Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

I was presented with a Microsoft MVP Award for Visual Developer – Team System

January 2, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

Yesterday morning I received an email congratulating me on my award, I would like to say I am very excited about receiving this. I have enjoyed very much helping the Ottawa .NET Community and will continue to in 2008. All I can say is WOW! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio Team System, MVP

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Team System

Merry Christmas

December 25, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

Have a very Merry Christmas. I can’t wait for the Turkey dinner!

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Visual Studio 2008 Add-ons you’ll want to install

December 24, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax Templates Web Deployment Projects Silverlight 1.1 tools ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools If you’ve got a Team Foundation Server you might want to install these as well: Team Foundation Server Power Tools Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Team Explorer 2008 I put this […]

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VS 2008

Storyboard Designer – A Visual Studio Shell application sample

December 19, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

If you have been looking for a StoryBoarding tool you might want to check out this project on CodePlex which integrates into the Visual Studio IDE. Storyboard Designer – A Visual Studio Shell application sample

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A developer’s strayings : Don’t let IE local cache drive you crazy!

December 16, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

This is a great blog post for web developers, and also one of the reasons I use the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar and set the option Cache | Always Refresh from Server as I have been burned by this issue myself before. A developer’s strayings : Don’t let IE local cache drive you crazy! […]

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ASP.NET 2.0

Oracle 11g R1 x64 on Vista

December 16, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

I installed the latest version of Oracle 11g R1 from their download site. The only issue I have experienced after the installation was done is that "nmefwmi.exe" crashes. This process is linked to the OracleDBConsole service. The only way I have gotten around this error is to stop the OracleDBConsole service. The database itself is […]

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ASP.NET Ajax Extensions and SharePoint Service 3.0 SP1

December 14, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

I got the Office Server SP1 installed on my MOSS development machine the other day and thought it would be a great time to try building a Ajax WebPart. These are the steps I did to prepare my WSS/MOSS environment for the Ajax Extensions: Download the ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax Extensions and installed them Modified the […]

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Windows SharePoint Services

ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

December 9, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is a preview of new functionality being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET. The release includes an ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Silverlight controls for ASP.NET, ADO.NET Data Services, Entity Framework runtime, and new features for ASP.NET AJAX. Information and Download Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET 3.5

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