Tom Christian's Blog : Visual Studio

CannonPI teaser video

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:58:01 GMT

There is a new video up on youtube that is the beginning of many more videos. You should check it out and look for for more coming soon. Also, see if you recognize any of the people in this, feel free to post here who you think they are. Read More...(read more)

ASP.NET Tip: Letting Microsoft know about your problems/requests

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Not sure if everyone knows of the various options that there are for communicating with Microsoft so I wanted to let you know about some of them here. Bugs or problems You can log these on the various forums that we have, the forums are found here . ...(read more)

The PDC this year…

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Not sure how many people are planning on attending the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) this year, but it is going to be a fantastic conference. We announced some huge announcements on the PDC web site. http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ We have...(read more)

.NET 3.5 SP1 Source released

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

If you remember my previous blog about Debugging .NET Framework Source Code , well we have now updated the source to include 3.5 SP1. You can check out the announcement here . With this, we are releasing the source to the following files: mscorlib...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT

The next service pack is finally available. If you are using .NET 3.5, or want to use any of the new features that we have been talking about being added in this service pack, I’d strongly recommend you upgrade to this. You can download it...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 Web Server Here shell extension

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT

This has to be one of the coolest shell extensions that I have seen yet. It is right up there with the Command Prompt Here one. This adds a addition to the right-click menu for a folder for “ASP.NET Web Server Here”. All the information, including...(read more)

Documentation, and Where to Find It

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:00:11 GMT

There are a lot of places to look for Microsoft documentation currently online. Depending on the area that you are focused in, you may have to visit any of a number of sites to get the information that you require. One of the best places to start...(read more)

Cannot create/shadow copy 'File Name' when that file already exists

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:34:00 GMT

The two common errors are Cannot create/shadow copy 'File Name' when that file already exists. Usually get this message usually when in a debug/edit/debug cycle after successfully building a C# solution and pressing F5 to debug it. Exception Details:...(read more)

Useful Debugging tools from CodePlex

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:13:16 GMT

So I was looking around CodePlex the other day and I came across some really useful tools up there that I thought I would share. Not all of these will apply to everyone, but they can be really useful things and I would recommend you to check them...(read more)

Debugging .NET Framework Source Code

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:45:10 GMT

I am not sure how many people are familiar with the .NET Reference Source project, but if you do a lot of debugging of .NET code, chances are that you have had a situation where you wanted to be able to step into the .NET Source from within Visual Studio...(read more)

Code Gallery and CodePlex, how are they different and what are their benefits?

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:30:00 GMT

So lately I have been looking into these two web sites a lot more and it isn’t always easy to figure out which one is used for what. So I thought I would try to explain it here. Code Gallery is a community-enabled Web site where you can share developer...(read more)

Visual Studio Designer not Respecting Assembly Binding Redirection

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:16:33 GMT

So we recently came across an issue where Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 Designers were not respecting assembly binding redirection. Scenario We have a file which is now version 2 and stored in the GAC . So the assembly version is 2.0.0.0. We...(read more)

Debugging videos anyone?

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:47:48 GMT

I am considering creating some videos showing some debugging tips. My original idea is to create short videos that just some doing some specific things. So not full debug sessions, but rather specific parts. So that when you are debugging...(read more)