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 …
Category Archive: visual studio
Sep
16
Resharper for Visual Studio 2010 Available!
Ok, this one completely slipped by me! A while back I told you that JetBrains had a page on their web site stating that a preview of ReSharper for Visual Studio 2010 was on its way and that we would see it in June….but there was nothing. Turns out it has been there since July in the …
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 …
May
20
Visual Studio 2010 Multiple Monitor Support – Screenshot
For those of you who have not installed the beta of Visual Studio 2010, below is a screenshot showing the new feature within 2010 that allows support for multiple monitors. As you can see, you can now completely undock your editors and other windows and drag them onto another monitor or simply another area of …
May
20
TUTORIAL: Entity Framework v2.0 – Model First using Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0
Following up on my recent post about the improvements to the Entity Framework in .Net 4.0 this is the first in a series of posts examining some of the new features and showing you how to put some of them into practice. In this post I am going to look at one of the most …
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
14
Visual Studio 2010 Beta Release Next Week…..Maybe.
Many people, myself included were gvery exicited this week as we were expecting the release of Vsiaul Studio 2010 Beta from TechEd, however, now Mary J Foley has posted on her blog stating that she believes that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 will be released next week. Although this is nothing concrete, it certainly seems …
May
09
Visual Studio 2010 Beta This Week?
So, I have my Windows 7 RC up and running and I am now itching to get hold of a beta of Visual Studio 2010. I held off downloading the Virtual PC CTP ion order to wait for an installable version, but that seems to have been a long time coming. The wait may be …