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How to Fix “The application cannot start” Error
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...
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Tips and tricks: Window Management – Aero Snapping
Adrian Collier – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2004 back in the UK and crossed the pond last year to work on Popfly, since then I’ve been...
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Behind the Scenes: The Splash Screen
Paul Harrington– Principal Developer, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: Paul Harrington is a principal software developer on the Visual Studio platform team. He has worked on every version of Visual...
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Customizing Visual Studio 2010
Don’t like where a button is by default? Go ahead and move it. To speed up your workflow, add handy commands to a context menu. To reduce clutter, remove commands that you never use. Yes,...
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Tips and Tricks: Ctrl+E to Search in New Project Dialog and Extension Manager
Here’s a quick tip of the day for anyone who wants to quickly use the new search feature of the New Project Dialog and the Extension Manager. You can press Ctrl+E to quickly set focus to the search...
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Visual Studio First Launch Sequence
With the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate around the corner, I would like to talk briefly about some changes we have made to the first-launch-after-installation sequence. Many of you may...
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CodeCast Interview: VS 2010 Shell with Weston Hutchins
Ken Levy and I sat down last week to chat about the new VS 2010 IDE and some of the great features we’ve added for this release. From the CodeCast site: “In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy...
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WPF in Visual Studio 2010 - Part 1 : Introduction
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...
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Marshal.ReleaseComObject Considered Dangerous
This post describes a problem we encountered and solved during the development of Visual Studio 2010 when we rewrote some components in managed code. In this post I’ll describe the problem and what we...
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WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 : Performance tuning
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...
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WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 : Focus and Activation
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...
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Tips and Tricks: Clipboard Ring and Toolbox Snippets
I was spending some time responding to Connect bugs the other day when I ran across this suggestion:“It would be nice to have a clip board history window that could be next to the control toolbox as a...
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Tips and Tricks: Quickly Closing Documents
In VS 2010, we made a design decision to move the “X” from the right side of the Tab Well to within each tab. Before (VS 2008)After (VS 2010)The majority of feedback around this change was positive,...
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Tips and Tricks: Visual Studio 2010 Image Library
I was in the middle of creating UI mockups for some extensions I’ve been working on and realized that I needed some icons to polish off the sketch. Sure, I could have just grabbed a screenshot of VS,...
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The Latest of Microsoft Office Developer Tools: Office Add-in Commands and...
Office’s message at Build was loud and clear: Office is an open market for developers who want to reinvent productivity, backed by a consumer base of 1.2 billion users. Qi Lu welcomed developers to the...
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News from Xamarin Evolve: What’s next for Visual Studio and Xamarin
Less than a month ago, at //BUILD, we announced the integration of Xamarin technology into our Visual Studio product line, furthering our Any Developer, Any App, Any Platform approach and bringing even...
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New and Noteworthy Extensions for Visual Studio – April 2016
In April the community added another 100 new Visual Studio extensions to the Visual Studio Gallery. To help you enjoy this creativity from the community, every month or two I’ll be introducing some of...
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Visual Studio TACO Update 9
Update 9 of the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) is ready for you! You’ll soon see a notification in Visual Studio to install the update or you can download and install it directly, now....
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Top New from March 2016
Yes, it might seem a bit odd to have a post with “March” in the title now that it’s already May, but it does take a few weeks for the data to show what you’ve all been reading about lately. So with no...
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14 more reasons to download Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 today
If you haven’t downloaded Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 yet, now is a good time to do so. In the latest KB we have addressed some of the top reported problems around performance and reliability. So far,...
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