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Pre-Order Visual Studio 2010 Professional upgrade today, and save hundreds
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the affordable estimated retail price of $549, a saving of $250. If you use a previous version of Visual Studio or any other development tool then you are eligible for this upgrade. Along with all the great new features in Visual Studio 2010 (see www.microsoft.com/visualstudio ) Visual Studio 2010 Professional includes a 12-month MSDN Essentials subscription which gives you access to core Microsoft platforms: Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter. So visit http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/pre-order-visual-studio-2010 to check out all the...(read more)
[By(Visual Web Developer Team Blog)
:: Date(11/03/2010)]
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Issue with dependent assemblies when rebuilding a WAP and the Workarounds
In Visual Studio 2010, the dependent assembly of a custom control assembly will be deleted from the project’s Bin folder on project clean or rebuild if the project does not contain a reference to that dependent assembly. The result will be a WAP that successfully builds but fails at runtime. When adding a control from such a custom control assembly, both the custom control assembly and the dependent assembly will be added to the bin folder of the WAP. However, only the reference to the primary assembly will be added automatically to the references node of the project, but the reference to the dependent assembly will not. If the dependent assembly is not required at the compile time, then usually, users would not add it to the references node...(read more)
[By(Visual Web Developer Team Blog)
:: Date(11/03/2010)]
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Episode #6 - Julie Lermon on Learning The Entity Framework
Episode #6 - Julie Lermon on Learning The Entity Framework In this episode The Misfit Geek talks with Data Expert Julie Lerman on leanring LINQ to Entities and the Entity Framework. . Resources ...... Julie's Blog Geek Girl Dinners Julie's Book V2 Rough Cuts Julie's Book on Amazon If you are interested in advertising, have suggestions, or advice.... Please CLICK HERE and send them to me. Download Now ! Subscribe Via RSS ... Play Now ! ' /> Click to Play With Flash Read More......(read more)
[By(Misfit Geek: msft)
:: Date(11/03/2010)]
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Did you miss the IIS7 FastCGI Update ?
In case you did, there are some interesting improvements like…. Monitor changes to a file . The module can be configured to listen for file change notifications on a specific file and when that file changes, the module will recycle FastCGI processes for the process pool. This feature can be used to recycle PHP processes when changes to php.ini file occur. To enable this feature use the monitorChangesTo setting in the <fastCgi> configuration element. Real-time tuning of MaxInstances setting . This MaxInstances setting dictates the maximum number of FastCGI processes which can be launched for each application pool. Set it to 0 to let FastCGI module automatically adjust the number of instances up or down based on the system load and number...(read more)
[By(Misfit Geek: msft)
:: Date(11/03/2010)]
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FluentPath: a fluent wrapper around System.IO
.NET is now more than eight years old, and some of its APIs got old with more grace than others. System.IO in particular has always been a little awkward. It’s mostly static method calls ( Path.* , Directory.* , etc.) and some stateful classes ( DirectoryInfo , FileInfo ). In these APIs, paths are plain strings. Since .NET v1, lots of good things happened to C#: lambda expressions, extension methods, optional parameters to name just a few. Outside of .NET, other interesting things happened as well. For example, you might have heard about this JavaScript library that had some success introducing a fluent API to handle the hierarchical structure of the HTML DOM. You know? jQuery . Knowing all that, every time I need to use the stuff in System...(read more)
[By(Tales from the Evil Empire : ASP.NET)
:: Date(10/03/2010)]
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Videos of developer sessions at Oredev (including mine on .net debugging)
Just a quick post to share a link to last years videos for the Oredev developer conference http://oredev.org/video Here is my .net debugging presentation where I show off some windbg + new VS.NET features and apart from all the good developer content, you might also want to check out Scott Hanselmans session on Information Overload and managing the workflow with some tips and tricks on how he manages twitter/facebook/email etc. Thank you to the organizers of Oredev for posting these, Tess Read More......(read more)
[By(If broken it is, fix it you should : ASP.NET)
:: Date(09/03/2010)]
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T4MVC 2.6.13: now officially in MvcContrib, with a few new features
To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to MvcContrib T4MVC page on CodePlex A few weeks back, we announced (mostly on Twitter) that T4MVC was moving into the MvcContrib Codeplex project. I didn’t say much about it at the time because there wasn’t a whole lot to say yet, in the sense that the move had not actually happened. MvcContrib was transitioning from github to Mercurial, and since I wasn’t familiar with either one, I figured I’d wait for that and only have to learn Mercurial. So to make it short, all of this has finally happen, and we can now say that T4MVC is officially part of MvcContrib! Many thanks to Eric Hexter and Jeremy Skinner for helping make this possible. So what difference does it make for it...(read more)
[By(Angle Bracket Percent : ASP.NET)
:: Date(08/03/2010)]
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Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes)
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] We are continuing to make progress on shipping Visual Studio 2010. I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who has downloaded and tried out the VS 2010 Release Candidate, and especially to those who have sent us feedback or reported issues with it. This data has been invaluable in helping us find and fix remaining bugs before we ship the final release. Last month I blogged about a patch we released for the VS 2010 RC that fixed a bad intellisense crash issue. This past week we released two additional patches that you can download and apply to the VS 2010 RC to immediately fix two other common issues...(read more)
[By(ScottGu's Blog)
:: Date(08/03/2010)]
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A few announcements for those in the UK
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This a quick post to announce a few upcoming events for those in the UK. I’ll be presenting in Glasgow, Scotland on March 25th I’m doing a free 5 hour presentation in Glasgow on March 25th. I’ll be covering VS 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET Web Forms 4, ASP.NET MVC 2, Silverlight and potentially show off a few new things that haven’t been announced yet. You can learn more about the event and register for free here . There are only a few spots left – so register quickly. When the event fills up there will be a wait-list – please add yourself to this as we’ll be encouraging people who won’t be able to attend to...(read more)
[By(ScottGu's Blog)
:: Date(08/03/2010)]
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Video Trip Report: If this is Tuesday, this must be Cairo
This last week over a 7 day period, I went to Munich, Cairo and Dubai. I presented in three keynotes and did a total of 10 sessions. I crossed 12 time zones and missed my kids. I talked to/with/at about 3000 people. I'm utterly shattered. I took some video while I was travelling with my Creative Vado HD and slapped it into Windows Live Movie Maker just now. Here's my trip montage. You could call this either "The Glamourous Life of a Technical Speaker" or "If this is Tuesday, this must be Cairo" or "Scott needs to learn to say No." It was great fun, I spoke at VSOne in Munich. I talked about .NET 4 and ASP.NET MVC. We also had a nice Nerd Dinnner . Then I headed over to Cairo Code Camp and the turnout was...(read more)
[By(Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - ASP.NET)
:: Date(05/03/2010)]
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Use ASP.NET 4 Browser Definitions with ASP.NET 3.5
We updated the browser definitions files included with ASP.NET 4 to include information on recent browsers and devices such as Google Chrome and the iPhone. You can use these browser definition files with earlier versions of ASP.NET such as ASP.NET 3.5. The updated browser definition files, and instructions for installing them, can be found here: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/releases/view/41420 The changes in the browser definition files can cause backwards compatibility issues when you upgrade an ASP.NET 3.5 web application to ASP.NET 4. If you encounter compatibility issues, you can install the old browser definition files in your ASP.NET 4 application. The old browser definition files are included in the download file referenced above. What...(read more)
[By(Stephen Walther on ASP.NET MVC)
:: Date(05/03/2010)]
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Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls”
A hotfix is now available for issues most commonly described as " Controls are not being recognized in the code-behind " and " Editing existing .aspx regenerates .aspx.designer.(cs), but most of the controls are now missing ”. This hotfix can be downloaded from: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=27117 The update addresses the following Connect bugs: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=532641 : Cannot embed standard asp.net controls in Ajax Control Toolkit TabContainer http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=533071 : Controls in CreateUserWizard WizardStep not visible as before http://connect.microsoft...(read more)
[By(Visual Web Developer Team Blog)
:: Date(05/03/2010)]
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Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from ORCS Web
ORCS Web has updated their Hosting Sandbox for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC. http://vs2010host.com To learn more about the new Web Deployment features in Visual Studio 2010 check out this Step by Step Walkthrough on Web 1-Click Publish with VS 2010 To provide feedback on the RC please visit the Visual Studio Connect site . You can also contact the Web Tooling team directly by sending mail to vsweb@microsoft.com Ben Byrd | Visual Web Developer Read More......(read more)
[By(Visual Web Developer Team Blog)
:: Date(05/03/2010)]
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How to package and deploy COM component
I’ll use a walkthrough example to show how to package a web application with speech API COM component using Visual Studio 2010. I wrote and tested the sample in Win7 x86 with IIS7.5, and packaged and manually installed to win2k3 x86 IIS6 (which only had 3.5 framework installed). 1. Create a C# 3.5 web application 2. Add COM reference to “Microsoft Speech Object Library” 3. In Default.aspx, add the following between <div> < asp : ScriptManager ID ="ScriptManager1" runat ="server"> </ asp : ScriptManager > < asp : UpdatePanel ID ="UpdatePanel1" runat ="server"> < ContentTemplate > < asp : TextBox ID ="TextBox1" runat ="server" Width ="274px">...(read more)
[By(Visual Web Developer Team Blog)
:: Date(03/03/2010)]
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Tool for generating DGML graphs showing why your object can’t be collected (VisualGCRoot)
Visual Studio.NET 2010 has a new feature that allows you to create nice directed graphs with a markup language called DGML (Directed Graph Markup Language). Visualizing object graphs with DGML Chris Lovett wrote a tool that takes GCRoot output and transforms it to a DGML document so that you can see the roots of an object in a more visual way, and finally Mohamed Mahmoud went one step further and made a debugger extension that does this for you directly. The debugger extension is called VGCRoot and you can get the extension, and some instructions and demos for it here . The VGCRoot extensions If you are looking at a memory dump in windbg and try to figure out why your object is still sticking around, collection after...(read more)
[By(If broken it is, fix it you should : ASP.NET)
:: Date(03/03/2010)]
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