I am having a little problem with Visual Studio 2008 that only started after I had installed Office 2010. I found this interesting post on Visual Studio 2008 Locks or Freezes in ASPX from Rinat Abdullin that was a complete match to the problem I am having. Basically VS just bings at you whenever you click anywhere as if there is a model dialog open after opening and trying to edit an aspx file. If you get this problem then there is a simple solution, well, one that worked for me. You need to run...
Easy peasy, all you need is the full URL from the project collection and you will be able to connect directly to it as if it was a different Team Server. This functionality was added with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, so if you don’t have SP1 installed yet you had better get it: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 You need to use the following in the connection box “http://[tfsserver]:[port]/[vdir]/[projectCollection] Although this looks complicated, it makes some sense at least, but...
Found solution 1: Reset skipped packages by running devenv /resetskippkgs Found solution 2: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/5dba2643-1fce-4004-bef6-11cfdf312d8c/ ”Here's a solution found somewhere in the inet. Visual Studio Menu -> Tools -> Import and Export Settings -> Reset all settings BR, Oleg” Tags: Note to Self, Visual Studio 2008...
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System/Test Edition provides an excellent tool to perform web site load testing. Using this load testing tool, you can monitor and measure the site performance along with system status with respect to a given load/stress. Fortunately VSTS provides a support for wide range of performance counters, from web page request per second to condition of physical disk, memories. Unfortunately, they are too huge that, initially testers/designers get overwhelmed with all of those,...
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System/Test Edition provides an excellent tool to perform web site load testing. Using this load testing tool, you can monitor and measure the site performance along with system status with respect to a given load/stress. Fortunately VSTS provides a support for wide range of performance counters, from web page request per second to condition of physical disk, memories. Unfortunately, they are too huge that, initially testers/designers get overwhelmed with all of those,...
This was my second attempt at installing Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 7 and I ran into a little problem. It failed when trying to install the Microsoft Document Explorer 2008. A quick check found the file in \WCU\DExplore of your installation media, and running the install manually solved that problem… Technorati Tags: Windows 7,VSTS,Visual Studio,Visual Studio 2008,VS2008...
I was a little lazy last time and did not install either Team Explorer, or SP1 on my visual studio instance. So, lets get to it… Everything fine with the Team Explorer install so far, but I have seen other people with this working as well. The fun seams to start when you get SP1 out of the bag, so we will start by Connecting to CodePlex, and using TFS Sticky Buddy… Yea baby! Well it looks like I have been hampered by my proxy server at work… no way round that one… I can get web pages, but application...
I am installing VS2008 in a virtual environment, so this may not be exactly what you would get, but the purpose is to identify if VS2008 does indeed work on Windows 7 and what the experience is like. The first problem is that the auto run does not seam to function. This can be rectified by browsing the CD / Image and running setup.exe So far so good. After you have accepted the licence agreement you need to select the installation components. I am selecting Full so we can make sure it all goes on,...
Well, that's me well and truly back from my holidays, a nice relaxing couple of weeks spent at home with my family. As a kind of New Years present, Microsoft has released a free learning initiative for those of you that are or will be using Visual Studio 2008. I am taking it myself as a way to make sure that I have not missed anything :) Sign Up for the MSDN Ramp Up Program's Visual Studio 2008 Track Technorati Tags: Free,Free Training,Visual Studio 2008,Team System...
First, download the new Data Dude. Download page http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=en Setup http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/e/0ae1153a-8798-474a-93e6-d19299f37c8b/setup.exe Read Me http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/e/0ae1153a-8798-474a-93e6-d19299f37c8b/Readme.mht Documentation: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/e/0ae1153a-8798-474a-93e6-d19299f37c8b/Documentation.zip Once you get it going the...
What a mouthful! Has there ever been any products with names as long as the Team System toolset ;), Maybe thats why it is just called Data Dude. Anyway, congratulations to the Data Dude team for this wonderful piece of work. I have been following the GDR for a while and I have been very impressed with the capabilities on offer. Although this is billed as a new release of Data Dude, it is really a completely new product with a brand new architecture. They have made many improvements to scalability,...
If you have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta installed make sure that you run the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool prior to the installation, Microsoft were trying to make this a seamless process, but on Heath Stewart's Blog he mentions that this was not possible in the end. The Preparation tool takes a while to run, but it is way better than having to uninstall everything :) You will need your Visual Studio 2008 Install files when running the Preparation tool, but you should always keep...
Well, MSDN will be busy today… Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1, Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 1 and .NET Framework Beta 1 have all been released today. This is grate news as I have been using the Beta for about as long as it has been available and all those applications I have waiting in the wings can now go live :), Or at least get into the final phase of development. Can you imaging a better data capture application than one that builds itself (ASP.NET Dynamic Data) or even a web service to expose...
I have started using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2008, recently. Previously I worked with Visual Studio 2005. As a matter of fact I had to use lots of external tools to perform and speedup my development process. However, while working with VSTS 2008, it's very exciting for me that, I found replacements for most of the external tools there. Here are 10 tools which I left after using VSTS 2008: 1. Database Schema Compare External tool: Redgate SQL Compare VSTS 2008 tool: Menu -> Data ->...
You might want to skip this first paragraph if you are just looking for the RegEx Tools portion. I still find it amazing how the web can create an online social inner-networking that bobs and weaves an amazing web of connections (confused? me too). Here's what led me to find these wonderful RegEx tools. So the Microsoft Partner Program has an initiative that gave me a bunch of certifications vouchers. I am using at least 1, possibly 2, in my giveaway. I send out an email to the VB Insider's List...
Microsoft .NET framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 now have public BETAs. The service pack of Visual Studio 2008 has really interesting stuff. Highlights I'm interested in are performance improvements in HTML editor, collection of JavaScript intellisense hotfixes plus new ones enabling better JavaScript intellisense for libraries like jQuery, JavaScript Code Formatting, ASP.NET Routing engine (the one used in ASP.NET MVC, it is actually developed as separate component),...
When working with asp.net and now XAML I lean towards code view over the designer, a preference of course, but considering this feature I guess I am not alone. When working with events in XAML you can simply type "Click=" and the nice little helper jumps up asking what event handler you'd like to wire it up to or even create a new one and the stub will be created. NICE! As an added little beauty, this doesn't automatically send you off into the code behind. Why-o-Why isn't it the same for asp.net...
I know I'm a little slow in doing so, but today I finally sat down and went through all the Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1.0 Templates. I was incredibly impressed with some of it and sorely disappointed with other parts. Everyone has said it is really easy to use this technology and I agree. I have a little PhotoShop experience from my web design days. I have dabbled in some animated gifs, Flash Creations, PDF Creations, Corel Draw, Paint .Net, and who knows what else. I opened up the VS 2008 Template and...
Using new features in .NET 3.5 Framework. blogs.msdn.com/justinsmith What in .NET 3.5 for services: The New HTTP Programming model: New support JSON Services Syndication in .NET 3.5 Service Stack Evolution -Sockets->HttpListener->ASP.net->ASMX->WCF WCF one stop shop for services Myth:WCF is only for enterprise services Reality:WCF gets around(enterprise and web) .NET 3.5 WCF web-centric upgrades: Make REST a 1st class citizenish Embrace SOAP-less representations JSON messaging capabilities...
It's very nice to know that the launch event is not merged with EDC 2008, but comes before it. The 2008 launch event covers VS 2008, Win 2008 and SQL 2008. It'll be held March 24th @ Intercontinental City Stars Hotel (Register Now) The agenda: Time General Sessions 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Registration / Coffee 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM Keynote Speech 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM Break Infrastructure Track Database & Development Track 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Windows Server 2008 Overview Breakthrough software development...
With MIX, and meeting the announced MVC roadmap, the new versions of AS.NET Extensions are now publicly available.ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 is available also as separate download, same as Silverlight 2.0 BETA 1 (and Expression studio, Silverlight VS 2008 Tools). Download Links: ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview 2 ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Expression Studio 2.0 Beta Silverlight 2.0 Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 UPDATE: Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 SDK UPDATE: Internet Explorer...
I attended a user group presentation from Daniel Moth last night on Visual Studio 2008 and .net 3.5. I won't go on about the wonders of .net 3.5 as I'm sure you are well aware of them, but what did take me last night was the backward compatibility of it. I knew that VS2008 supported .net 2.0 and 3.0, but wasn’t aware that I could take advantage of so many new features still using .net 2.0. I would expect javascript intellisense to be supported and CSS, they aren't anything to do with .net, right!...
For those of us that implement INotifyPropertyChanged on our state objects, the new Automatic Properties feature of Visual Studio 2008 hasn't been very useful. In fact, the snippet prop that used to create a private variable and associated public property has now been replaced by an Automatic Property. Thanks to a comment by SnYnE on this blog post, there is an easy way to get the functionality back. Simply create a new text file at:C:\users\*your user name*\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Code Snippets\Visual...
Source Code Outliner PowerToy for Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft released a free PowerToy for VS2008. The Source Outliner PowerToy is a Visual Studio 2008 extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them with filtering inside the editor. Technorati Tags: .Net,Visual Studio 2008...
Thanks to Josh Ambrose Little for pointing out that Scott Guthrie has blogged about how to debug into the .Net Framework Library in Visual Studio 2008. I think the coolest thing is the ability to step into the Forms library (since I'm a forms guy). I'm wondering how this will impact the MONO project. Now they have specific code they can reference, although I'm sure it violates several user agreements. Technorati Tags: .Net,Visual Studio 2008,MONO...
For those of you who read the previous post you will have noticed some of my questions were answered by helpful commenters. The first thing that was mentioned is that you can install as many of the express versions as you wish. What you really give up here is the ability to have just one Visual Studio environment that looks the same for all of your projects. For the moment I can live with that. So I installed the Web Edition and found a couple of surprising items. The toolbox actually included AJAX...
I no longer work for a company that readily supplies me with MSDN software so I have to get Visual Studio for myself this time around. To that end I figured I would investigate the Express Edition. The first thing I noticed is the separation of project types. You can only do Windows or Web applications. You can't do both. I was wondering if the "search online templates" in the Create Project dialog might give some more options, but this lead to nowhere. The next step I am looking at is if you can...
I have updated the ever popular developer script that adds a 'Command Line Here' option to your context menu upon right clicking a folder. Enjoy! Technorati Tags: visual studio 2008...
Well it seems that Microsoft took the generally felt community suggestion and bundles Team Explorer with Visual Studio 2008 team Suit. I don't know if they did the same with VS2008 Pro or the other version, but it would seem a good idea. I had a few problems uninstalling Beta 2, but I got there in the end and now have VS2008 RTM and MSDN installed, and I am just waiting for Team Explorer's install to complete. Then I will see if all my projects from beta 2 need upgraded and wither the source control...
Well, its official. Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 went RTM this morning.... So I will be spending the next wee while moving to the full release. if I can ever get the MSDN site to load. At the moment I have been waiting a couple of minutes for it, and no sign yet... That's everyone in the UK and probably European development communities hitting the site mercilessly. I know I will be... Technorati Tags: RTM, Visual Studio Team System, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2008 Team Suit, .NET Framework...
I just noticed that there was a serious problem with my javascript editor in VS 2008, goes to show how much JS I write! I have had VS 2008 installed since beta 1 :) Anyway, I had no intellisense or an colour at all, all the text was just black. After a little searching I found this blog post from the webdevtools blog. You need to change a couple of values in the registry... [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\CLSID\{014E9A41-54E5-44ED-B15E-EFFA8758BFFC}] "CodeBase"=file:///C:\\Program...
I have decided to have a little go at creating a Team Foundation Server Event Handler in .NET 3.5 that is resilient and scaleable. I will be using as many of the features of Team Suit as I can, but bear with me as there are a few things that are new to me. TFS Event Handler in .NET 3.5 Articles TFS Event Handler in .NET 3.5 Part 1 - The Architecture TFS Event Handler in .NET 3.5 Part 2 - Handling Team Foundation Server Events TFS Event Handler in .NET 3.5 Part 3 - Passing the events over a Windows...
Something I have noticed in writing an article is that the "Application diagram" in VS2008 does not support Windows Communication Foundation. This I think is an oversight even for Beta 2. Is this going to be in the RTM, I hope so as it would be virtually useless without it! Technorati Tags: VS2008, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio Team System, WCF...
I have decided to have a little go at creating a Team Foundation Server Event Handler in .NET 3.5 that is resilient and scaleable. I will be using as many of the features of Team Suit as I can, but bear with me as there are a few things that are new to me. TFS Event Handler in .NET 3.5 Articles TFS Event Handler in .NET 3.5 Part 1 - The Architecture TFS Event Handler in .NET 3.5 Part 2 - Handling Team Foundation Server Events TFS Event Handler in .NET 3.5 Part 3 - Passing the events over a Windows...
I have upgraded and release some code for the managed service factory that I wrote about earlier in the year. I have started the internal documentation process and the installer will install it to the GAC so you can use it in any of your applications... More to follow. You can download from: http://www.rddotnet.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=6366 Technorati Tags: RDdotNet, Software Factories, Visual Studio 2008...
I am very encouraged by Brain Harry's blog on dogfooding at Microsoft. In my battles to get my company to use Team Foundation Server I recently contacted the manager of the most highly regarded development team in the company. Apart from being initially disheartened by his initial question "Does it run on Unix?" the manager of the team's main reservation was that he is always dubious about a product from Microsoft that they do not use internally... Obviously he has not had much exposure to TFS otherwise...
I have not had much time to blog over the last week so I thought I should write this to get my head round what I have been up to. I have been busy at work with documenting deployment procedures and requirements, an application deployment, Managing production applications and reading email. I have been busy at home with my baby girl who was born last month. On top of all this I have been seriously looking at contract work, and I have been involved in discussions with one of the program managers for...
Well, I now have Visual Studio 2008 Team Suit installed on my laptop, but I have just realized that Team Explorer is not provided as part of the installation (same as VS2005). This is irritating as now I need to download Visual Studio 2008 team Foundation Server to get the client out of it. I think that Team Explorer should be included as an optional install for Visual Studio, this would help at work as well as we need to rationalize and package (a 2 month process) every piece of software. If Team...
As you may have seen from my previous post, I have just installed VS2008B2 onto my old work computer, well it is now time to hit my Vista laptop with it: I just tried to install Visual Studio 2008 Team Suit on my Vista laptop, but it failed on the first hurdle; installing the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 After an hour of searching the web for answers and trying about three different options, finding about ten more, and getting increasingly frustrated, I gave up for a while... On my second attempt I...
OK so anyone reading this is most likely aware that Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 has been released but you may not be aware that today they have released Silverlight RC1, Silverlight 1.1 tools for VS 2008. Plus MS have released a refresh to Expression Blend. Scott Hanselman's has the best post I have seen and is a one stop shop for all VS 2008 info. Check it out http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VS2008AndNET35Beta2ReleasesMadeEasy.aspx UPDATEI should really add for completeness, even though its already...
The first problem I have encountered in that in the past I have had various version of Office 2007 beta and other bits and bobs. You will need to remove these to install Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. If your install fails on or just after "Microsoft Web Designer Tools" then you probably have this problem. If you download the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility you will be able to clean anything that is Office 2007 and beta from you system. This worked for me, but I guess you may have other problems......