Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

It has been a few days since the upgrade to TFS 2008 Beta 2 and my in-place upgrade of WSS to version 3 — I have been watching my logs for errors. I started to get these errors in my event log today: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the […]

One of the projects I am working on is getting a site template for the Government of Canada’s new version of its Common Look and Feel v2.0. I am very excited about the potential that MOSS 2007 has to offer and here is an early peek at an alpha version of our CLF 2 column page: One […]

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 Now this is great advice on customizing a SharePoint 2007 master page.  Pay close attention to the comments 🙂 Chris Johnson : Minimal SharePoint Master Page

Check out all the new features of the Oracle 11g ODAC Beta Oracle Data Provider for .NET Features Instant Client Support: Smaller ODP.NET client installationUser-Defined Types: Map Oracle objects and collections to .NET custom types and support REFs to object types Process Database Down Events: ODP.NET automatically frees connections of a downed Data Guard instance […]

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 […]