I get asked or nagged about this every week—people want to work on the same projects and solutions in VS 2008 and 2010.  Generally speaking, there is only one attribute in one XML tag different between the two files, but there may be other differences...

I received a question about installers, and because of it I noticed that the latest WIX installer supports VS2010 and has the BURN chainer.  The version I grabbed is from Index of /releases/3.5.1512.0 . Over the past few months, I’ve been looking...

It was a great time at the ALEMUG meeting, even if I didn’t get a slice of pizza.  It was an open space, so the agenda we had was quickly abandoned in favor of whatever people were interested in. Some people were interested in training for Visual...

I was asked about configuring how much file space Intellitrace and video capture take up.  It’s something you can configure. For Testing, it’s set in the test settings—just open the test settings file for the solution.  If you don’t have any...

If you’ve written anything in SIlverlight 4 RIA Services, you’ll need to rewrite it.  There has been a lot of refactoring and namespace moves.  They’re documented in the document at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload...

We try to get MSDN into as many hands as possible, because it equips people with the tools they need cheaply.  It’s a good deal, but there are some organizations that just use Visual Studio Professional without MSDN because they just can’t find the...

One really nice aspect of blogging is that I when I’m looking for an answer I sometimes find it on my own blog—apparently, I sometimes repeat the same mistakes.  Because of that, I’m happy to write down a few links for later so that I can find them...

We’ve put out some nice talks at the Architect “innov8” series, and there are a couple more coming up.  Apparently, some of the recorded sessions will be moved to ARCast.TV once the past recordings process.  A couple of the past ones that I...

During our “Ultimate Event” series, we had a section titled “Architecture for Everyone”, covering the new architecture tools.  I’ve recorded the session using Expression Encoder, and it’s posted on Microsoft Showcase.  You can view it below...