Looking for Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010?

Well Crystal Reports isn’t included in VS2010 by default any more. From now on you need to download Crystal Reports from SAP.com. The good thing however is that you will be able to download this free, without any registration required. That’s good news, right?

So if you want some more information on this new release for VS2010, check out Crystal Reports in Visual Studio 2010 on sap.com. Or if you don’t want to get started, you can download Crystal Reports for VS2010 here

Visual Studio 2010 has been released!!

It’s out there!!

from Soma’s site

The new release of Visual Studio 2010 has plenty of compelling new features and updates that will make every developer more productive.

· Visual Studio 2010 allows users target of the right platform for their application, including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, SharePoint. Office, Windows Azure, and Windows Phone 7 applications using their existing skills.

· Visual Studio 2010 is a rich, personalized development environment. We know that software developers spend much of their time in the IDE, and features like the new editor and multi-monitor support make your time in Visual Studio more productive and enjoyable.

· Teams are able to work more efficiently using Application Lifecycle Management tools. We’ve done a great deal of work in Visual Studio 2010 to improve testing and debugging tools. Features like IntelliTrace and easy project management help your team ensure high quality.

It’s really cool that you could follow the keynote live and even ask questions via Twitter.

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MS SQL Server Samples

Looking for some sample data to populate your database (SQL Server 2005/2008/R2, SQL Azure) with? Have a look at this link on CodePlex

10 Hands on labs for Sharepoint 2010 development

Use these 10 hands-on lab manuals for SharePoint 2010 to get started learning SharePoint 2010 development. Each lab is available in C# and Visual Basic.
HOL01 - Developing a Visual Web Part in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab introduces the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint development environment. It shows how to build a Visual Web Part using LINQ to SharePoint, and how to connect one Web Part to another Web Part on the page.
HOL02 - Developing a List Definition and Event Receiver in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab walks you through building a list definition for SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2010. It also shows how to build an event receiver for the list in Visual Studio 2010 and deploy it to SharePoint. After the list and event receiver are deployed, you can use the developer dashboard to evaluate the performance of the event receiver.
HOL03 – Developing Advanced Web Parts for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab shows how to build a Web Part using several SharePoint-specific controls in Visual Studio 2010. Investigate advanced built-in Web Parts, including the Data View Web Part.
HOL04 – Developing with LINQ to SharePoint in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab explores a variety of LINQ queries on SharePoint 2010, going into more depth than the introductory hands-on lab. It also walks you through an exercise of creating a custom content type in Visual Studio 2010.
HOL05 - Developing for SharePoint 2010 with the Client OM and REST in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab introduces the Client object model for use in calling SharePoint 2010 APIs from a client machine. It also shows the use of ADO.NET Data Services to call REST services in SharePoint 2010.
HOL06 – Developing a BCS External Content Type with Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab walks you through building an external content type for Business Connectivity Services using Visual Studio 2010. It also builds a form for Microsoft Outlook and shows the data being edited offline in Outlook.
HOL07 – Developing a SharePoint 2010 Workflow with Initiation Form in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab walks you through building a workflow in Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010. You add an initiation form to the workflow and use an external data exchange activity in the workflow.
HOL08 - Developing SharePoint 2010 User Interface with Silverlight in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab walks you through building Microsoft Silverlight applications for use in SharePoint 2010. You will access SharePoint 2010 data in Silverlight using the Client object model.
HOL09 – Developing SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solutions in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab walks you through building a Sandboxed Solution Web Part for SharePoint 2010. It will also add code to the Web Part that overloads the limits placed by the sandboxed solution, and you will review how the solution is shut down.
HOL10 - Developing SharePoint 2010 User Interface Ribbon and Dialog Customizations
This hands-on lab walks you through adding a custom action to the SharePoint 2010 ribbon, and creating a Web Part that uses the Dialog Framework.

Download them on Microsoft Download

Employee Info Starter Kit (v4.0.0) with HttpException

So I wanted to have a look at the new Employee Info Starter Kit. This sample application covers some of the new technology that you can use with ASP.NET Webforms. You can download the sample application here. So I extracted the package, set the correct start up project and started the application. All of a sudden, before the application actually started up, I’m greeted with this exception:

System.Web.HttpException (0×80004005): Session state has created a session id, but cannot save it because the response was already flushed by the application.\r\n   at System.Web.SessionState.SessionIDManager.SaveSessionID(HttpContext context, String id, Boolean& redirected, Boolean& cookieAdded)\r\n   at System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.CreateSessionId()\r\n   at System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.DelayedGetSessionId()\r\n   at System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.ReleaseStateGetSessionID()\r\n   at System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.OnReleaseState(Object source, EventArgs eventArgs)\r\n   at System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.OnEndRequest(Object source, EventArgs eventArgs)\r\n   at System.Web.HttpApplication.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()\r\n   at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)

Seems like there is something wrong with the session. Opened up my favourite browser and did some searching. Some minutes later, I had found the solution and here it is..

Open Global.asax and make sure the Session_Start method looks like this:

protected void Session_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   string sessionId = Session.SessionID;

   if (!Eisk.DataAccessHelpers.ConnectionStringManager.IsConnectionStringOk())
       Response.Redirect("~/public/install.aspx");

}

That should solve the problem! More info can be found here

Failed to install ASP.NET MVC2 with Visual Studio 2010 RC

Today I wanted to experiment a little bit with ASP.NET MVC2. I downloaded the bits from Microsoft Download and clicked on the executable. Unfortunately an error occurred and the installation was stopped.

No worries, this is an easy fix. If you click on Details, then you’ll see what’s going on. From my previous Visual Studio 2010 release, I still had an older version of ASP.NET MVC.

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I just removed ASP.NET MVC 2 and then tried to reinstall, this time it succeeded!

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Phil Haack has some more information on this on his blog