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Pre-ordering VS 2010 Professional Edition

March 11, 2010 Mar 11, 2010 03/11/10
Brian Harry
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

March 10, 2010 Mar 10, 2010 03/10/10
Brian Harry
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

March 9, 2010 Mar 9, 2010 03/9/10
Brian Harry
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

March 9, 2010 Mar 9, 2010 03/9/10
Brian Harry
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

March 8, 2010 Mar 8, 2010 03/8/10
Brian Harry
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

March 8, 2010 Mar 8, 2010 03/8/10
Brian Harry
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

March 6, 2010 Mar 6, 2010 03/6/10
Brian Harry
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

March 5, 2010 Mar 5, 2010 03/5/10
Brian Harry
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 ...

Second Intellisense patch for the 2010 RC

March 5, 2010 Mar 5, 2010 03/5/10
Brian Harry
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 ...