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Archive for the ‘Visual Studio’ Category

April 3rd, 2008

Heroes Happen Here Event in Indianapolis

Today I’m attending the Microsoft Heroes Happen Here event in downtown Indianapolis. I’m attending as part of the developer track and the session I’m in is being led by Patrick Foley, ISV Software Architect Evangelist for Microsoft.
He’s briefly running through the “wave” of applications that are currently released and in the pipeline for future […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

December 29th, 2007

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit

After surfing around the Microsoft website this evening I found a link to download a training kit for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. I’ve downloaded Visual Web Developer 2008 and have been meaning to get some time invested in teaching myself more about the differences between it and Visual Web Developer Express 2005.
I’m not […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

October 15th, 2007

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 DVD Locked-Up My Computer

This past weekend I participated in a technology meeting/seminar called IndyTechFest. At the meeting I was able to hear a number of speakers on a variety of topics. In one seminar I got a DVD of the new Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 release on DVD.
I tried to install it today and popped it into […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

October 4th, 2007

Bill Gates Flashback

Wow! This guy was a looker wasn’t he? This picture now appears on the Microsoft homepage promoting the new versions of Visual Studio Express versions.

You can say what you want. If I grew up looking like that and now had achieved and owned we he does…you can call me a geek any day of […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

August 23rd, 2007

Microsoft Offers Assistance with Visual Studio Problems

One of the most active topics on this website when it comes to comments is this post about Problems With Visual Studio 2005. With 157 comments there have been numerous people who have shared their frustrations with the software application.
Cameron McColl with Microsoft has shared the latest comment and encourages our readers to contact the […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 24th, 2007

Contact Name for Visual Studio IDE Assistance

Suma Sushilendra with Microsoft recently commented on an earlier post about Problems with Visual Studio 2005. He’s provided his contact information for anyone that has problems with the IDE and would like to get some assistance.
Hi,
I am Suma Sushilendra from C# IDE team in Visual Studio. Please feel free to contact me at […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

April 28th, 2007

Visual Web Developer Express: Follow-up with Sites and Resources

Just a quick follow-up on my previous post. I’m an idiot, the reason I can’t edit those is because I was trying to use a View. You can’t edit a SQL View, which is why the options wouldn’t let me select what I wanted.
Now, I’ll just be figuring out a work-around for that since much […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

March 28th, 2007

Beginning Developer Resources

Are you interested in learning some more skills with regards to Visual Studio? Microsoft may be offering something you’ll be interested in pursuing further then.
Welcome to the Beginner Developer Learning Center - a centralized learning environment specifically targeted to beginning programmers. Here you’ll find a rich array of learning content that starts with the very […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

February 28th, 2007

Visual Studio 2005 Help on the Way?

With all the activity and comments surrounding the posts on this site discussing Visual Studio 2005 and the problems people are experiencing, we’ve gotten the attention of some Microsoft folks that work on the Visual Studio team.
They’ve given me a performance diagnostic tool to use and instructions, but I no longer have VS2005 installed with the […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

February 26th, 2007

When Your Software Experiences Amnesia

I’ve had a couple of experiences this week where software that I’ve had installed for months and have run multiple times in the month, week or even day doesn’t seem to remember who I am.

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Is it a bad sign when your own software denies they’ve even met you before? What causes this? i would expect […]

By Jason Bean -- 5 comments