Microsoft WebMatrix

As a third free alternative (with reference to my two previous posts on the subject) to creating and editing HTML5/CSS 3.0/Javascript sites, Microsoft WebMatrix, currently available as either a release version, or a Version 2 Beta, is also worth a look. This doesn’t have a WYSIWYG interface, so you’ll be working in source mode throughout. [...]

Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web

In my last post, I wrote about enabling HTML5 tags and CSS 3.0 styles in Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2011* 2010 Express, using an unofficial Microsoft patch. Well now you can skip directly to downloading Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web to get the same functionality, without patching, as well as some nice [...]

HTML5+CSS3 with Visual Web Developer 2010 Express

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express edition makes for a pretty decent HTML editor, giving you a WYSIWYG development environment complete with IntelliSense prompts for HTML, CSS and JavaScript. With support for the HTML5 and CSS3 standards, things are now even better. All you have to do is apply the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service [...]

Unable to access certain pages when navigating through ISA

Finally figured out why I was very occasionally getting an HTTP 500 error on certain web sites, when navigating the web behind my ISA Server (2004). One case in point was the MyHeritage website. Turns out that if you have the HTTP/HTTPS web compression filter disabled, then HTTP Error 500 is what you’ll get in [...]

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