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If the Chief-Architect doesn't decide... who does?
Yesterday I read this great article about VS.NET's technical roadmap , posted by Rico Mariani . Rico is the Chief Architect of Visual Studio, and he explains what that title means as follows: I am the Chief Architect but I'm also *only* the Chief Architect...

Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 11:04 AM by FransBouma | 10 comment(s)

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)

Just in case you're using VS.NET 2008 Beta 2 with C#...
If you're using C# and VS.NET 2008 and you're typing some code like: CustomCollection<MyType> items = new CustomCollection<MyType>() foreach(OtherType other in OtherTypeCollection) { items.Add(CreateItemFromOtherType(other)); } where CustomCollection<MyType>...

Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 1:46 PM by FransBouma | 2 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

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