The Sidekicks have been invaluable add-ons to Visual Studio for years. Attrice just released an update to the MSBuild add-ons. Read more about it here: http://www.attrice.info/blog/2010/01/27/msbuild-sidekick-v3-beta-is-available/ Brian

This has been a really good conversation. I've also gotten some excellent off line emails articulating the issues. As I have been reading the feedback, noodling over it and discussing it with the help team, I've come the the following summary conclusion...

If you haven’t seen it, here’s the announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/codeplex/archive/2010/01/22/codeplex-now-supporting-native-mercurial.aspx As you may know, CodePlex provides a hosted community development environment and has been built on TFS (you...

Over the past few couple of months, I’ve seen some negative community feedback on the new help system – not universally, but enough that it’s been concerning me.  The truth is, though, I’ve been so busy with the performance work that other than pinging...

Up until Christmas, I was blogging almost every day about the progress we’ve made on addressing the Beta 2 feedback that VS 2010 had significant performance issues.  Since then, our efforts have hardly taken a break.  I saw active investigations...

Man, it’s just crazy how fast a month can go. I was blogging furiously all December about our performance efforts and progress and then a couple of days before Christmas I went “offline” and haven’t made it back until now :(. It has been just crazy. Other...