Rather than writing or screenshoting the new multithreaded debugging enhancements in Visual Studio 2008, I thought I'd create a 15' video to demonstrate them. See if you can spot what the bug is before I "discover" it in my demo ;-).

With Orcas supporting multi-targeting it'll be common to work in Orcas with .NET 2.0 projects. Orcas updates projects and solution files but as it turns out it's not difficult to move projects and solutions between VS 2005 and Orcas.

I'm going once again through a conversion from Stock Projects to a WAP project conversion this time for my Web Store. I've done the conversion once before but returned back to stock projects because of a Visual Web Developer requirement. Recently though development on the store has been a l...

A few quick tests to see what JavaScript features show up with Intellisense in the new Orcas Intellisense features. Unfortunately it looks like at least in Orcas Beta 1 a number of common JavaScript scenarios either don't produce proper Intellisense or actually break Intellisense altogether.

What's new in ASP.NET Orcas and Visual Studio 2008

Naysawn, the PM for MSTest, asked that I take a look at the new unit testing features of Orcas, after he read my thoughts on the (sad) current state of MSTest. Unfortunately, I haven't yet had a chance to actually fire up the Orcas VPC to play with it, but Naysawn wrote up a couple of posts describ...

New JavaScript functionality in Visual Studio 2008 + some ASP.NET AJAX bits too by ScottGu

One of the big changes we are making starting with the VS 2008 release is to support what we call "Multi-Targeting" - which means that Visual Studio will now support targeting multiple versions of the .NET Framework, and developers will be able to start taking advantage of the new features...

In a previous post I took a look at building a simple Silverlight application in Visual Studio Orcas. This post shows how to add a button control that comes with the Silverlight SDK. You can see the button in Figure 1.

.NET desktop client apps unite! Microsoft Code Name “Acropolis” is a set of components and tools intended to make it easier for developers to build and deploy .NET client apps.

List some of the important new features coming up in "Orcas" in various areas.

"Visual Studio code name “Orcas” delivers on Microsoft’s vision of smart client applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver the highest quality rich user experiences. This new version enables any size organization to rapidly create more secure, mana...

An introduction to the ListView control in .NET Orcas Beta 1.

"LINQ to SQL is an O/RM (object relational mapping) implementation that ships in the .NET Framework "Orcas" release, and which allows you to model a relational database using .NET classes. You can then query the database using LINQ, as well as update/insert/delete data from it. LI...