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Change SQL Server Instance for Visual Studio Database Project
While installing SQL Server 2005 recently I ran into some difficulty . I use database projects from Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals. I use Visual Studio 2008 with them now, and I recently made a mistake while using one of these Read More...

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Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfigurationSection' to type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfigurationSection'
Earlier today I was trying to track down this error. Unit Test Adapter threw exception: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfiguration' threw an exception. Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfigurationSection' Read More...

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Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Released
In my attempt to add to the monotony, I'll say that not long ago Visual Studio 2008 was released to all of the MSDN subscribes. With the news spreading so quickly the downloads are all taking forever. Good luck! Scott Guthrie , as usual, posted some good Read More...

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Visual Studio Extensibility
While I was at DevConnections last week, I watched an interesting demo showing off Visual Studio's extensibility. In the demo the visual studio shell is being used to edit Lua script; the scripting language used by World of Warcraft for designing custom Read More...

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Public Strongly Typed Resource Generator
I recently installed an interesting custom tool. It is an Extended version of the resource generator in Visual Studio . The nicest part of this for me is that this one is public instead of internal like the default one. In order to have a centralized Read More...

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.NET 3.5 is Open Source
Some very surprising news has come from Scott Guthrie in a recent blog post he has made . Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 will be shipping with the source for the base class libraries. As with a lot of the recent technology coming from Microsoft, the Read More...

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My Team Server Headache
So yesterday I was able to spend a long time battling with team server. It seams that source controls likes to keep track of where your workspaces are itself. So on a computer I don’t normally work on, I logged in. I set up work spaces on that machine, Read More...

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Visible Whitespace in Visual Studio
Something quite horrible happened to me today. While I was working on some of my code, I accidentally hit some keys while holding the control key down. Unfortunately for me I did not see the keys I hit. Well now instead of seeing whitespace there were Read More...

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