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Gaia Ajax Widgets 3.0 "Glory" released - an Open Source Ajax framework for ASP.NET

ASP.NET Announcements, July 4, 2008

Gaiaware has announced their 3.0 "Glory" release of their popular Ajax framework. Some of the news are: 4 New Widgets: Extended Button, Extended Panel, Calendar and Slider 8 Widgets Compl...

Create a Vista Gadget using Visual Studio IDE

The Code Project Latest Articles, July 1, 2008

This article describe how to use Visual Studio for develop Vista Gadget...

What version <i>am</i> I using?

mikes web log, June 30, 2008

I'm running ASP.NET version 3.5. Or am I? The evidence is a little ... confusing. Let's have a look.If I open VWD 2008 Express and click Help > About, I get this:The New Web Site dialog box says this:...

Sync your Visual Studio settings with Live Mesh!

Laurent Duveau, June 30, 2008

Did you know that you can use Live Mesh to share and sync your Visual Studio settings between computers ? Here is how to do this in Vista (with Live Mesh client installed): Go to your VS2008 fold...

Is This An Error?

AspNetResources.com articles, news and updates, June 29, 2008

Here’s a dialog box from Visual Studio 2008 Team System: This begs the question: is this an error? No, it isn’t. The last time I was giving my usability presentation at the Philly Code...

Tip of the Day: Clear your ClickOnce application store

the telerik blogs, June 24, 2008

ClickOnce is a great technology that blurs the line between web and client(windows) applications. You can use it to easily deploy windows forms and WPF (through XBAP) app's. However there is common pr...

Faster Search Results with the VS.NET IDE's Incremental Search Feature

DevX: .NET Feed, June 24, 2008

Learn about a search method that is faster than using the Find dialog search....

The answer is: 42

Vault of Thoughts, June 24, 2008

I'm having some very strange problems lately with my Visual Studio. From time to time, a random feature just stops working. From not being able to pin/unpin windows, through random component not inst...

WPF/XBAP IOException: Cannot locate resource app.xaml

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, June 24, 2008

I'm working on an XBAP project where deploying it involves publishing it as a ClickOnce manifest using Visual Studio 2008's publishing features. I'm working with the RTM version Visual Stu...

Expression Encoder 2 publish to Silverlight Streaming plugin

Laurent Duveau, June 20, 2008

Expression Encoder 2 is out, but you might wonder where is the Publish to Silverlight Streaming feature ?? Remember you had to install a plugin for that purpose. You still need a plugin and the update...

Getting Started with the Windows Live Tools

DevX: .NET Feed, June 20, 2008

Windows Live Tools brings a set of Windows Live services right into your Visual Studio development environment....

How to get up to speed with Team Foundation Server

Code Climber, June 20, 2008

Lately Ive been designing and implementing the migration of development team from Visual Source Safe, with Excel based bug tracking and no defined development policies to TFS. Ive only been a user of...

Tip of the Day: Remove the most annoying Visual Studio shortcut - F1

the telerik blogs, June 19, 2008

Have you pressed F1 in Visual Studio? Did you wait a couple of minutes cursing it? I did. And I found a cure, a very simple cure - remove the F1 shortcut. Here are the simple steps: in Visual Studio ...

PDC Buzz on the Blogsphere

PDC05: Developer Powered, June 19, 2008

PDC is about the future and is the event to attend.  Just read what Jon Box says, "In my opinion, if I was going to choose one technical event to attend in any year, my first choice will &n...

Visual Studio Tools

Steven Smith, June 17, 2008

I've been meaning to post something about two awesome and competing toolsets that recently have some news to report.  First, my friends at DevExpress won both the Attendee's Pick : Overall Winner...

Microsoft DreamSpark - Free Professional Tools for Students

Colt Kwongs Blog, June 14, 2008

Just see this DreamSpark program on the Visual Studio home page and it is definitely a good news for students. (Personally, I'm glad to see that this program covers and beneficial to student...

Community Article: Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Word (Beth Massi)

The Visual Basic Team, June 13, 2008

Just released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center, a new article Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 from a member of our Italian .NET communi...

FIX: The Visual Studio build engine may stop responding when you build a solution in Visual Studio 2005

kbAlertz.com :: Visual Studio 2005, June 12, 2008

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Resharper 4.0 Released

<Rolog>, June 10, 2008

Resharper 4.0 is now RTM. You can read more about the new features of Resharper 4.0 here. If you haven't used Resharper before, I strongly suggest you give it a try. It's one of my favorite Visual Stu...

Expression Blend 2.5 June preview FAQ

Laurent Duveau, June 10, 2008

Following my Silverlight 2 beta 2 Mega-FAQ here is a FAQ on Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 preview as announced at TechEd 2008: Is customer support offered with the Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Prev...

Managing Settings in Visual Studio

Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET, June 9, 2008

Last week I was talking some folks at TechEd and it seemed customized settings of Visual Studio came up in a few conversations. As a frequent speaker I am starting to learn some of the tricks of the t...

VS2008 SP1 Beta: DON'T install without first backing up your settings!

eXtensible mind, June 8, 2008

I lost them all in the process :((((...

VS2008 SP1 Beta: DON'T install without first backing up your settings!

eXtensible mind, June 5, 2008

I lost them all in the process :(((( ...

Building Better Software: Tips and Tools to Improve Your Applications

Bill Evjens Blog, June 5, 2008

I attended a session (title above) by the famous Doug Seven. Doug is always one of the better speakers out there and he covered how to construct your projects to work with various systems that improve...

Visual Studio Extensions for WSS (VSeWSS) v1.2 Released

Federal Developer Weblog, June 5, 2008

Version 1.2 of the Visual Studio extensions for WSS has been released and available for download.  Version 1.2 provides support for Visual Studio 2008 in building SharePoint-based solutions. ...

VSTS 2008, Web Tests and using Fiddler

Glavs Blog, June 3, 2008

I have been doing some performance and load testing of a web application I have been working on lately. Most of my previous experience was with the 2005 flavour of VSTS and I was keen to play with the...

TechEd 2008 Happenings

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, June 3, 2008

Technorati Tags: TechEd I'm going to be at the TechEd bloggers lounge on Wednesday, June 4th from 3 to 4pm to discuss and answer questions about the Unified Communications works Clarity did for th...

Test, Build, Test, Build

Joe Brinkman, June 2, 2008

I have been having some fun recently with TDD or Test Driven Development. For those of you who who haven't experienced this development technique the concept is simple in theory, but is such a paradig...

Announcing Visual Studio MythWeek!!

Federal Developer Weblog, June 1, 2008

We are celebrating Visual Studio Myth Week from June 2-6.  Are you curious to find out what it is all about? Please stop by during/after the week at http://www.mythweek.com to learn mor...

Dark Side with Blue Hues

JohnPapa.net, May 31, 2008

I have many colleagues who have touted the merits of dark backgrounds in Visual Studio and I have tried several variations, yet I always end up back on white. It is not so much that the background nee...

Utilizing your .NET projects Automated Acceptance Tests on Crystal Reports - Part 2

ASPAlliance.com - The #1 ASP.NET Community, May 29, 2008

In the second part of this series, Eric shows how to automatically incorporate testing report output from your crystal reports using Fitnesse and Visual Studio 2008. After providing a short overview, ...

Pimp my IDE talk at EnergizeIT

Laurent Duveau, May 25, 2008

Here is a link to download the content I used for my quick talk at EnergizeIT Toronto ("Pimp my IDE" aka customize Visual Studio 2008): The blog post I showed: http://www.hanselman.com/...

Free Visual Studio Plug-in to Format your Mark-Up !!

Misfit Geek, May 24, 2008

Daniel Crenna shared my frustration that Visual Studio drag-n-drop doesn't always leave our markup nicely formatted. So, he wrote a plug-in to do it for us. Click [ HERE ] to get it for...

Free Visual Studio Plug-in to Format your Mark-Up !!

Misfit Geek, May 24, 2008

Daniel Crenna shared my frustration that Visual Studio drag-n-drop doesn't always leave our markup nicely formatted. So, he wrote a plug-in to do it for us. Click [ HERE ] to get it for...

Visual Studio Configuration Manager does not provide a Scrollbar

kbAlertz.com :: Visual Studio 2005, May 22, 2008

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Free video series on Getting Started with Visual Studio Express 2005

ASP.NET Announcements, May 22, 2008

 Here is a good beginners series on Getting Started with Visual Studio Express 2005: Part 1 - Installing - http://idealprogrammer.com presents a quick 2-minute tutorial shows how to install ...

Do you have an opinion about Visual Studio and .NET Framework developer Help content?

The Visual Basic Team, May 22, 2008

Our Help content architect, Kathleen McGrath, has created a short, anonymous survey (15 questions/10 mins.) to gather input on how and when the Visual Studio and .NET Framework developer Help content ...

You are not Prompted to Edit a file under Source Control when you begin making changes

kbAlertz.com :: Visual Studio 2005, May 21, 2008

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Enabling SharePoint Intellisense in VS2008

Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com, May 21, 2008

In authoring code for SharePoint, you will often write files that are XML and driven by the wss.xsd schema. OOTB, VS2008 will not provide you with the intellisense of Share...

Visual Studio 2008 Team Test Issues

Glavs Blog, May 21, 2008

I have had ongoing problems getting various tests to work using my installation of VS2008 Team Suite. Initially, I had a problem running unit tests (see here), then sometime after that, I had other ni...

Visual Designers Dont Scale

K. Scott Allen, May 20, 2008

Microsoft has a long history of being visual. They've made quite a bit of money implementing graphical user interfaces everywhere from operating system products to database servers, and of course, de...

Presenting with Visual Studio 2008

Scott Cates WebLog, May 19, 2008

I just got out of a meeting with the famous Sara "tip of the day" Ford. These are always great meetings, because you're guaranteed to leave knowing more about Visual Studio than when you arr...

Intellisense for jQuery

Misfit Geek, May 16, 2008

I'm a jQuery Fan ! Lance Fisher has made an update to jQuery for Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008 [ Click here to read about it and download jQuery with the Intellisense updates. ] ...

Error Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta? Then Uninstall KB944899

FTPOnline ASP.NET Channel, May 16, 2008

Microsoft warned developers on Thursday that if they're getting an error when installing the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta released Monday, they need to uninstall the hotfix KB944899 that came with the ...

Expression Blend for Programmers

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, May 16, 2008

I have set out on an integrated set of videos, tutorials and blog posts on the subject of using Expression Blend from the point of view of Silverlight 2 Programmers.  To get things going, I creat...

Intellisense for jQuery

Misfit Geek, May 16, 2008

I'm a jQuery Fan ! Lance Fisher has made an update to jQuery for Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008 [ Click here to read about it and download jQuery with the Intellisense updates. ] ...

Intellisense for jQuery

Misfit Geek, May 16, 2008

I'm a jQuery Fan ! Lance Fisher has made an update to jQuery for Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008 [ Click here to read about it and download jQuery with the Intellisense updates. ] ...

SharePoint Workflow Wizard in Visual Studio 2008

The Code Project Latest Articles, May 16, 2008

SharePoint Workflows Wizard in Visual Studio 2008...

IronRuby in Action by Ivan

Code Climber, May 15, 2008

Yet another friend of mine is writing a book. After Keyvan with his "Professional Visual Studio Extensibility", today Ivan Porto Carrero announced his book IronRuby in Action. It will be published b...

Announcing: Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint – Developer User Guide

Misfit Geek, May 14, 2008

Microsoft is pleased to announce the release of the User Guide, Samples and Walkthroughs for the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.1. The Visual Studio 2005 extensi...

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