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A new Visual Studio extension allows you to open FoxPro files right in Visual Studio with syntax color highlighting which makes working with Web Connection code a lot cleaner as you can keep code windows open right alongside your HTML markup pages.

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Visual Studio 2015 has changed a number of internal APIs that make using the old Web Connection Add-in no longer work. To support VS2015 I've created a new VSIX based add-in that does and provides a few new features and enhancements in the process.

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Microsoft recently released a community edition of Visual Studio that is essentially a full, non-restricted version of Visual Studio Professional. The community edition is available to most developers in small to medium sized business and public organizations for free. If you're doing Web development, or specifically using Web Connection and the Web Control Framework, be sure to check out Visual Studio's Community Edition.

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Visual Studio includes a Web Deploy feature that makes it easy to publish content from your projects to a live Web site. Until recently you couldn't do this with Web Connection content, but since VS 2012 Update 2 you can now publish from Web Site Projects. Here's all you need to know on how to publish and organize your project for publishing.

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