Jay Hollingum - Works in IT

Adding HTML 5 to the choice of target schemas in Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (VWD 2010 Express) is fairly straightforward, thanks to a download from Mikhail Arkhipov which can be found on the Visual Web Developer Team Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdevtools/archive/2009/11/18/html-5-intellisense-and-validation-schema-for-visual-studio-2008-and-visual-web-developer.aspx . Download the html5.zip at the end of the above post. Unzip the file. Copy the html_5.xsd file to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Packages\schemas\html". This is the default installation set up location. If VWD 2010 Express has been installed in another location, the file needs to be placed in the "Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Packages\schemas\html" folder. This is where there is a slight variation in the instructions detailed in Mikhail Arkhipov 's post. To get VWD 2010 Express to recognise HTML 5 as an option for target validation, a change needs ...

Needing to use unit testing with MS Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, I was a little stumped at first as VWD Express doesn't have the Create Unit Test Project dialog box when creating new projects. Selecting NUnit to use for unit testing wasn't too tough a choice (Visual Studio ships with Visual Studio Team Test but not with VWD 2008 Express). It's free, proven with a track record, and is widely used. First off NUnit needed to be downloaded and installed. Without stating the obvious NUnit can be downloaded from the website . After installing NUnit, I grabbed the NUnit Test Templates from  Updated NUnit Templates for ASP.Net MVC 1.0 RTM , on the  Visual Web Developer Team Blog , and followed the pretty straight forward instructions - unzipped the file and ran  installNUnit.cmd . Everything ran as sweet as after that, with the  Create Unit Test Project  dialog box popping up after starting up VWD 2008 Express and allowing unit testing of projects...