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Visual Studio Start Page: Through the ages

October 2, 2013 Oct 2, 2013 10/2/13
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When we started planning the first truly integrated version of Visual Studio (prior to that Visual Studio was predominantly a collection of tools boxed together) we wanted to help developers get started with the new version. To do this we introduce a common start page for Visual Studio. Visual Studio.NET (image) Figure 1 Visual...

Designing pixel perfect layouts in Visual Studio 2013 and Blend

September 18, 2013 Sep 18, 2013 09/18/13
Visual Studio Blog
It’s a familiar scenario. You’re developing your application and you’ve got a design in mind. It may have come from a professional designer or a sketch on the back of a cocktail napkin, but you need to move from a concept to a working, implemented design. This can be easier said than done. When your design calls for the baseline of ...

Supercharged Styling: Quickly Finding and Setting a CSS Property in Blend

September 12, 2013 Sep 12, 2013 09/12/13
Visual Studio Blog
A core goal of Blend for Visual Studio is to make it fast and easy for developers who care about the quality of their markup to create professional looking apps. One of the many ways that the HTML Designer in Blend can speed up the CSS editing experience when developing Windows Store apps is by providing immediate visual feedback and enabling ...

What’s new for HTML Developers in Blend for Visual Studio 2013

September 3, 2013 Sep 3, 2013 09/3/13
Visual Studio Blog
At Windows’ Build conference in June, we introduced Visual Studio and Blend 2013 Preview to the world. With this release, we significantly expanded Visual Studio’s support for creating Window Store Apps using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. In addition to the client-side diagnostics and debugging tools found in Visual Studio, Blend also ...

Visual Studio 2013 Diagnostics Investments

July 18, 2013 Jul 18, 2013 07/18/13
Daniel Moth
this post, and the posts it links to have been updated for VS 2013 RTM - enjoy! Hi, I am Daniel Moth, a Program Manager in Visual Studio. I don’t know about you, but I usually spend more time (and more fun time in fact!) in the debugger than I do in actually constructing my app. Perhaps that is the reason I also work on the Visual Studio...

Overview of Related Files in Blend

July 12, 2013 Jul 12, 2013 07/12/13
Visual Studio Blog
Related Files is a feature available in both Blend for Visual Studio 2012 and Blend for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. In this post, I’ll describe how this feature works and how to make the best of it when designing your Windows Store app in HTML. When you are performing styling-related tasks in an HTML document, it is common (if not, ...

Productivity Power Tools 2012

November 7, 2012 Nov 7, 2012 11/7/12
Visual Studio Blog
By popular request, the new version of the Productivity Power Tools has arrived for Visual Studio 2012! These tools are the fruit of a few passionate engineers on the Visual Studio team that love sharing the power of Visual Studio with customers. The Productivity Power Tools are one of the top gallery extensions for Visual Studio 2010. With ...

A World of Samples at your Fingertips

June 11, 2012 Jun 11, 2012 06/11/12
Visual Studio Blog
Samples are the primary way that we as developers learn to develop applications for a new platform. We use samples as a starting point to learn about new APIs, we reference them when we hit bugs in our own code and need a comparison, and we share them for others to learn from our discoveries. If a picture is worth a thousand words then a ...

Visual Studio Dark Theme

May 29, 2012 May 29, 2012 05/29/12
Visual Studio Blog
As we’re closing in on the final designs for Visual Studio 11 I want to thank you again for your feedback. I want to pass along that we are still internalizing your feedback and actively working on the next Visual Studio 11 milestones. The purpose of this post is to follow up on a common request relating to the earlier RC preview post. ...