Jason N. Gaylord's Blog : Visual Studio

Technology Related Links for May 13th

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:07:01 GMT

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the Hot Links tag. Series Post #12...(read more)

Technology Related Links for May 1, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:55:33 GMT

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord Series Post #4 I’ve streamlined the categories a bit more. I’m also going...(read more)

Technology Related Links – Post #2

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:07:32 GMT

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord Books Beginning ASP.NET MVC – FREE CHAPTER Cloud Computing Bumping into a...(read more)

Crystal Reports Merge Modules for Visual Studio 2008

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:10:55 GMT

Since SAP purchased Business Objects for $6.7 billion in 2007 , Crystal Reports deployment for Microsoft Visual Studio has become more difficult to deploy. Instead of choosing a built-in merge module, you now much visit the SAP site and download the necessary...(read more)

CodeRush Xpress for Free!

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:44:28 GMT

DevExpress and Microsoft announced a partnership today to offer CodeRush Xpress for free. At the present time it’s only available for non-express versions of Visual Studio and will only work with C# (per their post). I’m sure the other support will be...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:29:07 GMT

Stephen Walther has posted a great list of Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks . I found 3 or 4 that I didn’t realize when checking out his post. The two I’ll likely use the most are number 1 and 3. Great stuff Stephen! Read More......(read more)

Update Google Chrome Using Visual Studio

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:45:19 GMT

That's right. You can build and modify Google Chrome using Visual Studio 2005. Google has provided instructions to setup your environment. You can then download the source from Google's Subversion repository or download a tarball to build. Check...(read more)

How to Override Cassini's Virtual Path in Visual Studio

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:01:23 GMT

On one of the email lists that I'm on, someone had posted a question about running a website using the root path "/" or a different virtual path than the project name that is populated by default. James Crowley pointed out a blog entry from...(read more)

Visual Studio Fonts and Colors

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:49:47 GMT

For quite some time I've been working with a modified version of Scott Hanselman's "Dark Theme" for Visual Studio. The reason for my modifications is that the HTML and CSS settings were very difficult to read. Here is the complete list...(read more)

Getting Started with the AjaxDataControls in Visual Studio 2005

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:37:24 GMT

Sonu Kapoor just posted about getting started with the AjaxDataControls in Visual Studio 2005 . The AjaxDataControls can be found on CodePlex at http://www.codeplex.com/AjaxDataControls/ . Included in the controls are a JavaScript version of the Repeater...(read more)

AjaxDataControls DLL for ASP.NET 3.5

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:27:14 GMT

The AjaxDataControls that have been developed by the DotNetSlackers team have been out for some time now. They were originally developed using the AJAX 1.0 libraries (pre 3.5 days). I've recently encountered some issues where they don't seem to...(read more)

VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta Available Now

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:39:15 GMT

Soma just posted that SP1 for VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 is available. The full blog post on his site is at http://snurl.com/28i1z . Read More......(read more)

Copy Source As HTML in Visual Studio 2008

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:31:00 GMT

I needed Copy Source As HTML support in Visual Studio 2008. Luckily I came across this post today with a walk-through to set it up in VS 2008. I can't wait for Microsoft to get this into Visual Studio. Too bad there wasn't a Windows Live Writer...(read more)

Visual Studio's Birthday?

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:45:00 GMT

I just read a post from Steve Andrews about Visual Studio . Little did I know that Visual Studio 97 came out on March 19, 1997. So, technically, today is VS's birthday. How cool is that? Steve even posted the orginal mission for VS 97. Funny how its...(read more)

Using Older AJAX Controls in Visual Studio 2008

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:47:00 GMT

I've been testing the DotNetSlackers' AJAX Data Controls for a little bit and they're definately cool. I ran into an issue, however, when trying to build an app with one of the controls in Visual Studio 2008 (.NET Framework 3.5). The assembly...(read more)

VS2008 VPCs Expiring 11/1 - Backup Your Data Now

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:49:00 GMT

I just read a post stating that the Visual Studio 2008 VPCs are expiring on November 1st, 2007. It is recommended that you backup any data that you don't want to lose as soon as possible. More information can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 Web Service Issue

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:25:00 GMT

I discovered an issue in VS 2008 Beta 2 that will most likely be an issue when the product goes to RTM. I notified Microsoft of the issue and they have pushed this back to VS 2008 SP1 because its so late in the development process. The issue is with adding...(read more)

Life with Visual Studio 2008

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:57:00 GMT

Wally McClure, a Microsoft MVP and ASPInsider, has put together a group of posts regarding "his life with Visual Studio 2008." It's great that someone has time to blog about their experience with VS 2008. Seriously though, Wally does a great...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Released

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:03:56 GMT

Technorati Tags: ASP.NET , Visual Studio It looks like Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is now available on the MSDN web site. According to the site, it was posted just 10 minutes ago. I've begun the download of the 3GB files and hopefully they'll be...(read more)