Brad McCabe's WebLog

The Visual Basic team blog has posted a good entry about Edit and Continue and Rude Edits . Edit and Continue was reintroduced with Visual Basic/Visual Studio 2005.

When we rolled out the new Developer Center pages with the VS 2005 launch last week one of things that we deployed was a couple of reporting tools that we are doing a comparison and analyses of. One of the most interesting reports to me was a report that...

Duncan MacKenzie has posted links to some really good VB 6.0 to .NET Podcasts that he found. You can check them out here .

You should install the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005 on a clean machine, that is one that did not have a prior BETA or CTP installed on it. This is not possible for everyone and there are many people that had prior builds installed. Dan Fernandez...

The first Feature Pack for SQL Server 2005 has been released. According to the downloads page it contains: The Feature Pack is a collection of standalone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2005. It includes: Latest...

New on the ASP.NET site today is a cool thing for deployment -- Web Deployment projects. (Download here .) This is an add-in VS project type that manages an MSBuild file and lets manage you all sorts of build configurations, pre- and post-processing,...

It’s official, Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 are now launched. Not only can the general public purchase both of these products, but the trial downloads are available as well as the no-cost Express downloads . As part of the launch MSDN...

Now that Visual Studio is gold and has been RTMed if you are working with the LINQ preview you will need to update your machine to a newer build of LINQ. You can grab the bits from here .