Tag : C#

Second edition of the MSBuild and Team Foundation Build book released

January 5, 2011 Jan 5, 2011 01/5/11

Visual Studio Blog

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Announcing the Solution Navigator

July 20, 2010 Jul 20, 2010 07/20/10

Visual Studio Blog

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 ...

New Version of the Productivity Power Tools is Available!

July 18, 2010 Jul 18, 2010 07/18/10

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 ...

Debugging MSBuild script with Visual Studio (2)

July 8, 2010 Jul 8, 2010 07/8/10

Visual Studio Blog

In my previous post, I showed how to enable the hidden Visual Studio debugger for MSBuild script, and demonstrated it by stepping through the evaluation of a C# project. In this post, I'll keep debugging into the actual build of that project. Note that this blog is rather narrow, so some of the screenshots may be hard to see – you can click...

Debugging MSBuild script with Visual Studio

July 6, 2010 Jul 6, 2010 07/6/10

Visual Studio Blog

Back when we started 4.0 development, I polled readers of the MSBuild blog to find out what features were most important to them. Debugging was #1 which was very surprising to us. Thinking about it more, it makes sense. In our team we've become so proficient ourselves at reading the XML and making sense of logs that it's easy to forget how ...