Receiving an installation error as soon as Visual Studio 2008 starts to install Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Components? If you're lucky, you just need to uninstall "Microsoft Office InfoPath MUI (language) 2007 (Beta)" To uninstall: msiexec /x {30120000-0044-0C0A-0000-00... In our case, this package was installed by the Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 *SPANISH* installer, which includes a beta version of it: "Microsoft Office InfoPath MUI (Spanish) 2007 (Beta)" In other cases,...

This functionality was added to TFS 2008, and you need the Power Tools to do it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... DestroyWITD Command Use the destroywitd command to destroy a work item type. Currently, work item types can only be deleted. Destroying a work item type means that work items of that type are physically deleted and cannot be restored...

Sadly, this is Microsoft's official position. http://forums.microsoft.com... From MVP Teo Lachev: "VS.NET itself doesn't support BI project types. They get added to VS.NET when you install the SQL Server client tools. Since SQL Server 2005 client tools don't know anything about VS.NET 2008, nothing gets integrated with VS.NET 2008. I believe that working with SQL Server 2005 projects will require you stick with BIDS 2005 or VS.NET 2005. That's because when...

I can no longer write code in Visual Studio with New Courier without sorely missing this font: http://www.microsoft.com/do... "Consolas is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified. All characters have the same width, like old typewriters, making it a good choice for personal and business correspondence. Optimizing the font specifically for ClearType allowed...

If the following snippet catches your attention, you ought to check The Last Component. It's real, and they don't touch the compiler, they do it overloading operators. Brilliant

From http://support.microsoft.co... "...you can add a registry key, such as the following, which points to the location of the assembly [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE... MyAssemblies is the name of the folder in which the assemblies reside.NOTE: You can create the this registry entry under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive. This will change the setting for all of the users on the system. If you create...

I've posted a suggestion for the Visual Studio team about Code Snippets. This would allow to generate the whole definition for a class Property having the user only enter its type and name, by means of converting the entered name to camelCase and ProperCase (checking the property name is properly cased while on it). So if you like the suggestion or already thought of it, click on "Vote on this suggestion" (an rate it as important!) in the following link: Suggestion Details: Code snippet Function...