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WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 1 : Introduction

February 16, 2010 Feb 16, 2010 02/16/10
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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 know ...

What is the difference between “dynamic” and “object” keywords?

January 25, 2010 Jan 25, 2010 01/25/10
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Let’s take a quick look at the object keyword first. I’m not going to talk a lot about it because it’s been around since C# 1.0. This keyword is nothing more than a shortcut for System.Object, which is the root type in the C# class hierarchy. (However, as Eric Lippert pointed out in his blog post, not everything in C# derives from object...

What is the difference between “dynamic” and “object” keywords?

January 25, 2010 Jan 25, 2010 01/25/10
Visual Studio Blog
Let’s take a quick look at the object keyword first. I’m not going to talk a lot about it because it’s been around since C# 1.0. This keyword is nothing more than a shortcut for System.Object, which is the root type in the C# class hierarchy. (However, as Eric Lippert pointed out in his blog post, not everything in C# derives...

Building and publishing an extension for Visual Studio 2010

December 9, 2009 Dec 9, 2009 12/9/09
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Quan To – Program Manager, Visual Studio Platform Team Short Bio: Quan is responsible for the Extension Manager and Visual Studio SDK.  Quan has been with Microsoft for over ten years and has also spent time working on the Tablet PC Team and the Visual Studio Deployment team. Visual Studio 2010 supports more platforms and ...

How to Fix “The application cannot start” Error

October 28, 2009 Oct 28, 2009 10/28/09
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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

October 28, 2009 Oct 28, 2009 10/28/09
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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 ...