My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.
Channel 9 Stuff:
Greg Duncan posted a link to the downloads for the updated VSTS 2008 virtual machines.
VS2008 KB: Hotfix available for Error message when you connect to a 64-bit instance of SQL Server Express 2008 by using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1): “Connection to SQL Server files (*.mdf) requires SQL Server Express 2005 to function properly”.
VS2005 KB: Hotfix available for When you run an application that is built by using the /Ot compiler option in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1), some “if” statements may run incorrectly.
Via Alvin Ashcraft: Kirill Osenkov has posted How to debug crashes and hangs.
Greg Duncan posted a link to Snippet Editor on CodePlex. Snippet Editor provides a stand alone GUI to manage code snippets for Visual Studio.
The Web Developer Tools Team has posted a few new tips:
- Tip #37: Did you know…How to organize usings?
- Tip #38: Did you know… How to use Failed Request Tracing to trace Rewrite Rules?
Via Alvin Ashcraft: Davy Brion offers an alternative to working with Big Visual Studio Solutions.