Taking Visual Studio 2008 further and further…

B-ware: nerd talk ahead ….

Yesterday I installed Visual Studio 2008 on a Virtual Machine without a problem. I’m just getting annoyed about all those extra options ;)

3.5 extensions preview
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A9C6BC06-B894-4B11-8300-35BD2F8FC908&displaylang=en
Oh bother: Both ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET controls for Silverlight have been updated since this release. The latest versions can be accessed at:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=111960.
(update 11-4-2008)
Oh no, dynamic data
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/dynamicdata/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=853
Oh samples:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/dynamicdata/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=850

ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=15db9989-1621-444d-9b18-d1a04a21b519&DisplayLang=en
Oh bother: be sure to download the Entity Framework Tools December 2007 CTP as well for integration with Visual Studio 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D8AE4404-8E05-41FC-94C8-C73D9E238F82&displaylang=en
Oh bother 2: You need XML Editor QFE to correctly install ADO.net Entity Framework Tools……..
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D8AE4404-8E05-41FC-94C8-C73D9E238F82&displaylang=en
Oh samples:
http://www.codeplex.com/adonetsamples/
Of course you need sql server express. If you didn’t install this with 2008…
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=31711d5d-725c-4afa-9d65-e4465cdff1e7

Silverlight 2, Beta 1 tools
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0BAE58E-9C0B-4090-A1DB-F134D9F095FD&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2008 SDK (for the DSL extensions and source outliner)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=30402623-93ca-479a-867c-04dc45164f5b&displaylang=en

Ankh Subversion add-in (pre-release)
http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/servlets/OCNDownload?id=ANKHSVN103

Unit testing (if you don’t have pro or more):
http://www.nunit.org/index.php
http://www.testdriven.net/

Autodocumentation (you still have to add some stuff here:)
http://www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc/

And if this wasn’t enough:
http://www.visualstudiogallery.com/Default.aspx

Pffffff