At my session at SQLBits IV on Visual Studio 2008 DBPro GDR it was mentioned that there was a major patch just about to be released to address some known issues.

This is the continuation of the previous posts on PDL-IT ( part-1 , part-2 ). Part-1 consisted of basic overview of PDL-IT whereas in Part-2 action items proposed by PDL-IT during Envision and Design phase of SDLC were discussed. This post consists  of brief discussion on action items from performance standpoint during Build, Stabilize, Deploy and Production phase of SDLC.

After releasing security update MS09-008 , we received a number of questions on …

Please do not be surprised that update is named Office2007-xxxxx since designer (aka Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component) uses Office 2007 components, similar to Expression Web and SharePoint Designer 2007 and hence update …

Did you ever experience one of the following behaviours: The Create Unit Test dialog opens up empty, and no interfaces are shown in the list Clicking on the Code Coverage Tab in the .testrunconfig file makes the dialog box disappear. A hotfix was made available by Microsoft.

Did you ever experience one of the following behaviours: The Create Unit Test dialog opens up empty, and no interfaces are shown in the list Clicking on the Code Coverage Tab in the .testrunconfig file makes the dialog box disappear. A hotfix was made available by Microsoft.

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For those of us in the SBS world, we have a love/hate, with mostly hate, relationship with .NET Framework updates.  Seems they are always causing trouble with our boxes.  Turns out the recent .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is no exception, both on Small Business Server 2008 and Small Business Server 2003 .  While it is supposed to fix 25+ issues in .NET , my personal SBS 2003 production box reacted so badly with it that the box had no idea it was running SBS anymore.  When I attempted to run the CEICW in an effort to bring back my RPC over HTTP / Outlook Anywhere functionality that had died after running with the update for a few days, here’s the error it came back with:   I was also having “issues” with POP3 and IMAP4 (we use SSL on each of these for specific tasks at our office) protocols stopping after either an iisreset or a full restart of the server.  Strange thing with those protocols was that their respective services were still running.  Figure that one out. I restored the system drive from a StorageCraft ShadowProtect image last night to get the machine back on its feet.  I personally have left 3.5 SP1 on our box and added the update patches that are supposed to resolve the problems the Service Pack is causing with our boxes; using our company’s server as a guinea pig before putting the service pack or subsequent update suite of three patches into production at client sites.  Personally, I will not install .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 without these fixes on any box I touch now.  I’d recommend you do the same for any machines you admin and ensure you have a very good back up before playing with these or any updates.  Steve

Far too often people install Visual Studio SP1 before Team Explorer 2008 and therefore TE remains unpatched in the RTM state.

Thanks to everyone for joining the webcast on Tuesday and to Chris Corio for helping to answer questions. People asked a lot of good questions, so we wanted to share the transcript with others who may have similar ones.