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I'm just passing along some information that has been making the rounds (I found it on Guy Burstein's blog). If you attempt to install SQL Server 2008 on a machine that has Visual Studio 2008 installed, it will fail. The requirement is to have VS 2008 SP1 installed, an update that is still about a week away from release. And you need the 'real' ...

Are you a design & mac user in a Windows Development Shop? Are they eyeing your Mac and measuring your desk to outfit you with a new PC? Over your cold dead corpse I bet. No worries. You owe it to yourself to check out the Microsoft Expression Professional Subscription.  Yeah, you could run Bootcamp but then you'd loose the OS X & ...

Business has been booming of late at ObjectSharp. Don't know whether it's the weather or the business cycle, but our recent company barbeque had more new faces that I've seen in many years. And we haven't lost any of the old faces either. And yet it doesn't seem to end. At the moment, we're looking to add some consultants to our team. ...

I just sat through a session on Expression Web. They were showing some of the functionality that was currently being used, along with some of the plans for the next version. There are a couple of points that I'd like to make clear that came out of the session. Expression Web fills the same space as Visual Studio. They are targeted to different ...

The April 20th edition of Computer Canada had a feature article on (generally) the asset value that employees bring to a company. I mention this because, as it turns out, I'm quoted in the article. I believe that documentation is not the solution to the knowledge leakage problem discussed in the article. Developers don't like documentation, so the ...

A couple of weeks back (sorry still catching up) I had the great fortune of being invited to visit a MS Research event called TechFest. MS Research hosts this event annually for fellow MS Employees and opens up their doors so they can see what they've been working on, and for the first time in their 15 year history, they allowed those of us ...

Unless you have already taken a course from ObjectSharp in the past on ''our machines'', you may not be aware that ''our machines'' means modern Dell notebooks. Our classroom at 1 Yonge Street is well equipped, but sometimes, companies want the coruse on their site. Our entire class hardware is portable in 2 rolling travel trunks. For students, if ...

In November, 2005, Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2005, a major new release of its developer tools environment, and the foundation of Microsoft platform development for the next few years. In addition, this marked our entry into the lifecycle tools market, with the addition of Visual Studio Team System and the Team Foundation Server, to support ...

This question came up in our VSTS for Developers Training Course in Toronto this week. One of my students wanted to know how to undo or rollback a checkin, something you could do in Visual Source Safe. Unfortunately this feature was cut for V1 of Team Foundation Server. Buck Hodges and Brian Harry from Microsoft share how this was a painful ...

This past week we saw the final bits of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 get shipped up to MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Next week we'll see the official launch of these same products to the rest of the world, ushered in with a rolling thunder of launch events and parties stretching into the rest of the month and beyond. Microsoft does a great ...