Contents tagged with Visual Studio
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Upgrading RDLC reports to Report Viewer 2010 in an ASP.NET web application
One of the web applications I am working on is an ASP.NET MVC 2 site targeting .NET 3.5 SP1 that uses the Microsoft Report Viewer control with local-mode RDLC reports. I initially developed this application using Visual Studio 2008. The client was OK if I started to use Visual Studio 2010, as long as I didn’t require .NET 4.0 just yet. The multi-targeting features of VS2010 were working great. I had started really enjoying VS 2010 and had no intention to go back to 2008. Then I needed to do some report work so I double clicked one of my RDLC files and was surprised to see this message box:
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TestDriven.NET 3.0 Released
I haven’t posted anything to my blog in a long time, but I wanted to point out that a product I truly love and use often has been updated. Jamie Cansdale has released TestDriven.NET 3.0, still one of my all-time favorite Visual Studio add-ons for low-friction unit testing. Now it works with Visual Studio 2010, MSTest and tons of new features and refinements.
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Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIP) program not needed to build a Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
After listening to a DotNetRocks podcast that interviewed Kevin McNeish on DSLs and Software Factories, I was curious to check out the DSL toolkit for internal use by our developers. After installing the Visual Studio 2008 SDK, I started seeing a “VSIP License Required” in the Visual Studio 2005 splash screen, and “A VSIP license is required to use this version of Microsoft Visual Studio” in the about box of Visual Studio 2005. However, within Visual Studio 2008’s about box I see “Visual Studio SDK License”. I was confused and wondered exactly when a VSIP license is required. I contacted someone at Microsoft and received clarification on this.
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Stepping through .NET Framework source code is now possible
This is the big news today. You can now configure Visual Studio 2008 to step through .NET 3.5 source. Scott Hanselman has the steps to set this up...except for one detail. When installing the QFE (KB944899) patch, you'll need to have your the VS 2008 installation disk you used to install in your DVD drive (or have the ISO mounted). If you don't, the patch just silently rolls back and fails.