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Posted by on 23rd August, 2008

Bug tracking software

Bug tracking software

I am evaluating several bug tracking/project management software packages and have found a couple of interesting one that seem very robust and are quite popular. Even better, I have found that two of these offer some sort of free version of their paid product, being the amount of users, the only limitation… OnTime 2008 by Axosoft. Offers a single developer edition for free (details here and here). FogBugz by FogCreek software. Offers a trial that (via workhappy.net) can be enabled to work fully functional for two users in student and startup edition ...

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Posted by on 14th August, 2008

Intellisense not working in Visual Studio…

Intellisense not working in Visual Studio…

IntelliSense is Microsoft's implementation of autocompletion, best known for its use in the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment. In addition to completing the symbol names the programmer is typing, IntelliSense serves as documentation and disambiguation for variable names, functions and methods using metadata-based reflection." (Wikipedia) So, I can’t quite remember when exactly Intellisense stopped working for me in Visual Studio 2008, but I know I have been without (automatic) Intellisense for quite a while.When typing a dot after an object or method, it used to just show up automatically… I could however have it come up by pressing <CTRL><SPACE> and eventually got in the habit of just doing that when I needed it, without attempting to find out exactly why it was broken in the first place… So, several months later, I stumble upon an entry by Richard Fennell, who explains how to fix it. I thought I’d post it for when it breaks again, I know where to find the answer… In Visual Studio 2008, select Tools...

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Posted by on 12th August, 2008

Free 60 DevExpress controls…

Free 60 DevExpress controls…

Here is an opportunity to take advantage of: DevExpress is offering single developer licenses for 60 of their controls free of charge, without royalties or distribution costs. These are very high quality controls that should not be left out when considering any web (or windows) application development project. You see their ads in MSDN magazine every month and this is your chance to get them and use them without spending a cent. “Once you register, you will be forwarded an Email with your login credentials to our product download portal. With this information in hand, you will be able to download and install all the controls and tools listed above free of charge. The applications you create with these controls can be distributed royalty free (see the EULA that accompanies the products for more information). Note that the installation you download will include evaluation versions of our entire product line. You can install these trials if you wish during the setup process. Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008...

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Posted by on 12th August, 2008

Optimizing tools for ASP.NET

Optimizing tools for ASP.NET

We all know that you can ask for directions to the same destination multiple times and get different answers each time. They will all lead you to your destination; however, some direction may get you there faster, some have a more scenic panorama, some with clear instructions and others are difficult to follow. The exact same is true for software development; each developer will write code their own way and have a reason as to why some function was written a certain way. However, with software, a key requirement is that we often don't want the elegance, the scenic nor the "pretty" code, but simply the code that executes efficiently, robustly and fast. How do you know if your code does exactly that…? You don't really know until you take your code for a test run and measure its performance… There are a ton of tools out there that will assist in giving you a diagnosis of speed, performance, etc. Morgan at PHPVS.net has written a good article highlighting...

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Posted by on 11th August, 2008

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 released

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 released

Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 have been released today. The downloads are available here: [list style=”check”] Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe) Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso) Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 [/list] “The .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 includes a lot of improvements and especially TONS (literally tons) of performance improvements for WPF applications, ADO.NET Entity Framework, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ADO.NET Data Services Framework and much more.” PLEASE NOTE: If developing Silverlight apps with Visual Studio, please note that after installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 you must update the Silverlight Tools (more info and download links are available here)." (via MSDN blogs –...

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