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CannonPI teaser video
There is a new video up on youtube that is the beginning of many more videos. You should check it out and look for for more coming soon. Also, see if you recognize any of the people in this, ...
Feedback and Microsoft
There are a lot of different ways that feedback can get to Microsoft and a lot of different ways that it can be handled. For suggestions for making our products better, one of the best methods i...
ASP.NET Tip: Letting Microsoft know about your problems/requests
Not sure if everyone knows of the various options that there are for communicating with Microsoft so I wanted to let you know about some of them here. Bugs or problems You can log these on the vario...
The PDC this year…
Not sure how many people are planning on attending the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) this year, but it is going to be a fantastic conference. We announced some huge announcements on the PD...
.NET 3.5 SP1 Source released
If you remember my previous blog about Debugging .NET Framework Source Code, well we have now updated the source to include 3.5 SP1. You can check out the announcement here. With this, we are r...
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
The next service pack is finally available. If you are using .NET 3.5, or want to use any of the new features that we have been talking about being added in this service pack, I’d strongly rec...
Visual Studio 2008 Web Server Here shell extension
This has to be one of the coolest shell extensions that I have seen yet. It is right up there with the Command Prompt Here one. This adds a addition to the right-click menu for a folder for “...
Hotfixes on Code Gallery
As first reported by Soma, we are now going to use the MSDN Code Gallery to make hotfixes available. In the past, you could get some from the Connect site but it was hard to discover the fixes.&...
What Future Update are you looking forward to most?
There are so many updates coming in the near future, I'd love to hear which one you are most excited about. I'll give a brief list here, but feel free to include other things also if you are so ...
Documentation, and Where to Find It
There are a lot of places to look for Microsoft documentation currently online. Depending on the area that you are focused in, you may have to visit any of a number of sites to get the informati...
Cannot create/shadow copy 'File Name' when that file already exists
The two common errors are Cannot create/shadow copy 'File Name' when that file already exists. Usually get this message usually when in a debug/edit/debug cycle after successfully building ...
ASP.NET Tips: Expression Web vs Visual Studio
So there are now two different editors that are out from Microsoft. There is Visual Studio which has been around for a long time and now a new tool called Expression Web. So which should y...
ASP.NET, Visual Studio and Vista
I know that Vista has been out for a while, but just in case people are looking for information on how to use ASP.NET 1.1, Visual Studio 2005, or Visual Studio 2003 on Vista, here are some very helpfu...
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework SP1 Beta
Just in case anyone hasn't heard yet, we have released a beta of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. This was announced by Soma here. There are many new things coming ...
Useful Debugging tools from CodePlex
So I was looking around CodePlex the other day and I came across some really useful tools up there that I thought I would share. Not all of these will apply to everyone, but they can be really u...
Debugging .NET Framework Source Code
I am not sure how many people are familiar with the .NET Reference Source project, but if you do a lot of debugging of .NET code, chances are that you have had a situation where you wanted to be able ...
Code Gallery and CodePlex, how are they different and what are their benefits?
So lately I have been looking into these two web sites a lot more and it isn’t always easy to figure out which one is used for what. So I thought I would try to explain it here. Code Gallery ...
Visual Studio Designer not Respecting Assembly Binding Redirection
So we recently came across an issue where Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 Designers were not respecting assembly binding redirection. Scenario We have a file which is now version 2 and stored in the GAC...
How to handle form events after adding a master page to an existing page
Here is a question that was asked on my posting trying to invite questions, Got a question- Get an answer here. Question Something that would be handy straight from the team is how to handle ASP.NET...
Debugging videos anyone?
I am considering creating some videos showing some debugging tips. My original idea is to create short videos that just some doing some specific things. So not full debug sessions, but rat...
Tips for IE8
So after using IE8 for a while now, there are a few things that are useful for people to keep in mind. First, there are a lot of changes in IE8. I am really excited about some of them, suc...
ASP.NET Tips: Finding the layout of functions and structs for pinvoke
So when you start working with .NET a lot, you will find out quickly that there are some things that you just can't do in .NET and you will need to drop back down to the Win32 API to do something....
