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: MSDN
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 …
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 …
Jul
26
Expression Web 3 Released
Expression Web 3, part of Expression Studio from Microsoft has now been released and is available for purchase / download. MSDN license holders should find Expression Studio including Expression Web 3 available for download now from the MSDN web site, whilst everyone else can take advantage of free trials (the Expression Web 3 trail can be …
May
18
MSDN & Public Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Downloads Finally Here!
UPDATE: The public version of the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 can be found here. Today sees the waiting over for many people, myself included, for the release of Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010. According to Mike Ormond the beta will be available to MSDN Subscribers today, with a public download following hot on its …
May
01
Windows 7 RC Install – Expanding Windows Files Stuck at 21% – WAIT!
UPDATE: This also occurs with the RTM / Final version of Windows 7 Just thought I would post a quick note about the Windows 7 RC install that I have just carried out. It appears that several people are noticing an issue where the install appears to hang for a long time at 21% during …
May
09
Expression Web 2 and Expression Studio NOT Available on MSDN Downloads
UPDATE: Apparently, the Expression Studio is available, but you need to go to the Top MSDN Downloads page. Here is the link to the top downloads page. Plus it turns out that I clearly was not awake this morning when I made this post originally as the blog post I link to below is talking …
May
07
MSDN Roadshow 2008 Review and Useful Links
Ok, so a few weeks ago I posted about my plans to attend the MSDN Roadshow 2008 in Manchester and I said that I would post about the event once I had attended. So as promised here is that very post along with some useful links; Firstly, the venue for this years event was excellent. …
Mar
12
Microsoft Expression Web 2 Beta – What’s New?
UPDATE: This post was originally written for the Beta version of Expression Web 2. However, the content still applies to the full version that has now been released. By now you have probably heard that the beta of version 2 of Microsoft’s web design tool Expression Web has just been released. I am a big …
Mar
11
MSDN Roadshow 2008
Just registered for the 2008 MSDN Roadshow in Manchester on 1st May At last years event, I particularly enjoyed a demo around WPF/E, which ofcourse has now been released as Silverlight. Well, this years event looks to be even better. Below is the event summary from the Microsoft web site; Microsoft is pleased to present …