Blog

Visual Studio Links #68

Written by: Darren Stokes at 8/25/2008 6:36:22 AM

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.

The folks over at Mindscape have released a new (free) add-in for VS2008 called VS File Explorer.  The add-in gives an explorer tool window within Visual Studio and it works with shell extensions, like TortoiseSvn. 

Via Alvin Ashcraft: 

Via Jason Haley:

Pablo Galiano explains how to get a model element name property without using reflection / TypeDescriptor.

Sasha Goldshtein discusses Debugging Silverlight Applications:  SOS.DLL.

Ayende announced the availability of Boo Lang Studio 1.0 Alpha.

Scott Hanselman gave an overview of the .Net Framework installer scenarios and the size of those downloads.

Sara Ford's Tip of the Day #297 explains how to show or hide the "No Debugging Information" warning.

Murray Gordon posted a few links to help check if your web site is IE8 compatible and fix it.

The Windows SDK Team has posted the way to fix the problem with VS2008 SP1 breaking the WinSDK Configuration Tool.

VS2008 KB:  Hotfix available for The Visual Studio 2005 IDE may stop responding or may respond very slowly after you perform some operations to a form that has a complex DataSet control, a DataGridView control, and some DataAdapter controls in a windows-based application.

Visual Studio Profiler Team blog has posted a description of a VS2008 SP1 Website Profiling Bug and Workaround.

Via Alvin Ashcraft:

Channel 9 Stuff:

blog comments powered by Disqus