I’m working with an XML document all morning, and for the hell of it I decided to open in VS11.

Guess what I found, some pretty cool xml/xsd/xslt support

but the biggest feature I found is the following…

Paste XML as classes! BOOM!!

Loving VS11…

I’m was not sure what I’d installed but tonight I needed to create a few regular expressions, and as i started typing this appeared in VS2010

Pretty cool if I say so myself.

A quick look at my extension manager and I see

Visual Studio you rock!

I’ve used quite a few IDE’s lately

• Netbeans
• Eclipse
• IntelliJ (pretty good)
• XCode 4.0

One thing is for certain, only IntelliJ comes close (but then the Refactor developers are pretty familiar with VStudio

Disclaimer: I’ve been using visual studio since the mid 90ies so I’m truly biased.

Here’s one way to migrate your SqlServer Database to the Azure platform.

1) Get the SQL Azure Migration Wizard http://sqlazuremw.codeplex.com/

2) Start the wizard and select SQL Database Migrate option

3) Select your source database

4) Choose the objects you wish to migrate (all in my case)

5) See the results and review the SQL Script if necessary.

6) Now we need Sql Azure in the cloud for the next part, log into your http://windows.azure.com account (get a 3 month free trial if you don’t have one)

Select your Azure Server and create a new database.

7) You’ll be prompted to select where you want your server located if you don’t already have one.

8) Add some rules to your database, you’ll need to do this to allow access for MS Services and Visual Studio

9) So now that you have a database in the cloud you’ll need to continue with your migration wizard by selecting this database.

10) That’s pretty much it. Hope these screenshots helps someone out.

Hi all.

I've discovered this is not as simple as it would appear to be.
Infact it's worse; in "order" to do this you will need to jump through a few hoops...; in a particular order!

1. Add an activity library project
2. Add a reference to this new project from your WF4 app (any app with workflows.. silverlight/mvc etc)
    ENSURE: this is done before step 3 or visual studio 2010 will give you a circular reference error!
3. In the activity library add the service reference to your webservice
4. Modify your webconfig file to contain the abc information for the connection (servicemodel stuff)
5. Now use the activities (from the toolbox)

I gather from crawling through google that the above sequence is already well defined as a workaround for the vs2010 bug.

Adding project dependencies on Visual studio is done automatically with .NET projects when Add Reference dialog chooses another project from your solution.

However you can get Visual Studio to add project dependencies if no explicit intra project reference exists.

Right click on your solution, choose properties and choose the project dependencies option.

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