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15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio Blog June 5, 2010 Jun 5, 2010 06/5/10

The sunset in Seattle was spectacular this evening. My wife and I climbed the water tower in Volunteer Park to look across the Sound as the sun dipped behind the Olympic mountains and, in the space of a few minutes, the sky turned from blue to orange and pink. We both agreed that the Emerald City and its surroundings can be breathtakingly ...

Walkthrough– Publishing an Extensibility Web Control Project Template (Part 2 of 2)

Visual Studio Blog June 1, 2010 Jun 1, 2010 06/1/10

Introduction In Walkthrough-- Publishing a Custom Web Control (Part 1 of 2) you learned to create and publish a custom web control. You created the extensibility project manually, a procedure with many steps. Now that you have an extensibility project template, you can publish it to the Visual Studio gallery. Anyone who wants to create and ...

Visual Studio Managed Multi-Targeting: Part 2: Multi-Targeting in Action

Visual Studio Blog May 25, 2010 May 25, 2010 05/25/10

Now that we have gone through some key concepts in the previous part in this series, before we go any further in terms of detailed technical concepts, it would be nice to have some “mental visual model” of how multi-targeting impacts almost all project related scenarios in Visual Studio 2010 and thus benefits the users. Scott ...

Walkthrough– Publishing a Custom Web Control (Part 1 of 2)

Visual Studio Blog May 25, 2010 May 25, 2010 05/25/10

The Visual Studio 2010 SDK adds several project templates to Visual Studio that let you create and share custom controls. These are called extensibility projects. In addition to compiling the control, the extensibility project prepares it for publication by incorporating it into a VSIX extension. A VSIX control extension can be shared by ...

Visual Studio Managed Multi-Targeting: Part 1: Concepts: Target Framework Moniker, Target Framework

Visual Studio Blog May 19, 2010 May 19, 2010 05/19/10

In prior versions of Visual Studio, before Visual Studio 2010, the projects could only target .NET Framework versions v2.0, v3.0 and v3.5 therefore it was, mostly, sufficient to identify a framework only with its version. This is changing with Visual Studio 2010 – now projects will be able to target not only current versions of the .NET ...

Three New Managed Package Framework features for Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio Blog May 16, 2010 May 16, 2010 05/16/10

This post describes three new features that have been added to the Managed Package Framework (MPF) version 10.0 in Visual Studio 2010. These features are available to anyone developing extensions in managed code for Visual Studio 2010. To get started building extensions for Visual Studio, start by visiting the Visual Studio Extensibility ...

A guide to .vcxproj and .props file structure

Visual Studio Blog May 14, 2010 May 14, 2010 05/14/10

If you inspect the contents of a .vcxproj file (the new VC++ project file format in VS2010) in notepad or in VS editor (by first unloading the project and then choosing "Edit Foo.vcxproj" from the context menu in Solution Explorer), you will see that the various top-level MSBuild elements are laid out in a particular order. Go ahead and...

Announcing: Collapse Selection in Solution Explorer extension

Visual Studio Blog May 13, 2010 May 13, 2010 05/13/10

We have received much feedback asking for a feature that would recursively collapse nodes in the solution explorer. We are happy to announce the Collapse Selection in Solution Explorer extension! What is the Collapse Selection in Solution Explorer extension? Many Visual Studio users have a solution tree structure with multiple projects and ...

Assembly Resolution in MSBuild and Visual Studio Series Introduction

Visual Studio Blog May 11, 2010 May 11, 2010 05/11/10

Assembly references are an integral part of build process. When the assembly references passed to the compiler are correct everything works but when they are not projects stop building. When this happens It can be frustrating to try and figure out why a reference was resolved from one location rather than another thereby causing the ...

Building on Cross targeting scenarios and 64-bit MSBuild

Visual Studio Blog May 7, 2010 May 7, 2010 05/7/10

UPDATE: Most issues around MSBuild support for cross-bitness and 64-bit builds are fixed in .NET 4.5. As always, feedback is welcome! Please leave your comments in this blog post and report any bugs on Microsoft Connect. During the Visual Studio 2010 development cycle a push to make the build experience better on Cross compilation ...

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