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Pre-ordering VS 2010 Professional Edition

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the affordable estimated retail price of $549, a saving of $250.  Along with all the great new features in Visual Studio 2010 (see www.microsoft.com/visualstudio) Visual Studio 2010 Professional ...

Programming Practices: Part 2 – Thoughts on TDD

Well, it seems the last post wasn’t too controversial.  Let me try something that might be a bit more controversial.  Heck, it might even get some people down right agitated with me but that’s OK, disagreement is a useful tool to drive clarity and understanding. I don’t like Test Driven Development.  I don&...

Programming Practices: Part 1 – Watching from a distance

I figured I’d start the series with a more abstract post about what watching me code looks like.  It was interesting to observe myself doing it because I didn’t really realize the degree to which I do some things.  If I were to summarize my overall approach to coding with a simple description, I’d call it “...

Programming Practices: Part 1 – Watching from a distance

I figured I’d start the series with a more abstract post about what watching me code looks like.  It was interesting to observe myself doing it because I didn’t really realize the degree to which I do some things.  If I were to summarize my overall approach to coding with a simple description, I’d call it “...

Series on Programming Practices

This is the first post in a series I’ve decided to write on my Programming Practices.  I’m not trying to say everyone has to do it the way I do it but I figured it might be interesting to talk about how I do it and have some fun, if sometimes controversial, discussions about it. A little before Christmas, when I decided that I...

Series on Programming Practices

This is the first post in a series I’ve decided to write on my Programming Practices.  I’m not trying to say everyone has to do it the way I do it but I figured it might be interesting to talk about how I do it and have some fun, if sometimes controversial, discussions about it. A little before Christmas, when I decided that I...

VS 2010 RC Patch available for the # 1 Connect bug

The most commonly reported/voted for Connect bugs in the Release candidate had to do with the ASP.NET designer not auto generating controls properly - it would sometimes just omit them.  Very frustrating if you are trying to use it.  We've just release a patch (the 3rd RC patch in total) to address this set of issues.  You can ...

Next Generation Testing with Visual Studio 2010 – Additional Events

A few days ago I posted a schedule of upcoming events in the Midwest focusing on Visual Studio 2010. That list represented only a small subset of the events planned for VS2010. There have been events all over North America and I suspect around the world. As these events are managed by the individual regions in which they are located I do not ...
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Second Intellisense patch for the 2010 RC

We had a number of reports about Intellisense crashes soon after the RC was released.  After much investigation, the vast majority of reports have boiled down to two issues.  We released a patch for the more common of the two a week or so ago.  We've just released a patch for the second and customers who have tried the two ...

Optimizing Visual Studio 2010 and WPF applications for Remote Desktop

As part of our work to improve VS performance after VS 2010 beta 2, we've done a ton of analysis of VS in various scenarios.  One of them is VS over remote desk top.  We've made a number of fixes to improve the performance but there are also some things you can do to configure remote desktop in ways that are significantly less ...