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Orcas, Longhorn Launch Date Announced

Posted Thursday, July 19, 2007 3:07 PM by rjdudley
Mark your calendars--the launch date for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn) has been announced. February 27, 2008. In LA, but expect regional events as well, probably filled with free goodies as before. More Read More...
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Tortise Toolbar in Visual Studio

Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 11:04 AM by rjdudley
Ankh is in RC1, but the concept of running both Tortise and Ankh --two Subversion clients--at the same time offends the sensibilities of some. You can configure a custom toolbar in Visual Studio as a Tortise toolbar, and use Tortise for Subversion source Read More...
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Free MSDN Subscription for MSDN Premium Subscribers

Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 1:05 PM by rjdudley
For those of you who don't know... Dear MSDN Magazine Subscriber: As an MSDN Premium subscriber, you enjoy the benefit of a free MSDN Magazine subscription. All MSDN Premium subscribers in the U.S. are eligible, but many of them are not aware of this Read More...
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Remote Web Administration Tool

Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 1:34 PM by rjdudley
Recently, a question came up in the ASP.NET security forums about the lack of a remote membership/role configuration tool in ASP.NET 2.0. Being able to remotely manage users is important in pretty much any site where you have users. Fortunately, QualityData Read More...
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VS 2005 Projects and Solutions "Mess"

Posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 9:39 AM by rjdudley
I dislike how VS 2005 handles solutions, but I thought it was just me. Victor Garcia Aprea has a good commentary on the subject: Of course, I still think Visual Studio is totally messing up the Project and Solution terms, and that such core concepts should Read More...
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Stop Using DatePart for Formatting Dates!

Posted Monday, April 17, 2006 10:18 PM by rjdudley
If you're still formatting dates as such: lblDate.text = datepart("d",Now) & "/" & datepartt("m",now) & "/" & datepart("yyyy",now) then stop this instant! Step away from the keyboard and no one gets hurt. There are better ways in ASP.NET Read More...
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Review: ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook

Posted Monday, April 17, 2006 10:16 PM by rjdudley
This is a short review because about 85% of the book is code samples. ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook is divided into 21 chapters, covering topics ranging from Master Pages, error handling and web parts. The major improvements in ASP.NET 2.0 are in here, including Read More...
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Web Application Settings in ASP.NET 2.0

Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:38 PM by rjdudley
My latest ASP Alliance article has been published: ASP.NET 2.0 brought about a number of improvements in the way configuration settings are stored and accessed. Several new configuration sections have been added to the web.config schema, settings can Read More...
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Typed Datasets and .NET 2.0

Posted Monday, March 06, 2006 6:54 PM by rjdudley
For the next few months, I will be middleware. I will be everywhere in our enterprise, integrating systems. One of the Prime Directives is "get it done fast!" We're not looking for beautifully architected n-tier solutions that can be abstracted and inherited Read More...
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Visual Studio 2005 Kick-Off in Philly

Posted Monday, August 01, 2005 10:43 PM by rjdudley
During today's regional UG leaders conference call, Stan Spotts announced that Philly will be hosting one of the 10 VS 2005 kick-off events on December 13 at the convention center. More details as they come available. Share this post: email it! | bookmark Read More...
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Visual Studio Goes To Hawaii

Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005 3:37 PM by rjdudley
For those who just can't wait for the next big thing, I tease you with news of ' Hawaii ', the release of Visual Studio after Orcas. After Yukon, Whidbey, Whistler, etc., it's nice to see MS aim for warmer climates. I'm really more intersted in what will Read More...
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Regions Add-In Updated

Posted Monday, March 21, 2005 11:03 AM by rjdudley
One of my favorite add-ins for Visual Studio is the Regions Add-In , and it's recently (well, Feb 11 anyway) been updated to version 2. The new version adds a region explorer, a list of region names (”Templates” as they're called), and some Read More...
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