Received a follow-up from Microsoft regarding <a href="http://lakario.blogspot.com/2009/07/visual-studio-2008-var-keyword-bug.html">Visual Studio var Keyword Bug</a>. Here's what Microsoft support had to say about the issue.

For most businesses only about 20% of the code being written today is for new applications; (DDN: Not true 100% however that is about right for budgets which is likely what they meant anyway). the majority of work is being done on existing code bases. A typical issue encountered when working o...

Here is a list of 6 Visual Studio tweaks you can do to make your development experience much better...

A great list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts any software developer must know and use.

I mentioned the Visual Studio 2008 launch event in one of the other blog posts and got an email from someone today for the site. Here is the main website (full of silverlight content as well): www.heroeshappenhere.com The website has some quick information on SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 20...

If you have Visual Studio 2008 Performance Issue follow this post.

Hi. Ever had the following error in Visual Studio: error CS0103: The name ‘InitializeComponent’ does not exist in the current context. I sure did… There’s a very specific reason for this and it’s in the project settings...

For those of you ready to build up your Visual Studio 2008 skills, InnerWorkings is giving away a free sample of their training for you to try out. This offer includes 2 hours of quality hands-on learning on the important new features of C# 3.0 and VB 9.0. Check out the following link and g...

I am currently writing an application that uses the WebBrowser control to perform operations on web pages. Unfortunately I stumbled upon a very annoying problem, sometimes an Internet explorer script error window pops up and stops all execution until you click the OK button. I've searched the web fo...

This one is for all you guys who are tired of pressing F5 over and over in Visual studio just to see if you got the Regular expression right, I know got tired of it and that's how i found this tool.

As from my first post, the web application project didnt work with the web deployment project in 2005, and after the release of the web deployment project for visual studio 2008 it is still not working!

Another post from csharptutorial.blogspot.com - at last.

I have collected list of the Visual Studio Add-ins, most of which are open source or free. I hope this list will help you to code more faster and effective. If there is not your favorite add-in in the below list, do not hesitate to add it as a comment.

One of the features that web developers will really like with VS 2008 is its built-in support for JavaScript intellisense. This is enabled in both the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition as well as in Visual Studio, and makes using JavaScript and building AJAX applications significantly ...