Chris's Development Blog : Visual Studio 2005

Vista RC2 and SQL Server Express 2005

Christopher Chess Ellsworth — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:54:00 GMT

Like many other people I know and read about, I switched my primary production system over to Windows Vista starting with the release of Beta 2. I spend most of my time in Visual Studio 2005, Office 2007, and a few miscellaneous CAD tools for embedded systems development. Since the release of Beta 2 I have had very few stability problems and most of my software has worked without issue (with the exception of Camtasia, which I think is a TechSmith problem). When I was getting ready to update from RC1 to RC2 I was assaulted with a horrific message, "SQL Server 2005 is not compatible with RC2". I use SQL Server Express 2005 almost on a daily basis and depend on it for many of my development projects. The update looked like it could continue and would not uninstall SQL Server Express 2005, so I decided to give it a try and hope for the best....(read more)

Implementing a Presentation Layer Using ASP .NET 2.0 And Visual Studio 2005 (Screencast)

Christopher Chess Ellsworth — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:07:00 GMT

This screencast walks through the use of Visual Studio 2005 and ASP .NET 2.0 to implement a presentation layer. Web services are consumed from a Business Layer....(read more)

Implementing a Business Layer Using .NET 2.0 And Visual Studio 2005 (Screencast)

Christopher Chess Ellsworth — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:03:00 GMT

This screencast walks through the use of Visual Studio 2005 to implement a business layer. Web services are consumed from the Data Layer, business logic is implemented, and services are then exposed for consumption by the Presentation Layer....(read more)

Implementing a Data Layer using .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 (Screencast)

Christopher Chess Ellsworth — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:58:00 GMT

This screencast walks through the use of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server Express 2005 to create a data access layer....(read more)