Here's a sample application that I wrote that combines three technologies: Windows Presentation Framework Regular Expressions to parse HTML Reading HTML with HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse To run the sample, just press the Go button...

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is Microsoft’s preferred technology for writing windows applications for Vista . You can write WPF applications with Visual Studio to run either under Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista. You can read about WPF in Charles...

Visual Studio 2005 SDK documentation is now available on the MSDN Library Web site! To access the documentation, b rowse to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx . You'll find the documentation in the Table of Contents under Development...

Should I implement IDisposable on my managed Package.ProjectPackage project node to release expensive resources? No. Instead, put your resource cleanup code in the IVsHierarchy.Close method. Implementing IDisposable on your project node may cause...

You won't find the IronPython templates in the File/New Web Site dialog even after you've built or rebuilt the IronPython sample solution. You must also install the templates by typing one of these commands from the VS command prompt: >devenv /setup...

To demo the IronPython (IP) Web site support you must first install two IP binaries into the GAC. You can find them at <Install path>/VisualStudioIntegration/Common/Assemblies/IronMath.dll <Install path>/VisualStudioIntegration/Common/Assemblies...

What if you want to find the Command GUID:ID pair associated with a context menu item? Paul Harrington uses this technique -- That one's a little tricky. The ID you want is {D309F791-903F-11D0-9EFC-00A0C911004F}:00000431 It's a little tricky to...

Currently we have no way of displaying the GUID:ID pairs of Visual Studio command bars. Here's a technique presented by Paul Harrington -- With a little patience, you can get this [information] today via Export Settings. Start by resetting your settings...

[Compiled by Chetan Parmer.] Defined in Microsoft.VisualStudio.VsConstants : guidCOMPlusOnlyEng { 449EC4CC-30D2-4032-9256-EE18EB41B62B } //ComPlusOnly These GUIDs are not yet defined in VsConstants : guidNativeOnlyEng { 3B476D35-A401-11D2...

[From the prolific pen of Douglas Hodges. Continued from Common Context Menu Constants . ] Visual Web Developer Project Specific Information : The context menu for the Web Project node has the following groups: guidVenusCmdId:IDG_CTX_BUILD...

[From the prolific pen of Douglas Hodges. Continued at Common Web Context Menu Constants ] Common menu constants used by VSIP’s in extending project systems : "Project" top-level menu: IDM_VS_MENU_PROJECT Solution Explorer toolbar: IDM_VS_TOOL_PROJWIN...

The VS SDK April CTP is finally out the door! It contains many new samples to help you get up to speed. Unfortunately, the OnlineHelpSearchProvider sample has a few known issues that weren't caught before the readme file was frozen. First of all, the...

Hi! My name is Martin Tracy, and I'm a programmer writer for Microsoft Visual Studio . What is a programmer writer, you ask? It means I write both documentation and sample code for the Visual Studio Software Development Kit (SDK) . During my last five...