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Try Out Dotfuscator in VS 2010 Beta 1!

June 10, 2009 Jun 10, 2009 06/10/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
The team at PreEmptive Solutions recently posted a great blog article that walks through all the latest features in VS 2010's Dotfuscator Software Services - Community Edition (previously known as Dotfuscator CE). Browse through the article to learn what's new, or download the beta to follow along in the IDE.What's New with Dotfuscator in ...

VS2010 Beta1 Extensibility News (Lisa Feigenbaum)

June 10, 2009 Jun 10, 2009 06/10/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
I recently received this letter from the Visual Studio Extensibility team, that I thought would be interesting to readers of this blog. Whether you're building Visual Studio extensions or downloading them from others, there's news here for you.   News from the Visual Studio Extensibility team…   Are you ...

CodeRush Xpress Released Today! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

May 14, 2009 May 14, 2009 05/14/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
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...

Ask Kathleen: Working with MEF (Lisa Feigenbaum)

May 5, 2009 May 5, 2009 05/5/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
MEF stands for Managed Extensibility Framework. MEF is a new .NET library that enables greater reuse of applications and components. Using MEF, .NET applications can be dynamically composed. Kathleen has a great article on MEF in last month's edition of Visual Studio Magazine. She explains what it is, how to use it, and outlines the ...

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 Feigenbaum
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-...

CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum

May 3, 2009 May 3, 2009 05/3/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
I recently recorded a CodeCast interview with Ken Levy. We discussed the VS2010 Editor, VB.NET line continuation removal, interop with dynamic languages, the Microsoft languages strategy, and the upcoming VS2010 Beta1 release. Recording: CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum This episode includes Ken Levy with a...

XML Literals, WCF and LINQ Article by Steele Price (Lisa Feigenbaum)

May 2, 2009 May 2, 2009 05/2/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
Steele wrote a great article in last month's issue of Visual Studio Magazine on XML Literals, WCF and LINQ. He shows how to use these three technologies together to produce more responsive ASP.NET pages, and more readable code. Lots of great tips for VB 2008.VSM's "On VB" Column: XML Literals, WCF and LINQ by Steele Price...