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Most of the things in Microsoft Dynamics GP are Dexterity based; which is a RAD scripting like environment with rich support for Forms, Tables etc; something like PL/SQL. Dynamics GP also supports .NET based clients assemblies that you can load against GP forms; for that you need to create form factories according to the Dynamics GP expectations. ...

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services SP2 or later can be integrated with Sharepoint. Setting it up is bit tricky. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee384252.aspx URL is must read to troubleshoot the issues. For me following worked Ensure only Windows Integrated Authentication is checked on http://server/ReportServer DisableLoopBackCheck ...

Coding Event Receivers with Visual Studio Extensions for Windows Sharepoint Services (VSeWSS) is easy; you add it into your project using Add New Item –> Sharepoint / Event Receiver. You dont need to add “EventReceiver” in the name; as it will automatically post fix; ItemEventReceiver and ListEventReceiver names to the two classes that it ...

From the BB13 video you must have learned that you can create Sharepoint Custom Lists from Visual Studio is quite easy. The experience over all is not very great; as you have to edit the XML files. The easiest way however is that you create your Custom List using the Sharepoint web interface; and once the list is well established; script it ...

Sorry for not posting regularly lately; I was away busy learning/using/preaching and coaching about Silverlight and Sharepoint. All in all, it was great learning expereince! Sharepoint development is bit tricky to start with. Sharepoint is flexible and thus bit complicated to deal with. There are number of ways for Sharepoint Development. I opted ...

Program Site: http://www.microsoft.com/web/websitespark What you get The right to use the following products for three years For Development Use Visual Studio Professional Expression Studio 2 or Expression Studio 3 (1 User) Expression Web 2 or Expression Web 3 (2 User) Windows Web Server 2008 or R2 SQL Server ...

Application Development- 19 Reasons Why Microsoft Is Huge with Developers (and 1 Reason Why Not) The 1 reason why not, its cent percent true!

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is available to try. Don't forget to download the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – May Preview Pros Further Improved JavaScript intelli-sence Work side by side with Visual Studio 2008 HTML Snippets Loads of Code Editor Improvements Cons Resource Hungry No offline Help No ...

I am stuck in pushing a project to its “end” this month…still few more steps to do..but we are seeing the end! I had a feeling that I am giving the most and doing the kind of work which I am not supposed to do…I wanted to confirm it statistically..so I asked at StackOverFlow ...

With Windows Shell Extension (Oct 2008) in Team Foundation Server Power Tools, you can interact with TFS Source Control directly from Windows Explorer! Its great for non Visual Studio users like designers who need to work with TFS Source Control. While installing Power Tools; this extension doesn't get installed; you need to select it from ...

One of my colleague is developing a web interface featuring couple of RIA components. He has chosen Silverlight for its “buzz”, “light-ness” and its support of languages like C# and so forth. I engaged myself for the week in his R&D activities in choosing and exploring different components, techniques and libraries etc. I availed the ...

You can have multiple configurations for the given Visual Studio Solution. Similarly projects in the solution can have multiple configurations, and you map them to particular solution configuration. With project's different configuration, you can setup associated tasks! For example, you have a staging and production server..you want to deploy the ...

I have been using Visual Studio Team System for a while now, and its really a cool set of tools to use. Brian posted about the Preview of The next TFS Power Tools few days back...Great work and thanks to Brian for keeping us updated! I think Sharepoint has enough juice and potential as the central documentation place for development teams..and I ...

I wrote about the problem here once, today I found its solution here...  

Its cool....

Soma announced the availability of Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1. Installation Notes Don't forget to disable Anti Virus before installing it, like VS2005SP1, this takes long to install Download and run Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool, which will uninstall the components due to which SP1 ...

RedFiveLabs have recently introduced Net60's Beta1. Net60 is .NET Compact Framework implementation for Symbian. Symbian is a widely used operating system on Nokia and other mobile phone manufacturers. Net60 Beta1 is the first runtime which has the support to run "on device", their earlier releases were only for emulators. Being beta, ...

Visual Studio 2008 does not have DataGrid Editor for XML files editing...it was quite a handy tool to edit XML file; especially XML serialized datasets, column sorting and Excel like editing! I have to keep Visual Studio 2005 installation in place for that unless M$ decide to re-add it just like they did "Web Application Projects" :)

ASPX Edit Helper is a nice Visual Studio (It works with 2008) addin that can pace up "aspx" editing. Source code is also available in case you want to further tweak it!

I have a solution with multiple web application projects. On hitting F5 instead of launching "Development Web Server" only for the specified "Startup Project"; it launches for each web application project...its annoying and resource consuming :( Waiting for someone to reply to this issue here!

Microsoft is making available Visual Studio 2008 Shell; apparently for free. [Via Aaron Lerch] Next they should host their Express line on Codeplex and let the community to have some healthy competition with Visual Studio..

As per my planned exploration around Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2; here are my notes… LinqDataSource LinqDataSource is a brand new data source with ASP.NET 3.5; with this; you basically can use LINQ based context classes as data source providers and your ASP.NET data controls; like Grids, Formviews can be bound to this LinqDataSource. I posted ...

If you are using Visual Studio with Team Foundation Server; Annotation is the new feature in Orcas; simply right click the source and choose Annotation from Source Control menu. Its SubVersion' Blame like feature with which you basically get the info that who wrote each line in the given source file and when? The cool thing is; when ...

If you happen to use the Team Explorer from Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 Beta; you might get an error; ''Path <path> is already mapped in workspace <workspace>''. This may be result of some issue with Team Explorer Addins in both the version. To resolve this issue; simply rename the C:\Documents and ...

I already had Orcas (Visual Studio 2008) Beta 1 and its Team Explorer Add-in installed; before installing Beta 2 of Visual Studio I uninstalled all the Orcas stuff. I am not sure if I uninstalled the Orcas Team Explorer or not. Anyways; after installing the Orcas Beta 2; I got an error that Team Explorer Package could not get loaded; I ...

Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 is available to download. You will find downloads of Silverlight 1.0 RC, .NET 3.5 Beta 2, Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and Team Foundation Server Beta 2 on the same page. Express Editions are also available. Read Soma's post to know more! I have started my downloads...next week will be great! I have used Visual ...

Microsoft has acquired devBiz; and they will be rebranding their Team Plain Web Access product as Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Web Access. Good thing is; its available freely.... It will use your VSTS CALs

Few days ago; I was looking for the Outlook add-in. Today I have implemented a proof of my concept using VSTO Second Edition. The implementation is much similar to a post here; instead of moving the email item; my add-in set the flags. After installing MSI; you need to enable your add-in from Outlook 2007's Trust Centre.

Team System Reporting features uses SQL Server Analysis Services at its backend; it creates and maintains an Analysis Services database with name, TfsWarehouse. From few days, our reports were not working; today I invested some time in learning how the things work to troubleshoot the actual problem. I found out that the TfsWarehouse database got ...

ASP.NET v2’s SqlDataSource is great; but for small apps or while doing prototyping / inception. It starts creating problem in later stages of mid to big level projects. In such cases; we might want that with each release; all SqlDataSources being used are documented so that you can track which database objects are being used. Its a tedious ...

Back to work full time The tea; lunch breaks and evenings…Hoping that we all will continue the spirit of Ramazan in days to come. Firefox 2 and IE 7; both are nice overall…Adnan warned about FF2 and IE7; but I have installed Firefox 2 on my workstation and so far its working fine; nothing much to worry about; no plans for IE7 yet for ...

Team System is quite flexible platform; new breed of tools based on this platform are emerging. stpBA Storyboarding for VSTS is one such great product. Its price tag is quite high; but it can be of great use in larger organizations where they have “Business Analyst” who tends to like Visio like tools more. Storyboarding let such analyst draft the ...

DataDude (Team System for Database Professional)' 5th CTP is released recently. It features Schema management (similar to SQL Enterprise or Management Studio) the difference is instead of working on some ''physical database'' it works on ''virtual database''; you can however import initial schema from ''physical database'' and can also ...

I have started reading Addison Wesley’s Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. (SE with MSVSTS) SE with MSVSTS is overall a nice book but I would not recommend; I was looking for some material through which I can learn how one can use MSVSTS in general and Microsoft's Team Foundation Server (MSTFS) in particular in ...

MSBuild is the new build platform bundled with Microsoft.NET v2 runtime. The beauty of MSBuild is its openness; in terms of using file formats based on XML and powerful API for plug-inability. The Visual Studio 2005 (VS) uses MSBuild as well. The project files (CSPROJ/VBPROJ) are basically MSBuild files (XML based). VS provides a limited ...

Enterprise Source Control with Visual Studio Team System A very good tutorial; showing version control and related features of Visual Studio Team System! Instead of creating $Project source control root for your development; create following nodes $Project/branches; use this to create branches $Project/tags; use this to create ''read ...

If you are using or planning to use Team System; I strongly recommend reading Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System. It will give you a good overview of the Team System spectrum. However after about 2/3months of using Team System; this book might not be as useful; as it doesnt have much about advanced customization and ...

This week is the busy one; we had financial closing few days back; management meetings and their follow ups, yuck! We even have dead lines to deliver two projects by end of the current week. I also committed to do some volunteer development; but this busy schedule is killing me. Anyways; has anyone used Oracle Financial? Or any similar ...

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Saw this new site for Visual Studio 2005. Thought you'd love this video. http://www.400plusdifferences.com/index.aspx?diff=346 Lot of good stuff there I am lucky that recently I got a chance to use Team System on two small projects (<10 man-weeks) and it was quite a fun; Team System helped us to remain focused through out and with that we ...

Writing “Structures” in today’s leading languages (C#, Java and VB.NET) is insane; declaring variables, writing getters and setters, multiple constructors, serialization and what not…All falls into “Line Noise”. We need an IDE built with 25 million LOC to get optimal productivity; and what we get “prop<tab><tab>” Is Visual Studio / ...

Team Foundation Server Version Control Sidekicks is set of utilities to work with Team Foundation Version Control System. It’s free, and it let you view workspace bindings; unlock/undo any pending check outs. Its must have tool especially for those who are first of all using TFS and doing repository management tasks.

I got stuck today in Visual Studio’s Team Explorer (Team System). I was unable to open new work item using the IDE. Google helped me find this thread that has the similar problem. The actual reason of the problem is mentioned here. Team Explorer Work Item Tracking Sub system uses Registry to cache project work item types. If you previously had ...

Argh!! Missed the Friday Prayer…Was so much involved in learning this that missed everything else…Too Bad God Please forgive me! I was going through Team Foundation System (TFS) Work Item Customization documentation and doing what is mentioned on the walkthroughs. TFS is awesome product; it gives you lot of cool stuff out of box; though it ...

If you are starting using Team Builds; one very cool feature of Team System; I strongly recommend reading this post to set things up…It saved many hours of mine today; now I am looking forward to setup Continuous Integration in our current project using Team Builds.

Today I invested many hours in writing Visual Studio Add-In for the Helpdesk System we have developed in-house…Its had been ages since I last developed any desktop app; I never been good in desktop apps; since my undergrad days...However in childhood I developed many cool things for Atari (no not for their famous gaming console) The ...

Few weeks back; Team Foundation Server (TFS) was officially released. TFS’ Workgroup Edition is available to download from MSDN. Today I spared some time and set things up. It needs SQL 2005; along with its analysis and reporting services, Sharepoint Services. TFS is web service based application server; and its client is tightly integrated Visual ...

CodeSmith is my all time favorite code generator. Its template based code generator and if you have a background of ASP/Perl or other similar scripting technologies like JSP/PHP etc, you will find yourself home! With its recent release which supports tight integration with Visual Studio 2005; one can use it as Custom Tool. Here is how ...

Ten Essential Tools Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now ''In this article, I introduce you to some of the best Visual Studio add-ins available today that can be downloaded for free. I walk through using each of the add-ins, but because I am covering so many I only have room to introduce you to the basic functionality. Each ...