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Ahh yes but it does make changes to the solution file going to VS2011, these changes don't harm VS2010 but because Source Vault is not VS2011 compatible I cannot use it just yet on anything that the others don't already have moved to 2011, unless I jump through source control hoops and all that crap, so I have one of everything installed.... 

AndyC

On my dev environment I have VS2003, VS2005, VS2008, VS2010 and the Beta of VS2011 all installed. As the CTO, I support products and developer teams that for one reason or another are all married to various versions of these dev environments. Now that I think about I believe VS2003 lives in a virtual machine. Either way slowly we are pulling all this mess kicking and screaming up to 1 version of VS 2010 ATM, but by the time they all get there we will have to do so again into VS2011.... It never ends...

C# all the way

and now with the likes of MONO Droid and MONO IOS I can continue to use C# on the tablet platforms that matter at the moment. Though with Windows Tablet that might change as they appear to be de-emphasizing .Net manages languages in favor of going back to C++. (SHUDDER!)

In the coming time frame I might have to switch over to JavaScript on the client side to work with HTML5 as they also appear to be de-emphasizing Silverlight. For now though... its C# all the way...

Just updated to the newest Version 1.7 of this addon.

Clean reboot, plugin enabled, loaded project and ensured my normal debug setting were enabled (Historically I have had to turn off ASP.NET debugging with this plugin) Well it still is giving me fits. With the add on disabled all is normal. If I turn it on and build It and run it Hangs the dev environment for like 2 minutes or so and gives me the the WEB SERVER IS NOT RESPONDING IN A TIMELY MANNER... While its hung I can open a browser and point at localhost/{myslapp} and it comes up just fine....

So for now it remains disabled....

I believe you can install more than one version in the same machine... At least I have C# express and VB express installed side by each in a VM here as a test... (I use VS 2010 ultimate for work though)

2 minutes ago, c_str wrote

You have the wrong Visual Studio Express, you want Visual Basic 2010 Express.  

Doh! beat me to it...

Ummm I think you got the wrong version of express. You wanted the VB version not the C++ version... They are language specific forms of the full IDE that can switch between languages...

Well New build or no... I updated to the newest build. My Silverlight projects that are hosted on an IIS server in my test system still fail to start-up in debug until I turn off the extension. So off it will remain....

21 hours ago, Blue Ink wrote

RIM owns an impressive stack of patents, so taking over their niche replicating their functionality may be impractical.

Yet, considering the amount of market share they are bleeding, that IP might be on the market real soon. Or the whole company, whichever comes cheaper. Interesting times ahead...

Wouldn't be the first time a floundering concern was bought at fire sale prices, cherry picked, and the rest of the corpse dumped in a landfill...

1 hour ago, Craig_Matthews wrote

If Blackberry takes what they"be learned from the consumer smartphone market and applies their business needs expertise to those ideas, I'm pretty sure they can make a comeback business side.

Or someone else can take that perceived niche and provide the same benefit along with the appearance of a growing company rather than a collapsing company, or at minimum a stable company that's not going bleeding money like Moby Dick. Someone like Microsoft maybe. 

All this supposes that the wonks believe that there is even a market niche there to be had... I personally think that the IRON CLAD control factor not as important to the vast majority of business today which in part has led to the demise of RIM and their once dominant market position...