I have had the extreme pleasure of working with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services lately (notice the extreme sarcasm in my tone). I am working on a project for a large client and one part of the project requires I enhance a report to support multiple languages. This post is not about localization...

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I have been having a few Vista problems lately and paved my system and put Windows XP Pro back on it. I figured this was a good time to setup my development environment the way I wanted it. My goal was to have Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 on the same system. Visual Studio 2005 Environment...

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Scott Guthrie has a nice post about what to uninstall BEFORE installing the RTM version of Visual Studio 2008. Possible components are: Remove "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 Beta" Remove "Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5" Remove "Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 Design Tools" Remove...

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Now that Visual Studio 2008 has been released we are one step closer to having the ASP.NET MVC Framework in our hands. This is one of the biggest pieces of Microsoft technology, in my opinion, that will change ASP.NET development for the better. Since I don't have the ASP.NET MVC Framework in my hands...

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Well, today is a big day for Microsoft developers, Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 has shipped . This is great news and should lead to other releases I am personally waiting for, including the ASP.NET MVC Framework. Chris Bowen talks about the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit on his blog...

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So, for one of my clients we use Team Foundation Server for our source control, overall it's pretty good. I am working on a project for a client and we have two versions of the application. The new version is the one in active development but we still need to fix bugs and make some feature updates to...

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Look at the news on Chris Bowen's Blog : Major Visual Studio 2008 Announcements Today . It looks like Visual Studio 2008 will be released to manufacturing by the end of November 2007. This will be great news and will assure my team we can continue with our .NET 3.5 work, knowing we can have a released...

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Scott Guthrie posted about a hotfix available for VS 2005 to fix a performance issue when debugging ASP.NET applications by pressing F5 to start debugging. This has been one of my pet peeves using ASP.NET debugging, the startup time is horrible. I originally thought it was some of the third-party controls...

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In case you missed it, Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 along with the .NET Framework 3.5 is out. Scott Guthrie has a great overview of the changes and how to get it. If you don't want to travel all the way to Scott's site, you can find the installation versions of VS 2008 here . My favorite way to check out...

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Version 1.1 of Ruby in Steel has been released . This is a Ruby development environment that is an add-in to Visual Studio 2005 and becomes an integral part of the environment. I live in Visual Studio much of my day and being able to create Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications within Visual Studio is...

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