Visual Studio

VS 2008 - Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Components install failed

Juan Ignacio Gelos — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:27:44 GMT

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-0000-0000000FF1CE}

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, you may need to uninstall other Office 2007 components, specially the MUI packages.

Credits: Jaime Cardona, from
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/15c14d44-592a-420c-9c2a-75c5803e9f18/#page:2

Delete / Remove TFS Work Item Type

Juan Ignacio Gelos — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:35:55 GMT

This functionality was added to TFS 2008, and you need the Power Tools to do it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/tfs2008/bb980963.aspx

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.

Visual Studio 2008 Will NOT Support SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services projects (until you install SQL Server 2008)

Juan Ignacio Gelos — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:52:22 GMT

Sadly, this is Microsoft's official position.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2473242&SiteID=1

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 you open a RS 2005 project in BIDS 2008, the report definitions will get converted to the new RDL format so you won't be able to publish them back to SQL Server 2005. I hope someone from the RS team reads and confirm this."

From Microsoft's Robert Bruckner: "In CTP November, BIDS 2008 is essentially equivalent to BIDS 2005 (based on RDL 2005).

However, this will change in future CTP's as BIDS 2008 receives all the updates for a new and improved report design experience. It will then also use the RDL 2008 format and upgrade old reports on loading into BIDS."

Conclusion: You need to keep a side-by-side installation of Visual Studio 2005 in order to open/edit SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services projects, until you are able to install the SQL Server 2008 Client components on your machine.

Consolas Font Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

Juan Ignacio Gelos — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:34:00 GMT

I can no longer write code in Visual Studio with New Courier without sorely missing this font:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3&displaylang=en

"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 a design with proportions closer to normal text than traditional monospaced fonts like Courier. This allows for more comfortable reading of extended text on-screen.

The package will change the default text face in Visual Studio to the Consolas family.

This package is only intended for licensed users of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005."

Quasi LINQ today

Juan Ignacio Gelos — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:18:00 GMT

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.

How to make custom assemblies visible in Visual Studio (eg the Add Reference dialog box, or make control Designers available to the IDE)

Juan Ignacio Gelos — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:08:00 GMT

From http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306149:

"...you can add a registry key, such as the following, which points to the location of the assembly

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders\MyAssemblies]@="C:\\MyAssemblies"

where 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 this registry entry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, this entry will affect the setting for only the current user.

Restart Visual Studio .NET after you have added the key."

Translated:

Create a new key (eg "My Company assemblies") under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders\, and set its "(default)" value to the path of a folder where you'll put all the assemblies you want to make visible to Visual Studio.

Code Snippets functions suggestion

Juan Ignacio Gelos — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:54:00 GMT

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 for parsing input fields