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Visual Studio Lightswitch - Welcome Advanced Amateurs by Ken Cox [MVP]

There are a lot of people in business who are wizards with tools like Excel, even though their primary job isn’t software development. Sometimes their apps become essential to the business process. Lightswitch , announced at VSLive!, will appeal to advanced...

ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2010 – Service Pack 1 by Ken Cox [MVP]

Want to have a say in what goes into the ASP.NET bits of service pack 1 for VS 2010? Well, spend a few minutes filling out the online survey posted by the ASP.NET team: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MLCDPN7 If your most urgent fix doesn’t make it into...

Fix: WCF - The type provided as the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive could not be found by Ken Cox [MVP]

I wanted to expose some raw data to users in my current ASP.NET 3.5 web site project. I created a subdirectory called ‘datafeeds’ and added a WCF Data Service. I wired the dataservice up to the Entity Framework class and, on running the ItemDataService...

Performance and the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate by Ken Cox [MVP]

I think you'll find the performance of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate to be vastly improved over Beta 2. Microsoft showed wisdom and courage when it chose to delay the release to make the product better - and faster. BTW...

Visual Studio 2010 Launch Delayed “A Few Weeks” by Ken Cox [MVP]

Microsoft has pushed out the launch of VS 2010 from the original March 22, 2010 date. In announcing the delay of the release, Soma and Scottgu talk of “a few weeks” rather than giving a new fixed date. This is good news in terms of product quality because...

Make Parallel APIs Seamless and Almost Invisible by Ken Cox [MVP]

Microsoft Canada’s Adam Gallant gave an excellent presentation today on ‘What’s New with Visual Studio Team System and MSDN’. Among Adam’s demonstrations were the new APIs to support so-called manycore architectures. Most of us are still writing code...

VS 2010 Product Release Date? March 22, 2010 by Ken Cox [MVP]

I don't recall Microsoft announcing a Visual Studio release date this far in advance. The official launch is March 22, 2010 . In the past there have been two product release dates for Visual Studio. The first was soon after release to manufacturing (RTM...

Resolved! Losing Hours to a Debugger Problem by Ken Cox [MVP]

Update 3 and Resolution: Good news and Bad News! The issue is resolved but it really looks like the problem was between the keyboard and the chair <shamefaced grin>. I happened to notice that the debugger was fine on pages other than the one I was...

Enabling JavaScript IntelliSense in External Libraries by Ken Cox [MVP]

To get JavaScript IntelliSense working in VS 2008 SP1, you need to tell IntelliSense the location of the libraries that you're using. You do that by adding a special comment at the top of the .js file. It's three slashes followed by the reference in an...

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Adds JavaScript Formatting by Ken Cox [MVP]

Just a "two thumbs up" for the addition of JavaScript™/JScript® formatting in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. I don't like leaving messy-looking code - especially since JavaScript makes the trip all the way to the client. My formatting preference is...
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