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So I have been having a problem designing a rather odd LINQ to EF statement the past week and I decided to contact my friend on the Entity Framework team, Erick Thompson. he said oh yah, I created something like what you are looking for in the 101 sample
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Ok, so I know Visual Studio 2008 is the current version we are all using, right? But I have been a little behind on some of my books and well to be honest really using the cool features of Team System. So I got this book almost a year ago and finally
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As a .NET developer I live in Visual Studio as my primary tool. I think it is a fantastic environment, but with anything you live with there are many things I want to see in the next version. So I thought I would start logging them by category. Visual
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Recently I have been confronted with a movement that seems to hate using #Regions in source code files. Personally I really like using regions and I absolutely like the ability to collapse sections of code I am not directly working with. The opposing
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This week I saw a twitter from Roy Osherove about a new Regular Expression Visualizer he built. If you do not know Roy yet, he is a very smart .NET developer for TypeMock and has done some great work with regular expression tools, such as Regulazy and
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Last week I was talking some folks at TechEd and it seemed customized settings of Visual Studio came up in a few conversations. As a frequent speaker I am starting to learn some of the tricks of the trade to make Visual Studio perform during a presentation.
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I am not going to even bother talking about what is in it, I am reading it like everyone else! But go get it, install it into your favorite virtual machine development environment and see for yourself. Scott Gu Talks about Visual Studio 2008/3.5 SP1 Download
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Today I found out about a new resource from Microsoft, Visual Studio Gallery , that will host a directory of Visual Studio Add-ins. Ken Levy is the Microsoft manager for the project and made the official announcement about it earlier today. I like Add-Ins
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Coming to Raleigh next month will be Visual Studio Team System Briefings . This looks like a worthwhile investment of time with the Microsoft Evangelist. If I am in town I will try to go.I really like the Team System edition of Visual Studio 2008 and
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A HotFix for Visual Studio 2008 was released late Friday. Scott Guthrie details the items that are addressed in the Blog entry. Mainly there are some performance issues with Visual Studio 2008 that were beginning to drive me crazy. So I am very pleased
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One of my favorite tools is available for Visual Studio 2008, Refactor 2008 . If you do not know what Refactor is, it is a Visual Studio 2008 add-in that makes it very easy to refactor your code. That means make your code more manageable.
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Next week, December 12th, the Triangle .NET User Group will be holding an Installfest for Visual Studio 2008. Each Registered attendee , and I stressed registered attendee, will receive a FREE copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional. Brian Hitney , our
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