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During the installation of Visual Studio on Windows Vista you will get the following pop-up window when the installation will try to launch devenv.exe: As you have propably read due to improvements made to Windows Vista like the infamous User Acount Control (UAC) Microsoft doesn't support Visual Studio .NET 2002 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 and there are some issues with running Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista and at the moment the only way to work around these issues is by running Visual Studio...
Noah Coad, the Program Manager of the VS Debugger in Team System, has posted a slick-looking Visual Studio 2005 Team System wallpaper (1600x1200) that you can download. So all you Team System fans go and get it! Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado
The team behind the magnificent Visual Studio productivity add-in will pretty soon open the Early Access Program for ReSharper 2.5 (Build 300). The bad news is that it will only work on Visual Studio 2005 but the great news is there are a lot of performance improvements. One performance issue that has already been fixed in this build is the time it takes to open the Visual Studio IDE. One of the by many requested feature in this build is the possibiltiy to search members (F12) using wildcards as...
Microsoft has released the sixth Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals aka DataDude. You can download the CTP here. If you are curious about what has changed since CTP5 following click here. Still, what I would like to see is native support for the Oracle DBMS. Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado...
I got this tip from the book Visual Studio Hacks by James Avery and was contributed by Sara Ford. Vertical guidelines can be very useful to better organise your code. You can have up to 13 different guidelines in the Visual Studio IDE by adding some minor modifications to the registry. Here are the steps you need to take to add vertical guidelines: Close all instances of the Visual Studio IDE (not really required) Open the registry editor (Start -> Run -> RegEdit) Navigate to the following...
I have noticed that Microsoft has decided to make the beta of the first Service Pack for Visual Studio 2005 available to a broader public meaning that you no longer need to opt-in for the beta through the Microsoft Connect web site, instead you can download the Beta from the Microsoft Downloads web site:http://www.microsoft.c... Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado...
Somasegar posted some details on his blog concerning Vista support for different versions of the Visual Studio IDE's. Remarkable is that Visual Studio .NET 2003 will NOT be supported on Windows Vista. If I had a "Weekly WTF" section on my blog this would definitely be the WTF of the week!Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/somas... Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado...
Somasegar announced on his blog the availability of the Beta of the first (?) Service Pack for Visual Studio 2005 which can be download from the Microsoft Connect web site if you get in the Beta program. The Beta program runs until the last day of October 2006 so let's hope that the SP1 RTM will be available by the end of 2006.http://connect.microso... http://blogs.msdn.com/somas... Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado...
JetBrains has released the second release candidate of version 2.0.1 of the ReSharper refactoring add-in for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005. As usual you can download EAP Build 259 from the ReSharper EAP download page. Here are the download links:ReSharper EAP 259 for Visual Studio .NET 2003 (24.8MB-ReSharper EAP 259 for Visual Studio 2005 (42.6MB) Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado...
The team behind Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals have released the fifth CTP of "Data Dude". It was scheduled for monday but apparently they couldn't wait that long :-) so dowload the bits here (120MB). Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado...
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