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Installing SQL Server R2 Management Studio on machine with VS2008 without SP1 by Tomer Shamam

I’ve been trying to install SQL Server R2 Management Studio on my customer site DEV machine I’m working with, and suddenly the I’ve got an annoying message saying that I don’t have VS2008 SP1 installed and the installation failed. Mainly I’m working with VS2010 only, and I really don’t care about VS2008, especially not in concern with Management Studio… Now I have three options: 1. Uninstall Visual Studio 2008 2. Download and install VS 2008 SP1, which takes decades… 3. Fool installation app to think...

Windows 8 Development Tutorial – Part 1 – First Steps by Tomer Shamam

Now that both Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta have been released, it’s a fantastic time posting about Windows 8 programming, especially about the new Metro style based applications. For the sake of rapid-start, I’ll save the writing about what Metro Style application is, but I’ll give you a link in case that you’ve missed that: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh464920.aspx Installing Windows 8 Customer Preview Before we begin, I highly recommend you to install...