December 2006 - Posts

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I've been Tagged: Five Things You Might Not Know About Me by ScottGu

I've been tagged by Paul , so here are 5 things to share about me: 1) I was born in Michigan, lived for two years in California, and then spent a decade growing up in England. I attended Duke University and graduated with a degree in Computer Science...
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Recipe: Deploying a SQL Database to a Remote Hosting Environment (Part 1) by ScottGu

Scenario: You finish building a great ASP.NET application, have everything tested and working right on your local system, are taking full advantage of the new ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role and Profile features, and are ready to publish it to a remote hosting...
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Tip/Trick: How to Run a Root “/” Site with the Local Web Server using VS 2005 SP1 by ScottGu

One of the questions I'm often asked is whether it is possible to run an ASP.NET web-site project as a top-level root "/" site using the built-in VS web-server and the VS 2005 Web Site Project model. By default, when you open a web-site as a file-system...
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HTML Source Editing Performance Improvements in VS 2005 SP1 by ScottGu

VS 2005 SP1 shipped on the web last week . One of the overall goals with VS 2005 SP1 was to improve IDE performance and responsiveness for a number of common scenarios (a few examples: build times, managing large projects, refactoring, and intellisense...
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Building killer Games using .NET and XNA Game Studio Express by ScottGu

In case you missed it, Microsoft shipped XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 last week. XNA provides a rich .NET based framework for building games, and supports development using C# and Visual Studio. The games you build with it can then be run on both Windows...
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Installing VS 2005 SP1 on Vista (and how to uninstall the VS 2005 SP1 Beta on Vista) by ScottGu

Yesterday I blogged about VS 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) being released . If you have previously installed the VS 2005 SP1 Beta, then you need to uninstall it before installing the final SP1 release. With Windows XP you can do this by going to your Add...
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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Released by ScottGu

Visual Studio shipped the final release of VS 2005 SP1 yesterday. It is available for immediate download in all 10 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and both traditional and simplified Chinese). You can download...
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ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available by ScottGu

Earlier today the ASP.NET team shipped the release candidate for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 . This is the penultimate release of ASP.NET AJAX - the next public release will be the final, fully supported, 1.0 product. This release candidate build includes several...
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Gotcha: Don't use <xhtmlConformance mode="Legacy"/> with ASP.NET AJAX by ScottGu

Recently I've helped a few developers who have been having some weird JavaScript issues (both when using ASP.NET AJAX and with some other custom JavaScript routines they were using). The culprit was that they had automatically migrated a VS 2003 Web...
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Nice Continuous Integration Presentation by ScottGu

Roy Osherove maintains a great blog on .NET unit testing, agile development, and VS Team System. This weekend he posted a pointer to a free video of his "Implementing Continuous Integration: With and Without Team System" presentation at TechEd Europe...
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