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Tips and tricks: Window Management – Aero Snapping

November 5, 2009 Nov 5, 2009 11/5/09
Visual Studio Blog
(image) Adrian Collier – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2004 back in the UK and crossed the pond last year to work on Popfly, since then I’ve been working in Visual Studio land primarily working on the Start Page and window management areas if the IDE.   One of the largest...

Tips and tricks: Window Management – Aero Snapping

November 5, 2009 Nov 5, 2009 11/5/09
Visual Studio Blog
(image) Adrian Collier – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2004 back in the UK and crossed the pond last year to work on Popfly, since then I’ve been working in Visual Studio land primarily working on the Start Page and window management areas if the IDE.   One of the largest...

Improvements to VS 2010 Text Selection

November 4, 2009 Nov 4, 2009 11/4/09
Visual Studio Blog
(image) Brittany Behrens – Program Manager, Visual Studio Editor Team Short Bio: I’m Brittany, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Editor team.  Some of you may recognize me from Connect bugs or as the main voice of @VSEditor on Twitter, and I’m responsible for a variety of Editor features.  I love hearing from customers, ...

FIXED: Comments are not getting posted

October 27, 2009 Oct 27, 2009 10/27/09
Visual Studio Blog
Update: We have diagnosed and fixed the issue that was causing comments to be discarded.  If you were trying to post a comment in the last few days, we'd appreciate it if you could repost -- we love to hear feedback.  If you are having any more issues with your comments appearing on the blog, please send a mail to vsblog AT ...

VSIX and MSI

October 26, 2009 Oct 26, 2009 10/26/09
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VSIX is a new technology created for deploying Visual Studio extensions.  It’s a zip file that uses the Open Packaging Convention.  By renaming the file extension of any .VSIX file to .ZIP, you can open up the file in Windows Explorer and take a look at the contents.I’ve written a separate post about the details of a VSIX...

Box Selection and Multi-Line Editing

October 26, 2009 Oct 26, 2009 10/26/09
Visual Studio Blog
(image) I’m Brittany, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Editor team.  Some of you may recognize me from Connect bugs, @VSEditor on Twitter, or the Visual Studio Editor blog, which has recently moved to its new home here at The Visual Studio Blog.  I’m responsible for a variety of Editor features, but most recently I designed the new...