Guy Barrette

Visual Studio 2005 has no "out of the box" support for SQL Server 2008.  Microsoft has made available an update in the form of a CTP that allow VS 2005 to connect to a SQL Server 2008 CTP5 server.

The Visual Studio 2008 Training has been updated for the RTM release.  What's in there?  More the 30 PowerPoint decks, some demo scripts and some labs to learn the cool new VS 2008 + Framework 3.5 stuff.

Beside the RTM version of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has made available to download the latest CTP of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (November 2007).

I recently bought a new Toshiba laptop and proceeded with a complete reinstallation of Vista Ultimate.  Everything was fine except that the Realtek driver for the network Adapter (RTL8101) was crashing all the time and was blue screening Vista!  Doh!!!
I uninstalled the Toshiba supplied driver and let Vista install its own to no good.  I still had blue screens at random times.

I had Visual Studio 2008 Team RC installed on my laptop and I wanted to install the RTM version so I uninstalled the RC and launched the RTM setup but the setup would fail.  After a little digging and reading ScottGu's blog, I figured out that the Visual Studio setup install numerous products by launching separate installations.  So when you actually uninstall VS, you're not uninstalling everything that was actually installed.

I've been renewed as a ASP/ASP.NET MVP for another year.  I will be able to display that brand new MVP logo.  Cool!

For those interested in test driven development, Scott Bellware will be doing a one day workshop in Montreal.  This event is organized by the Montreal Visual Studio User Group.  It's dead cheap for a full day of training ($50 including membership, $25 for those who are already members) + every participant will receive an MSPress book.

After 5 1/2 years at Nurun in Montreal, I'm trying something new.  Starting next Monday, I will be an independant software architecture consultant.