| 25 Visual Studio Programming Resources |
| Building a Visual Studio Style Tabbed Interface with Caliburn |
| In the application I'm currently working I'm using an interface patten similar to Visual Studio with multiple tabs (work items) open at any one time. Caliburn has some great utiltity baked in for this style of application with their IPresenter Component Model |
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| Create the service model for a Windows Azure virtual machine |
| John Joyner illustrates the steps to create a service model for an Azure VM via Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. This allows you to build the VM roles based on your VHD image. |
| December 6, 2011 |
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| Debugger Canvas released on Devlabs |
| In June 2011, Microsoft released Debugger Canvas on DevLabs, the result of a year-long collaboration between Microsoft Research, the Microsoft Visual Studio product team, and Brown University. Debugger Canvas transforms how software developers use and experience their programming environments. |
| July 11, 2011 |
| Debugging Optimized Code in Visual Studio 11 |
| Executive summary: When using the Windows debugger engine to debug optimized C++ code compiled with Visual Studio 11 you can step into inline functions and see local variables that are stored in CPU registers. |
| October 13, 2011 |
| Developer news: JMeter, qTrace, betabait, Amazon CloudFront |
| Justin James highlights stories about PHP 5.4 RC3, Visual Studio 11 improvements, JetBrain's YouTrack InCloud, asynchronous sockets, and more. |
| December 19, 2011 |
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| Jump-start code comments with GhostDoc |
| GhostDoc is a Visual Studio 2010 add-on that makes creating useful comments as easy as a few button or mouse clicks. |
| November 18, 2011 |
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| Macros Have Been Dropped from Visual Studio 11 |
| As of version 11, macros will no longer be available in Visual Studio. This marks the first version in nearly a decade to not allow for crating ad-hock extensions to the IDE. Fully compiled extensions can still be created and new project templates are included to make that process much easier. |
| October 04, 2011 |
| Maintain code consistency with Microsoft StyleCop |
| A consistent coding standard simplifies the chore of code maintenance. Find out how StyleCop helps make this possible if you’re using C# and Visual Studio 2008/2010. |
| June 24, 2011 |
| Manipulate URIs with Visual Studio .NET's System.URI class |
| Irina Medvinskaya explains how you use Visual Studio .NET's System.URI class to work with Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). This class allows you to represent and easily manipulate a given URI. |
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| Microsoft 'rogue faction' adds better HTML5, JavaScript support to Visual Studio |
| Microsoft has begun delivering some of the additional HTML5 tooling for Visual Studio programmers that company officials said would be coming some time this year. |
| June 16, 2011 |
| Microsoft Charts Future of Visual Studio |
| At its TechEd 2011 keynote on Monday, Microsoft revealed its plans for the next major version of its software development suite, which for now goes by the moniker Visual Studio vNext. The announcements come on the heels of a big year for Visual Studio, which saw a major release just a year ago, followed by four feature packs since then. |
| May 17, 2011 |
| Microsoft delivers Beta 2 of LightSwitch business-app development tool |
| Microsoft is making available for download Beta 2 of its Visual Studio LightSwitch tool, starting March 15. |
| March 15, 2011 |
| Microsoft delivers developer preview of Roslyn compiler as a service |
| Microsoft has made available a test build of its "Roslyn" compiler as a service technology. The final release will be some time after Visual Studio 2012, officials are now confirming. |
| October 19, 2011 |
| Microsoft Delivers Lifecycle Management Roadmap |
| Microsoft officials have announced an updated roadmap for Visual Studio's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) features. |
| May 17, 2011 |
| Microsoft evangelist shows what can be done with company's developer tools |
| Microsoft India's developer evangelist Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu has over the past few years developed a few proof of concept projects to show what can be done with Microsoft's developer tools. He works with student partners and the offline communities on Kinect and Visual Studio based projects. |
| October 21, 2011 |
| Microsoft makes available test build of Python plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 |
| Microsoft has posted to its Codeplex repository site a test build of Python Tools for Visual Studio, a free, open-source plug-in for VS 2010. |
| March 9, 2011 |
| Microsoft poised to launch new Visual Studio debugging tool |
| Microsoft is on the verge of making available for download a new experimental Visual Studio Power Tool, known as the Debugger Canvas, via its Dev Labs site. |
| June 13, 2011 |
| Microsoft rolls out open-source Python extension for Visual Studio |
| Microsoft is making available to Python developers a free, open-source add-on to its Visual Studio suite. |
| August 29, 2011 |
| Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 |
| Update to the Web Project Conversion Wizard. |
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| Microsoft's Roslyn 'compiler as a service' support unlikely to be in Visual Studio 2012 |
| Roslyn, Microsoft’s project to open up the VB and C# compilers to support “compiler as a service” scenarios, looks to be a post-Visual Studio 2012 deliverable. |
| October 05, 2011 |
| Microsoft's Windows Server 8: Taking the cloud to the operating system |
| Microsoft is making available to testers preview versions of its Windows Server 8, Visual Studio 2012 tool suite and other new toolkits this week at the Build developers conference. |
| September 14, 2011 |
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| Preview of Visual Studio 11: New Programming Language Features |
| Each release of the Visual Studio environment typically introduces new features to both its IDE and the programming languages it supports. S. Somasegar, Vice President of Microsoft's Developer Division recently presented some of the new programming language features coming in Visual Studio 11. |
| November 22, 2011 |
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| Script#: Compiling C# to JavaScript using Visual Studio |
| Script#, a C# to JavaScript compiler, brings the power of Visual Studio and .NET Tools to build a productive development model for creating, testing and managing applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript along with popular frameworks such as jQuery. This session provides a hands-on look at using Script#, shares success stories and experiences from real-world use, along with a project road-map. |
| May 13, 2011 |
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| Visual Studio LightSwitch hits the market, but misses its markets |
| Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, Microsoft's new development tool designed for rapid application development (RAD) of line-of-business (LOB) software, has gone on sale, after being released to MSDN subscribers on Tuesday. Priced at $299, the product provides a constrained environment that's purpose-built for producing form-driven, database-backed applications. The applications themselves use Silverlight, for easy deployment on both PCs and Macs, or Azure, Microsoft's cloud service. |
| July 28, 2011 |
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| What if Visual Studio had Achievements? |
| What if Visual Studio supported achievements, just like games on Steam, Xbox or PS3? Bragging to your coworkers about which one you’ve just unlocked, imagine that! Here’s a little proposed list for some of them. .NET / C# flavored, of course. |
| January 20, 2012 |