Source Code Release for Visual Studio 2008. The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition is an integrated collection of resources designed to help you quickly and consistently build Web services that adhere to well-known architecture and design patterns. This release is for Visual Studio 2008 and contains the Service Factory source code.

The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of resources designed to help you quickly and consistently build Web services that adhere to well-known architecture and design patterns. These resources consist of patterns and architecture topics in the form of written guidance and models with code generation in the form of tools integrated with Visual Studio 2008. This release contains the Service Factory source code.

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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.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2

• Visual Studio Team System 2008
• Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) - February 2008 Release

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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.”

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This walkthrough illustrates how easily you can use Barcode Professional for WPF in ASP.NET Web Applications.

Barcode Professional for WPF leverages new WPF Drawing API generating high quality barcodes. Barcode Professional for WPF features raster barcode image generation which is useful in scenarios like ASP.NET Web Applications that need to display/deliver barcode to Internet Browsers.

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SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta release for the Windows Desktop platform to support the ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3 and the ADO.Net Entity Framework Tools December 2007 CTP.

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta release for the ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3 enables the following scenarios:

• Applications can work in terms of a more application-centric conceptual model, including types with inheritance, complex members, and relationships
• Applications are freed from hard-coded dependencies on a particular data engine or storage schema
• Mappings between the conceptual application model and the storage-specific schema can change without changing the application code
• Developers can work with a consistent application object model that can be mapped to various storage schemas, possibly implemented in different database management systems
• Multiple application models can be mapped to a single storage schema
• Language-integrated query support provides compile-time syntax validation for queries against a conceptual model

For more information please see the ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 Documentation and ADO.NET Entity Framework Samples

Post feedback and questions to SQL Server Compact 3.5 MSDN Forum and ADO.NET MSDN Forum

For tips and tricks visit SQL Server Compact blog and ADO.Net team blog

Download Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta for ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3

Download the Community Distribution CDs as ISO images, burn and distribute them among your friends and colleagues.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Vista; Windows XP

CD/DVD drive or a virtual disk drive

This download offers you the benefits of registering with Microsoft. Click the Continue button near the top of this page to register. After you have gone through the registration process, you will be returned to this page to begin the download

Download MSDN Community Distribution CD January 2008.

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.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Vista; Windows XP, Visual Studio 2008, Standard edition or above.

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The Rename Project tool enables Project Server 2003 administrators to rename a project, or multiple projects, that are stored in the same SQL Server database. This tool combines a PDS extension with an application.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows Server 2003

• This download works with the following Office applications:
  • Microsoft Office Project Server 2003

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