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Oct 19, 2011
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Roslyn Syntax Visualizers

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

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 installe...

.NETDebugging and DiagnosticsC#
Oct 19, 2011
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Introducing the Microsoft “Roslyn” CTP

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

Today we are releasing the first Community Technology Preview of the Roslyn Project! What is Roslyn? In the past, our compilers have acted as black boxes – you put source text in and out the other end comes an assembly. All of that rich knowledge and information that the compiler produces is thrown away and unavailable for anyone else to use. ...

C#ExtensionsVisual Basic
Oct 6, 2011
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Improving developer productivity with Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

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 would...

Debugging and DiagnosticsC#Node.js
May 25, 2011
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TechEd 2011: Visual Studio vNext Sneak Preview

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

In case you missed it, last week at TechEd 2011 in Atlanta, GA, I gave conference attendees a first look at some of the new IDE features and performance improvements we’re working on for the next version of Visual Studio.  Channel9 has posted the session (along with all the other TechEd sessions) so everyone else can now watch the presen...

C#Visual BasicF#
Apr 13, 2011
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Async CTP (SP1 Refresh)

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

By Robin Reynolds-Haertle This morning, we released an updated version of the Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) that’s compatible with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Windows Phone 7! What Is the Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh)? The Async CTP previews a language feature that is in the next version of Visual Basic and C#. By using this fe...

C#Visual BasicVisual Studio 2010
Feb 22, 2011
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Productivity Power Tools introduces Find, Organize Imports for VB, Enhanced Scrollbar, Middle-Click Scrolling and more!

Abdullah Hamed
Abdullah Hamed

Reseting Your Extensions for the Last Time! We've heard a great deal of feedback on how each update of the Productivity Power Tools re-enables all of the extensions when it installs. If you are careful about installing the Power Tools via the extension manager or as long as an instance of Visual Studio is running, this version of the Productivit...

C#HTMLVisual Basic
Feb 7, 2011
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8-part Async series by Eric Lippert

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

For those that haven’t seen it, Eric Lippert finished an amazing 8-part blog series in November on the new Asynchronous Programming APIs slated for the next version of C# and VB.  He shows you how to get started getting started with the CTP and how to determine if async makes sense for your application. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archiv...

C#Visual Basic
Nov 29, 2010
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Using Visual Studio to build VB Windows Phone Applications

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

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 write c...

Debugging and DiagnosticsNode.jsXAML
Apr 16, 2010
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Custom Extension Types with VSIX

Aaron Marten
Aaron Marten

DISCLAIMER: While the following technique is supported in Visual Studio 2010, the interfaces and methods exposed by Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.dll are likely to change in future Visual Studio releases. If you create an extension that relies on Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.dll, there is no guarantee that your extension binary...

C#XAMLVisual Basic
Mar 4, 2010
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Creating and Sharing Project & Item Templates

Aaron Marten
Aaron Marten

One of the great new features we added in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to easily find and consume online Project and Item templates without leaving the New Project/Item dialog. What may not be so obvious is how to go from a piece of code you want to share to a template contained in a VSIX file that can be uploaded to the Visual Studio Gallery ...

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