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IIS Express, SQL CE 4 and Razor MVC view

Dear scottgu, Didn’t we just have a VS and Silverlight launch in April, and a Tech-Ed in June?  Is there the need to drop more good stuff on us even though we’re still digesting the events of the last couple of months? 
RJ Dudley
 
tags: vs2010
Jul 06 2010 12:59 AM
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Simplify Entity Framework v4 models with complex types

One neat feature in Microsoft’s Entity Framework is support for complex types in the model. Complex types allow you to group together a bunch of properties in their own type and reuse that type from multiple entities. Complex types have been supported by
KristoferA's blog
 
tags: efv4 vs2010 visual studio entity framework
Jul 01 2010 02:38 PM
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VS2010 Tips #13: How to do multi-targeting in Visual Studio 2010 Express edition

In my previous blog post I wrote that the requirement to enable multi-targeting feature in Visual Studio 2010 is .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installed in the machine. But why does it not enable the Target Framework dropdown in File –> New –> Project /
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2010 vs2010-tips
Jul 01 2010 11:40 AM
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VS2010 Tips #12: Patch for Cut/Copy “insufficient memory” issue in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 RTM has a bug in calculating available memory when developer try and do Cut or Copy text operations. "Insufficient available memory to meet the expected demands of an operation at this time, possibly due to virtual address space
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2010 vs2010-tips
Jun 28 2010 10:20 PM
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Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools extension

Visual Studio team has released Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools extension. This is a great extension to increase your productivity and bring back some Visual Studio 2008 feature such as close button in the tab well. Here is the description I copied
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio extensions vs2010
Jun 20 2010 03:02 PM
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A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service

MSDN has a very nice article on how to create a windows service that hosts a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service.  It explains all the details of doing this in a step by step... This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has
PeterKellner.net
 
Peter
tags: asp.net 4.0 vs2010 visual studio visual studio 2010
Jun 18 2010 07:55 PM
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The Best Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools, Power Commands and Extensions

One of the things I'm digging about VS2010 is its extensibility model. I'm collecting add-ins in VS like I collect Add-Ins in FireFox. Here's my current of the best Visual Studio 2010 Extensions I'm using. Visual Studio Color Theme Editor I've blogged
Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen
 
Scott Hanselman
tags: vs2010
Jun 09 2010 10:08 AM
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VS2010 Tips #10: How to change Local Help Library path

In this blog post, I want to show you how to change the path of the Local Help Library. Let’s say you want to move the location of the local content being stored. You can simply move the files and change the path. Where is it stored now? run the Help
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2010 vs2010-tips
May 31 2010 09:55 AM
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Best feature of Visual Studio 2010

We all have our favorite features in Visual Studio 2010. Maybe you love the new WPF design surface. For me it is hands down "Intellitrace". This feature is so unique that I am completely dazzled by it. Here are a few tutorials
C# rocks!
 
Basarat
tags: vs2010
May 26 2010 09:26 AM
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Using Visual Studio 2010’s Debugger PIN Feature

One of the very cool new features in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to “Pin” a variable you are watching, right in the place you want to see it.  It’s always been a hassle to have to add a... This site is a resource for asp.net web programming.
PeterKellner.net
 
Peter
tags: debugging tips vs2010 visual studio 2010
May 22 2010 04:53 AM
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VS2010 Tips #9: Moving from Multiple Documents window layout to Floating Window of Visual Studio 2010

If you’re one of the fans of Multiple Document window layout in previous versions of Visual Studio, you will miss that feature in Visual Studio 2010. Below is the options of Visual Studio 2008 And this is the option of Visual Studio 2010 Yep the setting
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2008 vs2010
May 18 2010 01:42 PM
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Final Release of Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 and WCF RIA Services 1.0

It’s been few weeks after Silverlight 4 release. Now you can grab the final release Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010. That tool will also install the the final release of WCF RIA Services 1.0 If you have previously installed the tools, you
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: silverlight silverlight 4 vs2010 wcf ria services
May 18 2010 02:36 AM
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Visual Studio Keymaps using F#

I always try and avoid using mouse, for example even for browsing internet I don’t use mouse rather I use vimperator and within VS.NET I use ViEmu. So for VS.NET I am always looking for keyboard shortcuts for the things that I cannot do through ViEmu. To
Naveen's Blog
 
Naveen
tags: f# vs2010
May 16 2010 06:33 AM
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VS2010 Tips #8: Got annoying Visual Studio 2010 error? Try to run in Safe Mode

Sometimes not well-coded extensions/add-ons can cause very annoying error. If you got any error in running Visual Studio 2010, especially if you use lot of 3rd party extensions/add-ons, then running Visual Studio 2010 in Safe Mode will be worth to
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2010 vs2010-tips
May 16 2010 05:45 AM
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Make the Visual Studio 2010 IDE colors look like Visual Studio 2008

 Personally, I like the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE colors but I got this comment recently from a helpful reader: Why did the default colour theme for VS 2010 have to be so hideously ugly? Why put all that work into making the most advanced IDE ever,
Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen
 
Scott Hanselman
tags: vs2010
May 14 2010 09:11 PM
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VS2010 Tips #7: How to make jQuery Intellisense work for external JavaScript file

Simply drag-n-drop the jQuery library from Solution Explorer to the opened external JavaScript file. The Intellisense should work now.  
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2010 vs2010-tips
May 13 2010 01:48 AM
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VS2010 Tips #6: Easy way to troubleshoot Visual Studio 2010 issues

Incompatible add-ons or system configurations can cause Visual Studio issues (performance issue, error, etc). Fortunately we can try to troubleshoot the issues by referring to the Visual Studio activity log. Simply run the following command to run Visual
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2010 vs2010-tips
May 12 2010 05:08 AM
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VS2010 Tips #5: No Intellisense in Visual Studio 2010? Fix it now!

By default Visual Studio 2010 comes with Intellisense feature enabled. By the way, there are some cases that it’s disabled – can be caused by anything (setting changes on add-in installation, importing settings, human error, your teammate , etc). The fix
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio intellisense tips & tricks vs2010
May 09 2010 10:56 PM
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VS2010 Tips #4: H3Viewer – alternative Visual Studio 2010 help viewer

If you’re not comfortable with Visual Studio 2010’s help viewer (Microsoft Help Viewer 1.0), then H3Viewer will be a good alternative for you. This is much like the help viewer of Visual Studio 2005 ad Visual Studio 2008. What are you waiting for?
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio h3viewer tips & tricks vs2010
May 09 2010 08:09 PM
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VS2010 Tips #3: Updating multiple Visual Studio 2010 Help content with a single download

Visual Studio 2010 comes with a new Help viewer. If you didn’t realize that, run the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Documentation and you will see what I mean (I assume you have installed it when you’re installing VS2010). Even though it provides lighter
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio help-viewer tips & tricks vs2010
May 09 2010 07:41 PM
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Visual Studio 2010 - Help Viewer Power Tool BETA - Help Index and Standalone Help

The help system changed in Visual Studio 2010. I totally had a "Who Moved My Cheese" moment, as did many folks. Where's my "as I type" Help Index? Where's my separate Help Viewer? I don't want help in my browsers, it clutters my tabs.
Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen
 
Scott Hanselman
tags: msdn vs2010
May 05 2010 12:47 AM
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Web Platform Installer 2.0 and Visual Studio Web Developer 2010 Express

I was setting up a new machine for presentations and I was getting ready to install Visual Studio 2010 Express and figured I'd go see if the Web Platform Installer (we call it "Web-P-I") had the new versions of VS2010 ready to go. If
Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen
 
Scott Hanselman
tags: asp.net asp.net mvc iis vs2010
Apr 29 2010 02:24 AM
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Use IntelliTrace without Visual Studio .NET

IntelliTrace is one of the best things in Visual Studio 2010. You can do “time travel” through your managed code. John Robbins has cool cool blog post on the working on IntelliTrace. I knew I could use IntelliTrace in field where the customer
Naveen's Blog
 
Naveen
tags: intellitrace vs2010 .net debugging
Apr 28 2010 08:02 PM
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VS2010 AddIn for setting Break-points on partial function names

I was recently watching cool debugging video from John Robbins. Its got some amazing tips for debugging. In the video, John had mentioned that VS2010 does not have a way to set partial function name break-points in managed code. He also wanted someone to
Naveen's Blog
 
Naveen
tags: vs2010 addin
Apr 27 2010 05:41 PM
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Back to (Parallel) Basics: Do you really want to do that? or Why doesn't the new Parallel.For support BigInteger?

Got an interesting question on Twitter, and got a fabulous answer in email from Stephen Toub, who happens to be my most favorite multi-threaded person. Here's the question. "why doesn't the new parallel.for support BigInteger?" It's an
Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen
 
Scott Hanselman
tags: back to basics programming vs2010
Apr 22 2010 02:00 AM
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VS2010 and .NET4 are released today, go to a launch event!

Yes, today is finally the day that we release VS2010 and .NET4. I have been looking forward to this day for a long time. I think this is a phenomenal release, with a lot of great new features that help you build better systems, write better code, and be
Brian H. Prince
 
tags: events vs2010
Apr 13 2010 12:12 AM
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FavIcons, Internet Zones and Projects from a Trustworthy Source

You ever download some code or a Visual Studio project from the web then start getting warned that the download might be evil? When you open a project file that was downloaded from the Internet Zone, you'll get a dialog like this from Visual Studio: If
Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen
 
Scott Hanselman
tags: source code tools vs2010
Mar 28 2010 05:58 PM
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.NET 4 Web Application Startup Time

I was chatting with Jonathan Hawkins and some of the folks on the ASP.NET team about performance and Jonathan mentioned the startup time for large ASP.NET applications is improved on .NET 4. There are some improvements in the CLR and in ASP.NET itself
Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen
 
Scott Hanselman
tags: asp.net vs2010
Mar 28 2010 04:49 PM
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Prism Template Pack for Visual Studio 2010

Now that we have Release Candidate versions of Visual Studio 2010, as well as WPF and Silverlight 4.0, I’ve updated the Prism Templates so that you can more easily develop Prism applications that target these latest releases. The templates themselves are
David Hill's WebLog
 
dphill
tags: prism silverlight wpf vs2010
Mar 26 2010 01:51 AM
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New England Code Camp 13 – The Schedule!

Next Saturday, March 27th will be New England Code Camp 13: “Spring Back into Code” ( what is Code Camp? ), a free day filled with with technology sessions given by and for the area developer community. New England Code Camp 13 
Bob's Blog
 
Bob Familiar
tags: silverlight prism vs2010 mvc
Mar 22 2010 07:18 PM
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Testing support for Silverlight apps in Visual Studio 2010

Whenever we talk about platform coverage for UI automation one of the frequent requests is support for Silverlight app testing. We have been hard at work trying to cater to this need and here is an update on where we are with this roadmap. We are working
Musings of a tester testing test tools!
 
anutthara
tags: vs2010 manual test runner coded ui
Mar 22 2010 05:16 PM
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Enabling CRUD for SharePoint 2010 external lists using Visual Studio 2010

Recently we have published a blog Walkthrough of enabling CRUD for SharePoint 2010 external lists using Visual Studio 2010. This walkthrough shows you how to pull data from an external database into an external list and enable Create, Read, Update and
Visual Studio Data
 
Yanchen Wu
tags: vs2010 sharepoint bdc crud
Mar 18 2010 04:09 PM
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Some steps for moving WCF RIA Services Preveiw to the RC version.

I moved the Aspen project from the WCF RIA Services VS2010 Preview to the RC version. Maybe some of you will move your Preview version to the RC, so I wrote down some steps..     Server Side   You can start with replacing the Web.Config,
Fredrik Normén
 
Fredrik N
tags: vs2010 wcf ria services
Mar 17 2010 09:49 AM
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WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity

The #1 complaint I hear about WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is that many fonts end up looking "blurry." It's a darned shame because really great applications like Evernote get criticized because of this one issue*. The blurriness
Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen
 
Scott Hanselman
tags: vs2010 windows client wpf
Mar 09 2010 12:27 PM
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Upgrading to VS2008!

Yes, well… yes.   After a fascinating couple of weeks on VS2010RC – I’m going back, sir. Simply put – performance is shite. Yes, I’m using Resharper, yes, I have a lot of XAML, and yes WiX wasn’t always very kind to me (general purpose rant), but if
Technicals and Technicalities
 
Ariel
tags: ihatetagging dev vs2010
Mar 08 2010 08:42 PM
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WCF RIA Services Silverlight Business Application – Using ASP.NET SiteMap for Navigation

Note: This blog post examples is based on the WCF RIA Services PDC Beta and WCF RIA Services VS 2010 Preview, changes to the framework may happen before it hits RTM. This blog post will be about using the ASP.NET SiteMap together with WCF RIA Services
Fredrik Normén
 
Fredrik N
tags: silverlight vs2010 wcf ria services
Mar 03 2010 03:24 AM
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WCF RIA Services and Audit – Historical changes

Note: The examples in this blog post is based on the WCF RIA Services PDC Beta and VS2010 Beta Preview, and changes to RIA Services can be done until it hits RTM. This blog post is about audit historical changes of entities. Some users wants to see a
Fredrik Normén
 
Fredrik N
tags: vs2010 wcf ria services
Feb 27 2010 06:24 PM
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Build VS2010RC projects using NAnt without VS installed

Yes, more problems with VS2010RC, this time because I have CI server (Hudson) set up to build my project and it uses NAnt Contrib tasks to build solution using MSBuild. And it doesn't work. First problem was that MSBuild from .NET 3.5 did not understand
Programmer's Den
 
tags: vs2010
Feb 24 2010 03:37 PM
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Upgrade S#arp Architecture / ASP.NET MVC project to VS2010RC

VS2010RC failed to upgrade my S#arp Architecture project, specifically, the web application that uses ASP.NET MVC v1. After some googling I've found this useful link, which solved the problem... only to another one to appear. VS2010RC complained the
Programmer's Den
 
tags: vs2010 asp.net mvc
Feb 24 2010 02:53 PM
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Visual Studio 2010 RC Resource Guide

Chris Bowen provides a brief guide to resources to help you quickly get started and learn about what’s new with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 RC. Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2010 , VS2010 , .NET 4 digg_url =
Innovation Showcase
 
Bob Familiar
tags: visual studio 2010 vs2010
Feb 22 2010 06:03 PM