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This hotfix rollup fixes several issues in the WPF Designer. This hotfix rollup applies only to the computer that has Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 installed.

•When a resource in an external resource dictionary is updated, Visual Studio 2008 crashes.

•WPF Designer cannot load read-only attached properties, such as the VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups property.

•If users or codes set a data binding locally, and then the users or codes clear the data binding, WPF designer reports the following error message:

'System.Windows.Data.Binding' is not a valid value for property

•If a Win32 project is set as the startup project, WPF Designer cannot load solutions in Visual Studio 2008 or in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

•When you set and then delete the Source property of a WPF WebBrowser control, Visual Studio crashes.

•When you move a control that uses the MultiTrigger class or the DataTrigger class in the Style class, WPF Designer may generate an InvalidCastException exception.

KB Link - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958017

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A few people in conversation over the weekend had no idea about this...so I'm posting for the 'fashionably late' crowd ;-P

Link : Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

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When:
Thursday, April 10th 6:30pm

Speaker: Alan Stevens
Alan Stevens is a passionate and experienced software developer living in Knoxville, TN. Alan has had a lifelong love affair with technologies of all sorts. He became a software developer with the creation of his first application, because there was nobody around to do it for him. Life hasn't been the same since. Alan regularly speaks at industry conferences and user groups.  Alan is the President of the East Tennessee .NET Users Group.  When Alan is not playing with his kids, enjoying a fine cigar, singing or playing his acoustic guitar, he occasionally updates his blog at http://netcave.org..

Meeting Location:
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Suite 140
Nashville, Tennessee  37214
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I won't make this a long,drawn-out rant, but I have to vent (just for peace of mind)...
I actually saw the following in code recently :

if("A Literal String".ToUpper() == someRandomVariable.ToUpper()){...}

and

string vbcrlf = "\r\n";

How/When will development on the Microsoft platform ever mature to the point where any bozo who can spell his name and have a conversation with a recruiter will not be allowed to actually create code on real software systems?

I know the dream is that creating LOB systems/applications becomes as easy as using an iPOD, but, for god's sake, we're not there yet.  STOP IT!  You actually do have know more than simple syntax to do this job!

Oh...here's another one...
I just found a situation on a SQL server:  In true Microsoft DBA fashion, a bozo had set the log file initial size for a particular database to the exact size of the physical drive it was located on - and had it configured to auto-grow by 10% !

okay...I'm calming down now...see the the daily WTF for more evidence that our industry is a mess.  I can't believe I've reached the point that I hate hobbyist...in the past I had a great deal of respect for the hobbyist programmers...now they all have programming jobs, but no clue.  I created an excel macro once, so I should be qualified to design your fulfillment system....jeez!!!

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