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Dec 23, 2008
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What's the list of new language features in Visual Basic 10.0 and C# 4.0? (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

This post is in response to a question we received in the blog comments last week. It's often difficult to study future versions of VB and C#, and figure out what's the same and what's different! Therefore, I've put together a chart that shows both the VB 10.0 and C# 4.0 feature lists together. (VB 10.0 and C# 4.0 are the language versions that wil...

Dec 20, 2008
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Make sure you apply this fix before your VS2010 CTP VPC expires! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

Have you downloaded and started using the Visual Studio 2010 Community Technology Preview ("CTP")? If so, you may have noticed that the Virtual PC it runs on, will expire at the end of the year. See the following blog posts from Brian Keller and Jeff Beehler, on how to turn off the synchronization between the Virtual PC and the host OS, and fix thi...

Dec 19, 2008
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Walkthrough: Quick Search for Files and Symbols in Visual Studio 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

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 something in...

Dec 17, 2008
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Walkthrough: Dynamic Programming in Visual Basic 10.0 and C# 4.0 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

This blog post is part of a series on the walkthroughs included in the October VS2010 CTP. Each walkthrough guides you through a series of steps, to help you experience the new features coming up in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. Even if you choose not to download the CTP, you may find that you are still able to give feedback based on t...

Dec 15, 2008
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Walkthrough: Office Programmability in Visual Basic and C# in VS 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

This is another walkthrough, demonstrating how to use some new Visual Studio 2010 features available in the October VS2010 CTP. It provides steps to follow in the CTP build; however, you may find that you are able to give feedback on the descriptions below without actually downloading and executing the steps yourself. Please leave your feedback on ...

Dec 13, 2008
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Walkthrough: TDD Support with the Generate From Usage Feature in VS 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

As part of the October VS 2010 CTP, we also shipped a set of walkthrough documents explaining how to use the product to experience the new features. The CTP was released as a Virtual PC image, and can be a pretty hefty download to undertake. So for those of you just interested to know what's there, reading the walkthroughs can be a good alternative...

Dec 9, 2008
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Did you know? You can unwind the call stack from exceptions (Bill Horst)

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VBTeam

The ability to unwind the call stack from exceptions is one of the debugger features that was newly introduced in Visual Basic.NET 2005. When the debugger hits a first-chance exception, you can unwind the call stack in order to make code edits to fix the exception and continue debugging with the changes. The exception assistant UI will have an &ldq...

Dec 7, 2008
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Did you know? There are many ways to insert a snippet into your code (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

Code snippets were introduced in the Visual Basic 2005 release. They provide an easy way to learn how to do a particular coding task, or to re-use a piece of code in various parts of your application. Code snippets can be inserted in a variety of ways.  The method you choose will depend upon the situation.  When browsing for a code snippe...

Dec 5, 2008
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Video: The Joy of Writing Code in Visual Studio 2010 (Karen Liu)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

We've had a couple recent posts about the Code Focused development experience coming up in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE: Code Focus Announcements in the TechEd EMEA Keynote Code Focus Videos on Channel 9 Now for the ultimate coverage (a complete TechEd presentation on the subject), check out the following video by Karen Liu! http://www.microsof...

Dec 4, 2008
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Channel9 series: Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 Week! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

There's a great Channel9 series that was recently released, with lots of videos on what to look forward to in VS 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0! The landing page is here; full lineup is below.Intro (Monday, November 10th): - Visual Studio 2010 Overview, Jason Zander - Key Themes for Visual Studio 2010, Soma - Lab Management in Visual Studio Team Syste...