I’ve just installed and configured Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. This is still in BETA but I was anxious to install and try it because of a bug fix that Microsoft were putting in after I logged a bug report with them in January. You can find that here if you want http://www.trstechnology.com/blog/asp.net/index.php/visual-studio-2008/

The bug fix was specifically to allow the use of a remote IIS Server. The initial version only allowed you to specifiy a local IIS Server.

I’ve just tested it and it works perfectly! Thanks so much to Bill Hiebert and Joe Cartano and the team at Microsoft for the fix.

Here’s the new option on the web properties tab;

Yes I’m having to upgrade some hardware as I get more business and need more resources.

I recently upgraded the RAM on the development server. I installed 2 * 512MB kbyte memory modules. They were pretty cheap and I got them from Best Buy! That put the dev box up to 1.5GB RAM, I also installed a new hard drive, which I got at Best Buy too. A Seagate ATA100 120GB drive for $50! Bargain!

The original config for the dev box was a single hard drive that I needed to re-partition. I was looking all over the web for a partitioner for a Windows 2003 server and they were very pricey, $300 – $500 and up. Anyway, a friend of mine pointed me to a shareware product that worked like a charm! It’s called Gnome Partition Editor and you can download it free!