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  It's there! Today Visual Studio 2008 is released and arrived at the MSDN download sites for MSDN Subscriptions. It was announced only two weeks ago that Visual Studio 2008 would be released to MSDN before the end of November. And guess what? It is an early release as it is ready for download today November 19. I am downloading it ...

Update to my previous blog ... The information discussed yesterday is now also available on the MSDN website:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx There is an introduction video on Channel 9 with Soma and Scott explaining what Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is all about compared to Beta 1. For one thing... Visual ...

Eric Carter kinda announced it ... Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available as of today. He didn't get into the details on where to go and get it, so I did some searching myself. It's easy to discover where it is if you just go to the Microsoft Downloads and search for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2: Click here to do your search ... notice there are ...

  Just a quick note to let you know that the VSTO team published four new VSTO Beta hands-on labs to MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/aa740390.aspx.   MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Part 1 - Data Binding with Word Content Controls MSDN Virtual ...

  Today I went to DevDays 2007 here in Amsterdam, the Netherlands where I live to meet Mike Hernandez and talk to him some more about VSTO. Mike was scheduled to do three presentations at the Dutch DevDays 2007 conference: Overview Visual Studio Tools for Office Visual Studio Tools for Office a roadmap for the future Overview ...

  In my ongoing process to learn new stuff I use my blog a lot as a `note to self` tool. To remember all the new stuff concerning Orcas I will dedicate a section of my blog to the New Language Features. The first feature I add here is the Automatic Properties feature in C#. Don`t you hate it when you have to write these long sections of ...

  Ok, my feedback is already closed down... and it will not be fixed for Orcas. I really think that's a (small) loss as it is really easy to fix and will make a lot of people happy. Anyway.... There is always Bobby's tool to solve this in the near future. Today it is working for Visual Studio 2005 but he already added comments to solve this ...

    I posted a feedback item in Microsoft Connect (Feedback ID 277761)   Please have a look at this, as I think it is a relative small feature request that could be easily solved but was rejected all the time in the VS 2005 cycle.   I just hate doing demo's with all the Recent Project garbage in my face :-(   If ...

  If you have been waiting for this ... go and get it today: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx Quote: Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Beta 1Visual Studio code name ''Orcas'' is the next generation development tool for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and the Web. Beta 1 consists of multiple releases including, ...