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10月23日

Restoring Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 back to normal life

Sometimes Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 starts behaving badly. For me, Intellisense disappeared, but some people report other issues such as lack of response of Team Explorer.
 
For those and other ailments, the solution is to reset the Visual studio environment by typing this at the command line:
 
devenv /resetsettings
 
Of course, you must navigate to VS 2010 installation folder, which in my case is
 
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\"
 
 
10月21日

Lots of news for Microsoft developers

Besides the wide availability of Windows Seven, this week brought several news for Microsoft developers:
  • Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010, with “go-live” license for productions environments
  • Revamped MSDN portal
  • New Visual Studio 2010 videos at Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/visualstudio/
Busy week indeed!

Windows 7 is here!

Tonight at midnight (maybe I should say tomorrow, I don’t know) Microsoft starts selling retail copies of Windows Seven with events all over the world.

Actually this is no big deal for me. I’ve been using pre-release versions Windows Seven since the end of last year and loving it. Even the final version is no big news; as a MSDN subscriber I have that for almost two months now.

Windows Seven is what Windows Vista should have been. To be frank, I never liked Vista – you will not find a word I wrote praising it. I not alone in my dislike of Vista, check what Bill Gates said:

http://gizmodo.com/342920/holy-crap-did-bill-gates-just-say-windows-sucks

On the other hand, Windows Seven is simply great.

Windows Seven installed quickly and flawlessly in all the computers I tested, both as clean installs and as upgrade from Vista. It’s fast, stable and uses fewer resources than Vista. UAC – those “security” dialog boxes that come from time to time are much rarer due to some now obvious optimizations so I now leave it turned on. For instance, UAC does not come up if called from the OS itself, like Control Panel applets.

Everything that you can think of is better and faster. Details, something I consider very important in everything I uses are very well thought, which points to a mature and well tested product. As a matter of fact, Windows Seven Beta 2 was already way better than Vista.

Aside from the upgrade price, I can’t see a reason why one shouldn’t get rid of Vista and start using Windows Seven now.

Compared to XP, it does use a more resources, but nothing that any three year old computer could not handle. Thanks to Vista, a notorious resource hog, we have quite powerful computers now. If you are still using XP, I think it’s time to upgrade the technology.
10月20日

VS 2010 almost ready

Yesterday Microsoft released for its MSDN subscribers Visual Studio 2010 and. NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2.
 
Under Microsoft's liturgy, Beta 2 is a complete and usable product, but only with stability and performance issues. It also includes a "go-live" license. That means the software is supported and can be put into production under some restrictions.
 
Supposedly it coexists peacefully with Visual Studio 2008, which led me to install it on my real machine (not virtual) Windows Seven.
 
Among the many new features, I think the greatest thing is the excellent support for WPF and Silverlight. You can now develop  within Visual Studio without the need for another tool such as Expression Blend. In fact, the interface of Visual Studio was entirely rewritten in WPF.
 
I installed, used it a little and liked it what I saw.
 
Other features include:
 
  • New languages like F #, Python and Ruby, and dynamic extensions to C# and VB.NET
  • The widely awaited tools to support easy development for SharePoint, replacing the need of manually editing multiple XML files
  • Support for Windows Azure, the “cloud” Microsoft platform
  • New editors and architecture tools
The final release was announced for March 22, 2010. The availability of the final version can occur just before or a bit after it, depending on the final stages of development.