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When you’re debugging security related things, sometimes you need to take a look at the thread identities user token. When you’re inside of Visual Studio 2010 – in the watch windows you enter ‘$user’ and you’ll get the same as when in windbg with !token –n ......
While the development server in Visual Studio 2010 is great for most work, it does have 1 shortcoming in that if you start adding content types that are not part of the base set of known Mime types built in, you won’t affect the proper header response that is emitted to the client/browser. For example MP4 files, out of the box the development web server emits application/octet-stream or something like that. What we really need is video/mp4. Now, with IIS Express, you can easily switch over to use ......
This post is built upon the work of Mario Kosmiskas and David C. Chou’s prior postings – from here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mar... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dac... As Mario points out in his post, when you need to have more control over the process that starts, it generally is better left to a RoleEntryPoint capability that as of now, requires the use of a CLR based assembly that ......
If you are getting a message when you start the Compute Emulator “Systray already running…” from within Visual Studio one fix is to check what the image name is loading is. For some reason, on 2 of my machines the image was loading with the 8.3 format. This caused the logic in the VS tools to not find the process. So, to fix, I just did a little copy/rename magic. C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.3\bin>copy csmonitor.exe csmonitor-a.exe 1 file(s) copied. C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.3\bin>del ......
Along with the release of WebMatrix announced here.. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/web... A slew of dependencies were released as well. If you download WebMatrix, it will install these dependencies – also via a new release of the Web platform installer (3.0). You get IIS 7.5 Express for hosting the Web Matrix projects as well. And, to top it off – the Microsoft Web Deploy 2.0 tool… The ASP.NET updates include the Visual Studio 2010 tools updates, ......
Make sure, for today at least, you navigate to “Downloads” instead of using the quick link on the right side. Summary This document is a collection of items from public blog sites, Microsoft® internal discussion aliases (sanitized) and experiences from various Test Consultants in the Microsoft Services Labs. The idea is to provide quick reference points around various aspects of Microsoft Visual Studio® performance testing features that may not be covered in core documentation, or may not be easily ......
Something that I had the privilege to review has been released. Willy-Peter Schaub goes into great detail about the release, along with links and summaries of all the other great VS ALM Rangers content. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wil... http://vsarchitectureguide.... Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tooling Guidance Practical guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, focused on modelling ......
If you’re developing BizTalk 2009 solutions (Orchestrations) and you’ve split your schemas out into alternative assemblies (projects) – sometimes you’ll get odd not found issues with some (if not all) of the types in those referenced assemblies. You can try everything – recompile, de-gac, re-gac, – doesn’t matter. Well there’s a hotfix for this: http://support.microsoft.co... FIX: You experience various problems when you develop a BizTalk project that references another BizTalk project ......
Why performance test at all right? Well, physics still plays a role in what we do. Why not take a better look at your application – need help, well, the Rangers team just released the following to help: The following has both VS2008 & VS2010 content: http://vstt2008qrg.codeplex... Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide (Version 2.0) The final released copy is here and ready for full time use. Please enjoy and post feedback on the discussion board. This document is a collection ......
In the October edition of MSDN Magazine, there’s a great article that does a quick rundown of building a component that can be surfaced as a Web Part via the Gallery and placed in Web Part zones on pages. The article by Steve Fox is here: Steve Fox - Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Development – MSDN Magazine October 2009 There’s a couple very important aspect that might not be 100% clear from the title – 1st, you’re really visually designing a User Control (ASCX). So, this is really just ......
If you’ve been running x64 WSS/MOSS in development VSeWSS has been a challenge (wouldn’t install – albeit I believe the Bamboo solutions folks had some hack…) Now, the CTP of VSeWSS 1.3 has been announced SharePoint Team Blog CTP Preview of VSeWSS Key capabilities in 1.3 The extensions now install on x64 bit OS. Visual Studio 2008 and SharePoint must be already installed. Command Line Build option for TFS and MSBuild integration Separate WSP Package and Retract commands. You can now build the WSP ......
If youre running Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and you're also a PowerCommands fan you might run into the issue that VS just crashes with no exception box and only the following error in the Application event log: .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (000007FEF63D203F) (0) To correct, you need to have an assembly redirection put into the devenv.exe.config file (which .NET will use for configuration information while running in VS.. <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity ......
If you're installing Visual Studio 2005 and need the WCF CTP Extensions, BUT you've already installed .NET 3.0 with service packs, the installer fails.
To override the check use the following:
msiexec /i vsextwfx.msi WRC_INSTALLED_OVERRIDE=1
Recently, I messed up a set of VHD files that were based upon differencing disks. Basically, I killed the parent drive - so, any child drives are useless. So, how do you know which drives are differencing disks and what is their parent? One way is through the COM interfaces (that call into an out-of-process server). Virtual Server must be installed and the service running for these interfaces to work. However, on an X64 machine you won't be able, in Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008 see the ......
Here's something that I just came across, perhaps I just wasn't looking.
It's in Beta but it's ultimately a 3rd party library of add-ins, etc. for Visual Studio.
No search, but you can sort on the columns in the categories. Search is there, down to the category, but I'd also like to search by some attributes (such as free :) )
Visual Studio Gallery
Here's a tool that completely slipped by me. I've been using ApexSQL for generation of SQL scripts for creating schema and data. Turns out, during the Visual Studio 2008 installation I see "SQL Publishing Wizard" pop up on the list. This tool, can extract schema and data and create a SQL script. Download details: SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard 1.1 ......
So, I was looking at Google Reader and noticed a link in the upper right - Offline (new).. What's that? Turns out, Google has a project called "Gears" that provides Javascript hooks that will interface with a few locally running services: Cache, DB, and asynchronous thread pool. This is great, cross platform too. It's SmartClient (and no, MSFT didn't invent the term as far as I know) in essence that it also provides offline capability. You'll still need to deal with updates, etc. Google Gears: Enabling ......
Looking around for some of the TFS templates I ran across this one: eScrum is a Web-based, end-to-end project management tool for Scrum built on the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server platform. It provides multiple ways to interact with your Scrum project: eScrum Web-based UI, Team Explorer, and Excel or Project, via Team Foundation Office Integration. In addition, it provides a single place for all Scrum artifacts such as product backlog, sprint backlog, task management, retrospective, ......
If you're using both TFS & Project Server (god bless you BTW) the Project Server Connector has been released on CodePlex. The Visual Studio Team System Project Server 2007 Connector is designed to integrate the project management capabilities of VSTS with Project Server 2007. It's been developed by the Visual Studio Team System Rangers in response to significant customer demand for a connector solution. Future versions of Team System will have native integration with Project Server, in the meantime ......
I tend to think the MySpace generation is already aged. However, Microsoft has put up a site called Popfly (www.PopFly.com) that allows mashups of content based upon blocks. There's a Popfly Explorer VS 2005 add-in allowing users to work with Popfly for building or extending. Silverlight (the old WPF/e) is in the mix as well. Quoted in the Article: "There's an obvious desire or need for people to want to create online applications, but it's too difficult today. So our goal is to democratize development," ......
Usually, as it was in the past, when Dell finally started producing systems supporting a technology is was considered mainstream. In reality, it's when the economics start to make sense that Dell's model, capital structure, turnover ratios, etc. all make sense; or maybe because Michael is back? Here's a link to a quick video on Dell's announcement (blog, WMF, and MPEG respectively). http://direct2dell.com/one2... http://media.dellone2one.co... http://media.dellone2one.co... ......
The P&P folks have released guidance (videos, documents - HOWTO, Guidelines, Explanations) on using VSTS. This is a collaborative effort of P&P, the Team System product group, and folks from 3rd parties. Welcome to the patterns & practices VSTS Guidance Project! The purpose of this project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. It's a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, Team System team members, and industry ......
While the TFS team didn't put everything into the 1st real release of TFS, they certaintly are getting tools/powertoys/helpers/gui... out there to the community in real time. Driven by the initial need to ship, the TFS team clearly had to make some feature choices in order to meet the late 2005 schedule on the 1st release. That's just the dynamics of shipping product. However, what they've done is put out, on a psuedo supported mode (non PSS or is it CSS now?), tools that make the TFS experience ......
http://www.burtongroup.com/... This will surely heat up the Java vs. .NET war of words a bit... Let me say first that the choice of platform makes no difference on whether an application can scale, perform, run reliably. That's purely the physics of how things work and how some applications violate or push the laws of physics to a point that impacts performance enough to make them crappy applications. I've worked on crappy applications built both on .NET and ......
Take a look at the list of proposed features for .NET 3.5. Nice table that gives an overview of what's to come. Tighter integration of WF & WCF with specialized WF hosts for WCF (ServiceHost). Also, syndication support is part of the base class library. So, publishing through RSS or ATOM is far simpler than it already was. That's a technology that's ubiquitous. Faster execution & GC. Anonymous & name pipe base class support (I see easier WCF channel implementations). And of course Add-in ......
Been working a bit with DSL and specifically a very cool tool from my company, Avanade. Lot's of folks are hot on DSL's, and their promises, but I've seen quite a bit of promises of full-round-trip tools before. Most required so much work to keep full fidelity between model and reality that at some point we turned off the tool and just disconnected. Now, with the model driver designer capabilities getting so readily available for Visual Studio, with DSL's as well, more people can enter the market. ......
Codeplex has some sample projects, code for DB pro.
Samples to me are by far the best way to get aquanted with a newer technology. DB Pro is quite cool too.
Link to Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals Samples
Answers to my prayers - kind of.
Good post on slipstreaming the SP1 patch into a Visual Studio 2005 Fresh Installation.
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/12/16/slipstreaming-visual-studio-2005-service-pack-1.aspx
This is a great move on Microsoft's part. Could never understand the hoops general folks need to go through to get Hotfixes. Especially for Visual Studio....
Link to DevDiv Hotfix Public Availability Pilot Program
Been working with, and did quite a few demos during my short stint with Microsoft, VS 2005 Db Pro. The tool is Microsoft's 1st real entry into bringing the Database team into the Visual Studio experience. So, if anyone believes that DB Projects in VS as they exist prior to DB Pro were real tools, I'm suggesting you take a look at this immediately. The tool takes advantage of Per User Instancing of SQL Express in the design time part of using the Tool. So, all validation is done direct against a working ......
Well, Vista is out. However, no official support for VS.NET 2003. So, what do you do if you need to build projects that target the 1.1 runtime? Well, MSBee is there to help. MSBee is a small tool from Microsoft that allows Visual Studio 2005 projects to target the v1.1 framework. http://go.microsoft.com/fwl... http://www.codeplex.com/Wik... ......
Visual Studio Team System Chat Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in Visual Studio Code Name Orcas September CTP and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals CTP 5. Join the chat on Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time. To add this to your calendar, ......
A known gap in the Visual Studio Team System / Team Foundation Server coverage of Application Life Cycle Management (“ALM”) is requirements. This tool facilitates the story-boarding (scenario) aspect of requirements. That in conjunction with the “list” oriented requirements gives good coverage of what’s needed and now provides full capabilities for the full ALM. I’ve been doing Agile oriented software development for 6 years, even though we didn’t have names ......
Updated: June 12, 2006 - I had some debug code in there, basically a sleep for a second statement - doh! - I've removed it and Zip file updated There have been numerous times that I’ve needed the ability to rename a set of files based upon a pattern, something regular expressions could easily take care of if the old DOS rename command, or something built into the Windows OS could do. However, there’s nothing in Windows base set of command utilities that can provide this. I haven’t ......
Somasegar's WebLog : .NET Framework 3.0. This will stir up lots of conversations about how marketing got a hold of something and has re-branded it to something developers have been working with for some time and causing all sorts of confusion. Sure, it’s a real pain in the a@^ to have to change our nomenclature, code, articles, etc., but if MSFT can have a unified brand that encompasses many parts it helps out packaging, updates, marketing, and in the long run developers. Does this mean that ......
To be announced, shown, released in CTP form @ TechEd 2006, this “persona” of VSTS give (or attempts) to give DB professionals (if your working mostly with SQL Server) a leg up on tools and support. There are many 3rd parties out there that probably need to rethink their overall strategy, or at least pricing. Given the price of VSTS is high, it’s an initial barrier to entry for many purchasers. Fortunately, here @ Avanade we all get VSTS Suite – which gives us everything. ......
If you're developing WinForm applications, generally at some point in the project you develop an Exception Dialog box that provides a user friendly interface for error messages. Usually, it's a generic box that displays parts of the exception stack and perhaps a way to log or allow users to initiate some other action such as proceeding, ignoring, or even reporting the error. Usually the solution hooks in as the Application or AppDomain unhandled exception handler at startup. Thing is, I don't see ......
Scrum for Team System is a free Agile Software Development Methodology add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, developed by Conchango, in collaboration with Ken Schwaber and the Microsoft Technology Centre UK.Scrum for Team System provides development teams with deep support for the use of Scrum, when running projects using Visual Studio Team System’s integrated suite of lifecycle tools. Scrum for Team System ......
Contract first forces you to design your service interfaces in ways that should remove implementation issues that affect that design. Here’s a Visual Studio add-in that helps you in that quest – it’s from The thinktecture folks. There has been a lot of buzz around contract-first Web Services design & development lately. A number of people thinks that it is a good thing and that we finally should reach a state where we all can live and breath it. But most people have been complaining ......
Recently, one of my peers asked a question regarding the ability of SQL CLR classes to read configuration data from an Application Configuration file. After doing some quick Google searches on the topic, I came up with a couple of links that indicated the potential, but no concrete HOWTO on getting it all wired up. Now, I don’t want to debate whether this makes good architectural sense to store static settings in the file system when you’re already working inside a database management ......
This is a compelling platform, if it works, and it’s now going open source in hope of garnering a greater number of developers contributing and using. The DotNetNuke folks have built a DNN administration console based upon this. - CORRECTION - Someone has built an Admin Console; not the DNN folks.... WinForms Over Web (the WOW model) is a revolutionary development & deployment platform made possible by a unique, patented, server based RIA paradigm. The WOW model enables development of rich ......