My new team just released a new feature of Popfly website called Popfly Game Creator. In summary it is a website where you can easily create casual games most of the time without writing any code. You can then share those games with your friends. There...

For the last couple months, I was working on a feature to enable bug reporting on MSDN Forums. Last week we have started a pilot program with Visual Basic team and enabled bug reporting on several Visual Basic forums. Bug reporting procedure is very simple...

I have been trying to add a command filter to all text editors in Visual Studio for a project, since I had to collect information from several number of sources I wanted to collect them in one place in the hope that somebody else might find it useful...

I was recently in a training about test driven development and in an exercise about testing legacy code, a very nice idea came up to inject mock objects to legacy code. The usual problem is that if a legacy code is not written taking testability in to...

I have updated VSCmdShell homepage today to include latest release. This release is our first release where all contributions are from VSCmdShell community, you can check all the included fixes at Codeplex but here is a quick summary of them: PowerShell...

Jeremy found a good companion to Resource Refactoring tool to make working with localized resource files much easier. Once you created resource files using Resource Refactoring Tool, you can use ResEx to translate resource files in to different cultures...

We just released Resource Refactoring Tool 1.0 to CodePlex, you can download the release from project releases page. A summary of new and updated features in this release is below, you can see the full list of fixed issues in the release page. Added...

Although developing Visual Studio Add-Ins has become much easier with Visual Studio 2005, debugging the add-in you are developing can still be difficult. This is because your add-in is loaded each time you open Visual Studio so in order to be able to...

We have finished working on the beta version of Resource Refactoring and just posted it to Codeplex . Also with this release Resource Refactoring Tool became a shared source project under MS-PL, so we have published the source code as well. If you want...

One of the ideas submitted to our team for possible power toys was to implement a document bookmark manager where users can group bookmarks by groups and access them with keyboard shortcuts. While browsing the web a while ago to find out if a similar...

If you are using a Visual Studio add-in you love but you wanted to have shortcuts for its menu entries, you are not completely out of luck. Using Visual Studio options, you can add shortcut keys to any Visual Studio command including the ones created...

We have just released alpha version of Resource Refactoring Tool for Visual Studio, you can download it from: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=77544 . In one line, it provides an easy way to extract hard coded strings from code files to embedded...

Yesterday, we have released a new version of VSCmdShell. This new release includes several fixes as well as some new features suggested by the community. A summary of changes are: Better auto filename completion support Tool window position should...

Last week Joe noticed that if you want to build MSBee in Windows Vista, you have to run Visual Studio or MSBuild process under administrator priveleges. This is due to fact that build process tries to install the MSI package once it is created and as...

Now that VSCmdShell is released, I started working on a refactoring power toy to help with converting strings in to resource files as it has to be performed manually now. It is primary feature will be to place selected string in to a resource file and...

We just released VSCmdShell Power Toy for Visual Studio 2005 which enables you to integrate a shell window into Visual Studio IDE. You can find more information about the power toy and download it at its CodePlex project page. Some of its key features...

MSBee requires administrative rights to be installed and same thing is true for .Net Framework 1.1 SDK as well. If you are running your Windows under a non adminstrator user, you can use MakeMeAdmin script to install both MSBee and SDK. However as...

Last week we posted signed binary release of MSBee in to Microsoft Downloads, you can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0d0776f-25c4-444a-a6b9-71d06826f5b4&displaylang=en . We are providing this release...

On May, Jamie pointed out on CodePlex that application config file for RCRFX1_1.exe in MSBee was incorrectly named. It was named as RCRFX1_1.config but the correct naming should have been RCRFX1_1.exe.config for it to be actually processed by .Net framework...

Hi, I am Bertan. I work as a developer in Developer Division Customer Product Lifecycle Experience team at Microsoft and I just started working on after market solutions. My team is focused on helping customers use our development products by developing...