November 2005 - Posts
Well as you know VS Express is the most lightweight IDE in VS 2005 family. Each product package installation is only cost 800 Mb or less. However you will notice that VS Express eat your Hard disk to much if you install many product (C#, J#, etc).
Well this is a trick you can free up 30 Mb for each package by delete folder * ENU (as example Visual Studio bla bla ENU). Well there folder is left over installation file and you can safely remove it. However since the Installation file is needed when you remove or modify your installation your need an original CD when you want to changes or uninstall it
This morning I installed Virtual PC, and install windows 2000 pro version. Because I have some lecturer work to develop some web services using Tomcat and Java. Since I don't want to mess my original system. It's fun to see how flexible Virtual PC. Anyway I'm always use Virtual PC + Win 2000 as testing environment since it's don't eat your green grass to much (I mean your RAM). You can allocates 192-256 for Win2K and it's enough. But unfortunately WIn2k is lack of security (just like zotob tragedy). So it's really recommended to use Windows XP or later as your daily activity machine
Good tool to make Visual Studio more 'Lengket" with Office, Is Microsoft Indonesia can give me a trial without or less then $60 shipping
I'm really happy with new IDE, it's free and have a nice color guess what is it ?? yup you're right it's express edition :)
Install one by one, from VB to VWD. Try one by one and I found some missing feature than my old Academic version of 2003 VS the most important feature just like
1. MFC was gone in C++ express edition, and the funny thinks is you can find a free IDE in Borland called C-BuilderX personal with MFC support :) so C++ Express + C++ BuilderX will be a good mix bucket (just like KFC :D)
2. No mobile devices support at all, Just dream that I want to make the template for this kind application, want to help..?
3. there no package and deployment project? Well Since .NET have a simple deployment process I solve this problem by installing NSIS, Ghost Free Installer, or some free installer maker :)
some another missing feature you can notice is J# currently is not support the ASP.NET, well it's no problems for me since my hosting not support J# extension
ehm don't forget to install Nunit and FXCop for your healthy code
My web site as you know at http://ridilabs.net will be one year old. My web site is developed with my own CMS engine, MySQL , and of course .ASP.NET 1.1.
Heard the excitement of Mr. Kunarto about the speed ASP.NET 2.0. I decided to do some converting from my legacy web into a new version.
I'm open my VWD Express, open it from my local IIS, the converting stage begin, I am doing some click, everything seem alright and successfully converted just like it said in conversion log.
Now just like oldest toy, I press F5 and it's build successfully, My IE appear open the local web site and BOOM..VWD catch the exception from MySQL.Data classes. It's said that "can't contact or found MySQL host". Curios then, I restart my MySQL server. and the problem still happen, I remove the old reference and add it with new version that i have (1.0.4) and the problem still there, I check the web config and trace the connection string seem everything alright but the error still happen…really make me sick :(
In the end I have silly question "is the MySQL .NET driver is not support for .NET 2.0 yet" or "I need to refining my code into the new style (what style?)" or “i have to use the ODBC one?“ does anybody had face this problem before? NOw i'm downloading the MySQL connector version 1.0.7 hope this correct the problem
Well today i download the November 2005 Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, a collection of standalone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2005, wow it's free guys and a lot tool in that bundle just go to this
link to download
Last night I install SQL Express 2005 combined with VS Express, guess what
I had tried for more 5 times and got same error that can't be explained
Workaround for the error I found one conclusion just like the title in this blog
How to solve it, well if u have a compressed folder just like me (well I'm use compressed NTFS folder because I have no more free disk space and this method save me a lot space.. Yeah yeah I know this is my false ) first you create an empty directory or maybe you can use old SQLServer2000 directory like I do.. After that go to the directory using explorer right click-->advanced--> uncheck ready for archiving and compress content, click finish and you will be enjoy the power of SQL Server 2005
It's so great that Microsoft has lunch a lightweight product such as VSExpress Family and SQLExpress. From 7 November 2005 until 7 November 2006 you can get it free by download and install it on your PC.
Since the license cost is about $49 after the promotion (I mean after 7 November 2006) so it's will be a good idea to download it all and try it and love it :)
Unfortunately Microsoft recommend us to downloaded it using online boots-trapper (about 2 Megs) so it useless for me who have no good internet access
However Microsoft give us another option, it's called manual download, but I have no luck cause one product (in example C#) it cost for more than 400 Megs.. Fuih getting crazy there, because more than five product we can download C#, C++, VB, J# and Visual Web Developer well you can calculate then (5 x 400 = 2 Gigs)
Thanks to Mr. Risman who 'make it happen', I get the five product for a free effort (no cry, no download, and much smile)
but to burn it into CD, I get more and more conclusion to not burn it immediately. I get a fact that "all of the file in every .iso is almost equals"
So I create my own CD called Visual Studio Express CD that contain five product and off course plus MSDN and sqlexpress..below is the step to make my own CD
1. Copy J# wcu folder into a folder in example I mount an image and copy wcu folder directory /VSEXPRESS/, you should copy wcu folder from J# image cause J# image have more wcu component than other image
2. Now mount other images and copy all files except 'wcu' folder from every image into separate folder of setup files. In my case I copy the files into /VSEXPRESS/setup/vb/ for VB /VSEXPRESS/setup/vcs/ for VC# and soon for vjs (J#), vc (C++), and Web Developer (VWD)
3. You can create loader to make installation more convenience, well if you want my loader you can mail me
4. Extract and Place the loader into root directory
5. Last step but the most important is burn all the directory into CD or create the ISO and burn the spirit using this great tool from Microsoft
