The Developer Highway Code book has been updated

June 5, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Paul Maher announced today on his blog that the updated book is available for download: Download the full book in XPS format Download the full book in PDF format Don’t forget to let him know what you think of the book.

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Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for WSS Version 1.2/VSeWSS v1.2

June 4, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 2 Comments


Tools for developing custom SharePoint applications: Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts, site definitions, and list definitions; and a stand-alone utility program, the SharePoint Solution Generator. Download the User Guide and Samples listed here: The User Guide for this tool can be found here: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions User […]

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Windows SharePoint Services

VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR June CTP

June 4, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


In addition to enabling SQL Server 2008 database projects, the GDR release incorporates many of the previously released Power Tools functionality as well as several new features. The new features include explicit separation of Build and Deploy, separation of Database and Server project, improved project reference support, T-SQL Static Code Analysis and integration with SQL-CLR […]

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Team System

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition to support DB2

June 3, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


IBM and Microsoft have agreed to work together to integrate IBM DB2 database access with Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition. Read the press release here. Technorati Tags: Visual Studio Team System 2008

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Team System

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Capabilities White Papers

May 23, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  These white papers describe the key capabilities of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 in greater depth. Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 is an integrated application life-cycle management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance. These white papers examine the key capabilities of Visual Studio Team System that contribute to the above benefits […]

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Team System

StyleCop:: Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Released

May 23, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  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 […]

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VS 2008

ReSharper 4.0 beta for Visual Studio 2008 is now available for a test drive

May 22, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  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: […]

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VS 2008

Hyper-V RC1 for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition Available

May 20, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


The Release Candidate 1 (RC1) update to the Hyper-V role provides improvements to security, stability, performance, user experience, forward compatibility of configurations, and the programming model. Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Remote Management Updates for the Hyper-V RC1 Role Windows Vista Windows Vista x64 Windows Server 2008 x32  Release Notes for Hyper-V RC1 can […]

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Windows Server

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit

May 1, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  The SharePoint Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services. This toolkit contains two new functions – the ability to perform bulk operations on site collections and a Stsadm operation to update alert e-mails after a Web application has changed URLs. WhitePaper Download x86 Download […]

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SharePoint

Draft Documentation Update for Moving Team Foundation Server from One Hardware Configuration to Another

April 26, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


The documentation related to this procedure was recently updated (still exists as a draft).  You can read about it here at the Visual Studio Team System User Education blog.   Technorati Tags: Visual Studio Team System 2008,Team Foundation Server 2008

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