This post might be a little late since Beta 2 is out, but I don’t know if beta 2 will have the same problem with Visual Studio 2005.

I have Visual Studio 2005 Installed on my machine works just fine, and I installed Visual Web Developer Express Edition, and I noticed that Visual Studio 2005 was not able to compile the projects anymore because could not find some references.

So it looks like when Visual Web Developer “orcas” Beta 1 was installed it caused my VS2005 to not compile my projects. I figure that a quick fix will be to uninstall Visual Web Developer Express Edition “orcas” and also the .NET Framework 3.5.

But still the VS2005 IDE was not working it wouldn’t compile, after a few re-starts I uninstalled all the Windows Updates that happened that day, and that seem to do that trick, not sure why? Perhaps is because it creates a re-store point behind the scenes?

By the way when I uninstalled Visual Web Dev Express “Orcas” it warned me that I needed to “Fix” VS2005, don’t you love beta software?

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I recently downloaded and installed the Visual Studio 2008 “Orcas” Beta 1, because I wanted to start creating Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) projects, since this was the only way for me to get started developing workflows, going with the Visual Studio 2005 Extension for WF was not an option for me.

Well turns out that according to the one and only Scott Guthrie, in one of his posts mentioned that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 will ship by the end of this week.

I can’t wait to start playing around with this release of VS2008, which according to Scott; it will be pretty much feature-complete.

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I’ve been running Windows Vista 64-bit for quite some time now; a few times the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has come up when the system crashed.

Windows vista is definitely more stable when it comes to BSOD than previous versions of vista, although that would be very arguable with windows server 2000. The last time my Vista Operating system crashed I took a picture of the blue screen to share it with you in case that you haven’t seen the blue screen of death for windows vista.

After seeing the BSOD in different versions of vista, you come to a very elementary conclusion: if you’ve seen a blue screen of death, you’ve seen them all.

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This is old news but definitely worthwhile.

If you are like me and trying to get yourself familiar and get some hands-on experience with the Microsoft .NET framework 3.0 you should definitely take advantage of this free and very well designed training clinics that will help you get started with the new technologies that the .NET framework brings in its 3.0 release. The free training comes from Microsoft E-Learning:

Developing Rich Experiences with Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio 2005

Basically free training is divvied into 3 clinics that cover the following technologies:

• Windows Presentation Foundation
• Windows Workflow Foundation
• Windows Communication Foundation

You can get to the clinics directly from here too:

• Clinic 5135: Introduction to Developing with Windows® Presentation Foundation and Visual Studio® 2005
• Clinic 5136: Introduction to Developing with Windows® Workflow Foundation and Visual Studio® 2005
• Clinic 5137: Introduction to Developing with Windows® Communication Foundation and Visual Studio® 2005

Here is an example of how the e-learning looks like:

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Recently I’ve been trying to learn more and more about how to use the windows workflow foundation (WF), especially to see how it would be useful to have that functionality in ASP.NET websites, web services and SharePoint Sites. I recently been reading articles about it, also completed a very good and free e-learning course from Microsoft called Clinic 5136: Introduction to Developing with Windows® Workflow Foundation and Visual Studio® 2005. The clinic contains good interactive material like how-to videos and self-tests, that helped me and will help you get up to speed with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).

You can start creating Windows workflow foundation projects if you have the beta version for Visual Studio 2008 or if you have the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation) Unfortunately I don’t have Visual Studio 2005 installed in my computer; I use the express products for the 2005 and 2008 (Orcas) editions.

So basically in order for you to be able to create workflow foundation project, looks like there are several options:

1. Get yourself a copy of Visual Studio 2005 (except express editions) and install the .NET 3.0 Extension that will allow you to create and run workflow foundation projects. If you are not able to get VS2005, in a future post I’ll explain how you can get a full working copy of visual studio 2005 standard editions (value $299) for only 10$.
2. Download and install the Visual Studio 2008 beta 1 from Microsoft.

    

Visual C# 2005 Express Edition: Available projects by default.

Visual C# Codename “Orcas” Express Edition: Available projects by default.

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I am writing this post using Microsoft word, and I have to tell you it seems to be very quick when publishing my posts compared to the windows live writer application. The user interface seems very familiar and therefore intuitive. I really like using all the ribbon menus that come with word to write post, especially when putting pictures up using the picture formatting tools.

A nice feature of these tools for bloggers is that you can coy and past code from visual studio and since it Microsoft Word, it will maintain its formatting, here is an example of code that I copy from one of my projects:

[XmlArray(“TOKENS”)]

[XmlArrayItem(“T”,typeof(string))]

public
string[] TOKENS;

You can see it maintained all the nice font and colors for the formatting of the code, which is pretty hand for putting sample code up in the web in a snap, just copy and paste.

As I start writing more posts using Microsoft Word, more likely I won’t go back to Windows live writer, unless I have a very good reason that is.

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