Another Item Off the TODO list: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta
The last few days should show me announcing to the world (me) things that I will not do. “Oh! It sounds so negative.”—that’s me mocking a popular American identity assumed by too many these days. The latest item off my list is what the super-productive Scott Guthrie announces in “Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta.” Out of respect for Scott’s warnings like, “There is a change in behavior in the .NET 3.5 SP1 beta that causes a problem with the shipping versions of Expression Blend. This behavior change is being reverted for the final .NET 3.5 SP1 release, at which time all versions of Blend will have no problems running…,” I just can’t take the risk (today) of messing my shit up by adding adventure to adventure.
There is just too much transition and arrhythmic instability going on right now (this feeling has been with me for decades so this could actually be what you call “life”) for me to introduce one more known risk. But I really could use these changes in SP1 today—as in right now:
- Support for “classic ASP” is back. I hate to admit that I need this. No, really, I hate to admit this. I ‘officially’ retired my ASP support in 2003—documented in “Songhay ‘ASP Classic’ Core.”
- Scott Guthrie strikes back (probably unknowingly) at NetBeans 6.1 with better JavaScript support: “VS 2008 SP1 adds much better intellisense support for popular Javascript libraries (we specifically did work to support JQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, ExtJS, and other popular libraries). You will get better default intellisense when you reference these libraries. We are also looking at whether we can maintain additional intellisense hint files that you can download to get even better intellisense and documentation support for some of the more popular libraries.”