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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite RTM now available on MSDN subscribers
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite (x86 and x64 WoW) - DVD (English). Date/Time Posted: 2007-11-19 06:46:35 (UTC). Have fun hammering the MSDN download servers

Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 10:12 AM by FransBouma | 13 comment(s)

Alternative Rock
Ever heard the term 'Alternative rock' ? It's a term for rock music which isn't mainstream. Or something. Anyway, read the wikipedia page for the fine print . I'm a metal fan (despite the pile of trance house music I've created in a dark past ) and once...

Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 11:31 AM by FransBouma | 13 comment(s)

VS.NET 2008 Beta 2 / .NET 3.5: Windows Forms ComboBox contains nasty bug.
The Windows Forms combobox control contains a nasty a lot of people who will try .NET 2.0 applications on .NET 3.0 will run into: the Sorted property makes comboboxes unable to bind to data: they stay empty. This is particular bad, because any solid working...

Posted Sunday, July 29, 2007 7:13 PM by FransBouma | 4 comment(s)

Thou Shall Not Work Around Technical Limitations! (whatever they are)
Dan Fernandez responded to my recent blogpost with a follow-up on the Jamie vs. Microsoft soap. He used an analogy to try to make his point: To paraphrase an analogy from that post, this would be comparable to a 3rd party company working around the technical...

Posted Saturday, June 02, 2007 12:19 PM by FransBouma | 43 comment(s)

The endless fall to uselessness of MS Connect
I ran into a new low for Microsoft Connect product feedback. Check this item (you have to login with your MS Passport/Live ID. I don't know why). The title is "When will .NET 2.0 service pack 1 be out (IF ever) ?", I posted this on April 17th. The title...

Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:05 PM by FransBouma | 13 comment(s)

ADO.NET Entity Framework cut from .NET 3.5/Orcas.
First, read the announcement here . Had that deja-vu yet? Me too . But let's not get into that right now, because I do think the Entity Framework situation is different from the WinFS/ObjectSpaces situation. So what's going on here? The following is my...

Posted Sunday, April 29, 2007 11:23 AM by FransBouma | 13 comment(s)

AssemblyFileVersions: 2.0.0.071005 is bad, but 2.0.0.061005 is good
I was unhappily surprised this morning when I compiled a new build of an assembly and changed the assembly file version attribute from 2.0.0.061005 to 2.0.0.070105: I got this wicked warning from the C# compiler: warning CS1607: Assembly generation -...

Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 12:49 PM by FransBouma | 4 comment(s)

VS.NET 2005 SP1 (team suite) available for download!
Get it while it's hot: VS.NET 2005 Team suite SP1 RTM download (via Dennis ) Update: Scott Guthrie writes that you should uninstall the Web Application Project add-in first if you have that one installed, as the SP1 installer chokes on that. At the moment...

Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 10:11 AM by FransBouma | with no comments

Free, open source forum/customer support system released for ASP.NET 2.0: HnD
Yesterday, we released HnD , which stands for Help and Discuss , our own customer support system and forums software! HnD has been released as free, open source software under the GPL v2 and uses ASP.NET 2.0, SqlServer and uses LLBLGen Pro v2.0 power...

Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 12:06 PM by FransBouma | with no comments

Finally! Microsoft starts VS.NET 2005 Hotfix download pilot program
After nagging about it for a long time, it seems Microsoft finally understood that getting a hotfix for VS.NET 2005 was too cumbersome for a lot of people (outside the US, calling PSS isn't a picknick). So they decided to start a pilot program to see...

Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 10:22 AM by FransBouma | with no comments

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