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Some metrics that we captured on my project: (I think the numbers speak for themselves) Operation    VS 2005    VS 2008          % ImprovementStart the IDE00:3000:0970%Load solution03:4500:4580%Get Latest (no changes)00:1300:0562%Rebuild solution02:2101:5816%Run ...

It turns out that more of you than expected have access to Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server already and are desperate to evaluate Scrum for Team System v2.0 - so we changed our plans slightly to put out an early version for evaluation. We're hosting the download on our community forum.  You'll need to create an account to ...

xmlDocument.SelectNodes with xmlns="..." Spent most of today wondering why I couldn't update a connection string in a web.config file using xpath which had the default namespace for xmlns  defined at the root of the config file. e.g. <configuration ...

For a blog detailing all the new features with.NET3.5 and Visual studio 2008, including javascript intellisense and //<reference> syntax,check out Scott Gu's blog post here.  http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-3-5-released.aspx

Was just reading on Scott Gu's blog about the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, and came across an excellent description of the new extension methods feature in .Net 3.5. I have to say that until I saw this blog post, the quick overview from Mike Taulty at TechEd lost me somewhat as to what the purpose of these extension methods is, ...

It has been a busy time here at Conchango as we've been making plenty of changes to get Scrum for Team System working on Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server and also incorporating changes driven by community feedback and usage of the plugin on our own development projects. We should be ready to release after we ...

The Moth http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2007/11/top-10-things-to-know-about-visual.html - The Moth as he's known, shows us his top ten things to know about visual studio (trust me this is not all about linq)   Ingo Rammer - Debugging tools http://blogs.thinktecture.com/ingo/archive/2006/08/05/414674.aspx - Ingo ("The ...

For the last few days I've been banging my head against a brick wall... I just couldn't get a) A SQL Mobile database to read due to upgrading it to 3.5 and forgetting!!! (Idiot!) b) A solution to deploy to an emulator... "Connection Failed. The configuration data for this product is corrupt. Contact your support personnel" O ...

A patch has been released for those who are using Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) Beta 2, WPF project types and using Team Explorer as the selected source control plugin.  The issue manifested itself as a message prompting you to save when you build a WPF project (even if you had just done a save all). Get the patch here: ...

I've given up on it and uninstalled it... I have so many of my projects that work with SQL Server CE and since upgrading to the Beta none of them have worked... I thought it was me for a while, but even the simplest application with only a SqlCeConnection.Open() method in it doesn't work! I didn't delve in to the problem to much as ...