Contents tagged with Visual Studio 2008
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Automated Web Testing
A quick note of interest to ASP.NET developers and testers: Visual Studio Magazine has posted my review of Automation Design Canvas, a fine Web testing product from ArtOfTest. I see that Telerik is also selling this as Telerik WebUI Test Studio.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 For Developers, Please
I notice Microsoft is releasing Windows Server 2008 Foundation for small businesses which doesn't include Hyper-V. How about a workstation version *with* Hyper-V?
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Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released
Important: Run the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=121685&clcid=0x409.
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IntelliSense Fosters Inattention
I count on IntelliSense a lot when programming - especially in C# which (arrggh!) is case-sensitive. However, I just had a case where IntelliSense led me to make a mistake that cost me half an hour.
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Visual Studio 2008 Command Window and 'The first 100' Items
Here I am debugging JavaScript in an ASP.NET 3.5 site using Visual Studio 2008. In the Command Window, I type:
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Found! ASP.NET Dynamic Data Documentation
Just to save others from having to drill down a million levels to locate the Dynamic Data online documentation, here's a convenient starting point, Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data. (http://vs2008sp1docs.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ms336422.aspx)
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Come Say 'Hello' at Energize IT 2008 in Toronto!
Hey folks,
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Code Snippets Manager in VWD 2008
I want to use snippets rather than clumsy typing during my talk at the Victoria .NET code camp on Saturday. New to snippets, I read the online documentation about accessing the Code Snippets Manager. Go to Tools --> Code Snippets Manager they say. Easy, right? Nope! I don't have that item in VWD. Does anyone else?
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Canadians: Register Now for the VS 2008 Launch Events!
Sheesh! I had a nasty shock yesterday when I went to register for the Vancouver Launch & Technical Readiness event on March 4th - it said the event was full! What?!?! Already?!?!
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The FTP In Copy Web Site is Slow!
Although Visual Web Developer 2008 makes it convenient to connect to a remote site, doing so with the built-in FTP client is a pain in the butt. There's something wrong with the VS-embedded module that handles FTP transfers. Am I the only one seeing slow screen painting and refresh in this client app? It's like everything is working at quarter speed on a single thread. It comes to a dead stop for no reason.