CSS 3.0 validation in Visual Studio 2010

It annoys me that CSS 3.0 validation is not included in VS 2010. At work we make heavy use of Virtual Machine for development environments and with each product release a new VPC Development Environment is created, and some time after that I will need to work on an ASP.NET project. I'll load up the project and get confronted with the usual VSS errors complaining that the Style Sheets contain validation errors because VS is validating against CSS 2.1.

The link below is where to download the installation files for the CSS 3.0 validation tool. Follow the simple installation and there you go!

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a15c3ce9-f58f-42b7-8668-53f6cdc2cd83

Project Sputnik Solution Structure

A couple of posts ago I mentioned I would upload some screen shots of the Solution. Well here they are. Finally.

This shows the projects with the solution. You can see all the elements required, DAL Interface, the DAL, BLL, Concrete Classes and finally the Thick Client (WinForms app).

 

Focussing on the DAL, here are the DAL classes (one for each table in the DB)

 

 

And finally, the concrete classes (one for each entity)

 

 

 



Progress update

Work commitments have hampered my work on Project Sputnik recently but I am happy to say that I have made progress.

I've created the official solution and added the child projects. I have created the DAL interface class, Entity classes and DAL classes for each table in the database, created the BL layer for the Assets that enforces the BL for the two asset classes, and finally thrown a WinForms thick-client test-harness together to display the items in the DB. This isn't demo or POC code but production code.

I'll post again soon with details and screen shots.

Development Environment

So this afternoon I've put together the Dev Env for Project Sputnik. I have built a Virtual PC comprising Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, IIS7 and Visual Studio Pro from my MSDN subscription, plus some of the usual extras that you need.

I think I'm ready to go...