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Using the latest release, I now got it up and running. (Opposed to the crash I got with the previous version) See a small review I did with screenshots and the download location in this article. So this is the point where we can really start saying goodbye to Visual Source Safe :-) and migrate all sources we need to maintain in Visual ...

You might have already seen it, but at the MSDN site, you can now download the latest CTP for developing with all the cool WinFx stuff, such as Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and lots more. It also includes a download for ''Orcas'' which is the set op development tools needed to ...

A Beta 2 version has been released of the TFS MSSCCI provider, which should enable you to connect to Team Foundation Source Control from your Visual Studio 2003 environment. From the Microsoft site: “The Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider enables users of Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 to use Visual Studio ...

While debugging, my Visual Studio 2005 RTM showed an exception all of a sudden. And this was the message I got from the exception helper dialog: The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x1d0000 to COM context 0x1d0170 for 60 seconds. The thread that owns the destination context/apartment is most likely either doing a non pumping ...

As we found out today, the default settings for Visual Studio 2005 Professional are to not show the solution by default. This means that as soon as you add a project to a blank solution, the solution disappears and you are unable to add another project. This is easy to fix though: Make sure that you have the option to ''Always show solution'' ...

As is suggested at some MSDN Blogs, having the build number at 42 is not a coincidence at all. 42 was the answer that was calculated by Deep Thought for the question of “The answer to life, the universe and everyhting” in the book Douglas Adam's, The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Excerpt from wikipedia: The Ultimate ...

Well it's all done before the 7th after all. VS2005 and .NET 2.0 have been signed off and are ready to ship. Read more here.

Brian harry writes in his blog entry about the new features and improvements that have come with Beta 3. One thing that I hadn't noticed yet is that there now will also be support for VS2003 to use the new Version Control environment. VS6 MSSCCI provider - We've built a plugin that allows the Team Foundation Server version control functionality ...

As I posted a while ago, ASP.NET 2.0 has some upgrade issues to reckon with. Now there's a new upgrade wizard to test, so lets get some Nasty Sites upgraded :-). You might want to throw in a website that uses reflection on Web Page classes, just for fun... (those classes won't be available until a page has actually been loaded... so reflection ...

When converting some tests I needed to convert TestFixtureSetup and TestFixtureTeardown. Simply replacing TestFixtureSetup/Teardown with ClassInitialize/Cleanup left me with an error when executing tests. VS2005 complained that the signature of the method for Initialize and Cleanup was not correct. I found the following signatures to ...