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re: ASP.NET Video Tutorial: How to Bind an ASPx TreeList to Data

rj_beber — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:43:34 GMT

dev express is for me the compoment the most brillant

re: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released!

Fernando — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:03:27 GMT

ISO image file: to Cd not space not for DVD ? bug?

re: What's New in 2008 Volume 2 for ASP.NET?

Mehul Harry (Developer Express) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:29:38 GMT

Thanks Tom, We're planning to add Gauge support soon, you can track the following suggestion to get updates:

www.devexpress.com/.../Q108143.aspx

re: What's New in 2008 Volume 2 for ASP.NET?

Tom Ward — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:23:20 GMT

I love the new release! You guys have done a great job once again. I love your products, they let me seem like 10 developers instead of just one. The only thing that I really need that isn't available in your ASP.NET products are gauges. Looking through your XtraGauges you just released, this is exactly what we need - but for ASP. Are there any plans to release an ASP.NET version of this product? I love the ASP version of XtraCharts and hope you will soon have something similar for XtraGauges.

re: ASPxGridView FAQ: How to Enable Editing

Mehul Harry (Developer Express) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:44:20 GMT

Hi Mourad,

The ASPxGridView uses callbacks for setting/canceling the editrows. I don't believe it's possible to have it completely on the clientside. However, if there is a reason you need this then I recommend creating a suggestion in the support center. Thanks.

re: ASPxGridView FAQ: How to Enable Editing

Mourad — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:56:55 GMT

How to cancel Edit Mode without a callback to the server, I want it to have a good performance of the grid.

Or how I can move from one edit row to another without callback to the server

re: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released!

Michael Benford — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:26:46 GMT

>> Chris W Walsh said:

>> Michael, thats been there since SP1 BETA.

Oh, I haven't tried out SP1 BETA. Thanks for the explanation.

I guess I was misunderstood. I agree with the idea of having different icons to represent different versions of Visual Studio, but I think Microsoft could have done a better job in performing that. Putting a small number over the original icon is kinda a poor approach. Let's take for example Borland/Code Gear. Every version of Delphi has an unique icon, so it's easy to distinguish among several product releases. I definitely wouldn't appreciate if Delphi had the same icon from version 1 to 12 except for a small number.

Anyway, I don't intend to condemn SP 1 only because Visual Studio got a new icon - of course not. I'm going to test it deeply before making any other complaints.

re: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released!

Chris W Walsh — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:34:42 GMT

Michael, thats been there since SP1 BETA.

Holger, as Robson said, download the ISO version. I hate the bootstrapper trying to download the required files, takes for ever.

re: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released!

Rory Becker [DX-Squad] — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:23:18 GMT

Ok VS2008 SP1 ... my thoughts....

First. I have not tried any of the betas of SP1 since I Value my Dev machine and So my first impressions are just that.

1.> It needed 5Gb of work space on my C:\ before it would do anything. Damn that's a lot of space and it only returned a little over 1.6 of that when it was done. Oh yeah and my copy of studio is on my D:\

2.> I downloaded the ISO and had no running issues. The whole install took < 2 hours (not counting download). It just worked :) Nice

3.>I like the number 9. On the one hand it helps to distinguish VS2008 from VS2005. On the other hand I had to uninstall VS2005 just to find the space I needed :(

4.> I really like the apparent speedup whilst using the ASP.Net designer. For a little while there I thought it might be Coderush that was causing this, but I didn't dare remove it as life without is a very scary thought. Now that SP1 is applied My designer experience seems to be far better. So as indicated elsewhere.. .my retroactive apologies to the IDETools team.

5.> I also like the idea of Dynamic Data and I look forward to a version of the default project template which uses the DevExpress ASPx controls instead of the Microsoft ones. Someone's gotta make that right ?

6.> Not yet convinced by ADO.Net data services (seems like a security hole waiting to happen) or Entity Framework (Linq to SQL seems to work fine :)) but perhaps time will tell here.

7.> It seems that C# got a background compiler? I wonder what affect that might have on CodeRush's CodeIssues feature. I guess this will sway it away from Syntax errors and more in the direction of other code smells. On the other hand there will be those that don't apply the SP or are stuck on VS2005 (Poor Buggers)

All in all pretty good so far. No real issues. Except that perhaps I need a new HD. space is fast becoming something of a scarce resource.

re: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released!

Brien King — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:13:17 GMT

Ok, I've installed it and the performance is WAAAY better then it was before, but still has up to a 30 second pause at times when changing properties. Nothing like the 2+ minute waits of the past.

However, I have noticed a bit of flakyness with SP1. Not sure if it's due to Vista 64bit or not. This is a brand new install (just built the machine last week) with SP1 applied. The flakyness I've seen so far (not 100% reproducable yet) is:

1) Debugger Locks up VS2008 and you have to End Task it. Not sure why, but I'll try to reproduce it and contact MS if I can and see if they can generate a Hot Fix.

2) Really wierd one... When checking in code the Comment box wouldn't allow me to type an N unless I had the shift key down.... No clue what that's about and I doubt I'll be able to reproduce easily.

Other then that so far, it's been a good Service Pack. The new features and the speed improvements are an excellent step forward.

re: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released!

Robson Previato — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:36:29 GMT

Download the ISO

www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

re: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released!

Steven Rasmussen — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:57:38 GMT

I can understand why some may not like the new #9 over the icon... but in-fact I really appreciate it. Having both VS2008 and VS2005 installed and both have a quick launch icon, I can now quickly know which one is which. Anyway, I'm sure that there are much more significant enhancements than just this little icon.

re: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released!

Tim — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:05:18 GMT

You're telling me they couldn't just build the SP1 Prep Tool logic into the SP1 installation routine? How dumb is that???

re: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released!

Holger Flick — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:32:17 GMT

Download takes ages.... I hate these installers that download the information when installing as I have more than one machine :(

re: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released!

Michael Benford — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:15:49 GMT

The first thing I noticed is the new Visual Studio icon. Now there's a little #9 over the original icon, that, btw, is smaller than the old one. I don't like it. Microsoft has defaced the well-known VS icon and now it's hard to find it on Taskbar.

I didn't read anything about that on the list of improvements delivered by SP 1. In fact, IMHO, it isn't an improvement at all.

I really hope Microsoft has delivered things more relevant than that.