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Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:35 PM

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. Quick and easy buying of extensions for making you more productive inside Visual Studio. If you’ve already given your iPhone or Android device some love, there is no excuse to share some of that...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010 5:47 PM

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. If you care about the details of how this little beautiful thing is implemented, here are some...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010 11:37 AM

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...
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:02 AM

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...
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Monday, August 23, 2010 9:47 AM

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! Some of the more popular submissions...
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Friday, May 22, 2009 5:39 PM

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...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:01 AM

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. While other features of Visual Studio 2010 are not mentioned nor...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:10 PM

My Favorite Error Message from Visual Studio 2010 CTP

I swear I wasn't doing anything against the law when I got this nice error dialog:     Looks like the pBuffer variable is important enough inside VS as to get its own dialog! :-)
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:49 PM

Entity Framework to adopt T4 for code generation in v2

Yesterday the Entity Framework team announced at PDC08 that they will based all their code generation on the Microsoft built-in T4 technology. This is great news as it will allow deeply customization of the generated code. If you're new to T4 you should...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:01 PM

The New Visual Studio 2010 Code Editor

As you may have already heard Visual Studio 2010 will include a *new* code editor completely *rewritten* in fully managed code and based on *WPF*. Yaay!. Very, very promising stuff. I just fired up the bits I received at the PDC08 and went Help->About...
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