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I've recently been experimenting with other fonts for Visual Studio on Vista after reading this article on new fonts in Vista.

For an admin application I've been working on, we're using a third-party reporting tool to serve up reports to our users over the Internet. The reports have a nice designer that works with XSD files in Visual Studio.

Adding a new web service to an application today so that I can delay loading some web user controls and ran into this 500 Error when calling the web service:

I had a situation where I was using a DataSourceControl (actually

If you're working with Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) Beta builds, of which there are now two, you may have run into problems if you tried to install Beta 2 on the same machine on which you had installed Beta 1. While this …

We ran into this issue today: A LoginView control that has always worked just fine was failing to have any contents on a PostBack. Stepping through it and checking things in the Immediate Window confirmed that it had a …

I'm in the midst of wrapping up a multi-year long project to replace the advertising engine used to host sponsored ads on a few dozen.NET web sites.

I've run into this before but forgotten about it. I wrote an HttpHandler recently and was trying to access the Session object from the passed in HttpContext context object with

If you run into trouble using svcutil.exe with the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio /.NET FX, try this: sn-exe -Vr svcutil.exe It wasn’t signed in this drop (it will surely be at RTM). Alternately I’ve been …

Visual Studio and.NET Orcas Beta 2 Available