Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

WebsiteSpark provides software licenses that you can use for 3 years at no upfront cost (there is only an exit fee of $100 payable upon exit from the program).  Once enrolled, you can download and use the following software from Microsoft: 3 licenses of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition 1 license of Expression Studio 3 […]

ReSharper 4.5 has gone public beta, and the official release is just a few weeks away. ReSharper 4.5 brings the following set of improvements: Performance and memory consumption: When working on large solutions, you’ll feel a great deal of difference between ReSharper 4.1 and 4.5. New solution-wide warnings and suggestions: Analyze usage of non-private types […]

The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft’s entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework.  Using the Web Platform Installer’s user interface, you can choose to install either specific products or the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto […]

If you’ve just installed IE8 beta 2 and recorded a web test you’ll notice the browser is making some requests to the following URL: https://urs.microsoft.com/urs.asmx You will have to disable the SmartScreen Filter located under the Safety Toolbar button Once disabled your web tests will record as they did before. Technorati Tags: Internet Explorer 8,Visual […]

This is a regression from RTM but Bill Barnett has a blog posting discussing the problem and source code for a Web Test plug-in which can be added to each Web Test to get around the problem. Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008 SP1,Visual Studio Team System Tester Edition 2008 SP1

If you’ve been holding off installing SQL Server 2008 your wait is over.  You can download the updates here: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 and the TFS Installation Guide .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or Complete Visual Studio 2008 SP1: ISO or setup or readme NOTE:  If you’ve installed a Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix or Visual […]

Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0 is a software package particularly designed by Microsoft to help middle school students learn computer programming. It consists of the following five components: Visual Sort Designer Control Visual Search Designer Control Visual Declarative Designer Assistant Class Designer Visual Programming Flow Chart You can download the add-in here.

  Source Analysis comes with a set of default rule analyzers covering approximately 200 best practices. These rules cover the following: Layout of elements, statements, expressions, and query clauses Placement of curly brackets, parenthesis, square brackets, etc Spacing around keywords and operator symbols Line spacing Placement of method parameters within method declarations or method calls […]

  ReSharper 4 Full Edition and C# Edition provide comprehensive support for C# 3.0, including LINQ, implicitly typed locals and arrays, extension methods, automatic properties, lambda expressions, object and collection initializers, anonymous types, expression trees, and partial methods. In addition to enhanced productivity features, ReSharper 4.0 beta offers several new features for C# 3.0 including: […]