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vsTODOlist is a Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 language extension that allows you to implement to-do lists for your development projects using color coding and Intellisense.
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Screen cast and download at www.InCisif.net/vsTODOlist.
While Microsoft’s announcement yesterday that it will publish key APIs and share its communications protocols was met with skepticism by the European Commission and other critics, .NET developers we talked with welcomed the step that Redmond had defiantly resisted until now.Microsoft said it is moving quickly to release the APIs and other documentation of Vista, Windows Server, and SQL Server.
As word of Microsoft’s announcement spread last night in New York during the local NYC.NET Developer Group meeting, attendees applauded the company’s moves.
“I think it’s going to go a long way, I hope so,” said Michelle Cmorey, division director for application development services at Robert Half International, during opening remarks at the meeting. “I think it makes Microsoft’s products more marketable, and I think that it makes your skills more marketable as well.”
Read the rest at news source ENT News.
The Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool is a productivity tool that helps architects and system designers to generate models of an application that contribute to minimized TCO.
The Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool is a productivity tool that helps architects and system designers to generate models of an application that contribute to minimized TCO. These models include configuration, instrumentation, health, and performance information. The Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool also assists developers to implement the required instrumentation, and create management packs for monitoring systems such as Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.
This CTP enables developers to use Visual Studio 2008 with SQL Server 2008 Nov CTP.
This CTP resolves a problem that when you try to open a database connection to SQL Server 2008 by using Visual Studio 2008 design tools, you may receive the following error message:
“This server version is not supported. Only servers up to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 are supported.”
Microsoft wants more students using its software tools and it thinks it has hit on the right business model. It’s going to give away its software.
Starting this week, college students in 10 countries will be able to get Microsoft’s Visual Studio and several other programs for free as part of an effort dubbed DreamSpark. Over the next year, Microsoft plans to offer the program worldwide for college and high school students.
In addition to giving away its Visual Studio tools, Microsoft is also providing no-charge access to its Expression Web design tools and its XNA studio for developing Xbox 360 software. Microsoft already provides discounted academic versions of its software, as well as a free “express” version of Visual Studio. Students can also get free copies of Windows Server and the developer version of the SQL Server database.
You can read the rest at cNet.
This ImageDraw demo demonstrates how easily you can use ImageDraw and ASP.NET AJAX Framework to design, in few minutes, an advanced AJAX-based Business Card Generator.
The following figure is a screenshot of the ASP.NET AJAX Business card Generator application that leverages ASP.NET AJAX Framework for input user interaction and ImageDraw for dynamic image composition purposes.
This data sheet provides a comprehensive product comparison of the Visual Studio 2008 IDE products. It does not provide data about Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer, or Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Load Agent. This data sheet is provided for illustrative purposes only.
Download this white paper in your choice of the following formats: Microsoft Word document (DOCX), PDF file or XPS file.
The Source Outliner PowerToy is a Visual Studio 2008 extension that provides a tree view of your source code’s types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them with filtering inside the editor.
The Source Code Outliner PowerToy was created as a package using the Visual Studio SDK for Visual Studio 2008. For more information about VSX, visit the Visual Studio Extensibility Developer Center. The project source code (in both C# and Visual Basic) can be found on the SourceCodeOutliner project on CodePlex.com.