Contents tagged with VSX
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It’s a Bird… it’s a Plane… No it’s the WoVS DevStore!!
Make sure you don’t miss the Announcing the DevStore! post.
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Inside the "Quick Add Reference” extension
World of VS has just released the “Quick Add Reference” extension which should save you time and give you a much more nicer experience when coding with VS.
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Add and Remove list of references the ultra simple way
When you use VS to initially create a project based on any of the several templates available like Class Library, WPF Application, Web Application, Office Addin and the list goes on, you already get some of the basic ‘must have’ references for your project automatically added thanks to the templating mechanism, i.e. you get PresentationCore.dll et friends added to your project every time you create a WPF-based project.
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Inside the “Default Browser Switcher” extension
You may have already heard of the recently WoVS extension “Default Browser Switcher” (download from Visual Studio Gallery or from Extension Manager inside VS) that helps in choosing what browser you want to launch from VS while debugging your ASP.NET applications.
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36 ideas over the weekend for improving Visual Studio
We released WoVS last friday around mid-day. Since then, that is, only two days later, its Community section has received 36 different ideas for new VS features and improvements to existing ones. THIS IS JUST AMAZING!
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Regex Editor for Visual Studio 2010
If you are playing with the just released Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 you can’t miss the Regex Editor extension which provides syntax coloring, IntelliSense, support for testing the expression as you write it and support for saving it for reuse from another project. It does also include a built-in list of common expressions ready for use.
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Customizing generated code in ASP.NET MVC
Just in case you missed the news, the ASP.NET MVC team is using T4 to generate code (yeah!)
The way they have integrated T4 in their own product is not what we would have expected (they wrote their own T4 host) so we took our Visual T4 Editor and Visual T4 Code Generator bits and added them knowledge about this custom host in order to offer the best possible tooling experience. -
New Blog About Code Generation With T4 in Visual Studio!
While developing the Visual T4 Code Generator edition my team and I are constantly having discussions on how the best code generation tool in earth should look like and also about more “abstract” code generation chores not necessarily related to the product we’re developing.
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Sneak Peek at New Code Generation Tool in Visual Studio
I’m very excited to announce we’ve just made available for testing the alpha bits of our Visual T4 Code Generator edition to existing customers of our Visual T4 Editor Professional edition.
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Extending the Visual Studio 2010 Editor: not exactly a good first impression
I know this is the Visual Studio 2010 *CTP* meaning it's a very early release but still I feel quite a bit disappointed about the experience for developing extensions for the new editor.