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If you are seeing intermittent crashes with VS 2010

May 10, 2010 May 10, 2010 05/10/10
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Some customers have been reporting intermittent crashes while using Visual Studio 2010, particularly during file save and build. We haven’t tracked this down completely yet, but many of the crashes seem to be related to an out-of-date version of the AnkhSVN extension. The newest release (2.1.8420 – note correction – 8400 did ...

Building on Cross targeting scenarios and 64-bit MSBuild

May 7, 2010 May 7, 2010 05/7/10
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UPDATE: Most issues around MSBuild support for cross-bitness and 64-bit builds are 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.   During the Visual Studio 2010 development cycle a push to make the build experience better on Cross compilation...

Open thread: Extensibility is the future?

May 6, 2010 May 6, 2010 05/6/10
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With the release of Visual Studio 2010 came a major improvement to the overall extensibility story of Visual Studio; the new editor. With the new editor VS was introduced to a Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) based API that opened up possibilities you could barely dream of in previous versions of VS. Inside of the editor you’re able...

MSBuild Property Functions (2)

May 5, 2010 May 5, 2010 05/5/10
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Some more information about this 4.0 feature. (I've also updated the first post with this, so everything's in one place for your reference.)Built-in MSBuild functionsThe full list of built-in [MSBuild] functions, like the one above, are in the MSDN topic here. They include arithmetic (useful, for example, for modifying version numbers), ...