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WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 : Performance tuning

Visual Studio Blog March 1, 2010 Mar 1, 2010 03/1/10

This post, the second in a series of articles on Visual Studio 2010’s use of WPF, covers tips and techniques for optimizing performance of WPF applications, and also several areas where we needed to tune Visual Studio 2010 in order to squeeze the best out of WPF. The first post in the series covered the motivation for selecting WPF and ...

Troubleshooting Extensions with the Activity Log

Visual Studio Blog February 24, 2010 Feb 24, 2010 02/24/10

One of the most powerful tools for troubleshooting issues that involve Visual Studio extensions is often overlooked, even though it has been around for quite some time (since VS 2005). Anyone wondering what Visual Studio is doing with their VS Package, Extension, MEF Component, or pkgdef file should ask the IDE for an activity log. In ...

WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 1 : Introduction

Visual Studio Blog February 16, 2010 Feb 16, 2010 02/16/10

This is the first part in a seven part series. Links to the other parts are included at the bottom of this post. Now that the Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2010 is publicly available, we’ve started receiving questions from inquisitive users about how Visual Studio 2010 itself was built. In particular, one questioner wanted to ...

Debugging Expression Trees in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio Blog November 19, 2009 Nov 19, 2009 11/19/09

First of all, let’s take a look at the example from one of my previous posts. It creates an expression tree for calculating the factorial of a number. Now, what if you want to see the content of this tree in debug mode? You can try lambda.ToString() but it’s not very informative. All you get is this: value => {var result; … }. ...

How to Fix “The application cannot start” Error

Visual Studio Blog October 28, 2009 Oct 28, 2009 10/28/09

Weston Hutchins – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2005 and have been working in Visual Studio ever since. I’m currently a PM on the VS Shell Team. No, not the “Isolated” or “Integrated” Shell, but the core VS IDE – it’s UI and services. Prior to my ...

How to Fix “The application cannot start” Error

Visual Studio Blog October 28, 2009 Oct 28, 2009 10/28/09

Visual Studio Sessions at PDC ‘09

Visual Studio Blog October 25, 2009 Oct 25, 2009 10/25/09

The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this year is in Los Angeles from November 17th to 19th. The PDC is an opportunity to mingle with architects and developers from the software industry and to listen to the leaders, heroes and legends from Microsoft and its industry partners. As well as workshops and training sessions, there are hands...

Visual Studio Sessions at PDC ‘09

Visual Studio Blog October 25, 2009 Oct 25, 2009 10/25/09

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WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 : Performance tuning

Troubleshooting Extensions with the Activity Log

WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 1 : Introduction

Debugging Expression Trees in Visual Studio 2010

How to Fix “The application cannot start” Error

How to Fix “The application cannot start” Error

Visual Studio Sessions at PDC ‘09

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