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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...
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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...
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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...
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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. We’ve been working hard during the past several months on extending...

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...

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! :-)

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...

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...

Wishing for dev10: Get rid of PLK, SLK, DLK and anything ?LK

Today one very annoying thing you've to do when you want to deploy your Visual Studio Package extension is to get a PLK or "Package Load Key" from Microsoft. This is a painful process which can be divided into two equally painful parts: Pain...

Infacta & GroupMail: They Suck Big Time

I wanted to post this to alert other people about this company. I brought GroupMail Business Edition for $299 several months ago, it was version v5.2.0.54 then. I never got a chance to use it until now, so I headed to the Infacta website to download the...
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