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re: ASP.Net MVC released to CodePlex

Brian Madsen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:56:12 GMT

is too...cuz i says so..HA!

i'm always excited when new "toys" gets released Mitch, you should know that by now.

btw, my dns doesn't resolve you blog these days. damn Westnet DNS..need to get a third party DNS i think

re: Microsoft releases ASP.Net AJAX 4.0 Preview to CodePlex

Brian Madsen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:26:07 GMT

ok - there i'd relent and say NO, that would not be phenomenal at all!!!!

what can i say, i'm still boycutting IKEA after that first rediculous experience.

re: Microsoft releases ASP.Net AJAX 4.0 Preview to CodePlex

Colin Scott — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:08:41 GMT

Would it still be so awesome if it was only available from <a herf="msmvps.com/.../a>

re: ASP.Net MVC released to CodePlex

Mitch Wheat — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:40:25 GMT

maybe not "Phenomenal news" as it's still Preview 4 release (whatever that means)...

re: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail

Brian Madsen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:55:22 GMT

In my opinion it's a fail...a fail to not involve the community..a fail to not think ahead...a fail to knowingly release them without the support for 64-bit.

i'm terribly dissapointed as there's definitely no excuses that can be made as to why it wasn't attended to. And it certainly can't be said there isn't enough avenues available to this product team in order to get feedback.

Not only is the MOSS developmer community growing..and growing fast...but there's some 5000 MVPs out there as well who willingly, alongside the community, will provide feedback.

No, this was released without proper analysis - it just takes 1 Live Search or Google Search to come to the realisation that there was a mistake made. The amount of blogs and forum entries today that mention this is growing by the hour.

It honestly also shouldn't be that hard to get the installer to work with 64-bit. Third party extension providers are doing it already. Just look at JetBrains' ReSharper or hell even a free tool like GhostDoc (Weigelt's Ghostdoc 2.1.x) supports 64-bit easily enough.

One way to definitely avoid these epic fails is to put the information out there as early as possible (before release) and get some feedback...invite people to private betas/CTPs etc..how come this wasn't done for something as monumental as these extensions?

re: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail

Peter — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:06:02 GMT

It is ridiculous that these still don't support 64 bit. We even contacted our MS rep and asked why and he replied that they do work, so we had to send him a copy of the error screen to convince him. His answer, 'They don't support 64 bit OS with these extensions'

re: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail

Daniel Reed — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:18:36 GMT

Yeah, couldn't agree more. What the hell is with this?

At my company we decided to write our own templates for VS2008. And it works in 64 bit no problem. At this rate, we will have a better product than Microsoft.

Honestly Microsoft. What can be so hard to get working? Get your priorities straight

re: Community Server has a bug? WLW not getting categories when updating/editing a post

bradley — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:48:59 GMT

Server will be offline tonight for maintenance to prep for the upgrade.

re: Community Server has a bug? WLW not getting categories when updating/editing a post

Brian Madsen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:49:05 GMT

Hey Bradley,

thanks for stopping by and commenting on this and bringing the good news that we're moving to 2008 too.

re: Community Server has a bug? WLW not getting categories when updating/editing a post

bradley — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:59:08 GMT

Yup, that's the plan. Right now just arranging for some CS specialists to take a look at the SQL as we hit a snag during the upgrade.

www.msinfluentials is already on CS 2008 and as soon as I arrange the guys from 4-corners to look at the SQL issue we'll be upgrading as well.

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re: Visual Studio 2008 error notification...when not to make sense

Brian Madsen — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:46:43 GMT

Hey Colin,

yeah - there's a few problems with things like builds..

i've found another nuisance and that's when you work with SharePoint Sequential Workflows and press F5. This deployes the workflow to the library/list that you set up, but if you're running under source control (eg. TFS in this instance) and haven't checked all files out then you'll get an error when you deploy it again. the file is read-only. Why Visual Studio can't figure out that it needs to remove the properties from the file when it deployes it is beyond me. Afterwards you have to locate the .xml files and manually either remove the read-only property or delete the files.

small idiosyncrasies :)

re: Visual Studio 2008 error notification...when not to make sense

Colin Scott — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:04:37 GMT

My particular favourite build issues are when Visual Studio has locks on files that prevent the build from succeeding. I probably need to kill a VS instance once or twice a week on average to resolve this. I've tried in the past to add MSBuild copy commands to project files to automatically copy various assemblies into a common output directory but invariably this runs into file locking issues that make it simply not worth the effort. Which is annoying.

re: Visual Studio 2008 error notification...when not to make sense

Colin Scott — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:48:22 GMT

To be fair there are elements of Visual Studio 2005 that do appear like successful operation was considered a bug during development. Even with Service Pack 1 it's still only marginally beta quality. 2008 is on the whole much nicer.

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re: This survey i trust - Apple perceived as gay-friendly

Mr Anonymouse — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:56:06 GMT

Neh, I was just stirring ya - and everyone knows it's because gay dudes have superior taste to us. That's why they become designers.

(Just stirring again, I promise!)

re: This survey i trust - Apple perceived as gay-friendly

Brian Madsen — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:55:40 GMT

hopefully not, Mr Anonymouse, as it was said as it was meant....

i got nothing against gays, coloured, long haired (ok, well long haired men is a different story), square eyed, thin, fat, orange (is that covered by coloured?) people..

and i'm not a racist either...can't really afford to be seeing as i'm a foreigner living in Australia ;)