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Integrate FxCop with Visual Studio

Sun, 10 May 2009 08:31:02 GMT

Step by step how to integrate FxCop with Visual Studio.

Microsoft Released Anti-XSS 3.0 Beta and CAT.NET CTP

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:55:29 GMT

Some information and direct download links of Microsoft new security products for .NET developers: Anti-XSS 3.0 Beta and CAT.NET CTP .

What's new for Entity Framework in the VS 2008 SP1?

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:58:49 GMT

Between the Visual Studio 200 SP1 beta and RTM , there are a number of fixes and even a few new things to be found. What's in ADO.NET? Check out this list for what's new in the Entity Framework and Entity Designer.

New System.Data.SQLite with Experimental Support for LINQ

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:06:21 GMT

A new version of System.Data.SQLite from sqlite.phxsoftware.com is available.

Building SSCLI20 (Rotor) in VS2008

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:14:00 GMT

The SSCLI 2.0 was released in March 2006, and the build scripts relied on VS 2005 to work. With VS 2008, a number of things have changed, and SSCLI 2.0 doesn't build with it. I was undertaking the needed mods to the build scripts when I got lazy and decided to see if someone else did it already. Jeremy Kuhne was just this someone. He published the details of getting VS 2008 to build SSCLI on his blog. I followed these meticulous instructions and made a few other changes and was able to get SSCLI to build and pass all the tests that could run on my machine. Perhaps this diff will save you a few minutes of typing.

Downgrade a VS 2008 .sln or .csproj to VS 2005

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:46:02 GMT

I just had to convert a Visual Studio 2008 Solution and Project to Visual Studio 2005. It is actually pretty straight forward. At least in my case...

.Net FCL Source code Released

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:07:43 GMT

Microsoft has released the source code for .Net FCL (Foundation class libraries). Now you can easily debug any method or class present in .Net Base libraries. This paves a very good way for the growth of applications and there by .Net. You wont be stuck up some where while using .net just because your application was malfunctioning because of some .Net library issue or you just want improve the way you use the library objects.

Using VS 2008 to Create New ASP.NET 2.0 with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Project

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:46:02 GMT

Handy guide from Scott Guthrie on how to open and maintain older ASP.NET & AJAX Projects (ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX 1.0).

Get a free copy Visual Studio 2008 Pro - REALLY!

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:46:03 GMT

Its not very straightforward and not everyone may be able to get it, but MS is going to give full Visual Studio 2008 Pro licenses to those who attend any of the events that it is organizing. Its that simple.

Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio - November CTP

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:32:55 GMT

Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio are a set of control add-ins to make incorporating Windows Live services into your Web application easier with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008. This release (November CTP) of Windows Live Tools provides basic functionality associated with building websites using Windows Live Contacts, Windows Live ID authentication, LoginView and Silverlight streaming. This release also provides a project template for creating Windows Live website.

VS 2008 will Treat HTML, CSS Validation issues as Warnings

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:16:02 GMT

You can have your error list only contain VB/C# code-related issues, and not be cluttered with a lot of markup problems.

Nested Master Pages in VS 2008

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:31:02 GMT

A short example video of Nested Master Pages in Visual Studio 2008.

VS 2008 Nested Master Page Support

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:31:01 GMT

VS 2008 designer handles now nested Master Pages