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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 ...

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Search Everywhere

October 11, 2011 Oct 11, 2011 10/11/11
Visual Studio Blog
During usability studies on previous versions of Visual Studio, we found many users were spending quite a lot of time browsing long lists of data from files in Solution Explorer to controls in the Toolbox, errors or warnings in the Error list, menus, bugs, etc. More often than not you know what you want but finding it in the list can be ...

Improving developer productivity with Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview

October 6, 2011 Oct 6, 2011 10/6/11
Visual Studio Blog
One of the things we’ve been doing in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (VS11) is focusing on ways to increase developer productivity and improve the performance of VS. Through careful observation of developers using Visual Studio and through talking to developers, we learned that one of the ways we could improve developer productivity ...

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Survey

October 3, 2011 Oct 3, 2011 10/3/11
Lisa Feigenbaum
Have you had a chance to play around with the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview? If so, we’d like to hear your early impressions, particularly around performance, reliability, and quality. Let us know what you think by taking the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview survey.Thanks!Doug Turnure – Visual Studio Program Manager...

Private Extension Galleries for the Enterprise

October 3, 2011 Oct 3, 2011 10/3/11
Visual Studio Blog
In Visual Studio 2010, we introduced a feature called the Extension Manager – a new dialog that connects to the Microsoft Visual Studio Gallery to help a customer easily select and install extensions to Visual Studio from right inside the IDE. (image)   Since then, enterprise customers have frequently asked us to provide a way for...

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Quick Launch

September 27, 2011 Sep 27, 2011 09/27/11
Visual Studio Blog
In the past, finding things deep in the IDE has been a challenge. Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview introduces search abilities at almost every level of the product. Perhaps the biggest change is the introduction of Quick Launch which specifically addresses how to dig inside Visual Studio to find features you need. Let’s take a look. ...

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Find & Replace

September 22, 2011 Sep 22, 2011 09/22/11
Visual Studio Blog
In Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview we’ve streamlined and modernized our vast array of Find experiences.  Find and Replace is now a lightweight control within documents, delivering incremental search results as you type.  The Find and Replace in Files dialog has been simplified while at the same time gaining additional functionality such...

Visual Studio BUILD sessions and Tips & Tricks Cheat Sheet

September 19, 2011 Sep 19, 2011 09/19/11
Visual Studio Blog
As I settle back into my desk after an exciting week at BUILD, I wanted to send a reminder that all of the sessions should be available for streaming on https://channel9.msdn.com/events/BUILD/BUILD2011.  Since this is a Visual Studio blog, here are links to the main VS sessions at BUILD: For the Tips & Tricks talk, Phil ...

Addressing Visual Studio performance

September 16, 2011 Sep 16, 2011 09/16/11
Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio’s performance continues to be a hot topic for a lot of customers. We hear you and are investing to improve the performance of the product in those areas that are important to you. There are two key parts to our approach: Collecting Customer Feedback We are working to make your feedback less ad hoc and give you a ...

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Announced

September 14, 2011 Sep 14, 2011 09/14/11
Abdullah Hamed
Today in his keynote at BUILD, Jason Zander announced the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview, Microsoft® Visual Studio® 11 Developer Preview and Microsoft® Team Server Preview.  If you are an MSDN subscriber, you can download the preview immediately via this link. For everyone else, Visual Studio 11 and Team ...