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Feb 22, 2011
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Productivity Power Tools introduces Find, Organize Imports for VB, Enhanced Scrollbar, Middle-Click Scrolling and more!

Abdullah Hamed
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 Productivit...

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Feb 7, 2011
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8-part Async series by Eric Lippert

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

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/ericlippert/archiv...

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Jan 5, 2011
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Second edition of the MSBuild and Team Foundation Build book released

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

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 reviewed by the product team. If you need a reference to Team Build or MSBuild, you should get it. -- Dan, VS Solution/Project/Build dev lead Update: Here's a link to t...

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Dec 21, 2010
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Incorrect solution build ordering when using MSBuild.exe

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

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 the 4...

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Sep 8, 2010
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Introducing the VSPackage Builder

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

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 Studio ...

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Aug 3, 2010
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Quick Access Extension

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

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: ...

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Jul 29, 2010
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Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Start Page – Part 2

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

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 topics: ...

C#XAML
Jul 29, 2010
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Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Start Page – Part 1

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

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 Experi...

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Jul 20, 2010
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Announcing the Solution Navigator

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

We are very excited to announce the first release of Solution Navigator, a new tool that merges functionality from Solution Explorer, Class View, Object Browser, Call Hierarchy, Navigate To, and Find Symbol References into a single view. This view can be surfaced as a tool window or, for C# and VB, an interactive tooltip. The Solution Navigator ...

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Jul 18, 2010
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New Version of the Productivity Power Tools is Available!

Abdullah Hamed
Abdullah Hamed

I am pleased to announce that we have an updated version of the Productivity Power Tools.  With this release, we've introduced 4 brand new extensions and we've fixed many of the bugs that were reported in the previous version.  If you have the Productivity Power Tools installed already, you will get a notification that a new version is available th...

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