Today I am stuck while I use Visual Studio 2005 to create a web application. I don’t know why;when I create or open an aspx file (not the code behind .cs), view markup or view designer, the visual studio 2005 show an error “I have to choose to close the Visual Studio 2005 and send the error report to the microsoft”.
It has happened many times since I work today. I try many time like reinstalling Visual Studio 2005 SP1, Deleting Schema in the Schema directory, Reinstalling .NET Framework 2.0 and .net Framework 2.0 with SP1 but it is not worked.
I try to repair and reinstalled from the image cd (from network) but it doesn’t work it. It needs the .msi of Visual Studio 2005 but I don’t find it.
The last thing I try to uninstall the product using Add-Remove program but It doesn’t work.
The VERY last thing is to removing Visual Studio 2005 manually. Hard work. But now it is worked.
When I use Internet Explorer, Some controls such as Macromedia flash needs to be clicked so I can access it. It is annoying. In KB 945007 , I found article that I don’t need to be clicked again. You can go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945007
The problem is how to make the user download this update ? or I have to inform the user when I make a web site about this ?
Today, Visual Studio 2008 has launched to market. There are many feature added to the IDE like WPF, WCF, WF (3 pillars can be used in VS 2005), LinQ, Javascript debugger, and many others. It needs more hardware power to develop it.
Real hardware requirement (in my case):
- minimum Intel Pentium D 3 Ghz or Dual Core 3.0 or Core 2 Duo 2 Ghz
- minimum RAM 2 GB ( I already try VS 2008 Beta2 on 1 GB runs slower)
- minimum harddisk 160 GB (It is difficult to get 80 GB in my city now)
- minimum VGA NVIDIA 7300 with 256 MB (I use NVIDIA 7300 GT 512 MB with Vista graphics index of 4.7)
- minimum resolution is 1280 x 1024. Working areas are smaller in 1024 x 768. (I use 1600 x 1200 with High DPI 120 dpi)
Real software requirement (in my case)
- minimum windows vista business
- minimum office 2003 (Excel 2007 still error on calculation)
- I use subversion as source control
- latest windows SDK (until today I only have SDK version 6.0.xxx; still wait the SDK latest version)
- free Paint.NET to draw or manipulate picture
- Sql Server 2005 Express Edition with SP2 (download)
- Supported MySQL to Vista with OleDB/ODBC driver installed, Administrator and Query browser required
- IBM DB2 Express C, free version of DB2 that support on Visual Studio 2005 (hope they launch for Visual Studio 2008 soon)
- Oracle DB 11g
- Antivirus software either is paid like symantec or free like AVG
So I installed the computer clean with Vista. After that I ghost the partition as a backup and then install the application. When installation all application has finished, I ghost again the installation.
Since internet connection in Indonesia so slow and so expensive, I rent a internet cafe (warnet) to access internet. There are many warnet in Surabaya; from the cheapest one (Rp 1.500,00/hour) until the expensive (Rp 6.000,00/hour) based on the facility you like. Some good.. some bad….
Most engineer / cashier don’t care to the customer and the computer. Some computers installed with annoying application and non standard setting.
So if I want to warnet, I always bring some application that suites on the USB sticks.
- Firefox portable with extension : noscript, adblock plus, fasterfox, FFClickOnce, Firebug, flashblock, furl, mozilla accessibility, Unplug
- Thunderbird Portable for my POP3 emails
- Pidgin Portable for chat with MSN, Yahoo
- WebCopier for copy whole web site.
- Windows WL Writer to write my blog.
- Limewire and micro torrent for peer to peer
- Free AVG for small defender against virus
- Process Explorer to look at the running application instance. If there is a suspicious application, I will terminate it. Most warnet will disable Task Manager.
- Portable or free registry editor…
All the portable software I configure in my computer first with setting I wants and zipped it, So I just unzipped there. Just make sure the computer installed with Windows 2000 with SP3 or above; and Windows XP SP2; or later Windows. I have trouble with warnet using Windows 98 or ME. I always avoid warnet that using Linux, many trouble 
.
If it is possible, I will search warnet with more than 512 MB of RAM, so I can installed with Java runtime or .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5 runtime so I can make the software using free version of IDE (Eclipse, Netbeans, VS Express)
