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Async CTP (SP1 Refresh)

April 13, 2011 Apr 13, 2011 04/13/11
Visual Studio Blog
By Robin Reynolds-Haertle This morning, we released an updated version of the Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) that’s compatible with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Windows Phone 7! What Is the Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh)? The Async CTP previews a language feature that is in the next version of Visual Basic and C#. By using ...

List of patches for Visual Studio 2010

April 7, 2011 Apr 7, 2011 04/7/11
Visual Studio Blog
“Where can I find a list of patches/QFEs/hotfixes for Visual Studio?”  This question appears quite frequently in blog comments and it wasn’t until recently that I found a web page that lists all the publically released patches for Visual Studio. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/DownloadsThe majority of the ...

F# Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4.1

April 4, 2011 Apr 4, 2011 04/4/11
Visual Studio Blog
By Jack Hu As the word “code-first” implies, the EF 4.1 offers a code centric data programming paradigm. From a coder’s point of view, it requires little effort to map a very clean object model to a database. This style of programming is idea for explorative, bottom-up kind fsharp programmers. Since EF 4 CTP4 release, there have ...

Quick Find extension in the Productivity Power Tools

March 15, 2011 Mar 15, 2011 03/15/11
Visual Studio Blog
We’re pleased to announce a new Quick Find (Ctrl+F) extension in the February release of the Productivity Power Tools.  This is the first version of the Quick Find extension and we are planning to make some improvements to it in future Power Tools releases, but this blog post describes the reasons for the extension, its functionality, where...

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Now Available

March 11, 2011 Mar 11, 2011 03/11/11
Visual Studio Blog
As of this week, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 is now available for download!  The service pack was released to MSDN subscribers on March 8 and became generally available on March 10.  SP1 includes fixes that improve reliability and address the most commonly-reported customer bugs.  It also adds some of the most requested feature improvements, ...

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 ...