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November 2007 - Posts

Rosario November CTP is now available

posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:49 PM by Badawi
According to Jeff Beehler's I'm happy to announce that the next Community Technology Preview of Rosario (officially known as Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name "Rosario" November 2007 CTP) is now available. Customers can immediately begin Read More
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How to use solutions and projects between VS 2005 and VS 2008

posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:37 AM by Badawi
Having two team members working on the same solution, one using VS2008 and the other using VS2005, what are the odds they can actually work together??   Once solutions are opened in VS2008 you'll not be able to open them back in VS2005 as the version Read More
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Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008

posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:32 AM by Badawi
Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 is now available on MS Downloads This package is an add-on to the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha. It provides a Silverlight project Read More
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TFS 2008 Power Tools

posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:45 PM by Badawi
According to Brian Harry below is the TFS2008 Power Tools Plan. The week of 11/26 VSTS Web Access - They released a CTP that is compatible with the TFS 2008 object model a couple of months ago.  This build will continue to work against the Read More
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Tips for upgrading from TFS2005 to TFS2008

posted Sunday, November 25, 2007 7:00 PM by Badawi
Grant Holliday posted a Tips for Upgrading TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 article that I find very interesting. Hopefully will try it this week max early next week. Read More
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Steps to Uninstall VS 2008 Beta2 before installing the VS 2008 Final Release

posted Sunday, November 25, 2007 1:10 AM by Badawi
Below is the complete list of potential Beta2 components to uninstall in a recommended uninstall order: Remove "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 Beta" Remove "Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5" Remove "Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition Read More
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TFS 2008 System Recommendations

posted Saturday, November 24, 2007 7:17 PM by Badawi
Just came across a great post by Brian Harry about TFS 2008 System Recommendations. We have just completed our testing for TFS 2008 scalability and are ready to publish the final recommendations on server sizing and hardware configurations. If you want Read More
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Team Explorer 2008 Standalone Available

posted Saturday, November 24, 2007 6:52 PM by Badawi
For those in need to install Team Explorer 2008 only, there's a separate download available on MS Download: Download Visual Studio Team Explorer 2008 Having Team Explorer doesn't alleviate the need to also have a TFS Client Access License (CAL) except Read More
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MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2008

posted Friday, November 23, 2007 12:34 AM by Badawi
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2008 is available on MSDN Virtual Labs here. In this lab you will use the powerful new CSS editor in Visual Studio 2008 to manage styles sheets in web pages. You will also try out other Read More
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Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 Released

posted Friday, November 23, 2007 12:26 AM by Badawi
Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 is released. It is the official software development kit that allows developers to integrate tools, editors, designers, languages, and other features inside Visual Studio 2008. Key features in the VS 2008 SDK include: Visual Read More
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What's New in Visual Studio 2008

posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 9:49 PM by Badawi
Adam Gallant posted a long yet amazing post from the new product guide including what's new in Visual Studio 2008 including all the product pieces and editions. Check the post here Read More
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Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit

posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 9:44 PM by Badawi
Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit is available on Microsoft Download CenterThe Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos.This content is designed to help learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework Read More
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Visual Studio 2008 RTM Released on MSDN

posted Monday, November 19, 2007 3:27 PM by Badawi
Visual Studio 2008 is now available for MSDN Subscribers to Download. Read More
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.NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and Types Poster

posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 10:02 AM by Badawi
The .NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and Types Poster is now downloadable as XPS or PDF format on Microsoft Download Center. There is also an XPS format file which prints over 16 letter or A4 pages for easy printing. Read More
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Visual Studio 2008 RTM this November!!

posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1:56 PM by Badawi
Finally the long waited Visual Studio 2008 will be Released to Manufacturing at the end of this November as announced today by Microsoft. Horray !! Read More
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TFS Build Lab 1.0 Released

posted Saturday, November 03, 2007 5:43 PM by Badawi
TFSBuildLab 1.0 is released on CodePlex, it is a project to simplify the day to day operations when using automated builds on TFS. This project handles common Team System issues such as: Continuous integration builds Scheduled builds Build queueing Read More
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