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Debugging with VS2008 at the Dallas ASP.NET UG
Some time back, I gave a talk at the Dallas ASP.NET User Group on the topic of "Debugging with Visual Studio 2008". In case anyone can find the notes, slides, and demos useful, they are located at http://www.dallasasp.net/Meetings/238.aspx. Some things have changed since Silverlight has gone RTW (Released To Web/World).
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Jing - A Really Great Free Capture Tool
I stumbled across The Jinq Project last week and I think that it's just great. I've had my eye on TechSmith's Camtasia product for a while and will eventually purchase it when I absolutely need it. But for a 5 minute video or screen capture, Jing does the job easily. It may even replace Vista's simple screen capture utility that I use constantly in my work. Jing installs easily and produces SWF files for video and captures the screen for images. The resulting file can be uploaded to ScreenCast for free, for a while, or copied to the hard drive.
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 has finally arrived. It is a warm welcome with the way that my Visual Studio installation "found opportunities to suddenly restart", let's say. The SP1 installation is rather interesting, like the VS2005 service packs were. It takes a very long time to complete, it pops up (and hides) alert windows behind the installation window, it requires the VS2008 DVD, and it requires a reboot if some applications are running such as my Yahoo messenger... Hmmm... So I would suggest that when installing this service pack, stay focused on its progress and start it when you don't need to get work done.
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DBPro How To: Initially Populating an ASP.NET Membership Database
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TFS Reporting Architecture Notes
Here are some notes and a list of questions and answers regarding the TFS Reporting architecture. I gave a presentation at this month's Dallas Visual Studio Team System user group. The topic was TFS Reporting but what we really covered was the TFS reporting architecture. We’ll probably follow-up with a second session of “Effective TFS Reporting” to include demos and the meaning of some of the most used TFS reports. I strongly believe that the TFS Reporting architecture includes several areas that should be understood to effectively and efficiently deliver standard and custom reports. So here are some high points for the benefit of others looking for answers.
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Silverlight 2.0 Webcasts at ISV Innovation
Bill Lodin is presenting a very informative 4-part webcast series on Silverlight 2.0 (beta 1).
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How To: Unit Test a T-SQL Trigger with VSTS Database Edition
In Visual Studio Team System Database Edition, three types of functionality are unit tested; Stored Procedures, Functions, and Triggers. It’s not so obvious how to test a trigger and at this time there are not many examples. This is probably because there are so many different testing needs. Testing the trigger is very similar to the more obvious calls to stored procedures and functions. This example shows how a trigger can be unit tested using the RAISERROR method to cause a test harness failure. Two other methods exist to perform unit testing failures for those complicated tests.
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The hierarchyid Data Type
Last night’s North Dallas .Net User Group meeting was really good. Peter Debetta presented new features on SQL 2008. All of it was really interesting and will eventually be useful. I wouldn’t want to rehash all of the Microsoft documents and other blog information, but I will say that there are some useful features on the way.