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re: How to Download all of Visual Studio 2008 SP1

uchenna — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:49:13 GMT

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re: How to Download all of Visual Studio 2008 SP1

uchenn — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:32:35 GMT

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re: How to Download all of Visual Studio 2008 SP1

uchenn — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:32:18 GMT

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re: How to Download all of Visual Studio 2008 SP1

uchenn — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:32:15 GMT

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Sam Gentile — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:54:21 GMT

TDD/Unit Testing TypeMock continues to grow - MbUnit "Gallo" announces built in support for

re: Help shape the future of Workflow Foundation

Matthew — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:45:01 GMT

Wow where to begin.

The biggest hurdle for any adopter is getting round the problems that occur when the blueprint changes. Immediately developers are in unfamiliar ground with handling multiple versions of assemblies so that old versions can complete.

Worse is when a workflow blueprint is deployed with a bug. Imagine an app with a workflow for handling car recalls of 10K vehicles and a bug exists mid-way through the process. Unless the dev is smart with applying workflow changes and has build infrastructure to apply them, those 10000 WF instances will die and he will be out of a job!

Not wanting to lose mine we have anticipated this by:

1) Handling multiple versions

2) being able to apply changes to running versions

3) only using WF for relatively short processes and storing enough state outside of the persistence DB to recover.

Other issues are mainly to do with designer which is slow and horribly text string based.

Documentation is also very lacking - Dharma's book is great but very thin on the workflow changes area, which is critical for prod apps. No other books even try to cover this.

As a result there is a far too much pain for the average dev to use this stuff in any meaningful way in a production business app except for throwaway process instances (e.g. web page flow).

However depite this I think WF is great - it is by far the best part of .NET 3. Please please try and improve it with substantial breaking changes if needed. WF makes so much sense for business apps but it needs to deal with real-world issues more easily.

re: Windows Vista and low disk space

Maurice — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:06:19 GMT

The disk spaces is used for backup copies of files that are changed. If you right click a file you will see an option to search for previous versions of the file. These previous versions are stored in the shadow copy storage.

re: Windows Vista and low disk space

Raven — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:49:07 GMT

Hello again. I typed in again and this time it worked. Great!

So now I'm actually wondering what these shadow terms mean and so..

whats Shadow Copy storage space?

whats Shadow copies?

I need additional help!

re: Windows Vista and low disk space

Raven — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:42:15 GMT

Thanks for sharing Maurice.

So now what should I do?

I'm kind of at my wit's end.

Oh by the way, I tried shifting some files from the C drive, under the default folder, "User" and in the end I wasn't able to do that because most of the things there are admin stuffs I guess.

Help!

re: Edit and Continue in an ASP.NET Web Application

Cinni Patel — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:33:55 GMT

Hi,

Here is a very useful article about "Edit and Continue" in Visual Studio 2005

whyiamright.wordpress.com/.../aspnet-edit-and-continue-in-visual-studio-2005

re: Book review: Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation

Maurice — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:40:50 GMT

Without claiming to know every WCF book out there the twp I would recommend are Learning WCF by Michele Bustamante and Inside Windows Communication Foundation by Justin Smith.

The first book by Michele is more an intro book for when you get started using WCF. The book by Justin Smith is for the hardcore internals.

www.amazon.com/.../ref=sr_1_1

re: Windows Vista and low disk space

Maurice — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:10:37 GMT

@Raven,

You are correct and you need to run a command prompt as an administrator. Your command seems ok so I am not sure what the problem is. Maybe the search path or else vssadmin is not installed by default on every Vista installation. I am using Vista Ultimate 64bits and it works with the default path settings.