My colleague Phil brought to my attention yet another release following on from the release of Visual Studio 2008 earlier this week. The Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 allows developers to build extensions to the Visual Studio 2008 development environment...

This is a number that is going to become very familiar to me over the coming months and probably years. It'll join a hall of fame, along with 42, 832, 2032, 288,6018. Why? Is it my ATM pin? My new car registration? No, neither of these. It is in fact...

An interesting point about the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 is that it is both a service pack AND a full install. By that I mean if you already have .NET 2.0 installed then it gets updated. If you haven't, it doesn't matter, it gets installed anyway. The "service...

This missed my attention yesterday as they are not hosted off the download site. The Express Editions of the Visual Studio 2008 release are all available for download: http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/ You can either install them individually...

Following the earlier news about Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipping, various .NET Framework updates and releases are now available for download: .NET Framework 3.5 (available as a web install or a downloadable full package ) .NET Framework...

A short time ago I blogged about the announcement of the release of Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. If you are looking for something to actually run, the VSTS2008 90-day trial is available for download here . All 3.9Gb of it. Phew...

Looks like we may all be needing that training kit I blogged about earlier . Soma has just announced that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! I think we can expect lots more download links to go live in the coming hours and days and plenty...

Today we have released the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit This 123Mb download is packed with 28 PowerPoint presentations, 20 demos and 20 labs. Good stuff DPE team! Cheers Doug

This is a handy new tool mainly aimed at support people like myself. The idea is that if you need to get someone to do a Network Monitor capture but they are not particularly familiar with Network Monitor they can just send them the link to this download...

This is a fairly generic principle but it is not always widely known or remembered. But it is one that often causes support issues.. Here is an example scenario: You set up a Windows Server 2003 server from the original RTM (a.k.a first release) media...

[update 15/11/7 to add JScript syntax checking, JSON-Enabled WCF, MFC Vista Common Controls links] Here's a roundup of some links to great blogs and articles about the new stuff coming soon in "Orcas". You'll notice that the links are dominated by the...

In version 7 of IIS a powerful new API for administering the server from managed code is exposed in the Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace. Carlos has a cool blog post showing how to combine this with the Linq features of the upcoming .NET 3.5 release...