eWeek: "At its TechEd Europe conference in Amsterdam next week, Microsoft Corp. will announce the first official beta release of Visual Studio 2005, which will include the Team Architect version of the Visual Studio Team System technology Microsoft a
Microsoft has launched the Express Editions of Visual Studio 2005: Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Visual J# 2005 Express Edition Each of these
In case you have been under a rock, shacking up or in jail or otherwise indisposed, Visual Studio 2008 RTM is here! For full details, see Scott Guthrie's official announcement. Personally, I think the most compelling new features are: Javascript inte
I know it's a bit late, but as promised here's a review of Visual Studio 2008. I've had it for a while now, but I wanted to wait until I'd worked on a few projects with it before I offered my opinion. Overall, it's a solid improvement over 2005. The
Running Visual Studio 2003 on Windows Server 2003 (not configured as a terminal server), most of the time that I try to use the debugger, I completely lose control of the session. I end up having to log in to another open session and kill devenv.exe
I've been struggling for some time now to be able to use the built-in functions in Visual Studio 2008 to handle *.mdf database files with SQL Server 2008 Express. I'm running on an x64-based system, and I've read that there is a known problem with th
I installed on a Vista x64 machine Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (with integrated SQL from the installation package) and when I try to add an MDF file to a project or to the App_Data when working with web, I get the following message: Connections to SQL Ser
Scenario: Visual Studio 2008 (version 9) is installed on two machines: a desktop machine: 512 MB RAM, 1.4 GHz CPU, Windows XP (Service Pack unknown). a new laptop 4 GB RAM, dual 2.1 GHz CPU, 64-bit CPU, Windows 7. While running a web project, loading
I used Visual Studio 2005 to open a remote website. This remote website runs on Windows Server 2003 enterprise, (IIS 6.0). I installed frontpage server extensions for IIS, but VS 2005 still says that it "unable to open the web "". The web s
I had installed the trial version of Visual Studio 2008. I decided to uninstall it and install the licensed version I just purchased. However, no matter what I try, the installation will not change from the trial to using my new license. I have compl
I'm running visual studio 2010 on windows 7 RC, and it crashed almost anytime I hit F5 to start the application. also when using the XAML WPF editor, if I don't hold and wait for it more than 30 seconds to switch from the design to the XAML code it c
Which PC specifications have the biggest impact on your compile times? Disk? Clock speed? Number of CPU cores? --------------Solutions------------- Scott Gu also posted about what affects building speed, pointing mainly to I/O resources such as the h
Why does Visual Studio 2010 require installation with MSI and reboot just in order to make it work, where Eclipse, which is based on similar architecture (JVM instead of the CLR) requires just pasting the files somewhere on the disk. I can accept hav
When I try to install Visual Studio 2005 SP1 in Windows 7 RC my machine freezes or blue screens half way through. Has anyone else had this issue? If so, did you solve it? --------------Solutions------------- A system freeze or blue screen (a.k.a. bug
I'm trying to run the program I'm debugging as a different user. Now, this can be done by running the exe and attaching from Visual Studio, but this is cumbersome. What I've tried to do is use the "RunAs" command: command.com /C runas /env /user
I used to be able to open up files on my network drives with Visual Studio 2008,edit and save them fine. I could even launch whole solutions and compile them. Just recently if I open a file up on the network map Visual studio hangs and the explorer p
I'm running Visual Studio Team System Development Edition 2008 on Vista Business 64bit along with Resharper 4.5, Telerik Reporting 2009/Q2 and GhostDoc 2.5.9166.0 and it keeps crashing randomly. It typically happens when I start entering text into a
I created a shortcut pointing to cmd /c "start /high c:\windows\notepad.exe" so it starts off the notepad process as a high priority process but this doesn't seem to work for the path "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\ID
I am new to this so couldn't really grasp what Joel and Jeff were talking about in one of their recent Stack Overflow podcasts. I recall Joel referring to Visual Studio doing all sorts of things with the OS and IIS and then he thought using a virtual
I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2005 in Windows 7. When attempting to start, Windows 7 complains that Visual Studio 2005 is incompatible with Windows 7 and offers me to search online for a solution. It comes up with a link to Visual Studio 2005 S