Showing tag results for Visual Studio

This fall we will be holding an ALM Summit from November 16 to 18 on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington. The summit will bring industry leaders in application lifecycle management together with leading companies focused on using ALM to improve how their engineering and R&D resources deliver value and competitive advantage.  It&rsq...

This week, we added a new version selector for the default view of the MSDN library.  I’ve seen numerous cases in recent months of people being confused by finding help topics for the wrong version of VS and not realizing it.  This new selector makes it much clearer which version you are looking at and how to navigate to corresponding content for t...

This week, we added a new version selector for the default view of the MSDN library.  I’ve seen numerous cases in recent months of people being confused by finding help topics for the wrong version of VS and not realizing it.  This new selector makes it much clearer which version you are looking at and how to navigate to corresponding content for t...

Just recently, the Visual Studio Rangers published a new guidance document on best practices for using database projects in Visual Studio 2010.  The guidance focuses on: If you are interested, you can get it here: http://vsdatabaseguide.codeplex.com/ Brian

Just recently, the Visual Studio Rangers published a new guidance document on best practices for using database projects in Visual Studio 2010.  The guidance focuses on: If you are interested, you can get it here: http://vsdatabaseguide.codeplex.com/ Brian

Today, we released the final update to the Lab Management features for the Visual Studio 2010 product family.  A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post with a bunch of details on the Lab Management capabilities and also explained recent licensing changes. Today I am announcing that the final bits are now available for download to licensed customer...

There’s some exciting news about Visual Studio Lab Management today.  You may recall that when we released VS/TFS 2010, we declared the Lab Management capability to be “Release Candidate” quality rather then “Released” quality.  I’ve mentioned before that the reason for this was that we just hadn’t gotten enough customer feedback to feel really con...

Today at VSLive!, Jason Zander announced a new Visual Studio product called LightSwitch.  It’s been in the works for quite some time now, as you might imagine.  Beta 1 of LightSwitch will be available on August 23rd – I’ll post again with a link as soon as I have it.  You can check out this link to learn more: http:...

I suspect I’m eventually going to get bored with posting about the doc updates every month :)  But, I think it’s really cool that the doc team is now updating the online docs every month.  I’ve gotten a number of very positive customer comments on how much they appreciate the new vigor with which new content is coming ou...

We’ve just released an update the the very popular Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools.  We’ve incorporated bug fixes, some key user feedback and some cool new features. The first key user feedback worth mentioning is the ability to independently turn off extensions that might conflict with something you already have.  You can get to this thr...