UPDATE: This issue is fixed in .NET 4.5. As always, feedback is welcome! Please leave your comments in this blog post and report any bugs on Microsoft Connect.
If you have the RC build of VS2010, you are targeting the 3.5, 3.0, or 2.0 Framework, you have a VB or C# project which has a lot of references, and you also have a lot of .resx ...
Have you ever wanted to quickly share a code sample to Twitter or your blog without leaving Visual Studio? Steve Apiki walks through how to create an extension for Visual Studio 2010 that does just that.Walkthrough: http://www.devx.com/VS_2010/Article/44073 His walkthrough touches on a number of extensibility options inside Visual Studio...
Ken Levy and I sat down last week to chat about the new VS 2010 IDE and some of the great features we’ve added for this release. From the CodeCast site: “In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Weston Hutchins, program manager on the Visual Studio Shell team (team responsible for the core IDE services and extensibility ...
Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 custom Start Pages will fail to load in Visual Studio 2010 RC due to WPF namespaces changes caused by Shell assembly refactoring between the Beta2 and RC releases. Specifically Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.UI.dll has been split between Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.10.0.dll and a new assembly, Microsoft....
UPDATE:
There is now a patch available for this issue in the VS 2010 RC. If you're experiencing frequent crashing when IntelliSense pops up or is dismissed, please download this patch to see whether it resolves the issue. This bug has also been fixed for VS 2010 RTM.
Shortly before the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC) was ...
If you haven’t read the news on other notable MSDN blogs, I’m pleased to announce that the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidates are now available for download! Currently the downloads are only available to MSDN subscribers, but they will be released to the public this Wednesday, February 10th. This release ...
With the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate around the corner, I would like to talk briefly about some changes we have made to the first-launch-after-installation sequence. Many of you may notice that the first time you start VS after installing, once you have selected a profile, it takes a long time for the main VS window to appear...
UPDATE 2/8: I forgot to mention a change to the VSIX file format in the Release Candidate that might impact your extensions. The valid <Edition> values (under <SupportedProducts>) have been updated to better reflect our SKU branding. The only valid values for RC and RTM are: IntegratedShell, Pro, Premium...
If you like the tips and tricks we sometimes post on this blog, you might want to check out the Visual Studio Tips and Tricks blog. It’s written by Zain Naboulsi, a Senior Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, and it’s devoted to these little productivity boosters. We’ll continue to post the occasional tip here on the Visual Studio blog...