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November 2005 - Posts

• Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 Known Issues

  This known issues list is a must-see reference for many oddities you might encounter with Visual Studio 2005 and/or .NET Framework 2.0: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/knownIssues/ Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2005 2:58 PM by Thomas | (Comments Off) Filed under: Development

• Visual Studio 2005 Licensing - A Sad State of Affairs

  Microsoft may be an awesome technology company, but they have often managed to screw up licensing and major marketing efforts. Remember when they thought that every product name should have .NET attached to it ? Remember ActiveX? How about Licensing 6 Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:45 AM by Thomas | (Comments Off) Filed under: General

• Installing VS 2005 into a Virtual PC VM

  I'm sure all of you thoroughly read the README of any product before you install it, so you already know this. It is a pain to install VS 2005 in a Virtual PC due to limitations of Virtual PC itself. If you have a physical DVD, you cannot use it to directly Read More... Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 4:21 PM by Thomas | (Comments Off) Filed under: Development

• Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta (by Microsoft)

  If you develop Web applications and use Internet Explorer, you'll want this toolbar written by Microsoft and targeted specifically at developers. Read More... Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 3:41 PM by Thomas | (Comments Off) Filed under: Development

• How to Crash the DB Tuning Advisor in SQL Server 2005 RTM -- Take 2

  As a follow-up to my earlier post about crashing the SQL Server 2005 Database Tuning Advisor , I later discovered that the .NET exception stack trace was logged to the Application event log. My suspicions were correct: it is a threading bug, and it turns Read More... Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 3:31 PM by Thomas | (Comments Off) Filed under: General

• VS 2005 and SQL 2005 Together

  Many developers will want to install SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and Visual Studio 2005 on the same PC. (Note: This applies to any version of SQL 2005.) If you install SQL 2005 first and choose to install the BI Development Studio, you are actually Read More... Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 3:16 PM by Thomas | (Comments Off) Filed under: General