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Second edition of the MSBuild and Team Foundation Build book released
Not many books that are reviewed like this on Amazon: Now the heavily augmented second edition has just come out, written by several people at Microsoft and ...
Incorrect solution build ordering when using MSBuild.exe
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 ...
Color Printing Extension Now Available!
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 ...
Using Visual Studio to build VB Windows Phone Applications
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 ...
Second article published about VSPackage Builder
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 ...
Hotfixes available for ‘scrolling context menu’ problem
We’ve been looking into the widely-reported problem with Visual Studio 2010 where context menus contain scrollbars even when there is sufficient ...
Visual Studio 2010 Survey
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 ...
Extension Analyzer V3
Extension Analyzer is an Extension to Visual Studio 2010 that allows browsing several extensibility entities inside of Visual Studio. It also allows diagnosing ...
Introducing the VSPackage Builder
Last week we released the first version of a new project template, VSPackage Builder, which enables rapid development of the command UI and tool window ...