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A look ahead at the Visual Studio 11 product lineup and platform support

May 18, 2012 May 18, 2012 05/18/12

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Today, we want to share the final product lineup and specifications you can expect to see for the next release of Visual Studio. This also includes system requirements and platform you can develop for with Visual Studio 11. Product Lineup In addition to the product line up announced previously we will also be releasing Visual Studio Express ...

15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010

June 5, 2010 Jun 5, 2010 06/5/10

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The sunset in Seattle was spectacular this evening. My wife and I climbed the water tower in Volunteer Park to look across the Sound as the sun dipped behind the Olympic mountains and, in the space of a few minutes, the sky turned from blue to orange and pink. We both agreed that the Emerald City and its surroundings can be breathtakingly ...

Visual Studio 2010 Text Clarity: ClearType Options

March 14, 2010 Mar 14, 2010 03/14/10

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Text clarity in Visual Studio 2010 has been a hot topic throughout the product cycle. Each time we talk or write about it, we seem to invite yet another round comments, some of them quite emotionally charged. We take such feedback very seriously because, whether the comments are completely justified or not, there’s always some nugget of ...

WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 : Focus and Activation

March 8, 2010 Mar 8, 2010 03/8/10

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Continuing the WPF in Visual Studio 2010 series, today’s post is on the subject of “Focus and Activation”. Of all the problems we had to deal with in the new WPF UI, this was probably the most tricky to get right. Focus problems are notoriously hard to debug, partly because interacting with the debugger moves focus again. (Tip...

WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 : Performance tuning

March 1, 2010 Mar 1, 2010 03/1/10

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This post, the second in a series of articles on Visual Studio 2010’s use of WPF, covers tips and techniques for optimizing performance of WPF applications, and also several areas where we needed to tune Visual Studio 2010 in order to squeeze the best out of WPF. The first post in the series covered the motivation for selecting WPF and some ...

Troubleshooting Extensions with the Activity Log

February 24, 2010 Feb 24, 2010 02/24/10

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One of the most powerful tools for troubleshooting issues that involve Visual Studio extensions is often overlooked, even though it has been around for quite some time (since VS 2005). Anyone wondering what Visual Studio is doing with their VS Package, Extension, MEF Component, or pkgdef file should ask the IDE for an activity log. In ...

WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 1 : Introduction

February 16, 2010 Feb 16, 2010 02/16/10

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This is the first part in a seven part series. Links to the other parts are included at the bottom of this post. Now that the Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2010 is publicly available, we’ve started receiving questions from inquisitive users about how Visual Studio 2010 itself was built. In particular, one questioner wanted to know ...

Behind the Scenes: The Splash Screen

November 10, 2009 Nov 10, 2009 11/10/09

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(image) Paul Harrington – Principal Developer, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: Paul Harrington is a principal software developer on the Visual Studio platform team. He has worked on every version of Visual Studio .Net to date. Prior to joining the Visual Studio team in 2000, Paul spent six years working on mapping and trip planning...

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