Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please contact your system administrator or change the application's trust level in the configuration file.. [More]

Holy shit! That's quite a jump over a version 2.0 install. Heck version 2.0 managed to cram a shitload of new features into the framework and still REDUCE the footprint. Granted though, the 3.5 install includes .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 and it looks like the single installer handles 32 and 64 bit installs.. [More]

I'm pretty happy with running VS 2008, especially since I've retrofitted my laptop with 4gig. But there are also a number of annoying bugs that occur rather frequently. This is especially frustrating because I pointed out a number of these during beta and they didn't get addressed. Let's see which ones you can identify with. [More]

I've been running Orcas quite a bit since Beta 1 was released in April and overall I'm pretty damn happy with this update to Visual Studio 2008. You may have noticed that I HAVEN'T posted a lot about Orcas issues and that's because overall Visual Studio Orcas and the feature set is working rather well for me. Microsoft has really done a much, much better job this time around to provide a sane set of updates to the framework as well as what amounts to an incremental update in Visual Studio.. [More]

I ran into an interesting issue a couple of days ago with the Orcas ASP.NET designer - I had several controls on the page that are marked as display:none (they get activated by AJAX calls) and the designer didn't show them. Now that's accurate rendering - except in this case I didn't want the the editor to actually render this way. In VS 2005 the editor actually shows any controls that are 'invisible' in a variety of ways.... [More]

PowerCommands is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE. The source code is included and requires the VS SDK for VS 2008 to allow modification of functionality or as a reference to create additional custom PowerCommand extensions.... [More]