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Introducing the New Developer Experience, Part #2

February 24, 2012 Feb 24, 2012 02/24/12
Visual Studio Blog
UPDATE: We hear you. There’s a lot of excitement about this release and a lot of passion about colors, designs, styles and icons. Know that we are listening to all your comments here, across social media and we are working hard to make Visual Studio 11 a fast, powerful and feature-rich product. Keep the comments coming, both good and bad. We...

Introducing the New Developer Experience

February 23, 2012 Feb 23, 2012 02/23/12
Visual Studio Blog
UPDATE: We hear you. There’s a lot of excitement about this release and a lot of passion about colors, designs, styles and icons. Know that we are listening to all your comments here, across social media and we are working hard to make Visual Studio 11 a fast, powerful and feature-rich product. Keep the comments coming, both good and bad. We...

Microsoft Windows Simulator Rotation and Resolution Emulation

November 4, 2011 Nov 4, 2011 11/4/11
Visual Studio Blog
The Windows Simulator is a tool provided in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview that helps debugging Metro style applications. Its main purpose is to enable debugging when developers want to test how their applications respond to the new Metro style capabilities without having a device that supports those capabilities. It is implemented as a ...

Debugging Contracts using Windows Simulator

November 1, 2011 Nov 1, 2011 11/1/11
Cathy Sullivan
All of you might be pretty busy discovering what Windows 8 has to offer. Today I will introduce you to debugging Contracts, one of the cool features in Windows 8. It is hard to debug contracts when you are debugging locally because they disappear as soon as the focus is lost. So, as you hit a breakpoint in Visual Studio for your app, the ...

Roslyn Syntax Visualizers

October 19, 2011 Oct 19, 2011 10/19/11
Visual Studio Blog
Hello everyone! As you may have heard, today we announced the first CTP of the Roslyn project! You can visit the Roslyn MSDN Page to learn more about the project and to download the CTP. You can also read more about Roslyn at the following links - In this post I will present a brief overview of two samples that are ...

Improving developer productivity with Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview

October 6, 2011 Oct 6, 2011 10/6/11
Visual Studio Blog
One of the things we’ve been doing in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (VS11) is focusing on ways to increase developer productivity and improve the performance of VS. Through careful observation of developers using Visual Studio and through talking to developers, we learned that one of the ways we could improve developer productivity ...

How we use your PerfWatson data to identify Unresponsive areas

August 24, 2011 Aug 24, 2011 08/24/11
Visual Studio Blog
At the end of April, we released a telemetry system to monitor and report the performance issues that our customers face during their everyday use of the product. To start off, I would like to thank everyone who installed Visual Studio PerfWatson! These reports have provided valuable insight into where you are encountering issues, and have ...

Using Visual Studio to build VB Windows Phone Applications

November 29, 2010 Nov 29, 2010 11/29/10
Visual Studio Blog
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 convenient it is to develop a VB Windows Phone application using the newly released tools. You’ll see that the many new IDE features in Visual Studio 2010, which help you navigate and ...

MSBuild Known Issues

July 15, 2010 Jul 15, 2010 07/15/10
Visual Studio Blog
Since the release of Visual Studio 2010 we have received a few reports of crashing behavior which can be traced back to issues with MSBuild.  We’ve analyzed all of these and there are several particular cases where a crash can occur.  We’ve also added a notification to Windows Error Reporting to help guide those who hit ...