My best friend Jeroen van den Bos has just posted a great article about why Visual Studio should be part of Windows . Jeroen and I share a long history together and as we're both ex- demosceners , I fully understand his reasoning and I wholeheartly agree with his point: make Visual Studio.NET Express...

One of the things about Visual Studio 2005 I disapprove of the most is the way features related to your project are stuffed into the local devmachine environment under Program Files. Among other things the coming GAT (guidance automation toolkits) work this way, and so does the new bootstrapper packages...

Let me quote myself from a usenet posting I did on Edit & Continue in C#: Afaik, E&C is not planned for vs.net 2004 [C#], and frankly I'm happy about it, because the [C#] devteam can spend that time on other, more valuable features :). (E&C IMHO creates bad debugging styles. Debugging isn...

When VS.NET 2003 was announced, Microsoft made it clear that it wasn't a service pack for VS.NET 2002 you had to pay for, it was a new release and that they'd release a service pack for VS.NET 2002 'shortly' after the release of VS.NET 2003. Well... it's been 3 months now today , since VS.NET 2003 is...

I've blogged before about wishes I had for the IDE I use on a daily basis: Visual Studio.NET (currently v2003). Since that blog I've made a new list of new wishes not mentioned in the previous wish-list. I've also included wishes for .NET and the .NET API. The list is very long so I decided to post it...

Yesterday I blogged about a problem ISV's can run into when they are selling .NET class libraries compiled with Visual Studio.NET 2003 to customers using Visual Studio.NET 2002. Today I've found a solution, which seems to be used by other ISV's already, and which solves the problem which caused me to...

Additional Note: I've changed the title of this article. The title is a hint from Robert. While I think blogging is about ventilating personal opinions, I do not feel it's my duty to bring Scott and this site (because the blogs are in the main feed) in trouble. I do however find it pretty weird that...

According to Soma Somasegar's last post , the following is/isn't supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft's OS which has to replace Windows XP: Visual Basic 6 runtime and IDE . Supported. Visual Studio.NET 2002 . Not supported Visual Studio.NET 2003 . Not supported Visual Studio.NET 2005 . Supported with...

URL: http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2006/10/11/647.aspx This video (screencast) for the podcast is on the subject of the Basics of Building Sql Server 2005 CLR Objects The WMV and MP4 (for video iPod users) files are in the feed.

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 if downloadable hotfixes will make a difference !...