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How to read/write the new Visual C++ project properties

January 14, 2010 Jan 14, 2010 01/14/10

Andrew Arnott

Visual C++ 2010 introduces several new project and tool properties, and deprecates some old ones. If you’re writing a project template or Visual Studio extension that needs to programmatically read and write the new properties, you will find that these properties are not available on the standard VCConfiguration, VCCLCompilerTool, etc. set...

Searching and Navigating Code in Visual Studio 2010

January 13, 2010 Jan 13, 2010 01/13/10

Visual Studio Blog

Every developer knows that navigating code is vital to happy and productive coding. We’ve added several new features for code search and navigation in Visual Studio 2010, including Navigate To and an improved Call Hierarchy, to complement search staples like the Find and Replace dialog and Incremental Search. With such a wide variety of ...

Tips and Tricks: Zooming in the VS 2010 Editor

January 7, 2010 Jan 7, 2010 01/7/10

Visual Studio Blog

You probably know that Visual Studio has an option to change your text size, but did you know you can also zoom the editor in VS 2010? Ctrl+mouse wheel zooming has been available since the first Visual Studio 2010 CTP, but we’ve finished it by adding a zoom control and key bindings in Beta 2. Check out this video we’ve created to ...

Getting Information About Objects, Types, and Members with Expression Trees

January 6, 2010 Jan 6, 2010 01/6/10

Visual Studio Blog

Starting with C# 3.0 and Visual Studio 2008, you can use expression trees to get information about objects, types, and members. In this post I’m going to show some examples and explain what benefits you can get by using this technique. If you are not familiar with expression trees, I would recommend reading Charlie Calvert’s blog post ...

Product registration for the About Box in Visual Studio 2010 and the deprecation of IVsInstalledProduct interface

January 5, 2010 Jan 5, 2010 01/5/10

Visual Studio Blog

In this article I’ll talk about the information that needs to be specified by a product integrating with Visual Studio to make that product appear in the About box dialog, and the changes to these settings for Visual Studio 2010. You are probably familiar by now with the layout of the Visual Studio’s About Box dialog. Beside listing&...

Changing Visual Studio’s Color Palette

January 4, 2010 Jan 4, 2010 01/4/10

Visual Studio Blog

[Update 2/9/2010] The RC version of the extension is now available (using the same link). Users who installed this extension for Beta 2 and customized the theme for VS2010 Beta 2 : If you have installed VS2010 RC on the same computer, you may experience a "rainbow colored" VS. To remedy this problem, please do one of the ...

Changing Visual Studio’s Color Palette

January 4, 2010 Jan 4, 2010 01/4/10

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Codecast interviews about the Editor and Extensibility

December 19, 2009 Dec 19, 2009 12/19/09

Visual Studio Blog

Happy holidays everyone! Chris Granger and I met up with Ken Levy the other day to talk about the new Editor and VS Extensibility. Ken is responsible for the code cast interviews at code magazine. Chris and I sat down with Ken to discuss the Editor, the SDK, the Extension Manager, VSIX and some of the cool new things we’...

What’s A PkgDef? And Why?

December 18, 2009 Dec 18, 2009 12/18/09

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A .pkgdef file is way to encapsulate application configuration information in an easily editable, distributable, and deployable form. It was introduced in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to support the configuration of Isolated Shell applications. In Visual Studio 2010, .pkgdef files take on a more expanded role and are much more integrated into both ...

What’s A PkgDef? And Why?

December 18, 2009 Dec 18, 2009 12/18/09

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