Tom Christian's Blog

So I have now been able to install Beta 2 on my machine and I just wanted to give my thoughts on it so far.

In case you haven't seen already, as announced here, IE8 Beta 2 can now be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/ie8.

I have seen a few cases of this so I wanted to let everyone know.  If you install the FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) on a web server, it will install some configuration files in a directory under your web site called _vti_cnf.  This folder contains a bunch of files that FPSE use to update files and perform the various tasks that it needs to do.

I haven’t seen a whole of of issues around this as of yet, but now that 3.5 SP1 has released that may change.  If you copy SOS.dll to another location and then load it out of that directory to troubleshoot dumps, you may start seeing problems.  Namely, things like !clrstack not returning any valid names for functions and just printing out the numbers.  For example:

Just wanted to give a heads up on two issues that we are aware of that were introduced with .NET 3.5 SP1.

I know I have asked a similar question in the past, but what I would like to know now is, without any bounds on what it can do, what would you like to see from a troubleshooting tool for .NET?

Have you checked out the MSDN site for ASP.NET lately?  It is full of useful information.  You can find it at the ASP.NET Developer Center.  My favorite things to check out are the “How Do I” videos.  They can be really helpful and can get you started on a specific topic.  Check them out, “How Do I” videos – ASP.NET.

So I wanted to post a little bit about my adventure with Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  I have a virtual machine that has Visual Studio 2008 installed on it.  But it only has about 2 GB of free hard drive space on it.  So when I went to install this service pack, it gave me an error because it didn’t have enough hard drive space.