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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. In particular, Package Builder makes it easy to add commands and UI to the VSCT incrementally – a task that’s proven somewhat ...

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 ...

Introducing the VSPackage Builder

September 8, 2010 Sep 8, 2010 09/8/10

Visual Studio Blog

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 infrastructure of VS 2010 extensions. VSPackage Builder requires VS 2010 Pro or above, and can be installed directly from within VS using the Extension Manager, or indirectly from the Visual ...

Emacs Emulation Extension Now Available!

September 1, 2010 Sep 1, 2010 09/1/10

Visual Studio Blog

We are pleased to announce the availability of Emacs Emulation as a free extension for Visual Studio 2010!  This extension provides basic support for Emacs keybindings and text editing commands, very similar to the built-in Emacs keyboard layout in VS 2008.  Once the extension is installed you should be able to use familiar keyboard ...

Patch Available for the Growing Find and Replace Dialog

August 12, 2010 Aug 12, 2010 08/12/10

Visual Studio Blog

 One of our top reported Microsoft Connect issues since RTM has been that the Find and Replace dialog grows 16px on each use.  On repeated use, this can quickly take up your entire screen real estate.  We now have a patch available for this issue which you can download here.If you have any additional questions, feel free to ...

Quick Access Extension

August 3, 2010 Aug 3, 2010 08/3/10

Visual Studio Blog

With last week’s release of the Productivity Power Tools, we announced a new extension – Quick Access – that allows you to search and execute common tasks within the Visual Studio IDE.  You can launch Quick Access by pressing Ctrl+3, or by selecting View->Quick Access. Quick Access will allow you to search and execute: Menu ...

Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Start Page – Part 2

July 29, 2010 Jul 29, 2010 07/29/10

Visual Studio Blog

This is the second of a two part walkthrough on creating a personalized version of the Start Page which enables users to change a background image. This post builds on the project we created previously. If you have not already done so, I recommend going through part one of the walkthrough before continuing on. We will cover the following ...

Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Start Page – Part 1

July 29, 2010 Jul 29, 2010 07/29/10

Visual Studio Blog

One of the coolest features of Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to customize the new WPF based Start Page. We have released a project template for creating pages, using the Visual Studio 2010 default page as a starting point. In the next two posts I’m going to walk through the process of creating a new page, testing the page using the VS...