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October 2009 - Posts - Yevgeni Frolov

Yevgeni Frolov

October 2009 - Posts

Performance: Automatically minify java script files with Visual Studio.

One of simplest ways to reduce network load is to minify java script files downloaded to a clients. By minifying I mean removing all “Enters”, “Tabs”, “Spaces”, Comments etc.  all those that help us to turn our scripts into a readable story.

Since I’m a typical lazy software developer – I hate doing those manually, especially if it should be done each release… Another spoiler is that minifying java script converts it into barely readable bunch of string – not so pleasant to debug…

So I’ve found that grate article by Dave Ward that describes a way to integrate automatic java script file minifying into development lifecycle  “Automatically minify and combine JavaScript in Visual Studio”.

Do it once … and do it right…

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit is Released.

For those of you who enjoy playing with brand new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Training Kit was released, so have fun… Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit.

Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure tools integration.

Since after Windows Azure goes to release at PDC 2009 this November – all the services are going to be a paid services – following is a great news for cloud developers.

In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition, among zillions of features, there is a complete toolbox for Windows Azure developers and this edition will include 250 hours/month of Azure cloud computing(Compute hours, Storage, SQL Azure, .NET Services).

 

Related Links:

ScottGu’s post:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/19/vs-2010-and-net-4-0-beta-2.aspx

AzureJournal.com post:

http://www.azurejournal.com/2009/10/visual-studio-2010-is-cloud-friendly/

Visual Studio 2010 is on it’s way!

Today was published release date of Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 and final release dates.

Currently it’s October 21 for Beta 2 and March 22, 2010 for Final Release.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/19/visual_studio_2010_second_beta_packaging/

Data Dude GDR upgrade bug fix.

Strange problem was found while upgrading Data Dude GDR r1 to r2.

While the setup ends successfully and log does not indicates about any kind of error or failure happened. Any try to create new database project or to open existing fails with following error:

dbproj cannot be opened because it's project type (.dbproj) is not supported by this version of the application. To open it, please use a version that supports this type of project.

After hours of googling I’ve found only solution that is available on net by Gert Drappers:

1. Make sure that Visual Studio (devenv.exe) is closed

2. Start command prompt

3. Run following two commands:

a. “%Program Files%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\DBPro\DBProRepair.exe” RemoveDBPro2008

b. “%Program Files%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7 \IDE\devenv.exe” /ResetUserData

4. Start Visual Studio 2008 IDE

 

Hope this solution helps…

Regards,

Yevgeni