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March 7, 2019Mar 7, 201903/7/19Today we’d like to announce an upcoming free live streaming workshop on March 14th, 2019 focused on Windows Desktop development for .NET applications using frameworks such as WPF, WinForms and UWP.
December 8, 2015Dec 8, 201512/8/15During Connect(); //2015 we showcased many technologies available to you as a developer across Azure, Office, Windows, Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services. We’ve also heard from you that you love to have real-world applications through which you can directly experience what’s possible using those technologies.
October 29, 2015Oct 29, 201510/29/15Today we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC, which builds on the Update 1 CTP we released three weeks ago. In addition to the features introduced in the CTP as described here, the Release Candidate includes the following:
Go To Implementation.
March 20, 2015Mar 20, 201503/20/15It’s been a busy week for the .NET teams here at Microsoft. We’ve just concluded our two day, live, free, dotnetConf 2015 event, with 19 sessions from both our product teams and community presenters. If you missed it, don’t worry. You can watch all the videos on-demand over at the dotnetConf 2015 Channel 9 page.
April 6, 2010Apr 6, 201004/6/10This is the final part in the WPF in Visual Studio 2010 series.
Reflections on the Series
One of the aims of this series was to give a deeper look into collaboration the Visual Studio and WPF teams undertook during this release,
March 30, 2010Mar 30, 201003/30/10This is the sixth article in the WPF in Visual Studio 2010 series. This week, guest author Phil Price gives us his view of what it took to test the new WPF UI. – Paul Harrington
Background
This post covers an overview of techniques that we used to create and maintain automated user interface regression tests for Visual Studio.
March 22, 2010Mar 22, 201003/22/10This is the fifth article in the WPF in Visual Studio 2010 series. This week, guest author Matthew Johnson presents a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Visual Studio’s innovative window management system. – Paul Harrington
Background
Several people have expressed interest in how much effort was required to write a WPF window management system that supports docking and undocking windows,
March 15, 2010Mar 15, 201003/15/10This is the fourth part in the series of posts on Visual Studio 2010’s use of WPF. This week, we’ll take a look at how Visual Studio 2010 detects and hosts WPF content ‘natively’ while at the same time allowing for non-WPF content.
March 14, 2010Mar 14, 201003/14/10Text clarity in Visual Studio 2010 has been a hot topic throughout the product cycle. Each time we talk or write about it, we seem to invite yet another round comments, some of them quite emotionally charged. We take such feedback very seriously because,
March 11, 2010Mar 11, 201003/11/10As most of you know, we’ve rebuilt the editor and much of Visual Studio using WPF for Visual Studio 2010. This allows for a wealth of new visualizations and enables many new extensibility scenarios, often making previously impossible tasks possible and previously difficult tasks much easier.
