The .NET team at Red Gate has released the latest version of the free .NET Reflector (which has been initially created and developed for many years by Lutz Roeder, and then in 2008 it was acquired by Red Gate Software), which adds .NET 4 support and includes a new add-in that lets you jump to a clas... [More]

Inno Setup 5.3.8 has been released. Inno Setup is a cool and FREE installer for Windows programs. I participate in developing commercial addin for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 - Lexpa InnoSetup for Visual Studio - which integrates this great Inno Setup compiler into Visual Studio IDE. The complete l... [More]

In February 2010 some Windows Azure cool stuff has been released: Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.1. These tools extend Visual Studio 2008 and the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 RC to enable the creation, configuration, building, debugging, running, and packaging of scalable web ap... [More]

Today I have spent some time fighting with this this error: Primary file must be at least 3 MB to accommodate a copy of the model database. If you are getting the error above when deploying your database project in Visual Studio 2008 to a local SQL Server 2005, you might want to enlarge the si... [More]

В октябре 2009 Майкрософт выпустила вторую бета-версию Visual Studio 2010 и .NET Framework 4. Основная область, в которой делаются улучшения – это увеличение скорости работы. Поэтому было решено, что перед релизом будет еще одна промежуточная версия - Visual Studio 2010 RC, которая ориентирово... [More]

Once you decided to write installer for your program. If you are a Visual Studio developer you should know about Setup and Deployment Projects containing the several cases to create Windows Installer project you need: Setup Project, Web Setup Project, Merge Module Project, Setup Wizard, CAB Project ... [More]