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If you are an MSDN subscriber, you do not have to wait by August 23, you can immediately download Visual Studio LightSwitch from MSDN. Click the Downloads and Product Keys link and select New Downloads | Visual Studio 2010. At the top of the list you will find LightSwitch Beta 1 (Both ISO and Web install...
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It was a long time ago when I posted the last article of the LearnVSXNow! series, because I was busy with several projects including two books. In the recent days I have spent a lot of time examining the new Visual Studio 2010 editor from extensibility point of view. I needed to embed an editor into...
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This page contains the code samples of the Visual Studio 2010 Package Development Fundamentals book. The book is about to be published in August, 2010. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility Overview Chapter 2: Visual Studio Packages...
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Here is the second chapter from my forthcoming book about Visual Studio 2010 Package Development. I hope, you will find this chapters as useful as the first one. Almost all packages are created to allow the user interact with through the corresponding user interface. This interaction generally means...
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I have spent a lot of time with preparing a book about Visual Studio Extensibility, focusing on Visual Studio Package Development. I have made proposals for several book publishers, but I did not manage to get a contract, most of them found such a book is not profitable. I decided to share the four chapters...
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I really like the new sexy design of MSDN and Visual Studio, both colors and form. The new logo suggests me that now Visual Studio is not a tool that roughly integrates separate development assets but rather a really integrated and uniform development tool for .NET. There are places where the logo is...
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<Part1 [Quan] Istvan is now going to show you how to create an extension and how to publish it to the Visual Studio gallery. [Istvan] In this demo I will create a simple package with a Nice Tool Window. I have installed Visual Studio SDK on my machine, and now I create this package using a Visual...
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Visual Studio extensibility developers know that VSPackages are load on-demand. The IDE loads a package when any of the commands, services, tool windows, document windows, designers, or whatsoever objects the package owns are about to be used. Even if our packages are not loaded, somehow they should...
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The new Extension Manager is a great piece of Visual Studio 2010, I like the UI (even if it has fuzzy font by default J ), but I have found that it has a button name Cancel . I’d rather name this button Close , because it does not behave like Cancel in other places. For me, the name “cancel”...
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Working with Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 and finding out how things work there is really a fan, I enjoy doing it very much. I really like the new design and features coming from the fact that VS 2010 Shell—and of course the new editor—is based on WPF technology. I know there are some who criticize...
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Upgrading my samples from VS 2008 to VS 2010 for the forthcoming book helps me finding issues in VS 2010 Beta1. The freshest one I have caught is related to the TextOnly command flag in the .vsct file of VSPackages. The TextOnly command flag is assumed to set up the visual properties of a menu item so...
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With the release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 I started iterating through the chapters of my forthcoming book with working title “Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility”. The chapters already prepared have been written with Visual Studio 2008 features and I’m just adopting them to the Visual...
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In the previous part of the series I gave you a very brief overview of the Managed Extensibility Framework and about how it is used by the editor extensibility in Visual Studio 2010. As an extensibility guy, I am interested in writing new extensions for the editor, and because it is built on MEF, I think...
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Visual Studio has many points to extend and also many ways to do that. We can customize Visual Studio or its plug-ins to gain new functionality, for example creating new code snippets or templates. Macros offer us another simple way to write very simple code—just like we used to do it for Microsoft...
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The Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 has been released only a few days ago. As Quan To wrote in his blog , this is a very important milestone in the life of the Visual Studio Team after a year and half. I think, this milestone is important for the lovers of Visual Studio Extensibility as well. We can touch...