A little snippet that I use from time to time when I need information on how long something takes. Type ‘sw’ (without the quotes) and tab-tab . Installation is easy, just create a file called “sw.snippet” in your %Documents%\Visual Studio 2008\Code Snippets folder and paste the following in the file...
This has taken us some time; depending on which environment you are, telling Visual Studio 2008 for Database Professionals Edition (or simply DataDude) what user it should use to deploy the SQL scripts, during an automated build. We're working with Windows XP users, Windows Vista users and Windows...
Hello again, long time no write. I must apologise for my absence, I have been involved in a fairly large personal project which occupied the very little remaining intellectual capability I have left after my day job - not to mention time. What I learned during that time can wait for another time, however...
Grigori Melnik announced the February 2008 release of the Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) and Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX). GAT and GAX can be used to extend Visual Studio and automate development tasks from within the Visual Studio IDE. It's great to see that after a series of CTP versions...
Yesterday I wrote an article on the property snippet in Visual Studio 2008 and that it had changed from Visual Studio 2005. Only a few hours later, I questioned myself if even a few people might be interested in this. Not because of the snippet, but because of the abilities that Visual Studio 2008 and...
I got an e-mail with the question how to turn off automatic checking for updates, when you're doing a manual check for updates with ClickOnce . Strangely enough I forgot to mention this in my previous article. The above dialog window can be obtained in the properties window of your project (Right...
Forget about VPC, VMWare and the likes, I finally got it on my laptop! Let's play... Oh, by the way, after I've finished Call of Duty 4. This game ROCKS! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008 , .NET Framework 3.5 , .NET 3.5 , Team System
I'm writing some applications and demos for the Summer Class using the .NET Compact Framework 3.5. For one of them I need the internet, but couldn't connect. Some problem about the device emulator that can't connect due to Virtual PC. I've found the solution now and wanted to share it...
UPDATE : It seems the SQL team actually have build a solution . A while ago I wrote some articles on System.Transactions and the fact that it's almost impossible to use the Lightweight Transaction Manager (LTM) and not get bumped up to a distributed transaction and use MSDTC. When you look at the...