Get stuck in to Visual Studio 2008
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LINQ big, better teamwork needed Review Visual Studio is more than an integrated development environment. It is a strategic tool intended to promote the Microsoft platform.â¦
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InfoWorld - Attendees at the Microsoft 2008 Office System Developer Conference this week are leveraging development capabilities in Office System, but cite issues such as getting used to the new ribbon-based Fluent UI in the 2007 Office release.
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Microsoft will announce Thursday morning the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. According to Scott Guthrie, the general manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, the release will be nearly feature complete  and will likely be the last major release before the product is released to manufacturing in preparation for its launch on February 27, 2008.
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Is the desktop dead?  Microsoft can't even make its updates sexy anymore.
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(InfoWorld) - Windows Vista will not support older versions of Visual Studio, a move that will require many developers writing applications for the forthcoming operating system to upgrade to Visual Studio 2005, a Microsoft executive said Tuesday. Developers writing Vista-compatible applications will be unable to use Visual Studio 2002 or Visual Studio 2003 if those are running on top of the new operating system, wrote S. Somasegar, vice president of Microsoft's developer division, in a blog entry. The requirement was included as part of announcement of Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005, which was released Tuesday on the Microsoft Connect Web site for developers. Microsoft is making the move to accommodate major changes in the way Vista works, said Jay Roxe, group product manager for visual studio. New features such as Windows Presentation Foundation and Aero and Glass take such a vastly different approach from previous operating systems that they wouldn't be well served by older development programs. "You need the new tools to take advantage of the new features," Roxe said in an interview. Developers may still write Vista software using older versions of Visual Studio as long as they are running on Windows XP, he said. Somasegar's blog entry also told developers who run SP1 on Vista to expect "compatibility issues." Roxe said incompatibilities include the inability in most cases to register com components, requiring the use of a command line. To work around other problems, developers may need to run SP1 on a Windows XP, he said. Microsoft plans to offer a Visual Studio update fixing the short comings after Vista is released to consumers, Roxe said.
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Pierre-Alain Joye takes a look at building Cairo (a vector-based graphics library for PHP) on a Windows system.    While trying to get the cairo (and pimp) PHP binding ready to be released, I finally sit down and port Wez build cscript to cairo. It still needs some cleanup, a nice summary message but it works already. I tested it with Visual C++ Express Edition but it should work with other versions as well.   My next goal is to add the tests (nmake tests) and fix the nmake instal    He describes the process he went through to try to get things up and running, but is still having a few issues and has required a few tweaks to get it working. He also links to two resources: a ZIP of the development libraries and a ZIP ready to use package.
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Busting through SP3 Microsoft has threatened to release a fix for an Office 2003 update that may well have the productivity suite work as intended once again.â¦
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Q How can I keep track of updates for the programs that I've added to my computer?
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You&#39;ve been patient. You&#39;ve done what Microsoft asked you to do. You&#39;re ready to download Service Pack 2 for Windows XP.
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Chihuahua-sized bark Microsoft's Visual Studio team has put the database division to shame. Days after Microsoft slipped out the news that the update to SQL Server will not be ready in time for next month's big-dog release event, Visual Studio 2008 has been released commercially - ahead of time.â¦
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Redmond&#39;s not extending its basic support for NT 4 and Exchange 5.5, but it is extending custom paid support for the product. While Microsoft continues to emphasize that it is not extending its basic support
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(Source: Borland) Don't just manage requirements- define them accurately upfront. Read how to capture the right requirements without relying on word docs or emails, reduce validation cycles using storyboarding and build test scenarios that actually map to the needs of end users.
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It has been the "macro" language for Microsoft Word since Office 97, even while Microsoft has moves Office developers toward .NET. But now members of the Visual Studio team are saying Visual Basic for Apps isn't going anywhere.
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InfoWorld - Windows Vista will not support older versions of Visual Studio, a move that will require many developers writing applications for the forthcoming operating system to upgrade to Visual Studio 2005, a Microsoft executive said Tuesday.
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Sean Coates has a reminder posted to his blog for all of the aspiring PHP speakers out there to get their proposals in for this year's (well, next year's) php|tek 2008.   I just want to drop a quick reminder that the php|tek 2008 Call for Papers is about to close (on Oct. 31), so if you've been dragging your feet, now would be a good time to stop doing that and send in your proposals.   Some of the topics they're interested in this year are rich application development, PHP4->PHP5 migration and looks head at PHP6. Check out the Call for Papers page on the php|tek site for the full list of information you'll need to include along with the summary for your proposal.
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Juan Rivera submitted some information to us recently about the release of the latest version of VS.PHP, the PHP IDE for Visual Studio, now in version 2.3.   Key features are:  Support for remote server projects. Edit remote files like they were local Support for Windows Vista, Visual Studio SP1 Support for Ftp over SSL   VS.Php 2.3 comes as a plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 or as a standalone edition.    You can get complete information on this new update from the press release posted on the software's official website.
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John Mertic's made even more updates to the Windows installer he's been working on - this time, he's enhanced the install with a web server selection tool.   I've updated the Installer with the following changes:  Added a dedicated dialog for selecting your Web Server Moved the dialog to pick the Apache conf folder into the installer itself    There's also a screenshot of this new feature to give you an idea of what the support will look like. This latest update can be downloaded here.