Anthony @ MS

NDepends Static Analysis Tools

2009-08-20T18:48:03Z

I just heard that folks that build the NDepends Static Analysis tools are working on their Visual Studio 2010 version. They tell me they will have it ready by the time we ship Visual Studio which will be a great complement. For my first time looking at this tool I thought the Code Query Language (CQL) was a great way to enforce basic validation on your code before it’s approved for checkin. I could see this integrating nicely with the VS TFS source control service to automate many...(read more)

Tabs Studio - advanced window tabs for VS IDE

2009-08-07T21:47:36Z

I noticed an update to an extension on the Visual Studio Gallery last week. Tab Studio extends the tab well region of Visual Studio to give you an alternate view of the documents you have open. I haven’t tried it personally yet but I’ve seen lots of community members give suggestions on how VS might organize their tabs differently than we do out of the box today. This extension should hopefully help some of those folks out....(read more)

Visual Studio Gallery - There’s an extension for that parody

2009-07-28T18:49:41Z

Found a parody on YouTube that’s pretty entertaining. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ysQ43s9U4Y...(read more)

Jetbrains Resharper for VS 2010 Preview now Available

2009-07-13T19:13:26Z

I’ve heard a lot of buzz from customers looking to get a hold of a version of Resharper that works with VS 2010 Beta 1. Well the folks over at Jetbrains have started releasing a preview of their VS 2010 version here: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+for+Visual+Studio+2010+(Preview) ....(read more)

Extensibility opportunities in VS 2010

2009-05-23T05:00:02Z

Terry just posted two great blogs talking about how you can extend features in Visual Studio 2010 Professional and how you can extend Visual Studio 2010 Team System. Visual Studio 2010 New Features, Extensibility Points and Partner Opportunities Visual Studio Team System 2010 New Features, Extensibility Points and Partner Opportunities...(read more)

Concurrent Access just posted Reference Assistant, a new VS 2010 extension

2009-05-23T03:32:05Z

Reference assistant helps you visualize the dependencies in your .NET application to help speed up development, improve your deployments, and debug sticky dependency bugs. Some of the interesting features I read about were their Visualizer for IoC / DI configuration files, ability to identify missing assembly references, and configuration file type resolution. You can check out their extension here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/BA1FF7E5-1C24-4386-AD40-1C1C83BC59F0 ....(read more)

Tangible just released their T4 Editor that works with VS 2010

2009-05-23T02:50:39Z

You can use text templates to author your own code generators with intellisense & syntax-highlighting in Visual Studio. This naturally has powerful applications for tool vendors looking to output code from non-textual representations of a domain such as diagrams, xml or other data sources. Tangible has created a T4 editor to help you create T4 Text Templates. The Tangible T4 Editor provides statement completion & intelisense for the T4 code sections. Their editor also integrates...(read more)

Calling all extensions for Visual Studio 2010

2009-05-23T01:32:12Z

Extensibility is one of the big initiatives on my team for Visual Studio 2010. We are eager to see all the interesting and innovative concepts that people come up with to extend Visual Studio 2010 and make their lives more productive. Big or small I’d love to hear about them so if you have an extension for Visual Studio 2010 please comment, email, our shout....(read more)

New Visual Studio Gallery is Live

2009-05-23T01:21:57Z

Last week we launched the newest update to the Visual Studio Gallery , the one stop shop for finding Products & extensions for Visual Studio. With this release we’ve added enhancements that make finding & sharing extensions on the Visual Studio Gallery even easier. We’ve also added features that will light up Visual Studio 2010 with content from the Gallery. All of this is built on the MSDN platform so we can continue to bring valuable content and information together and...(read more)

Test Post

2009-05-20T21:04:46Z

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That was cool… Using Named Dates in Outlook Calendar Appointments

2009-02-04T04:03:57Z

Being a creature that operates exclusively on habit, as is proven by a few forehead marks from poles I might walk into from time to time, I have to habitual-ize (made up word) something new like blogging for me to really get any value from it. I thought blogging on cool technologies I see from time to time might be the thing I need to trick myself into blogging. I recently learned that when creating appointments in my Outlook calendar that I can describe the date I’m looking for and let Outlook...(read more)

Great to see collaboration between VSIPs

2009-01-27T20:10:27Z

Yesterday I did an internal demo of products from two of our partners, StudioWorks Component One . StudioWorks, with its products Designbox & Design Gallery , enhances the Visual Studio Windows application design experience with a library of preconfigured designs that can be applied to any .NET control. Component One delivers a rich set of .NET components for developers to beef up the UI of their application. While both of these partners make great products, what excited me...(read more)

2008 VSX Conference Screencasts are Live

2008-10-21T21:59:30Z

Morning everyone. It's been just over a month since our VSX Conference but it feels like it just finished yesterday. I truly enjoyed meeting everyone at the conference, particularly the active community members that until now I've only known through pen (or keyboard). I realize there are many folks who couldn't make the trip out to Redmond for the event but truly would have wanted to participate. Also given just how much content we delivered in such a short time I'm sure there were more than a few...(read more)

VSX Conference agenda & speaker bios posted

2008-08-15T02:01:50Z

We just posted the agenda & speaker biographies for the VSX Conference coming up next month from September 15 - 16th. Use the online agenda to get a sense of what the various tracks will cover and start thinking about which sessions you will want to attend. The speaker bios should help you get to know the speakers at this conference. We have some serious brass from around the division participating in this event. This is a great opportunity to get to know industry leaders & architects shaping...(read more)

VSX Conference Sessions Posted

2008-08-05T10:49:55Z

Last week we closed on almost all of the VSX sessions that we are planning to present at the VSX Conference in September. We have over 20 different hour long sessions to present. The sessions will cover everything from introductory content like the Visual Studio Architecture sessions & intro to DSL to more advanced in depth topics around how to build an integrated debugger and how to extend Visual studio team system. You can find the complete session list sorted roughly in order of...(read more)