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The BlackBerry® Plug-in for Microsoft® Visual Studio® allows ASP.Net developers to leverage existing Microsoft® based developer tools to create and debug web projects for BlackBerry® smartphones.Developers working within a .NET programming environment maintain the benefits of their tools-of-choice to easily create superior web content and applications. Developers working within a .NET programming environment maintain the benefits of their tools-of-choice to easily create superior web content and applications. Developers using the BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio also enjoy simplified web development, debugging and profile, all in a single tool. Users enjoy seamless integration with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 for optimized web development debugging and profiling.
New Web Development Enhancements
Debugging
- Support is available for debugging web projects with BlackBerry smartphone simulators
- Setting Breakpoints on JavaScript® code
- Seamless integration into Locals and Watch Windows
Profiling
- Visibility into the content of XMLHttpRequest requests and response data
- Visibility into data traffic for web-based content, including elements such as images, CSS, JavaScript, HTML
- Reporting on time-to-load for web-based content, including elements such as images, CSS, JavaScript, HTML
Simulator
- BlackBerry® Bold™ smartphone simulator now included as the default simulator for ASP.NET projects
- Ability to install v1.2 alongside v1.1 to debug and simulate BlackBerry® MDS Runtime projects
Requirements
- Operating System: Windows® XP and Windows Vista™ (32-bit)
- Visual Studio: minimum requirement Visual Studio 2008 (Service Pack 1) Standard Edition
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Release Date
The final release of the BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.2 will be coming later this year.