Earlier today the ASP.NET team shipped the release candidate for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 . This is the penultimate release of ASP.NET AJAX - the next public release will be the final, fully supported, 1.0 product. This release candidate build includes several new features, and one important change, from the Beta2 release. You can read a document that ...

Get it while it's hot: VS.NET 2005 Team suite SP1 RTM download (via Dennis )

Earlier today the ASP.NET team shipped the release candidate for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 . This is the penultimate release of ASP.NET AJAX - the next public release will be the final, fully supported, 1.0 product. This release candidate build includes several new features, and one important change, from the Beta2 release. You can read a document that ...

If you haven't heard it already, VS 2005 Service Pack 1 is out and can be downloaded here . It contains over 2200 bug fixes according to Scott Guthrie , as well as making Web Application Projects standard once again. Also according to Scott, the install time can vary significantly depending on what you have installed, and is especially very ...

Visual Studio shipped the final release of VS 2005 SP1 yesterday. It is available for immediate download in all 10 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and both traditional and simplified Chinese). You can download and install it here . This SP release is a pretty major service pack, and incorporates a ...

I had found out about SSW's Code Auditor product through one of those ubiquitous Top 10 .NET Developer Tool lists recently, and as I'm at the start of a new project, felt that I should run it through an auditor to nip common code errors in the bud as early as possible. This tool retails for about $305US, and can embed itself right into ...

Visual Studio shipped the final release of VS 2005 SP1 yesterday. It is available for immediate download in all 10 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and both traditional and simplified Chinese). You can download and install it here . This SP release is a pretty major service pack, and incorporates a ...

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2072587,00.asp According to this story on eWeek, SP1 has been released to manufacturing and will be available sometime next week, maybe Monday.

Wow, I did not even know that this existed. Microsoft has released a 1.0 of the Microsoft Robotics Studio. It looks like they can connect up and program against a variety of these small robotic toys. Hmm, wonder what I will be getting my kids for Christmas(or is that me).................. Robotics Studio Download: ...

In this years TechEd Europe , BT released a brand new SDK to develop next gen applications. This is part of the Web21C initiative that the company is currently undergoing. Last week, I played with the SDK and decided to write a basic tutorial on getting started using this SDK. In the tutorial, I used the SMS capability to write a simple SMS sender ...

As you certainly know I you sometimes read my blog I am absolutely addicted to that tool and can't work without it anymore in Visual Studio 2005. So I am happy to announce that Jetbrains finally released ReSharper 2.5. This version is for Visual Studio 2005 only. So what's new on this new version? Main focus was on the improvement of performance; ...

Recently I've helped a few developers who have been having some weird JavaScript issues (both when using ASP.NET AJAX and with some other custom JavaScript routines they were using). The culprit was that they had automatically migrated a VS 2003 Web Project to VS 2005, and still had the <xhtmlConformance mode="Legacy"/> switch ...

Roy Osherove maintains a great blog on .NET unit testing, agile development, and VS Team System. This weekend he posted a pointer to a free video of his ''Implementing Continuous Integration: With and Without Team System'' presentation at TechEd Europe last month. Continuous Integration is definitely a best practice I'd recommend implementing for ...

BT SDK is a new API released by BT (British Telecom) as part of the Web21 C initiative. In this tutorial, I’ll write a Hello world SMS application demonstrating the power of this SDK. Currently, the SDK is in beta stage therefore the pricing and exact release date is not announced yet. The sneak peek version of the SDK is released in this ...

Recently I've helped a few developers who have been having some weird JavaScript issues (both when using ASP.NET AJAX and with some other custom JavaScript routines they were using). The culprit was that they had automatically migrated a VS 2003 Web Project to VS 2005, and still had the <xhtmlConformance mode="Legacy"/> switch ...

Roy Osherove maintains a great blog on .NET unit testing, agile development, and VS Team System. This weekend he posted a pointer to a free video of his ''Implementing Continuous Integration: With and Without Team System'' presentation at TechEd Europe last month. Continuous Integration is definitely a best practice I'd recommend implementing for ...

I don't know if this has been posted about yet, but as an FYI to you MSDN subscribers out there, here's an installation tip. There are two downloads for ''VSTE for DB Professionals'': A 3.2GB full version and a 19MB ''trial'' version. The naming is a little confusing, but you can install the ''trial'' version on a fully-licensed VSTS install, and ...

There’s a time for complaining about issues, and there’s a time for telling when things are great. I’m right in the middle of writing custom column and cell types for a DataGridView and I had a problem with adding a custom column to an existing grid – the DataGridView threw an exception in design mode, obviously a bug in my ...

I saw a link on Andrew Stopford’s blog which pointed to yet another blog by John Rayner that showed a way of installing the WPF/e template into VS2005 without Web application projects. Well, my templates still didn’t install properly and I did have the Web application project extensions installed. I managed to get it to install by ...

The ASPInsiders Summit began today with Scott Guthrie 's overview of what's happening. Steve Smith already has a good summary of his presentation, so I won't try to repeat it. Instead, let me just say that working with .NET just keeps getting more and more exciting. Its truly amazing to see how agile some of the teams at Microsoft have ...