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VS.NET Macro To Group and Sort Your Using Statements by findleyd

I try to follow a coding standard for organizing my using statements. System.* goes at the top and then other namespaces grouped together like this: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Configuration; using System.Data; using System...
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A VS.NET Macro to Generate Machine Keys. by findleyd

I needed to create a new machine key for an asp.net site. I found a couple of command line utils out on the web that would create a new key but I thought it would be easier to just have it avail in VS.NET. So, I threw together this little macro that will...
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Scott Guthrie presents at NDDNUG by findleyd

Scott gave a whirlwind presentation to a standing room only crowd at the North Dallas Dot Net User Group tonight. A wide range of topics were covered from IDE tips and tricks to ASP.NET tips to MS AJAX to LINQ and DLINQ (I still like to call it DLINQ...

Suggestions for distributing CTPs as VirtualPC images by findleyd

I finally got around to trying the Sept. CTP of Orcas. I loaded up the VPC images on VPC7 Beta (which seems to perform much better than VPC2004). If this is going to be the way that MS is going to release CTPs in the future here are a few suggestions...
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New version of LearnVisualStudio.NET launched by findleyd

It took us a while but the new version of LearnVisualStudio.NET is live. We've packed a lot into this redesign and we hope that you enjoy the improvements. I'll start with those items that you might not find all that interesting, but are a HUGE improvement...

Scripting stored procs into a data project is useless for me now. by findleyd

This is really frustrating. I used to ba able to script stored procs from the server explorer into a data project. It would create a single file for each proc and would look something like this: IF EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM sysobjects WHERE type = 'P' AND...
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Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite with 1yr MSDN Premium Subscription!!! w000t! by findleyd

A MVP friend of mine dropped one of these on me today: http://weblogs.asp.net/israelio/archive/2006/01/15/435488.aspx It's a free copy of VS.NET 2005 Team Suite with a 1 year Premium MSDN subscription!!!! Thats a $10,939 value!!! He achieved MVP status...

Visual Studio Team Suite Trial Edition and the Express Editions have been posted to MSDN... by findleyd

Looks like the full range of SKUs are now available on MSDN subscriber downloads. Now that .NET 2.0 is released I'm hoping we'll see some new builds of WWF,WPF,WCF,LINQ and Monad.

Visual Studio 2005 here we come... by findleyd

http://weblogs.asp.net/cnagel/archive/2005/08/22/423335.aspx Looks like VS.NET 2005 is headed to the RC stage in September. I've been playing with the Aug CTP and alot has changed for the better since beta2. Looks like Team System will be delayed a bit...
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A nice set of Team System videos by findleyd

My friend Bob over at LearnVisualStudio.net has produced a set of videos about Team System . If you havnt had time to play vith VSTS, like me, these videos will give you a quick way to check out the functionality. Check 'em out over at the Team System...
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