Parallel with C++/CLI
  16. What’s new with Silverlight Tools Beta 2!
  17. More Powerful Aggregations in PLINQ
  18. Ray Tracer samples in the June 2008 CTP
  19. What’s New in the June 2008 CTP of Parallel Extensions
  20. On Achieving Perfection –or– Why We Love Your Feedback (and Why You Can Love Giving It)
  21. Released! Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework June 2008 CTP
  22. Known Issues in the June 2008 CTP of Parallel Extensions

May 2008

  1. ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Tooling Updates And Updated NUnit Test Project Templates
  2. Catch our team at TechEd 2008 – Orlando.
  3. Concurrency Pre-Conference Session at the PDC
  4. Parallel Computing Platform at TechEd 2008
  5. Multiple thread-local state elements in a loop
  6. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta
  7. Error occurs installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta if KB944899 is installed.
  8. Dynamic Data Website: Setting selection in a list from the URL
  9. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta
  10. Introducing JScript Formatting in VS 2008 SP1
  11. Error installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta and Silverlight Tools Beta 1
  12. Silverlight Resources

April 2008

  1. Workaround: Empty Design View for User Controls
  2. Public alias to report performance issues with VWD 2008
  3. Dynamic Data Preview 04-23 Refresh Now Available
  4. ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Released on MSDN Code Gallery
  5. Looking for talented Program Managers to join our team!
  6. Using IIS7 with Visual Studio 2005 & Visual Studio 2008
  7. Solution: web applications using DHTML Editing Control do not work in Windows Vista
  8. Q&As from the 2008 Financial Services Developer Conference

March 2008

  1. Game Programming with Silverlight 2
  2. New PLINQ video on Channel 9
  3. Wrapping an APM implementation with Future
  4. Jobs on the Parallel Computing Platform team
  5. Parallel loop performance
  6. JScript IntelliSense: Working with Ext JS
  7. Tips & Tricks: Upgrading Projects from ASP.NET MVC Preview 1 to Preview 2 (MIX 2008)
  8. Ordering the output of parallel computations
  9. Absolute and relative positioning in Visual Web Developer 2008 designer
  10. 6th Annual Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference
  11. ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 (Mix 2008) Resources
  12. ASP.NET MVC Test Framework Integration Walkthrough
  13. Installation Tips for Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008
  14. JScript Debugging: Made easy with IE8

February 2008

  1. Implementing the Asynchronous Programming Model with Future
  2. VSj article on Parallel Extensions
  3. Custom parallel looping constructs
  4. Webcast: New Enhancements for Web Developers in VS 2008
  5. Task Parallel Library on Channel 9
  6. ASP.NET MVC Test Framework Integration
  7. Tooling Features Overview of ASP.NET MVC Framework for MIX 2008
  8. Announcing Japanese release of Web Deployment Projects 2008
  9. Burton Smith on Channel 9
  10. JScript IntelliSense: Working with jQuery
  11. Downloadable Hotfix: Performance and Editor fixes for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008
  12. Interested in parallel computing? We’re hiring!

January 2008

  1. Recursion and Concurrency
  2. JScript IntelliSense: Handling Errors
  3. PLINQ at Seattle Code Camp
  4. Announcing RTW version of Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects (WDP)
  5. Parallel Aggregations in PLINQ
  6. Tips & Tricks: Web Server Settings for Web Application Projects now can be stored per user as well as per project
  7. Debugger display of PLINQ queries

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December 2007

  1. Spell checker update 2.1: a few bug fixes and couple of new features
  2. Parallel Extensions on .NET Rocks
  3. Tips & Tricks: Start-Up Options and Instances of ASP.Net Development Server in a Multi-project Solution
  4. F# and the Task Parallel Library
  5. LINQ 101, “Parallelism Blockers,” and PLINQ
  6. Workaround: Debugging Global.aspx.cs Application_Start() with ASP.Net Web Server within Visual Studio
  7. Spell checker for HTML, ASP.NET, JScript, VB, C#, CSS and C++ for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008
  8. Another Parallel Extensions screencast
  9. Visual Web Developer is hiring…
  10. Code Snippets for Parallel.For and Parallel.ForEach
  11. Parallelizing a query with multiple “from” clauses
  12. Parallel Extensions and Silverlight 2.0
  13. Give Feedback Through the Connect site
  14. MSDN Forums
  15. Chunk partitioning vs range partitioning in PLINQ
  16. Web Deployment Projects (WDP) for Visual Studio 2008 – December 2007 CTP Released

November 2007

  1. New “Parallel Computing” dev center on MSDN
  2. PLINQ changes since the MSDN Magazine article
  3. Task Parallel Library changes since the MSDN Magazine article
  4. CTP Quality
  5. Welcome to the Parallel Extensions team blog!
  6. Known Correctness Bugs with the Parallel Extensions CTP December 2007
  7. Silverlight 1.1 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 available for download
  8. Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition available for download
  9. JScript IntelliSense: A Reference for the “Reference” Tag

October 2007

  1. First book on Visual Web Developer 2008
  2. SQL Database Publishing wizard is now in Visual Studio 2008.

September 2007

  1. New VS2008 Feature: “Downgrade” HTML, CSS, and JScript Errors to Warnings
  2. Tip/Trick: ASP.NET Mobile Development with Visual Studio 2008

August 2007

  1. New Visual Web Developer Resources available at MSDN’s BDLC
  2. Better Javascript intellisense with Silverlight 1.0
  3. Orcas Beta2 Gotcha: No ASP.NET controls in toolbox, no ASP.NET intellisense/validation on pages

July 2007

  1. New Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
  2. Workaround for Beta 2 JavaScript IntelliSense and Colorization Issue
  3. Using VS 2008 to target ASP.NET AJAX 1.0
  4. ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Web.config
  5. Upgrading ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Websites and Web Applications to .NET Framework 3.5
  6. Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 & Silverlight
  7. Hotfix Update for “Index was outside the bounds of the array.” Error when Publishing a Website

June 2007

  1. Silverlight "How-to" videos
  2. Multi-targeting support in Visual Studio Orcas
  3. Solution / Hotfix: Developing web applications using Visual Studio 2005 and IIS7
  4. Style Application Tool Bar
  5. Manage Styles Tool window

May 2007

  1. What does the red strikethrough in CSS property grid mean?
  2. Script# and ASP.NET AJAX
  3. 64-bit vs 32-bit
  4. New free version of Refactor! for ASP.NET
  5. Mix07 Video: Web Development using Visual Studio "Orcas"

April 2007

  1. Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools released!
  2. Spell checker for HTML and ASP.NET: multilanguage edition
  3. Downloadable Hotfix: Publish command fails when Virtual Path is set to /
  4. Visual Studio Beta 1 and Visual Web Developer Express CTP are out!
  5. Expression Web and Expression Blend added to MSDN!

March 2007

  1. He’s live… he’s live not… he’s live…
  2. JScript Debugging in Visual Web Developer Orcas
  3. JScript Debugging in Visual Web Developer 2005
  4. Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista Available
  5. JScript IntelliSense March CTP Gotchas + Workarounds
  6. New Beginner Development Learning Center on MSDN
  7. JScript IntelliSense in Visual Studio Orcas

February 2007

  1. Visual Studio Orcas March CTP is available!
  2. Tip/Trick: Avoid launching 2 instances of IE when using Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista

January 2007

  1. How to use the new CSS features in Visual Studio Orcas
  2. Difference Between Perf Data Reported by Different Tools – 4
  3. Tip/Trick: Using Mobile Web Forms with Web Application Projects

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December 2006

  1. Visual Studio 2005 SP1 released – details about changes for web tools
  2. Difference Between Perf Data Reported by Different Tools – 3
  3. Difference Between Perf Data Reported by Different Tools – 2
  4. Difference Between Perf Data Reported by Different Tools – 1
  5. WPF/E ASP.NET Server Control
  6. Expression Web 1.0 Released, Perfect Companion to Visual Studio

November 2006

  1. Not seeing the WKS:: and the SVR:: namespace?
  2. Part 3 of 3: Creating sub-projects using the Visual Studio Development Server and Web Application Projects
  3. Getting started with ASP.NET AJAX in Visual Web Developer
  4. Check out the CLR Lead Architect’s New Blog
  5. Visual Web Developer Starter Kits
  6. My application seems to hang. What do I do? – Part 2
  7. Live from Redmond – webcast series
  8. Beta2 of ASP.NET AJAX (formerly Atlas) has shipped!
  9. Visual Web Developer Express turns one!
  10. Correlating the output of !eeheap -gc and !address

October 2006

  1. New MSDN Article – Investigating Memory Issues
  2. Visual Studio 2005 vs. Dreamweaver 8

September 2006

  1. My application seems to hang. What do I do? – Part 1
  2. Developing Web Applications on Windows Vista with Visual Studio 2005
  3. Understand the problem before you try to find a solution

August 2006

  1. DHTML Editing Control for Windows Vista
  2. I Am a Happy Janitor – Part 1: Finding garbage
  3. Part 2 of 3: Creating shared user controls and master pages with sub-projects
  4. Looking for strong SDET’s to help with Web Development tools testing!
  5. A peek into the VWD QA World

July 2006

  1. Visual Basic perf fixes to issues with large VS2005 solutions / projects
  2. By The Community, For The Community
  3. Cannot Create A New Website?

June 2006

  1. Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects
  2. DHTML Editing Control and IE7+
  3. Suspending and resuming threads for GC
  4. When memory is running low…

May 2006

  1. The Web 2.0 and Home grown vs Hosted Solutions
  2. Looking for good SDETs to join our team!
  3. Some CSS and RSS Feed Links
  4. Custom validation schema video on Channel 9
  5. Web Application Projects is released
  6. Improve Source View Performance
  7. Have you installed the new spell checker add-in yet?

April 2006

  1. Meet the Team – Danny Chen
  2. Welcome to our blog!
  3. Large Object Heap

March 2006

  1. Workstation GC for server applications?

February 2006

  1. Thank you all for your comments!

January 2006

  1. What do you want to know?

2005 3

October 2005

  1. So, what’s new in the CLR 2.0 GC?

July 2005

  1. GC talk at the 2005 PDC

May 2005

  1. Using GC Efficiently – Part 4

2004 8

December 2004

  1. Using GC Efficiently – Part 3

November 2004

  1. Tools that help diagnose managed memory related issues
  2. Clearing up some confusion over finalization and other areas in GC

September 2004

  1. Using GC Efficiently – Part 2
  2. WinDev in Boston

June 2004

  1. Using GC Efficiently – Part 1
  2. Hello World
  3. GC Performance Counters

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