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Folks were hassling me in the comments for not posting the picosecond that .NET 3.5 SP1 came out (or, as I like to call it, .NET 3.6 - although the bosses really don't like that). First, the obvious stuff. Should I fear this release? I wouldn't. The SP1
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Yes, now it is released and you'll get it at: http://www.asp.net/downloads/3.5-sp1/ Interesting point regarding some old posts of mine e.g Potential solution for "Validation of viewstate MAC failed" http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joteke/archive/2007/08/14/Potential-solution-for-_2200_Validation-of-viewstate-MAC-failed_2200_.aspx
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I've lately crushed on SQL2005's business intelligence. See, it's nice to learn the greatest features of a product when new version is almost out there. :-) Well, as probably many others, I almost instantly uninstalled VS2005 after VS2008
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The Beta of .NET 3.5 and VS2008 SP1 is out . I'm sure everyone is blogging the heck out of it, so I'll try to add my own specific kind of value. There's fixes, many improvements (some subtle, some dramatic), and some new technology. Should You Fear This
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See: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg
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My MSDN for VS2008 started suddenly to raise this error. and I had no idea why. This occurred on my home machine which is XP Pro with latest upgrades. I tried following steps: - I uninstalled and reinstalled entire MSDN Library for VS2008 - I tried to
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Mike Volodarsky has put up a nice article about VS2008 and IIS 7.0 together. Check it out: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/387/using-visual-studio-2008-with-iis-70/ Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Share
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See: http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/archives/2008/02/19/microsoft-giving-away-free-developer-software-to-students/ "Microsoft is announcing right now DreamSpark, a new program that gives free developer, designer and related software to college
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Scott Guthrie announced the release of the .NET Framework Source Code ! Scott Hanselman has an excellent post on how to step through the Framework source as well as a caveat on 64-bit installation. Another fantastic source on how to actually step into...(
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MS has released ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax templates for VS2008. See: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/12/19/using-vs2008-to-target-net-framework-2-0-with-asp-net-ajax.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live
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I suspect there could be some VS2008 beta uninstallation going on becoming days and weeks. :-) I found following instructions on http://www.microsoft.com/express/support/uninstall/default.aspx This article applies to pre-Release versions of Microsoft
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In case you use VS2008 Beta 2 VPC, you should note that Visual Studio 2008 VPCs are expiring on November 1st, 2007 Please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2007/10/25/vs2008-beta2-vpcs-expiring-prematurely.aspx for more information, Share this
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It's funny when you get reply to things you don't remember you've asked for. :-) I had given feedback somewhere Oct 2006 in Microsoft Connect about System.Collections.Generic not being imported by default in ASP.NET 2.0. E.g you had to manually
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Microsoft is taking one more step to the open community / world. Scott Guthrie is announcing in his blog that Microsoft is going to release the source code of .NET Framework with 3.5 and VS2008 release.
Many people know that you've already been able to see the code with external tools such as Reflector however this MS's action provides more since you have access to file comments as well as step into their code while debugging.
See: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx
Scott has collected a list of issues which might occur when working with VS2008/.NET 3.5 beta 2. See the post.
I am one of those people who have emailed Scott to say VS2008 beta 2 is the best VS beta so far. I've had mixed feelings with both VS2005 and VS2003 betas in the past, sometimes they screwed my machine for real (I'm old-fashioned, and don't use Virtual PC at home) and usually they were just slow or some other issues occurred. With VS2008 there hasn't been any signs of anything like that.
Installation worked fine for my XP SP 2. IDE itself has worked smoothly, and has not crashed even once. Yes, 0 crashes so far. And if it has misbehaved at any point due to a possible bug or something, I haven't noticed such, which means it cannot have major issues or they occur on very rare cases (and yes, I really have tried to make it crash :-) ). I certainly have found things which could be improved, especially productivity features in JS intellisense, but I cannot claim they would've been bugs.
Only true complaint I've had so far, is that JavaScript Intellisense has been slow when adding SCRIPT tag for the first time on a page and typing the first letters of the script. Probably some initialization e.g happens at that point which hangs IDE for a couple of seconds.
I'd like to remind that if I'd find an issue, I wouldn't hesitate to report that to MS, since it's the only way they can make things better, if they are told what's wrong. Therefore it is imperative that everyone trying the product tells what they think about it, and especially what's bad and also what's good. That's why MS Connect and the other mediums like ASP.NET Forums are there.
