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register quick for free visual studio training online:

https://www.microsoftelearning.com/visualstudio2005/

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in case you haven't seen it yet...here is the web deployment project beta.

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i'm sitting in the lobby of the mariott courtyard hotel in henderson, nv preparing for a customer meeting on visual studio 2005 in a few hours.  they didn't have a hotel room ready for me yet (got here real earl), and because i traveled on the plane in comfortable clothes (read: t-shirt, exercise pants), i had to change in the mens restroom into some decent attire ;-)

anywhoo -- behind me appears to be an interview table.  earlier when i walked by someone else was there talking with this guy.  now for the past 45 minutes or so i've been listening to the interviewer *try* to interview this guy.  i say try because this guy keeps telling anecdote after anecdote and won't directly answer the interview questions.  i applaud the interviewer, he is being patient and cordial -- and continues with all the questions.  it sounds like a manager/sales position for a medical type job -- and for some reason this guy brought photos of a store he managed that was broken into -- the photos were of the break in.  i was thinking back to my msft interview and don't remember bringing photos of the dings in my car, but i guess to each his own!

sometimes i love unintentional evesdropping -- it's very entertaining.

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check out the paypal-enabled commerce starter kit for asp.net 2.0

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i ran across a potential snag some of you may be experiencing in visual studio web developer release version.

one of the goals with vs2005 was “intellisense everywhere” — and it was incorporated everywhere, even web.config files.  here in lies the issue.

create a new web.config file — by default it is created correctly and you should have intellisense.  save it and close it.  now open the web site administration tool (Website menu…ASP.NET Configuration) and make some changes.  go back to your web.config file and you may notice that the root node <configuration> now has an xmlns in it (which is the namespace for the config environment). 

now, try to use intellisense in that modified web.config.  does it work?  if so, great.  if not, you hit the snag i did — i’ve been able to repro it but haven’t been able to isolate if i’m the only one.  the workaround is to remove the xmlns attribute on the configuration node to get the intellisense back…which leads me to potential bug #2.

put your web.config in source control and check it in.  close the file.  now go back to the web site administration tool — do you get a message saying you need to have web.config be editable?  or does the file get automatically checked out (because of your settings)?  the WSAT tool for some reason needs the web.config to be editable (i don’t think it does, it just thinks it does) all the time, even when you aren’t modifying web.config properties.  this is an annoying issue, but the workaround (if no changes are made to web.config) is to either (1) undo checkout (if you don’t want erroneous source control audits) or (2) checkin the file again.  again, this is annoying because of bug #1.

i want to point out these are DESIGN TIME issues only — no runtime execution is affected (with or without the xmlns, the web.config is readable).  if they are annoying to you and you want them fixed, please submit your vote for the existing ladybug requests.

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