Following Windows 8 is released its Release Preview, Visual Studio 11 is also having some changes since 1st June 2012. Now Visual Studio 11 is confirmed to be named Visual Studio 2012, and also it is now turning from Beta to RC. This means that it is going to be RTM. in my personal thinking, it might be released in the same date as Windows 8. So as a developer, you really need to catch up some changes on HTML 5 supporting in Visual Studio 2012, and also the Metro Development for Windows 8. Don't

Windows 8 Release Preview is released and free download and install publicly in last week. You can download it, install it and feel it. Now it is changed into Release Preview, that means the release date is close. You can also have a look on the difference edition and their features, There will be 3 editions, Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows 8 RT. Feature name Windows 8 Windows 8 Pro Windows RT Upgrades from Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium x x Upgrades from Windows 7 Professional

Microsoft released the second version of Windows 8 to public on 29th Feb, 2012. This version is named Windows 8 Consumer Preview. I try to install it onto the Virtual PC and configure 2Gb ram, 20Gb Virtual Hard Disk and DVD mount to theWin8CP ISO file. Like this, And then I run the Virtual PC and getting a "golden fish" screen and then a blue screen with message, "Your computer ran into a problem and needs to restart. If you'd like to know more, you can search online later for

I am sure that everyone might have a need to use MSSQL Server Sample Database in every version. And now you could download the sample database for MSSQL Server 2012 too. All you need to do is browse to CodePlex and download it. It is an offical product. You may get the following files, Adventure Works DW 2012 Data File Adventure Works Multidimensional Models SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services Tuorial SQL Server 2012 Adventure Works Tabular Mode SQL Server 2012 Adventure Works Internet Sales Tabular

Visual Studio 11 Beta is ready for you. Now you can download it from browsing http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads and also can download from MSDN Subscriber Downloads . There are some compatibility with previous releases. I think the main points are, .NET 4.5 is an in-place update of .NET 4 You can install and Use Visual Studio 11 Beta alongside Visual Studio 2010. Also, there are some upgrade paths planned ready for Developer Preview / Beta / RC / RTM later on. Supported: Upgrade

MSSQL Server 2012 is released. There are 6 editions, Enterprise, Business Intelligence, Standard, Web, Developer and Express. You could compare the features in the following link, http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/sql-2012-editions.aspx If you would like to learn more about it, you could attend the Virtual Launch Event. http://www.sqlserverlaunch.com/ww/Home

After getting the System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException when I am developing with Entity Framework for few weeks, I google a lot and found out a helpful related blog and now I solved my problems. After following what he mentioned and showed out the real informations from the exception, I figure out that there is a internal developed dll in my project's bin directory, but I never reference it into my project. And this dll is running with another dll from a vendor. The problem never comes

I recent start a new project in VS2010. My Vs2010 version is v4.0.30319 RTMRel. I created a ASP.NET AJAX Web Project. I am using ADO.NET EntityDataSource and bind the data from SQL 2008 into a gridview on a page. I then found out I keep getting this error when viewing the page in browser (my browser is IE7, v7.0.5730.11IS), If I compile and browse the page in 10 times, I get at least 7 times of this error. GOD. OK, I then do a google search. And found the following useful link, http://connect.microsoft

Last 2 weeks, I run MVC training kit to IIS 7.5 and was trying to figure out the baseline for the performance tuning for my project. I tested 3 Scenarios, S1) Hosting MVC 1.0 Training Kit in Application under Default Website S2) Hosting MVC 1.0 Training Kit in New Website with port 8081 S3) Hosting my company's MVC Project in New Website with port 8082 And their result of max throughput on Default Page is around, R1 Result Screen Shot R2 Result Screen Shot R1) ~200/sec R2) ~2980/sec R3) ~410

Recent, I am focusing on MVC/.NET/IIS performance because of my job duty. I have to try and running load test in order to get the number of max thoughput, so that I could figure out a baseline for the web projects in my working company. I then setup a computer to host IIS with MVC projects. Here is what I get, Hardware: Web Server CPU: Core 2 Due E8400 Ram: 4Gb DDR2-800 OS: 64-bit Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition Data: SQL 2008 Express Edition (for training kit data) + XML files (for my project