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Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

March 28, 2012 Mar 28, 2012 03/28/12
Visual Studio Blog
About two years ago we wrote a blog post entitled Why does Visual Studio 2010 convert my projects? One of the strong pieces of feedback we received was that you wanted to be able to work on your projects using both the current and previous version of VS. We are delighted to announce that Visual Studio 11 will allow you to easily round-trip ...

Visual Studio 11 Beta Available Now!

February 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012 02/28/12
Visual Studio Blog
Today, we're excited to announce that Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available for download. Back in September, we announced the release of Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and detailed the simplification efforts we made across the IDE, integration of the best and most popular features from the Productivity Power Tools and effort to improve...

Give us your feedback on Visual Studio 11 etc. and receive a gift!

January 4, 2012 Jan 4, 2012 01/4/12
Visual Studio Blog
The Microsoft Visual Studio Design Research Team is looking for participants to give us direct feedback on our development tools, languages and libraries!  Opportunities include usability studies of upcoming features, focus groups where we explore new ideas, as well as 1:1 interviews.What do you get out of it?When you are selected to ...

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 ...

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Find & Replace

September 22, 2011 Sep 22, 2011 09/22/11
Visual Studio Blog
In Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview we’ve streamlined and modernized our vast array of Find experiences.  Find and Replace is now a lightweight control within documents, delivering incremental search results as you type.  The Find and Replace in Files dialog has been simplified while at the same time gaining additional functionality such...

Visual Studio BUILD sessions and Tips & Tricks Cheat Sheet

September 19, 2011 Sep 19, 2011 09/19/11
Visual Studio Blog
As I settle back into my desk after an exciting week at BUILD, I wanted to send a reminder that all of the sessions should be available for streaming on https://channel9.msdn.com/events/BUILD/BUILD2011.  Since this is a Visual Studio blog, here are links to the main VS sessions at BUILD: For the Tips & Tricks talk, Phil ...

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Announced

September 14, 2011 Sep 14, 2011 09/14/11
Abdullah Hamed
Today in his keynote at BUILD, Jason Zander announced the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview, Microsoft® Visual Studio® 11 Developer Preview and Microsoft® Team Server Preview.  If you are an MSDN subscriber, you can download the preview immediately via this link. For everyone else, Visual Studio 11 and Team ...

Build Extensibility with .NET Framework 4

February 18, 2010 Feb 18, 2010 02/18/10
Visual Studio Blog
Introduction With the release of .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 comes MSBuild 4.0. Among the many great features in this version are new mechanisms to allow you (or your build lab) to extend the default build targets files with your own customizations. While some of this functionality did exist in previous versions, it has been made ...