Microsoft Portugal will be hosting Techdays 2008 from Mars 12 nd to 14 th , right after the Portuguese launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 , Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Mars 11 th . This is the biggest and greatest tech event in Portugal and there will be lots of...
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For those who can't (or don't want to) deploy .NET Framework 3.5, the service packs included for the 2.0 and 3.0 versions of the framework are available as standalone downloads. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x86) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x64) Microsoft .NET...
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Today, S.Somasegar announced at TechEd Developers EMEA , amongst other things, that they the product team at Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5. They are on track to shipping these products before the end of November 2007. They will have the marketing launch...
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I've just read in Jeff Beehler's blog that Microsoft has re-released the VS2008 Beta2 VPCs with an updated expiration date. You can find the updated links on the VS2008 download page : Visual Studio Team System 2008 Beta 2 Team Suite VPC Visual Studio Team System 2008 Beta 2 Team Suite &...
Most of us have been testing the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC images. Microsoft has announced that the current Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC images will expire on November 1, 2007, rather than March 15, 2008 as originally announced. It is strongly encouraged that you take all necessary steps before...
Visual Studio's Unit Test generator generates a call to Assert.Inconclusive but, usually generates a call to another method of the Assert class. I find that very annoying because, some times, this makes the test fail instead of being reported as inconclusive. To comment out these extra calls to Assert...
I don't like to see constant strings being concatenated in source code. I know the compiler compiles it into a single string, but I think it sends out the wrong message. However, code generators (like Visual Studio's Unit Test generator) usually generate code with long strings concatenated across...
Visual Studio comes with the a specific set of regular expressions can be used in the Find what field of the its Find and Replace Window . Over the time I've been using Visual Studio I've come up with some tricky regular expressions that I'll be publishing in this page . Feel free to comment...
TypeMocks™ 4.0.0 is now available . In my previous analysis mentioned two drwanbacks of this mocking framework: The lack of a mocking scope. The lack of the use of Generics in its APIs. Let's start with the second one. Generic Reflective API TypeMocks™ was the same tool for both the .NET 1.1 and...
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(From Blaine Wastell 's post and Mariano Szklanny 's post ) You can now download the SCSF - May 2007 release . The new release provides support for .NET 3.0. The release is propagating to the download servers and should be available when you read this. If not, be patient and try a little later...
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