February 04, 2010
Microsoft announced retail prices for some of the VS2010 SKUs: Suggested Retail Pricing (USD) for Visual Studio 2010 | | | With 1-Year MSDN Subscription* | | | Product | Buy | Upgrade | Buy | Renew | | Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate | - | - | $11,899 | $3,799 | | Visual Studio 2010 Premium | - | - | $5,469 | $2,299 | | Visual Studio 2010 Professional | $799 | $549 | $1,199 | $799 | | Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 | - | - | $2,169 | $899 | | Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 | $499 | $399 | - | - | | Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 CAL | $499 | - | - | - | | Visual Studio Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010 (1000 Virtual Users) | $4,499 | - | - | - | | | | | | | * Subscription contents vary by purchased product. Pay attention that MTLM is renamed to Visual Studio Test Professional. Price for Lab Management is still to be announced. Labels: Visual Studio 2010
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 3:14 AM
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If you do ASP.NET development on a daily basis, you know that any change in bin, App_Code folder as well global.asax invalidates all compiled assemblies and initiates a full recompile. This can be very tedious process, especially if you are changing these files a lot during development. Microsoft introduces a new web.config setting that prevents full recompile in such situations. The setting is added through a QFE (patch) to Windows XP and Windows 2003, Vista and Windows 2008, and is included in Windows 7 by default. You can enable this optimized setting by the following section: <compilation optimizeCompilations="true"> Read the complete article to find out the possible issues you may run into. I wouldn’t recommend this setting for production web sites as it can introduce runtime errors. Even if you web site is so big that it takes 10 min to recompile it all, chances that you are running in web farm environment are pretty big these days. Shutting down one of the web farm servers until the compilation process completes, shouldn’t be such an issue. After all how many times are you going to apply updates on the production server? In situations where you are not using your production server for staging and test environment, updates will be most probably applied once per week even less. In development environment this switch can change your life. Again, keep in mind the possible implications caused by this setting as described in the article above. Bonus tip: In ProPeople we are also using RAMDisk to redirect ASP.NET temporary files into it. This way all ASP.NET temporary files get created amazingly fast (in-memory) and greatly speeds up your debugging experience. Labels: ASP.NET, Tools and Tips
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 2:02 AM
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January 17, 2010
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<repost from Emil Stoychev’s blog> I’m very excited to announce the availability of SilverlightShow EcoContest - Considering the alarming consequences of climate changes, and the actions taken to promote and carry out environmental-saving activities worldwide, we would like to give our share and show the power that web applications have to convince, persuade, and spread the word! We invite you to use your Silverlight skills and imagination to design attractive, educative and informative Silverlight-based applications that help support and promote any kind of environment-friendly activities. We, on our end, will make sure the best of your masterpieces reached as larger audience as possible! Prizes? You won’t believe it! Our Grand Prize winner will receive a trip to MIX10 event in Las Vegas (MIX10 pass, 3-night hotel stay at Mandalay Bay Hotel and 1,000 USD for travel expenses included), and Telerik Premium Collection for .NET!
Two more MIX10 passes and more awards from Telerik await the first runner-up, and the Community Choice winner! Read more on the prizes. WOW! Hurry up to submit your entry – the deadline is February 15th, 2010! See you at MIX10! Labels: Events, INETA
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 9:41 AM
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January 14, 2010
New dates for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 RTM are announced today. The official RTM date is 12th April 2010. As I wrote before, in February there will be released also Release Candidate version. Microsoft will be supporting upgrade from Beta 2 to RC, Beta 2 to RTM and RC to RTM so there is no reason why you should not upgrade today or at least start planning it. A full TFS upgrade can take a lot of time so you better plan it. I will write a follow up post on common pitfalls during TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 upgrade process. If you have any problems upgrading TFS 2008/2005 to TFS 2010, please feel free to contact me. (through Microsoft Bulgaria - Developer and Platform Evangelism Blog) Labels: TFS, Visual Studio 2010
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 12:50 PM
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December 18, 2009
The so long anticipated date of 22nd of March will be “moved back a few weeks”. Visual Studio 2010, TFS 2010 and .NET 4.0 release will be postponed due to outstanding performance issues. While I am happy that MS is taking VS perf issues so close to announce this huge change, it still messes up a lot of planning around that date. Let’s hope that VS2010 gets much better at the end. In addition a VS2010 Release Candidate with Go Live license will be available in the middle of February. You can read more at Soma’s, ScottGu’s and Brian Harry’s blogs. Labels: Visual Studio 2010
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 12:23 PM
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November 24, 2009
This time we are going to discuss what are the advantages in Team Foundation Server 2010 versus SourceSafe. We will see how easy is to install TFS 2010 and what functionalities we get compared to SourceSafe. Again we will go quickly through pricing and licensing issues. Topics and dates for next meetings will be proposed. Please see Facebook event or Outlook calendar file for information on how to connect. This meeting is part of the VS2010 Beta 2 Focus Group events and is also part of the SofiaDev.NET User Group activities. Labels: INETA, TFS, Visual Studio 2010
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 1:31 PM
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November 18, 2009
The second of the series of meetings targeting Visual Studio 2010 launch is announced. You can find the details in the Visual Studio 2010 Planning and Deployment Facebook event. It will be held tomorrow, 19th of November, at 10am (CET+1/GMT+2). The event will be held in Bulgarian and will look at different scenarios for upgrade to TFS 2010, deployment and performance problems in TFS 2008 and how they are solved in TFS 2010. Also compatibility issues between different versions of Visual Studio will be discussed. Also make sure that you join the VS2010 Beta 2 Focus Group on Facebook and you will receive future notifications about similar events in this focus group. All participants in the meeting will receive one Visual Studio Planning Poker Cards Deck kindly provided by Visual Studio Product Group. UPDATE: Link to Outlook calendar can be found here - http://www.kulov.net/blogs/martin/VS2010%20Planning%20and%20Deployment.ics Labels: Events, INETA, Visual Studio 2010
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 2:45 AM
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Microsoft just announced a bunch of new codenames. It is really hard for me to go into every single one of them so I will provide the highlights as I see them: Read more about the keynote at PDC09 Virtual Pressroom. Labels: ASP.NET, Azure, BizSpark, Events, PDC
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 1:56 AM
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November 17, 2009
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