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Mar 15, 2010
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WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 4 : Direct Hosting of WPF content

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

This 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. Frames and Panes In the Visual Studio extensibility model, the client area of a window is called a “pane” and it is ...

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Mar 14, 2010
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Visual Studio 2010 Text Clarity: ClearType Options

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Visual Studio Team

Text 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, whether the comments are completely justified or not, there’s always some nugget of customer di...

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Mar 11, 2010
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WPF Text Clarity Improvements

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

As 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.  Unfortunately, the WPF text team has been plagued with ...

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Mar 8, 2010
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WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 : Focus and Activation

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

  Continuing the WPF in Visual Studio 2010 series, today’s post is on the subject of “Focus and Activation”. Of all the problems we had to deal with in the new WPF UI, this was probably the most tricky to get right. Focus problems are notoriously hard to debug, partly because interacting with the debugger moves focus again. (Tip: Using a re...

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Mar 1, 2010
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WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 : Performance tuning

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

This post, the second in a series of articles on Visual Studio 2010’s use of WPF, covers tips and techniques for optimizing performance of WPF applications, and also several areas where we needed to tune Visual Studio 2010 in order to squeeze the best out of WPF. The first post in the series covered the motivation for selecting WPF and some of the ...

Debugging and DiagnosticsC#XAML
Feb 16, 2010
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WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 1 : Introduction

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

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 if we we...

Debugging and DiagnosticsC#XAML
Jan 4, 2010
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Changing Visual Studio’s Color Palette

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

[Update 2/9/2010] The RC version of the extension is now available (using the same link).  Users who installed this extension for Beta 2 and customized the theme for VS2010 Beta 2 : If you have installed VS2010 RC on the same computer, you may experience a "rainbow colored" VS.  To remedy this problem, please do one of the following:...

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Jan 4, 2010
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Changing Visual Studio’s Color Palette

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

[Update 2/9/2010] The RC version of the extension is now available (using the same link).  Users who installed this extension for Beta 2 and customized the theme for VS2010 Beta 2 : If you have installed VS2010 RC on the same computer, you may experience a "rainbow colored" VS.  To remedy this problem, please do one of the following:...

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Nov 23, 2009
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What's new for editor extenders in Beta 2?

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

Noah Richards – Developer, Visual Studio Editor Team Short Bio:  Noah has been working on the Visual Studio Editor team since he graduated college two and a half years ago.  He maintains a blog, posts sample code for editor extensions, and frequently answers editor-related questions on Twitter. Editor’s Note:  This post was origina...

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Nov 23, 2009
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What’s new for editor extenders in Beta 2?

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

Noah Richards – Developer, Visual Studio Editor Team Short Bio:  Noah has been working on the Visual Studio Editor team since he graduated college two and a half years ago.  He maintains a blog, posts sample code for editor extensions, and frequently answers editor-related questions on Twitter. Editor’s Note:  This post was origina...

ASP.NETC#Visual Studio 2010