I had some trouble today with Blend 4 which was continuously crashing on launch, even after an uninstall and re-install of the program. Thankfully, I found a very helpful forum post on MSDN which helped me fix the issue. I have recently installed the Developer Preview of Visual Studio 11 and it turns out that …
Category Archive: Microsoft
Oct
20
Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 Download Available
Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 has now been released to members of MSDN, with a public download available from Wednesday. Beta 2 brings many improvements to the table, including improvements in Sharepoint, WPF, ASP.NET, WinForms, as well as improvements to the core IDE and testing tools. I saw some of these IDE improvements at …
Sep
16
Scott Guthrie – Manchester – September 2009 – ASP.Net 4.0, MVC, Silverlight 3, VS 2010
Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice Presedent and all round .Net Guru is coming to Manchester, UK, later this month to talk about what’s new with Visual Studio 2010, ASP.Net 4.0, Silverlight 3 and upcoming improvements to the MVC Framework! Seating for this event, entitled Guathon 2009, is very limited and as such you can only join the …
Sep
15
Outlook 2010 Features & Screenshots
I have been using Outlook 2010 now since the start of the technical preview, which I was lucky enough to manage to be a part of, and I love it! So, for those of you not currently able to try this baby out, I thought I would share a few of the new bits of …
Sep
14
SOLVED: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – Cannot Create The Window
I am currently in the Microsoft Office 2010 tech preview and I must say that I am loving it! What I did not love though was after installing Office 2010, my Visual Studio 2010 Beta stopped working, simply displaying the message “Cannot Create The Window”. Microsoft claimed not to be able to recreate the …
Aug
25
Entity Framework v2 Articles
There has been a lot of information being passed around recently about the changes being introduced in the second major release of Microsoft’s Entity Framework, so I thought it might be a good idea to get a list of articles together on the subject that I have found useful. If you know of any more …
Aug
11
Windows 7 Upgrade Corrupts / Removes .Net 4.0 and VS 2010 Betas
The other day I performed an upgrade of Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 RTM using the workaround mentioned here, as this is not an option straight out of the box. I think I may have just stumbled across one of the reasons why. I have just noticed that my HTC Touch Pro hadn’t picked …
Aug
07
Windows 7 RTM – Expanding Windows Files Hangs at 21% – WAIT!
A while back I posted a message about the Windows 7 Release Candidate install appearing to hang whilst expanding windows files. Well, I just wanted to let you know that this also appear to be happening on Windows 7 RTM / Final. When the installation reaches the Expanding Windows Files stage at 21% (some people …
Aug
07
Upgrading Windows 7 RC to RTM / Final
For those of you who have been using Windows 7 RC and are now wanting to upgrade to Windows 7 RTM / Final, you will no doubt be faced with the message that you cannot upgrade from the RC to RTM. However, the workaround available to upgrade from the Beta to the Release Candidate is …
Jul
29
Microsoft and Yahoo join forces to tackle Google
Well, it’s been a long time coming, but it has finally happened…..Microsoft and Yahoo have teamed up in the search and web advertising arena. After several take-over offers from Microsoft were refused by Yahoo over the last year, the final deal that has now been reached will see Microsoft’s search engine Bing powering Yahoo’s search, with the …