How can you set in a very fast way the tab order of your winform in VS2005 ? By using the menu option "Tab Order".

Yep, finally it's there.  Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008.  And it's not only VS2008, but also the .Net framework 3.5.  Full support for WPF and Silverlight is included, so UI guys, you can play around now .  Beta 2 also contains a Go-Live license.

You can find the downloads here :

1. The installation files :
   • Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition Beta 2
   • Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition Beta 2
   • Visual Studio Team System 2008 - Team Suite Beta 2
   • Visual Studio Team System 2008 - Team Foundation Server Beta 2
   • Visual Studio Team System 2008 - Test Load Agent Beta 2
   • MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
2. The VPC files :
   • Visual Studio Team System 2008 - Team Suite Beta 2 VPC
   • Visual Studio Team System 2008 - Team Suite & Team Foundation Server Beta 2 VPC
3. Installation instructions (You can find the download links also here).  As always read them carefully
4. Visual Studio 2008 Express Beta 2

Update : Scott Guthrie has written an nice article about this beta.  You can read it here.

Update 2 : When you want to create Silverlight projects in VS 2008, you need the Silverlight Extensions.  Go get them here. (Txs Gill).

Our next chapter in the buildserver series. This time we will show you how you can make your NAnt buildscripts in VS 2005 with intellisense. If you want to create/change your NAnt build scripts you can use either just notepad or any other third party tool. But you can also use VS2005. And would it be easy if you also have intellisense then? Well this is possible

If you are using Scrum as methodology this can be interesting.  Microsoft has released its first version of eScrum. 

What’s eScrum?
eScrum is a web based tool for Scrum projects on the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Platform.  Read more at Mark Brown’s blog.

You can download the template here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=55A4BDE6-10A7-4C41-9938-F388C1ED15E9&displaylang=en

Micorosft has unveiled the world wide launch date of

• Visual Studio 2008
• SQL Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008

The date is set to February 27, 2008 for all three products.  Although an RTM version will be released in November via MSDN and Technet.  Just as with Vista .

And for you who like gadgets  : There's already a countdown gadget available.  Get it here for the site version and download here the Vista gadget.

Microsoft started with a beta as an answer for Joost.  It's called Livestation.  At this moment only a few people can test it, but later this year they will invite more people. One of the advantages of LiveStation is that users not only can look to On_Demand, but also Live television.

The architecture uses just like Joost the P2P technologie.

So I'm looking forward to test LiveStation and give a complete report about it and the differences with Joost.

I just found a strange label behaviour in VS2005.  When I add a label on my winform and I add the text to it where we use rounded brackets, the closing rounded bracket isn't showed and at the beginning of text another opening rounded bracket is showed.

The properties of the label.

The result on the label

The most strange thing is that it's only in the project where I'm currently working and they don't have their own label control.

After checking out more it's also with the "/" character.

Don't know what it is, but it's irritating.

Update : this behaviour is only when you use the property RightToLeft = true and the combination of Autosize = false.  It seems that this is a bug.  Don't have found a solution for it. But a collegue of me has reproduced this bug.

OK, I know we use Internet Explorer, but sometimes I need Firefox for my work, just to check how a website will look in Firefox.
There is a nice firefox add-on gadget when switching between the tabs.  The add-on will give you a nice 3D switching effect.

Download the add-on here.

One of my hobby's is photography.  Around two years ago I had bought me a Nikon Coolpix 8700. At this moment I have taken almost 4500 pictures with it.  So it was time to create a Flickr account.  So go there and take a look.  At this moment I have uploaded two sets of pictures, but I will upload a lot more.

If you have tips, I can always use them .

BTW : I'm planning to buy me at the end of the year a Nikon D80 camera .

Since June 13, the Microsoft Office Outlook team has started a blog. You can find it here. Although there are not that many posts yet, it seems that they have released an Outlook add-in that allows you to access your Windows Live Hotmail account from within Outlook 2003 or 2007.