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Productivity Power Tools introduces Find, Organize Imports for VB, Enhanced Scrollbar, Middle-Click Scrolling and more!

February 22, 2011 Feb 22, 2011 02/22/11
Abdullah Hamed
Reseting Your Extensions for the Last Time! We've heard a great deal of feedback on how each update of the Productivity Power Tools re-enables all of the extensions when it installs. If you are careful about installing the Power Tools via the extension manager or as long as an instance of Visual Studio is running, this version of the ...

8-part Async series by Eric Lippert

February 7, 2011 Feb 7, 2011 02/7/11
Visual Studio Blog
For those that haven’t seen it, Eric Lippert finished an amazing 8-part blog series in November on the new Asynchronous Programming APIs slated for the next version of C# and VB.  He shows you how to get started getting started with the CTP and how to determine if async makes sense for your application. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/...

Incorrect solution build ordering when using MSBuild.exe

December 21, 2010 Dec 21, 2010 12/21/10
Visual Studio Blog
UPDATE: This issue has been fixed in Visual Studio 11/NETFX45. As always, feedback is welcome! Please leave your comments in this blog post and report any bugs on Microsoft Connect.   We've had a few reports of cases where Visual Studio, and previous versions of MSBuild, will build the projects in the solution in the correct order, but ...

Color Printing Extension Now Available!

November 30, 2010 Nov 30, 2010 11/30/10
Visual Studio Blog
We are pleased to announce the availability of Color Printing as a free extension for Visual Studio 2010!  By default, VS 2010 prints only in black and white; this extension restores support for printing code in color. Installation and Setup Installing Color Printing requires Visual Studio 2010 Pro, Premium, or Ultimate (the Express ...

Using Visual Studio to build VB Windows Phone Applications

November 29, 2010 Nov 29, 2010 11/29/10
Visual Studio Blog
by Yang Xiao Today we are announcing the release to web (RTW) of Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools. This walkthrough demonstrates how easy and convenient it is to develop a VB Windows Phone application using the newly released tools. You’ll see that the many new IDE features in Visual Studio 2010, which help you navigate and ...

Second article published about VSPackage Builder

November 15, 2010 Nov 15, 2010 11/15/10
Visual Studio Blog
In September, there was a post on the blog that introduced the VSPackage Builder, a tool for VS extension developers that provides a designer experience over the Visual Studio Command Table (VSCT) file. (image) In particular, Package Builder makes it easy to add commands and UI to the VSCT incrementally – a task that’s proven ...

Hotfixes available for ‘scrolling context menu’ problem

October 14, 2010 Oct 14, 2010 10/14/10
Matt Kauf
 We’ve been looking into the widely-reported problem with Visual Studio 2010 where context menus contain scrollbars even when there is sufficient screen real estate to show the menu without one. We’re pleased to announce that there are patches available for Visual Studio and Windows Presentation Foundation that fix this ...

Visual Studio 2010 Survey

October 11, 2010 Oct 11, 2010 10/11/10
Visual Studio Blog
We want to hear from you about how Visual Studio 2010 is working for you so far:   "It's been just over 6 months since we launched Visual Studio 2010 in April. I hope you've been busy digging in and taking VS out for a spin. Your feedback was invaluable to us as we were building VS - thank you! It's a great time for us to ...

Extension Analyzer V3

October 1, 2010 Oct 1, 2010 10/1/10
Visual Studio Blog
Extension Analyzer is an Extension to Visual Studio 2010 that allows browsing several extensibility entities inside of Visual Studio. It also allows diagnosing several common errors loading extensions by reporting information from logging services inside Visual Studio. The Extensibility team in Visual Studio has recently added several ...