Visual Studio 2005 Development

VS 2005 and 2003

Ken Spencer — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:15:00 GMT

I have been working for about 7 months (since 2005 B2) .

They work great together except for one thing. Sometimes when building a 2005 app, I forget about the great debugger and being able to edit code on the fly. Then its like, duh!

Its also cool that you can use 2003 components right in 2005.

.NET 2.0 Adoption Rocks the world

Ken Spencer — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:36:00 GMT

The information below is pretty wild. .NET 2.0 is really great. I have been teaching on this since Jan 2005 and using it in production since B2 came out around March. I must say I am really impressed with both performance and ease of use. Of course, I use VB.NET all the time.

1. NET vs. J2EE and IBM WebSphere Adoption for Mission Critical Apps: The IDC Study

IDC-conducted study of adoption rates of OS and application platform/vendors for mission critical applications conducted in 8 countries (Asia, Europe, North America)
Conducted with large companies, central IT across Devs, Architects and IT Managers
Random selection of companies, scientific/projectable data across large sample size (>2,000 participants WW)
Shows strong data for .NET over J2EE, Windows over Unix/Linux, MS over IBM as preferred vendor

2. New Technical Benchmarks of .NET 2.0 vs. IBM WebSphere 6.0

Downloadable whitepapers, all source code and customer-ready benchmark kits at http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/java /compare/

Web Application Server Performance

Based on .NET implementation of PlantsByWebSphere IBM-created primary J2EE sample app (ships with every copy of WebSphere)
Shows .NET 2.0/SQL Server 2005 performance beating IBM EJB/Oracle 10G implementation by 183%
Shows detailed pricing data including price/performance metrics for .NET/Windows vs. WebSphere/Linux

64-bit vs. 32-bit Benchmark for .NET 2.0/Windows and WebSphere 6/Linux

Highlights advantages of 64-bit memory addressability for a middle tier app server scenario
Data includes .NET 2.0/Windows Server 2003 vs. IBM WebSphere 6/RedHat Linux

SSW Code Auditor

Ken Spencer — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:02:00 GMT

Good coding practices are required to build applications. I suggest you check out: http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/CodeAuditor/

The Code Auditor is an awesome product from my buddy Adam's company SSW.

I found it to be a really great tool. I ran the Code Auditor against our Access 2 .NET product (built with VS.NET 2003) and the Code Auditor helped me find things and get them done post haste. I think I fixed most things in 2 or 3 hours while watching tv. That’s pretty sweet for an application thats very large and complex. The Code Auditor also works with VS 2005.

Also check out the other SSW products including SSW eXtreme Emails!!

VS 2005 Adoption

Ken Spencer — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:01:00 GMT

The developer community is excited about the approaching Visual Studio 2005 launch. Developers love Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft’s customers can’t wait to deploy it. 32X just closed a deal where I convinced the dev team to move to 2005 in 5 hours. They were wowed by cool features like the class designer but also features like the new win form toolbar and such. One of the driving features they want is the new click once deplolyment feature.

Today (8/22/05) I found this link http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/. VS 2005 is going hot in early Sep with the Release Candidate hitting the streets. This is great news as the RC should be rock solid. In fact, B2 is pretty solid as I am using it full time and have been for weeks and weeks bulding a new 32X product. VS 2005 blows my mind with how easy it is to use and the power it brings.

VSTO serverdocument class

Ken Spencer — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:41:00 GMT

VSTO 2.0 rocks. One of the cool things is the serverdocument class. It lets you access documents without even have office installed. This allows you to dig into a document and get things out of it like chached datasets.

VB.NET 2.0 Rocks - Smaller than C#

Ken Spencer — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:24:00 GMT

I am teaching a Ascend class on VS2005 in Paris now (June 27,2005).

Started a VB vs C# discussion.

One of the guys said VB.NET used to gen noop lines in msil and it bloated the exe in 1.1.

So he tried it in 2.0. Now VB does not do it but C# does so the C# exe is larger than the VB one.

3 cheers for the VB team.

TechEd 2005

Ken Spencer — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:47:00 GMT

WOW.

Just home Thursday night from TechEd. What a week.

Tons of folks are interested in VS2005 for many reasons.

Productivity like never before
Ease of maintaining applications
New language features
New Team Systems features will change the way software is created and delivered

The convention center was packed the entire week. It reminded me of the old 90s.

Watch for more info on VS2005 and VSTS. The future is brighter now.