Ryan Ternier

For the past bit now I've been getting this when starting VS 2008:

This happens whenever I start VS 2008 from a shortcut / main application.  Even If I quickly close the start screen and load my project this happens. The only way to actually get into a project is to open in VS 2008 is to open it from the .SLN file. This will not crash VS 2008 and it will work fine.

I'm not sure why this is happening - I'll probably re-install it... when I have time...

As many web developers know, Internet Explorer has always been behind the times for Web Standards.  Just last week IE8 (Which is still in development) passed the Acid2 test. The Acid2 Test's main website is here, and you can view the actual test here.  The Acid2 test has correct CSS and incorrect CSS. The test is to determine how a browser handles CSS(correct and incorrect). The long list of standards that web browsers has to support (W3C is only one body of standards), you can imagine how great the IE team must feel.

The ironic thing was as I was reading about this, I was told my new application needs to be supported by IE6 now... 10,000 lines of JS Script... 100+ images (alpha-transparent PNG...) oh the joy.

Here's a link to the IEBlog that talks more about this.

Yesterday I downloaded and installed VS 2008 Professional (MSDN License). The process was mild and pretty easy... uninstall all the beta software, install the new software etc. The only problem I had was when I launched a 2005 application (under TFS Source control). VS 2008 (And Team Explorer 2008 by extension) didn't really like this. I got a lot of errors, so I went back to VS 2005, manually checked out the entire solution, then loaded it up in VS 2008.  This worked like a charm.

Once my app was loaded in VS 2008 I was eager to try the new JavaScript Intelisence.  This is actually the main reason for me installing this new release as my application is 80% JavaScript (approx 10,000 lines).  One thing I noticed is the Intelisence only worked for the JS file I was working on. It wouldn't map to the other 30 or so JS files I have in my folder (I'm not sure If I need to do anything special for this).  This really was a bit of a disapointment, but I understand why... the compiler doesn't know I'm using the other JS files... I wonder if there's an "include" command or something that would work...

If anyone knows any ways of telling the complier to link JS files (without manually copying the script) let me know.

So far I'm impressed. Good job Microsoft & the VS Team.