Hi,

Microsoft has just released the Hot fix for Visual Studio 2008, web development. The hot fix is for the performance issue caused in the VS 2008 in the HTML source View and design view. You can download this hot-fix roll-up for free here.

The hot fix solves a lot of problem related to HTML: source view performance, Design view performance, HTML Editing, Javascript Editing, Web Site build performance etc.

For more on the Installation please visit

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/08/vs-2008-web-development-hot-fix-roll-up-available.aspx

Vikram

Hi,

I have seen many people asking me or in the forum about the difference between the various version of Visual studio and which one should they use. Well the one you should use is dependent on your requirement.

You can find the difference between the various edition of Visual Studio 2008 here in this product comparison

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc149003.aspx

Hi,

Today I have a very bad news for those who work on SharePoint 2007 and want to work with Visual studio 2008 and take advantage of the latest feature in JavaScript debugging etc. The visual Studio extension for SharePoint Visual studio 2008 is being planned to be released in June 2008. This is way far down the road then what I would have expected.

For current its best to forget about it and work on the Visual Studio 2005. For those of you who are thinking on working on SharePoint 2007 do not throw away your visual studio 2005 (after getting the multi targeting feature in VS 2008) for next 6 months or so.

Hi,

One of the cool new stuff in Visual Studio 2008 is the way it works with the Ctrl + Tab. In Visual Studio (VS) 2005 this feature was brought up and has been nicely enhanced in Visual Studio (VS) 2008.

In VS 2005 when we press Ctrl + Tab the studio would just not cycle through the opened tabs but open a dialogue to show those tabs. This way we were easily able to see the next tab which would be opened.

This feature has been well built on in VS 2008. In Vs 2008 ctrl + Tab not openly open the dialog but also show the image preview of the window. Here is an example of the window that shows up.

The feature might be small and simple but is pretty useful. It least I have liked this beautiful work from VS 2008 team. Way to go… Here is an image of the dialog.

Hi,

Today I installed Visual studio 2008 release version. But truly speaking the installation was not as smooth as I thought it could have been. So I decided to talk about one specific problem that I faced and the solution for that.

Before I say anything about the problem, one important thing. If you have installed the beta 2 version of the software (as I did) then you first need to uninstall the same. I am using Vista, so I will talk about Vista Operating system only.

In most of the places you will find message like go to control panel -> add remove program and then remove the component of visual Studio 2008 beta 2. But if you are using Vista and you go to control panel -> add remove program you will not find any option to remove the program from the system over there.

Hi,

One of the features that I use very regularly in Visual studio 2008 is the Open folder in Windows Explorer. Many a times we want to do something with the actual without the use of Visual Studio.

A common scenario is to change the connection string in the Web.config screen locally without checking in the Web.config file. What I do is go to the physical path and change the property of the file and make it editable.Now I open the file in a Notepad and update the connectionstring. This is many a times required to check for issues with different kind of data.

For cases like these I really like the feature of the visual studio on how easily I can open the working folder. All I need to do is click on the file (or project) right click (to get the context menu) and click on “Open folders in Window Explorer” to open the respective folder.

Thanks
Vikram

Hi,

I just saw this news and thought I will help in spreading it around, as I know many people have been using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. The VPC of the Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 will expire on 1^st November 2007 instead of expected in march next year.

The problem is with the timeout at the OS level. You need to backup all file before that otherwise you will loose all the your good work.

Read this post for more information.

http://weblogs.asp.net/bryansampica/archive/2007/10/27/important-information-regarding-visual-studios-2008-beta-2.aspx

Vikram

Hi,

I have just started looking in the Visual studio 2008. One of the things that I have already started to like very much is the using statement organization. Yes Now we can select all the using statements and ask the studio to organize it. The studio will sort the statement in the order of their name.

The better thing was the ability to remove the unused using statement. Yes you read it right. Select the using statements rightclick->OrganizeUsing->Remove Unused Usings. This will remove all those using statements that are not required in the page.

What a beautiful utility. Something that will improve the overall code of a normal developer.

Vikram