When I came in to the office this Monday morning my computer was dragging pretty badly, so I did what any other Windows performance sleuth would do: I fired up Process Explorer. This is what jumped at me:

The memory usage is a "bit" on the high side…

Note to self:

Don't leave Firefox running over the weekend.

From Stephen Forte's WebBlog:

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Coming from a C++/C# background, one of my main frustrations with VB has been its lack of a true ternary ("?:") operator. In Paul Vick's recent post, he discusses the possible inclusion of a ternary operator in the next version of VB (9.0 - Orcas). Finally the IIF operator will behave like we C#/C++ (or javascript for that matter) folks expect it to. I'm looking forward to it… now if we could only get rid of those pesky line-continuation characters!

Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals trial edition requires Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite be installed before you install Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals trial edition.

It makes it pretty tough to use a trial version if you have to buy it first. If I had Team Suite, I "probably" wouldn't be installing the trial…

VisualSVN has been released, and I like what I see. With this version comes visual indicators that show you the status of each file. This, along with support for file/folder deletion, top of an already great feature set including file moving and renaming. This tool integrates seamlessly with the well-known TortoiseSVN, bringing the TSVN experience right into Visual Studio – and then some. This latest release finally brings VisualSVN to a place where I can now whole-heartedly recommend this to any Visual Studio/Subversion user. There is a free trial available, and the license cost is only $19. See the formal announcement on the VisualSVN blog.

Current feature list

• Support for Visual Studio 2003/2005
• Visual status indicators (high-contrast indicators also available)
• File/folder deletion
• File/folder renaming
• Show log
• Repository browser
• Integration with Windows Explorer
• File locking
• Conflict resolution
• Blame
• Update
• Commit
• Diff ("Show Changes")
• Revert
• Patches
• Branch
• Switch
• Merge
• Update to Revision
• Checkout
• Cleanup