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Add References Faster with the new Add Reference Dialog in the Productivity Power Tools

June 21, 2010 Jun 21, 2010 06/21/10
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Two weeks ago, we launched the Productivity Power Tools at TechEd North America and the response has been great with over 37000 downloads so far!  Many of you also may have noticed that an updated version of the Power Tools was released last week.  This update fixed an issue where the extension update check would fail on machines ...

Document Well 2010 Plus: Hidden Options

June 21, 2010 Jun 21, 2010 06/21/10
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[Update 7/20/2010]: Updated changes made for version 10.0.10710.22 of the Pro Power Tools. Please take a look at the changelog. A couple of posts ago I announced the availability of Document Well 2010 Plus as part of the Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools. Since then we have received lots of feedback about our extension, for which I am ...

VSIX Best Practices

June 9, 2010 Jun 9, 2010 06/9/10
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This post is about a new way to install extensions to Visual Studio, introduced in VS 2010, called the VSIX file. The information it contains will be of most interest to readers who develop Visual Studio extensions, but I encourage users who download and install those extensions to read it as well. A VSIX file conforms to the ECMA Open ...

Walkthrough– Publishing an Extensibility Web Control Project Template (Part 2 of 2)

June 1, 2010 Jun 1, 2010 06/1/10
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Introduction In Walkthrough-- Publishing a Custom Web Control (Part 1 of 2) you learned to create and publish a custom web control. You created the extensibility project manually, a procedure with many steps. Now that you have an extensibility project template, you can publish it to the Visual Studio gallery. Anyone who wants to create and ...

Programmatically adding/removing/querying VC++ Build Customizations

May 25, 2010 May 25, 2010 05/25/10
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Build Customizations (Custom Build Rules in earlier editions) are commonly used for invoking external tools that translate files from one format to the other, often resulting in C++ sources that can be compiled at the C++ compilation step. In this post, I will explain how to programmatically add, remove,  and query for Build Customizations ...

Excuse the Mess While We Move

May 25, 2010 May 25, 2010 05/25/10
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You may have noticed that The Visual Studio Blog looks a bit different than it did last week.  Yesterday, the folks that run http://blogs.msdn.com completed the much-needed blog platform upgrade to Telligent Community 5.5.  As with most major upgrades, there were a few hitches and bugs that are still being addressed. The new URL for the ...