Archives
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.NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7)
Last week we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. This release is a big one for .NET, and delivers a ton of new capabilities and improvements for web, client, office and mobile development.
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VS 2008 Compatibility with Older VS 2005 Add-in Packages
I've helped a few people over the last week who have run into issues with VS 2008 where it would immediately crash when the IDE was launched, or upon creating new projects (usually failing with a "Visual Studio has encountered an unexpected error" dialog).
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Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 Available for Download
This afternoon we released an updated version of the Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha that works with the final release of Visual Studio 2008. You can download it for free here.
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Answers to a few VS 2008 Trial Edition, TFS 2008, and SourceSafe Questions
Below are some answers to a couple of questions about the recent VS 2008 release that I've seen the last few days:
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Steps to Uninstall VS 2008 Beta2 before installing the VS 2008 Final Release
Several people have asked me for recommendations on the best way to upgrade a system that has VS 2008 Beta2 on it to the final VS 2008 RTM release. In my blog post announcing the VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 release yesterday I included this bit of guidance:
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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released
Today we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. You can download the final release using one of the links below:
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Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.
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ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 1)
Two weeks ago I blogged about a new MVC (Model View Controller) framework for ASP.NET that we are going to be supporting as an optional feature soon. It provides a structured model that enforces a clear separation of concerns within applications, and makes it easier to unit test your code and support a TDD workflow. It also helps provide more control over the URLs you publish in your applications, and can optionally provide more control over the HTML that is emitted from them.
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Tip/Trick: Hard Drive Speed and Visual Studio Performance
People often ask me at conferences for PC hardware recommendations. Specifically - "what type of machine do you recommend I get for doing development with Visual Studio?" and/or "your laptop seems really fast, what type is it?"