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I’ve been tracking Sara Ford’s blog for a while.  Every day a new tip.  Today’s is one I hadn’t seen before.  You can log your command window session to a file.

Pretty cool.  Now, all I need is a reason to use it.

Sara Ford’s WebLog : How to log your command window session

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Eric Nelson reports that the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit is available for download here:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397

The technologies covered in the kit include:  (more…)

And I am talking FIRST looks.

I just got this thing installed and the first windows that comes up when I load VS 2008 is this:

Nice, I won’t have to reset my settings.  While we’re at this screen, those of you who are thinking any but the first option are the options you want to use.  Let me just say right off the bat here, you want “General Development Settings.”

Why, because you want to get all of the IDE available to you.  If you pick one of the others, the IDE will act like one of those environments ONLY.  It will take you maybe a week of steady development to learn the new keystrokes.  So, just do it.

Next, I went to the help system to see what’s new and cool.

Hmmm, guess I have some learning to do.

I’ll be back later with what’s new and cool.

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According to the MSDN Subscriptions WebLog Visual Studio 2008 should be available early this week.  (Could that be today?!)

Can’t wait to get it installed and find out all the quirks.

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Pete LePage, Senior Product manager at Microsoft reports that the as of April 2008 we will no longer need to use the stupid javascript html insertion code to get around the click to activate requirement that was added in April 2006.

There are all kinds of questions we have about this change, like: (more…)