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    Post-Release Goodies
    Post-Release Goodies
    November 19, 2014 Nov 19, 2014 11/19/14
    Anthony D. G
    The Rosetta lander Philae wasn't the only thing in space last week. Our launch of Visual Studio 2015 Preview and our announcement to open source the full .NET server stack were out of this world. After all, it’s not every day that you can say your work trended higher than Kim Kardashian on Twitter. After an overwhelmingly positive ...
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    Short Videos Demonstrating What’s New in Visual Studio 2015 Preview for C#, VB, and F#
    Short Videos Demonstrating What’s New in Visual Studio 2015 Preview for C#, VB, and F#
    November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
    Anthony D. G
    Our team has put together a set of short videos to highlight some of our work in Visual Studio 2015 Preview. Check them out to learn more about what’s new in C# and VB, how F# can be good for enterprise, and how to improve your code quality with “analyzers”. To learn more about our team’s work in Visual Studio 2015 ...
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    Introducing the Visual Studio 2015 Preview for VB and C#
    Introducing the Visual Studio 2015 Preview for VB and C#
    November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
    Anthony D. G
    Download Visual Studio 2015 Preview and review the release notes. Over the past several years, our team has been hard at work re-implementing the full language stacks for Visual Basic and C#. While this was a long investment, we knew that an improved stack with a cleaner architecture would allow our team to work faster, empower others to build...
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    Help make Edit and Continue better!
    Help make Edit and Continue better!
    May 13, 2014 May 13, 2014 05/13/14
    Anthony D. G
    UPDATE 2014-05-20: We've received enough responses and the survey is now closed. Thanks everyone! Hey VB developers! Do you get tired of seeing this box (I know I do)? Tell us about it! The Visual Studio team would like your anonymous feedback on improving Edit and Continue (E&C) when developing .NET applications. This survey can take as ...
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    Install Published Samples with Visual Studio
    Install Published Samples with Visual Studio
    June 27, 2012 Jun 27, 2012 06/27/12
    Anthony D. G
    You can use Visual Studio 2012 RC  to download and install samples from the MSDN Code Gallery.  You can download only the samples you need, or you can download one or more Sample Packs, which group several samples that relate to a technology or topic. You'll receive a notification if source code changes are published for any sample ...
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    Visual Basic 11 Beta Available for Download!
    Visual Basic 11 Beta Available for Download!
    February 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012 02/28/12
    As you may have read in Jason’s announcement, today we announced that Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available for download.  This is a huge release for Visual Basic as it provides full platform support for building Windows 8 Metro style apps, a first-class asynchronous programming experience, and also the long-awaited Iterators ...
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    Editing XML Literals Embedded Expressions in Visual Basic 2010 (Avner Aharoni)
    Editing XML Literals Embedded Expressions in Visual Basic 2010 (Avner Aharoni)
    March 26, 2010 Mar 26, 2010 03/26/10
    The implicit line continuation feature in Visual Basic 2010 provided an opportunity to improve the code editing experience in XML literals embedded expressions. In Visual Studio 2008, pressing Enter inside an embedded expression would result in the cursor being positioned to the left of the end embedded expression tag. In Visual Studio 2010, ...
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    CodeRush Xpress Released Today! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
    CodeRush Xpress Released Today! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
    May 14, 2009 May 14, 2009 05/14/09
    Lisa F
    CodeRush Xpress is a FREE Visual Studio 2008 add-in containing 60+ refactorings, 7 editing features, and full support for C# and Visual Basic. Download hereCodeRush Xpress includes the following features. In addition, you receive the following refactorings.Add Parameter Create Overload Create With Statement...
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    CodeRush Xpress 9.1 Beta: 59 Refactorings, 17 Consume-first providers, and Much more! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
    CodeRush Xpress 9.1 Beta: 59 Refactorings, 17 Consume-first providers, and Much more! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
    May 4, 2009 May 4, 2009 05/4/09
    Lisa F
    Very exciting news! Developer Express is coming out with a new version of the FREE add-in we all know today as Refactor!. The new product, CodeRush XPress, builds on Refactor! by increasing the refactoring count to 59! It also includes a host of other editing functionality, making it a much richer tool for all-around IDE productivity. Consume-...
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    Walkthrough: Quick Search for Files and Symbols in Visual Studio 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)
    Walkthrough: Quick Search for Files and Symbols in Visual Studio 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)
    December 19, 2008 Dec 19, 2008 12/19/08
    Lisa F
    Quick Search has to be one of my favorite features in the 2010 CTP. I find myself using it all the time! I hope you will find it useful in your development too. The Quick Search functionality has become a pretty common feature in development environments today. That's because it since it handles such a common scenario - needing to find ...
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