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Visual Studio Links #119

Darren Stokes — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:05:55 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.

Greg Duncan has posted a few good links:

Free Training of the Week – Seven hours of free, for a limited time, .Net (C#/VB) training from InnerWorkings
Visual Studio gets Mono (Tools that is) – Sign up for the preview now…
Free, for MSDN Subscribers/reg-ware, WPF Controls from Telerik (Limited time only!)

Roy Osherove posted a good list of Questions every team and dev lead should ask themselves

Miguel de Icaza described Developing Cross Platform application with MonoDevelop. MonoDevelop now runs on Windows in addition to Linux and MacOS.

Patrick Smacchia announced that the CppDepend Beta now available. CppDepend is NDepend functionality for C++ applications.

Joshua Flanagan explained Integrating a custom test runner with TeamCity.

Dimecasts.Net:

Jamie Cansdale announced TestDriven.Net 2.22: Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1.

Phil Haack announced the ASP.NET MVC Installer For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 And Roadmap.

Scott Guthrie:

Web Developer Tools Team:

US ISV Developer Evangelism Team:

New on Visual Studio Gallery:

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Visual Studio Links #118

Darren Stokes — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:50:03 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.

Greg Duncan posted a link to the Managed Stack Explorer on CodePlex.

Brad Abrams announced that the .NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview has been released on CodePlex.

US ISV Developer Evangelism Team announced XAMLFest Online. They also have an announcement of the release of Axum - a programming language for parallel processing.

The Visual C++ Team discussed Design Time Stress Testing.

New on Visual Studio Gallery:

Channel 9 Stuff:

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Visual Studio and Mono at TechEd

Darren Stokes — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:46:36 GMT

Attendance is definitely down at TechEd this year in Los Angeles but there is still the same amount of great information in the sessions and vendor booths.

Joseph Hill, Product Manager for Mono at Novell, gave me a demo of a pre-release version of their first commercial offering for Mono: Mono Tools for Visual Studio. The product allows a developer to use Visual Studio to remote debug Mono applications running on Linux. This is similar to Visual Studio's ability to remote debug Silverlight applications running on OSX but for full applications. It looked very nice and Joseph told me that a public test release should be coming soon.

I attended a session on the new functionality for ASP.NET in VS2010 and Microsoft has put quite a bit of work into programmer productivity for web developers on their platform. Some of the features that I will have immediate use for are:

Code Snippets for ASP.NET pages. This functionality has been available for C# and VB.NET for quite a while and I see a lot of questions about adding this in the Visual Studio forum so this should be very popular.
Surround With.. functionality for ASP.NET pages. This is related to Code Snippets and allows a developer to highlight lines of code and surround them with a new tag (div or update panel for instance).
Much better support for accessibility on pages.
The ability to specify the id for an element and not have the compiler change it. This has been a long time coming.

No announcement yet on the release date for the VS2010 beta but hopefully it will be coming soon as well.

Visual Studio Links #117

Darren Stokes — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:55:51 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.

New on Visual Studio Gallery: VSGesture

VS2008 KB: Hotfix available for When you debug in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, more breakpoints are generated unexpectedly, or the IDE crashes or becomes unresponsive for about 15 seconds.

The Expression Web Team posted a link to an offer from several hosting providers (with contract): Until June 30, 2009, free copy of Expression Web 2 and 60 days free hosting.

Miguel de Icaza announced that MonoDevelop is now available on MacOS X.

US ISV Developer Evangelism Team posted an explanation of How To Get your Windows 7 Release Candidate Product Key. They also announced that the SharePoint SDKs have been updated.

Windows SDK Team Released: Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: RC

Via DotNetKicks: Florian posted an explanation of Loading projects in Visual Studio using the Shared Profile feature in Parallels (OS X).

Channel 9 Stuff:

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Visual Studio Links #116

Darren Stokes — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:30:30 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.

New on Visual Studio Gallery: Quick Open File for Visual Studio 2008

Tomasz Modelski explained how to pre-generate lazy loading proxies for NHibernate using a post-build event in VS.

Rick Strahl posted an explanation of how to add default assemblies, namespaces and control prefixes in the Web.Config file.

Jamie Cansdale announced that TestDriven.Net 2.21 Beta supports the NUnit 2.5 release candidate.

The PowerShell Team posted a link to PowerShellToys from /n software - some interesting functionality for ASP.NET in there.

The Web Developer Tools Team posted a few new tips:

Brain Harry posted a link to the Microsoft Visual Studio AJAX Profiling Extensions Power Tool - a tool for profiling JavaScript code running a web browser. Brian also wrote an article on TFS 2010 Admin, Operations & Setup Improvements.

VS2008 KB: Workaround available for "Error 1316.A network error occurred while attempting to read from the file Path\SSCERuntime-ENU.msi" error message when you repair an instance SQL Server 2008

Carlos Quintero has written 3 new articles on VS extensibility:

Nick Randolph posted an overview of Debugging Threads in Visual Studio with Breakpoint Conditions and Actions.

Channel 9 Stuff:

Greg Duncan will be working the booth at TechEd 2009 for the VSTS Team along with Brian Keller. He will also be a guest host of This Week on Channel 9 on Thursday. Now that is cool!

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Visual Studio Links #115

Darren Stokes — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:56:34 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.

Carlos Quintero posted a new article - HOWTO: Debug add-ins for the macros IDE.

VS2008 KB: Service pack fix available for You can access documents in a network location even if you do not provide logon credentials or if access is denied in Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008.

VS2005 KB: Hotfix available for Error message when you build a project that has a very large function in Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1: "C1063: compiler limit: compiler stack overflow Internal Compiler Error".

The Web Developer Tools Team posted some new tips:

US ISV Developer Evangelism Team posted links to new "How Do I" Videos for Windows Azure.

Rick Strahl wrote an article explaining how to create Visual Studio Templates from your Web Projects.

I wrote a post on my blog announcing Reference Assistant 1.0.

Channel 9 Stuff:

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Visual Studio Links #114

Darren Stokes — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:09:13 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.

Eric Hexter announced the release of Solution Factory 1.1 via twitter.

Greg Duncan announced the release of Scrum for Team System Quickboard on CodePlex.

US ISV Developer Evangelism Team pointed out that the Windows 7 Release Candidate Dates have been Announced.

Web Developer Tools Team has posted a few new tips:

Terry Clancy posted links and short descriptions of Notion Tools for Team System. These tools extend Team Foundation Server.

Channel 9 Stuff:

Somasegar posted an overview of Prototyping with SketchFlow. SketchFlow is an add on to Blend 3 that allows the prototyping of screens and application flow. The prototype can be converted to a VS project.

Greg Duncan posted a link to another ebook giveaway: Redgate is doing it again… A metric ton-load of free eBooks (and their suite of tools too) is just a quick reg away.

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Visual Studio Links #113

Darren Stokes — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:35:36 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.

US ISV Developer Evangelism Team posted some links to money saving offers for ISVs when purchasing or upgrading Visual Studio or MSDN.

Cory Schuman posted a tip explaining how to Open XAML in code only mode.

Greg Duncan posted a link to the RTM release for VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR R2.

VS2008 KB:

New on Visual Studio Gallery:

Dimecasts.Net: Episode #104: Navigate your codebase like a pro with ReSharper 4.5

Scott Hanselman posted an introduction to ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!)

The PowerShell Team posted a tip on how to start a new elevated process from a PowerShell script.

The VC Team posted Part 3 in their Features of VC10 series: decltype

Tess posted a Tool for visualizing virtual memory usage and GC heap usage.

The Web Developer Tools Team posted a new tip: Tip # 53: Did you know... How to edit the templates for gridview in VS designer?

Eric Eilebrecht: CLR 4.0 ThreadPool Improvements: Part 1

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Visual Studio Links #112

Darren Stokes — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:15:33 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.

Ben Scheirman wrote up a walk-through of exporting Visual Studio solutions with SolutionFactory.

The Web Developer Tools Team posted an overview of How to use wcftestclient as svc file debugger for VS2008 SP1.

Brian Lagunas posted a nice tip on Debugging XAML.

The Web Developer Tools Team posted a new tip: Tip # 52: Did you know... When deploying your ASP.NET web application, debug=false should be set in web.config.

Hatim Rih posted 5 useful Visual Studio C# snippets. Hatim also followed up with a Part 2.

Jimmy Bogard posted some approaches for Speeding up a local build.

VS 2008 KB: Hotfix available for When you undock some windows or change the window layout in the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 IDE, the IDE crashes.

Greg Duncan posted a link to a Free UK MSDN Flash eBook download.

Jamie Cansdale announced the release of TestDriven.Net 2.20 featuring improved integration with NCover.

The Web Developer Tools Team will be posting a new series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008.

Tess posted a tip on how to dump all the .NET exceptions on the heap using WinDbg/SOS.

Brain Harry summarized the Key Conceptual Changes for Team Foundation Server 2010.

Channel 9 Stuff:

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Visual Studio Links #111

Darren Stokes — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:34:20 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.

MEF Preview 5 has been released. MEF will be used for developing extensions to the new WPF editor in VS2010.

Greg Duncan posted a link to an offer from Redgate - a free eBook copy of Illustrated C# 2008. Very nice.

Don Burnett posted a tutorial on Creating Great Looking Icons with Expression Studio.

Channel 9 Stuff:

Tim Heuer posted a link to the Silverlight installation experience guidance.

US ISV Developer Evangelism Team has announced that the Alpha Version of Windows Logo Testing Kit will be Ready April 14. There is a mailing list if you want to be notified about the release.

Via Alvin Ashcraft: The Virtual Earth Web Services SDK 1.0 is available for download.

Ioannis Panagopoulos wrote an introduction to Code Snippets in Visual Studio.

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