Category: Visual Studio

In an article published recently on DevTips.NET (beware: Dutch) I discuss the benefits of ClickOnce deployment. Though a very useful feature in the .NET 2.0 Framework, it has one (ok, perhaps more) simple limitation. The webpage from which one can download[…]

Finally… It took me almost a day to get it to install successfully. With all the prerequisites and carefull planning. I kept getting the “Error 28100.Error loading Event web service”. There are a few suggestions to resolve this, but none of them applied[…]

So this is it. Already. The event is over. Finished. See you next year. Hopefully. The sessions were a continuation of yesterday’s. With the product teams asking for feedback on what they have done, like with VS.NET 2005 and what[…]

It is great to get a chance to talk to the product group that is building the stuff we developers are going to be using. The purpose today was to discuss upcoming features in the C# language and the .NET[…]

So today was the day of exec speeches. Actually based on last year’s feedback, they decided to limit the exec talks to only half a day. The afternoon was reserved for more technology related sessions. The event is under NDA[…]

Registration was on the schedule for today. Oh, I forgot to take a picture of the bag. Well, it’s not worth taking a picture anyway. It’s more solid than the plastic bag we had last year. It’s nice to see[…]

So I made to Seattle. Actually, the trip was quite uneventful. No delays, no lost luggage (that figures because I only had my backpack). This morning I went strolling around the city, looking for a place to have some breakfast.[…]

To the annual MVP summit, that is. Some pictures from last year, to get me in the right mindset. Or these, mostly from the city of Seattle, actually more from the surrounding water. Anyway, using Nix’s checklist, well, at least part of[…]

When Microsoft showed off XAML as there user interface language for next generation (say, Vista) applications two years ago, it also showed the cumbersome way in which they we’re demoing the manipulation of XAML. Because XAML is XML it can[…]

While we even don’t have our hands on the actual 8.0 release of VB.NET (or C#) we’re already teased with features that are introduced in version 9.0. This overview mainly focuses on the use of LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) in VB.NET,[…]