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Introducing the New Developer Experience, Part #2

February 24, 2012 Feb 24, 2012 02/24/12
Visual Studio Blog
UPDATE: We hear you. There’s a lot of excitement about this release and a lot of passion about colors, designs, styles and icons. Know that we are listening to all your comments here, across social media and we are working hard to make Visual Studio 11 a fast, powerful and feature-rich product. Keep the comments coming, both good and bad. We...

Introducing the New Developer Experience

February 23, 2012 Feb 23, 2012 02/23/12
Visual Studio Blog
UPDATE: We hear you. There’s a lot of excitement about this release and a lot of passion about colors, designs, styles and icons. Know that we are listening to all your comments here, across social media and we are working hard to make Visual Studio 11 a fast, powerful and feature-rich product. Keep the comments coming, both good and bad. We...

Bring Some Game To Your Code!

January 18, 2012 Jan 18, 2012 01/18/12
Visual Studio Blog
(image) Bring Some Game To Your Code! A software engineer's glory so often goes unnoticed. Attention seems to come either when there are bugs or when the final project ships. But rarely is a developer appreciated for all the nuances and subtleties of a piece of code--and all the heroics it took to write it. With Visual Studio Achievements...

Give us your feedback on Visual Studio 11 etc. and receive a gift!

January 4, 2012 Jan 4, 2012 01/4/12
Visual Studio Blog
The Microsoft Visual Studio Design Research Team is looking for participants to give us direct feedback on our development tools, languages and libraries!  Opportunities include usability studies of upcoming features, focus groups where we explore new ideas, as well as 1:1 interviews.What do you get out of it?When you are selected to ...

Microsoft Windows Simulator Rotation and Resolution Emulation

November 4, 2011 Nov 4, 2011 11/4/11
Visual Studio Blog
The Windows Simulator is a tool provided in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview that helps debugging Metro style applications. Its main purpose is to enable debugging when developers want to test how their applications respond to the new Metro style capabilities without having a device that supports those capabilities. It is implemented as a ...

Debugging Contracts using Windows Simulator

November 1, 2011 Nov 1, 2011 11/1/11
Cathy Sullivan
All of you might be pretty busy discovering what Windows 8 has to offer. Today I will introduce you to debugging Contracts, one of the cool features in Windows 8. It is hard to debug contracts when you are debugging locally because they disappear as soon as the focus is lost. So, as you hit a breakpoint in Visual Studio for your app, the ...

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 – now available on Microsoft Update

October 25, 2011 Oct 25, 2011 10/25/11
Visual Studio Blog
As of today, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 is now available through Microsoft Update. If you have opted into Microsoft Update and haven’t installed SP1 yet, you will soon have it offered to you. The service pack was initially released in March and includes some often requested feature improvements, fixes that improve reliability as well as the most...

An update on Visual Studio performance

October 20, 2011 Oct 20, 2011 10/20/11
Visual Studio Blog
I wanted to take the time to thank everyone who has contributed to our UserVoice performance site by entering areas you would like to see us improve and for voting on those items.  To date we have had over 4700 posts and votes showing the passion you all have for Visual Studio and its performance.  For those that have downloaded the Visual ...

Roslyn Syntax Visualizers

October 19, 2011 Oct 19, 2011 10/19/11
Visual Studio Blog
Hello everyone! As you may have heard, today we announced the first CTP of the Roslyn project! You can visit the Roslyn MSDN Page to learn more about the project and to download the CTP. You can also read more about Roslyn at the following links - In this post I will present a brief overview of two samples that are ...

Introducing the Microsoft “Roslyn” CTP

October 19, 2011 Oct 19, 2011 10/19/11
Visual Studio Blog
Today we are releasing the first Community Technology Preview of the Roslyn Project! What is Roslyn? In the past, our compilers have acted as black boxes – you put source text in and out the other end comes an assembly. All of that rich knowledge and information that the compiler produces is thrown away and unavailable for anyone else to ...