Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

According to Brian Harry’s post this beta is might fine!  If Microsoft is willing to support it in a production environment it must be a stable release.  I for one am willing to make the jump. Canadian Developers : Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

You can grab Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 from MSDN or here.  Microsoft is also releasing a "Go Live" license for VS2008.  This is very cool! After reading Scott Guthrie’s blog the past little while I have been quite excited to get a look at this version. Now if only […]

  Visual Studio 2008 will ship at the end of 2007Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 will be available later this summerSQL Server 2008 will ship middle of 2008SQL Server 2008 preview is available nowWindows Server 2008 (code name “Longhorn Server”) to RTM end of 2007 Awesome news!

  Oracle has released a new beta version of this fantastic add-in for Visual Studio, the new features in this release include: Enhanced integration with Visual Studio 2005 Improved ASP.NET web developer support Support for automatic code generation in Microsoft Office projects An Oracle Database Project to provide source control of Oracle SQL scripts An […]

All of you with a premium MSDN subscription can now download the Expression Studio iso.  It contains: Expression WebExpression BlendExpression DesignerExpression Media Expression Media Encoder was still only available from the website (preview), it will be included with Expression Media.

Our .NET User Group had another successful luncheon presentation, Will Au from Cre8Object was asked if he would do a presentation on MOSS 2007 and he accepted.  Will brought one of his developers Dominic Plouffe to do the presentation with him and they did a fantastic job.  Dominic will be posting the presentation and code samples to his blog […]

So I moved into RTM territory on the week-end.  I upgraded my installation of Vista RC1 x64 to Vista Ultimate x64 which although took quite a while, worked flawlessly — I only received one (1) warning related to SQL Server 2005 (probably since some of those issues will be addressed in SP2 for SQL2K5).  The […]

I have been trying to download the x64 edition of Vista since yesterday and this evening it appears they have pulled it from the site.  Very strange! My download terminated around 3 PM EST today and I haven’t been able to get it started again since, after I logged back into MSDN it has vanished. […]

If you create an .aspx page based on a master and the master page is not currently opened for edit inside Visual Studio you will find that your asp tags on your .aspx page have the dreaded red squiggly underneath them.  It will be fixed in SP1. Go check out Scott Gu’s article on this gotchya. 

Last night I logged on to MSDN and was greeted with new x32 and x64 downloads for Windows Vista, I requested my product key and started my download of the x64 edition (only 10 hours to go!)  I wonder what Microsoft’s bandwidth charges are going to be this month…. Don’t foget to download Office 2007 also. […]