Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 just hit the eShelves. It's currently installing, and I'll be sure to give my thoughts when I've started messing with it.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
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Max Schmeling
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1:39 PM
Labels: beta, visual studio, vs2010
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Resolved: SQL Server MDF file issue
For the past month or two I have been unable to add a SQL Database to a Visual Studio project because I kept getting a network error. I finally figured out the issue and thought I'd share what I learned.
- You must be running SQL Server Express.
- You must have user instances enabled.
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Max Schmeling
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11:40 AM
Labels: database, development, sql server, visual studio
Friday, May 15, 2009
Goodbye PayPal
Unless they resolve this issue very soon, I probably won’t ever be using PayPal again. This kind of “support” is just pathetic and unacceptable. It’s unfortunate too, because PayPal is an otherwise very useful service.
If you don’t feel like listening to the clip in that link, basically PayPal’s security system flagged one Oren Eini’s transactions and wouldn’t let him complete it. This is perfectly fine, but when he called PayPal support, they basically told him that they could not and would not do anything about, and that he just wouldn’t be able to complete the transaction (and this was from a manager). How retarded is that?
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Max Schmeling
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7:14 PM
Labels: paypal fail
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Debugging with VS 2005 and IE 8
Just as a quick follow up to my post about Microsoft Connect being we-todd-did, after playing around with it enough I did figure out how to get web application debugging working with Visual Studio 2005 and Internet Explorer 8. I was seeing that it would work sometimes, but it didn't seem predictable. I finally realized that if you don't have any IE 8 windows open when you start debugging, it knows which process to attach to and it works just fine.
So if you want to use IE 8, but you're stuck with Visual Studio 2005, you will need to use Firefox or something else for browsing while you're trying to debug.
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Max Schmeling
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10:31 AM
Labels: bugs, debugging, internet explorer, visual studio
YSlow

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Max Schmeling
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9:36 AM
Labels: debugging, firebug, performance, tools, yahoo


