One of my co-workers got the below error message in Visual Studio.

I just found out a couple of days ago that Microsoft released Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1 . Microsoft has posted a list of fixes in the service pack here ....

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Yes. Yes. Come one. Come all. Today Microsoft announced that Visual Web Developer 2005 will remain free forever vs. the 1 year free period that they had originally stated. While I have not used VWD myself, I have heard that it's a pretty good program. Microsoft Brings Programming to the Masses With Visual...

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Mikhail Arkhipov from the ASP.NET Team created and just released a spell check add-in for Visual Studio 2005. Cool stuff. See here for more details.

Today I answered a question where this dude was unable to create a new website in Visual Studio 2005. A friend of mine (aka dude) asked me the same thing 20 minutes later. I suggested that they go to Help > About Microsoft Visual Studio in Visual Studio and see if Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005...

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One of the key features that I like most in Visual Studio 2005 is the built-in support for refactoring. This is how easy it is to extract a method. Visual Studio takes care of all the "dirty" work. Highlight and right-click the code you want to extract to a method and select Refactor > Extract...

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