Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 has been officially released as both disc images and Virtual PC (VPC) images.  After the installation has finished, you should run this script to ensure that the installation of .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 will not affect the development of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 applications. To... Read more

Garbage collection is one of the most fundamental aspects of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) and is available to all .NET programming languages. Unfortunately, it also seems to be one of the more difficult concepts to understand correctly, both how it works and how to use it. Understanding how... Read more

Earlier this month, Microsoft officially announced their decision to move all Microsoft professional certification and Microsoft Dynamics exams to Prometric. Pearson VUE will no longer be selling exams after August 31, 2007. For anyone who purchases an exam from Pearson VUE through August 31, Pearson will be able to... Read more

A word of advice: Don’t ever leave your cell phone in a theme park. That’s what happened to me on Thursday night, and in less than 5 minutes (the time it took for me to walk away, realize I didn’t have it, and go back)... Read more

While it probably won’t have much real impact of Visual Studio 2008, Rico Marianai just recently announced that he is moving into the role of Chief Architect for Visual Studio. A lot of the performance improvements in VS 2008 are a result of Rico’s involvement. It will be interesting to see... Read more