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Free ebook: Managing Agile Open-Source Software Projects with Microsoft Visual Studio Online

April 22, 2015 Apr 22, 2015 04/22/15
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Agile, Open-Source, and Visual Studio Online are all topics that quickly peak the interest of modern developers.  This month, Microsoft Press announced a new ebook, freely available for download, from some of the leading minds in this space.  The ALM Rangers are a special group for several reasons. Not only are they innovative and focused on...

What’s next for Developers in 2015?

January 7, 2015 Jan 7, 2015 01/7/15
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2015 is positioned to be an exciting year for developers.  Considering the momentum around announcements at Connect and with Build 2015 right around the corner, now is a good time to be thinking about modernization and cloud strategy.  If you haven’t significantly revised the way you build apps and run development projects...

ImmutableObjectGraph has some big updates now, and more coming soon

November 19, 2014 Nov 19, 2014 11/19/14
Andrew Arnott
I was able to work out a model for continued open source development of ImmutableObjectGraph -- at least in a limited way. This means that the 16 month silence on the public repo is over, and I was able to push a bunch of the commits I had been keeping internal to the public. For those of you not already familiar with the library/tool, you ...

Enable C++ and Javascript project system tracing

June 7, 2012 Jun 7, 2012 06/7/12
Andrew Arnott
I’ve previously posted on how to enable logging in the C++ project system in Visual Studio 2010.  In Visual Studio 2012 we’ve changed the way the Common Project System (aka “CPS”) emits trace messages so below I introduce an updated xml snippet that works in Visual Studio 2012.  Since CPS is now the project system driving JavaScript ...

Visual C++ 2012 Debugger Extensibility

June 5, 2012 Jun 5, 2012 06/5/12
Andrew Arnott
Back in Visual C++ 2010 we introduced debugger extensibility so that third party vendors can either add new debugger engines or new ways of launching existing debugger engines for C++ projects.  In Visual C++ 2012 this debugger extensibility has been updated.  Any previous extensions that were compiled against Visual C++ 2010 will...

VC++ Debugger Extensibility

February 12, 2010 Feb 12, 2010 02/12/10
Andrew Arnott
Visual C++ 2010 includes a debugger extensibility point that makes it easy for people who have written their own debuggers, or wish to modify the way existing debuggers are launched, to do so.Check out the Visual C++ Debugger Launch Extension project template on the Visual Studio Gallery to get started...

If the MS Office team wrote Visual Studio

August 5, 2008 Aug 5, 2008 08/5/08
Andrew Arnott
Some humorous pros and cons to Visual Studio, if the Microsoft Office team were ever to take over. (disclaimer: this is a tongue in cheek post.  No offense -- only laughs intended) Visual Studio 2008 would be able to load VC7 projects, modify them in any way VC7 allowed, and save the project back to VC7 format, allowing you to work with...

Visual Studio trick to quickly find any file in solution

August 2, 2008 Aug 2, 2008 08/2/08
Andrew Arnott
You know that Find text box in the toolbar of Visual Studio?  Those of us who are keyboard-inclined probably never use it because Ctrl+F is quicker than moving your hand to the mouse.  But there is a hidden gem of a feature inside it that really makes me feel like a power user that I wanted to share. That find box doubles as a ...

Why your Visual Studio add-in fails to load with error 0x80004005

February 15, 2008 Feb 15, 2008 02/15/08
Andrew Arnott
Writing Visual Studio add-ins gives you the power to do some impressive things within the IDE to enhance your productivity.  Unfortunately getting your add-in to load into Visual Studio can sometimes be a pain.  Here's just a tip you should know about the .AddIn file that Visual Studio generates for you. The path you provide to ...

Why double-clicking on an .SLN file doesn’t always launch Visual Studio

February 13, 2008 Feb 13, 2008 02/13/08
Andrew Arnott
Well this is my first post as a member of the Visual Studio Platform & Ecosystem team.  My second full day on the job, and I've found some less-than-ideal areas of Visual Studio that I'm eager to improve for myself and for you, our customers.  How exciting.  I'll do my best to post to my blog whenever I run across some ...