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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 We haven’t tracked this down completely yet, but many of the crashes seem to be related to an out-of-date version of the AnkhSVN extension.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), ...

Custom Build Steps, Tools, and Events

April 26, 2010 Apr 26, 2010 04/26/10
Andrew Arnott
The VC++ build system is of course MSBuild based in VS 2010.  This automatically gives you a great deal more flexibility to customize your build than you had with .vcproj project files in prior releases.  We went out of our way to ensure that the .targets files that drive the build of a .vcxproj file in VS 2010 leverage as much ...

Start Extending Visual Studio 2010!

April 21, 2010 Apr 21, 2010 04/21/10
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Visual Studio not only boasts a wide variety of tools to improve developer productivity, but it is also extremely extensible so that it can be tailored and customized to serve specifically your needs. In fact, one of the key benefits of Visual Studio 2010 is its improved extensibility story. With an easier deployment experience, more extensive...

Custom Extension Types with VSIX

April 16, 2010 Apr 16, 2010 04/16/10
Aaron Marten
DISCLAIMER: While the following technique is supported in Visual Studio 2010, the interfaces and methods exposed by Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.dll are likely to change in future Visual Studio releases. If you create an extension that relies on Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.dll, there is no guarantee that your extension ...

Visual Studio 2010 is now available!

April 12, 2010 Apr 12, 2010 04/12/10
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As Soma announced on his blog this morning, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 have just launched!  The Visual Studio team has been working on this release for more than two years and we’re extremely proud to announce the availability of the final RTM build! MSDN Subscribers can download Visual Studio 2010 later today from MSDN, and...

WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 7 : Wrap up

April 6, 2010 Apr 6, 2010 04/6/10
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This is the final part in the WPF in Visual Studio 2010 series. Reflections on the Series One of the aims of this series was to give a deeper look into collaboration the Visual Studio and WPF teams undertook during this release, specifically focusing on the “Lessons learned.” As such, I tended to focus on the issues we encountered and ...

MSBuild Property Functions

April 2, 2010 Apr 2, 2010 04/2/10
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Have you ever wanted to do something simple in a build, like get a substring of a property value, and found that MSBuild didn't have syntax for it? You then had to write a task for it, which was tiresome to do for such a simple operation. What's more, if you wanted to do this during evaluation – outside of a target – you couldn't run a ...