Crystal Reports Merge Modules for Visual Studio 2008

Are you one among the web developers wondering why the Crystal Reports in your asp.net website works well in dev environment but having lot of issues when deployed in Live environment…

I faced the same issue couples of years back and at last found out that Crystal Report merge modules aka runtimes should be installed in the live server. And the worst thing is..you cannot find these runtimes in you dev machine..

Then where can I find it???

I had the same question two years back and ended up asking Business object support where a CS representative gave me the access details of it..

Please give me the link..you may ask

Sorry..it won’t be useful..as that link will return ‘404 Page Not found’ now..Business object keeps on moving this Merge Module link quite frequently to make sure we always run around the corners searching for it :(

Enough talk..tell me where it is now…

Well..it is here

And please make sure…you download it as soon as possible as there is a possibility that this page also might return ‘404 Page Not found’ any time in the near future :(

Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard shortcut posters

Today I googled to find out if there are any shortcut tables available for Visual Studio 2008. Surprisingly, Microsoft itself have released the shortcuts as posters..

Here they are..

You can download Visual C# 2008 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster here

You can download Visual Basic 2008 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster here

What about Visual Studio 2005 users???

I know you will ask that question :-)

Here they are

You can download Visual C# 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster here

You can download Visual Basic 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster here

Update on Feb 7, 2009

Some of the readers asked on how the poster look like. We have pasted the poster on our Engg IT deparment and here is how beautifully it looks :)

Happy shortcutting!!!! & of course go .NETing :-)

How to use MS Build to compile websites – for beginners

Most of .NET developers are interested in compiling applications using MS Build. But disappointingly, there are no such good pointers/references available in the web which talks about step by step instructions for beginners on how to use MS Build to compile websites

Then I came across an interesting video tutorial over here where Chris Pels just demonstrates on how to use MS Build to compile websites. Video is so simple to follow and give us step by step idea on how to go about it.

Alternatively you can download video here and C# source, VB.NET source here

Try it out and Go .NET-ing :)