When deploying a web application across your organizations hosting environments you need to make sure you make the correct modifications to your web.config on each environment. Currently with Visual Studio 2008 this means hand modifying each web.co ...[Read More]

Microsoft announced a new release for the VS 2008 extensions for SharePoint on Monday and finally amongst the new features is x64 support! I do all my MOSS 2007 development on an x64 box and couldn't make use of the handy extensions for Visual St ...[Read More]

Microsoft is really improving the tooling support for Sharepoint developers in the next release of Visual Studio including being able to "F5" debug from inside Visual Studio and VS handling all the package deployment, process attaching, ap ...[Read More]

So Microsoft has officially announced the next version of Visual Studio and the .Net Framework over on the MSDN site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc948977.aspx . I'm sure all us developers can't wait to see what the next vers ...[Read More]

I'm now registered to attened the UK launch event for Visual Studio 2008 which is happening at the ICC in Birmingham on the 19th March. There are two tracks for this event the IT pro track and the developer track, make sure you register the right t ...[Read More]

One of the basic principles of object oriented programming is 'Encapsulation', and to me one of the fundamental ways to acheive encapsulation when creating classes is to only allow access to it's private members through public accessor methods. F ...[Read More]