In the CTP of the Orcas SDK, we have added a flag that modifies the default behavior of the ZipItems. In previous releases, the ZipItems used to copy the zipped items automatically after zipping them. However, to get this behavior, you will have to add...

The sdk team has been producing monthly web casts covering various topics related to extending Visual Studio. These videos are mostly targeting users that are starting to extend VS. They serve as walkthroughs to get your projects started. You can access...

The SDK team has released the June VS SDK CTP. This release includes new web sites and web applications integration for the IronPython language. While it is still a work-in-progress, the project system works and you can have a look how the registration...

I have had the opportunity to implement the Code Snippet support for the IronPython integration that is in the VS SDK. The Code Snippet feature is new in Visual Studio 8.0 and it is a very nice addition to any language integration. It allows users to...

How to configure the Device Emulator so that it has Internet connectivity: Note: This is written with the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005 in mind, but the procedures should be very similar for the standalone version of the Device Emulator or a beta...

Two weeks ago, I had one of my SATA drive fail on my main home machine. This pc has an ASUS A7N8x board. I didn’t believe it was a hardware failure as this disk is pretty new. Unfortunately, the experience was pretty time consuming. This 200 GB drive...

This is my first MSDN blog entry so I will use it to present the future content of this blog and a little description of myself. No blog would be complete without a bit of self promotion. I have been a software developer engineer in test or SDET for...