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.