Following to Scott Guthrie's post with some answers to common questions about Visual Studio 2008 , I just want to point out how to change the default product key in Visual Studio installer. You know that by default, Visual Studio installer doesn't allow the change in the product key and you just...
There is nothing better than seeing the news about the final release of Visual Studio 2008 after getting back to home after a very bad day. Visual Studio 2008 is available for download for MSDN subscribers and we can consider this as official release of Visual Studio 2008. Of course, the launch day is...
I randomly found Professional Visual Studio blog by Nick Randolph and David Gardner. The name reminds you of Wrox Professional series and that's right! This blog is a blog about Visual Studio written by authors of Professional Visual Studio 2008 book. This is a revised edition of Professional Visual...
I'm going to assume that most people that read my blog, will also read ScottGu's blog but if even one person doesn't and finds this great post via my blog, then it's worth it. Check out Scott's tips for getting the most out of Visual Studio . Personally, I run a 150 GB, 1.5 Gb/s,...
It's been quite a while since I updated the status of my new book on this blog. In this while we've been working hard on the book to deliver the best content to the community and due to the fact that we're working on a not released product, we had to apply some changes as well. One of these...
After 2-3 days of being off due to a lost and found Internet connection and being away to the service for many hours, now I'm back online! Earlier today I saw the news about the Beta release of T4 editor on Victor's blog . Those who know DSL, also know about Text Templating Transformation Toolkit...
If you have worked with XML editor in Visual Studio, already know that it inserts closing tags for each element automatically if you don't close the element manually. And if you close it then it doesn't do anything. This is very helpful when authoring XML documents and XML based documents. Not...
Yesterday Ken Levy , the Program Manager of Visual Studio Tools Ecosystem team at Microsoft, posted the VSX community letter for October 2007 including lots of latest news and information about Visual Studio extensibility. Since we're getting closer to the final release of Visual Studio 2008 and...
Yesterday, Bill Bridges (Development Editor of my new book) sent me an email about a problem in one of the recent chapters of my upcoming book about Visual Studio Extensibility. The problem, that had taken half an hour of his time to get fixed was a simple formatting problem in one of source code samples...
While I announced my new book in July, I've been working on the book everyday to get things done on time. Although it has been so hard to manage this life with these troubles (that others provide for me in this country) but fortunately I've been able to keep things managed to now and pass a reasonable...