I got bit when installing the VS2010 RC and it cost me a few hours of aggravation. Here’s why. I use Daemon Tools to mount ISOs to a virtual DVD. I have a Windows 7 machine and am using a new installation of Daemon. By default, Daemon’s auto-mount feature is turned off. I didn’t realize this. During...

Earlier this month, Rob Hale presented at the Vermont.NET User Group on what he learned at PDC. There was a lot of great information; but oddly, two tiny little Visual Studio features stood out for me. One is not even new to VS2010. Recent Project Tricks on Start Page There are a zillion new productivity...

Here's a post I wrote on my DevLife blog that shows how to easily discover and install VS extensions in VS2010 AND about T4 AND about T4 editors and even about EF4's use of T4 templates. Can you stand it? Get VS2010 Extensions easily with built-in Extension Manager (and checking out a VS2010T4 editor...

This cost me two very precious hours today, so I thought I would share. In preparing my laptop for my upcoming trip, I needed to get the latest version of an app I wrote for a client in case I need to do any work for them while I'm away. The application uses the latest version of Crystal Reports which...

I spent a ridiculous amount of time moving an app with lots of Crystal Reports from VS2005 to VS2008. The VS part was a breeze. It was the move to Crystal Reports 2008 that slayed me. I learned a lot of lessons during this process and wrote them into an article for ASPAlliance in the hopes of helping...

Why oh why did I check out Instant VB after I spent 45 minutes trying to translate one line of code from C# to VB? Read more... [A New DevLife post]...

It took me a ridiculous amount of time to find this. First of all, do not download the trial version that's readily available. It doesn't have the Service Pack in it. I figured that out after I did the 350 MB download, unzipped and installed, only to have the same old problems I had before SP0. There...

Because my development machine crashed and burned last week, I had to build up a new box and decided to finally take the 64-bit plunge. Read more here: My first 64-bit computer [A new DevLife post]...

I just happened to discover this as I was setting up my new machine and grabbing Reflector off of the web. It only happened a week ago. There will still be a free community version but Red Gate will be able to put additional resources behind enhancing this tool that we can't live without. You can read...

It's been in there from the start (well at least since VS2003), but I have only recently started taking advantage of the "Format Document" and "Format Selection" functions in Visual Studio to help with the readability of code or xml. Read more... [A New DevLife post]...