Dmitry Goncharenko: Developer, Visual Studio Platform Short bio : Dmitry has been at Microsoft for about 10 years working on several areas of Visual Studio. For Visual Studio 2010, he helped to design and implement PkgDef management, VSIX technologies...

[Update: The Introduction to Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility has been moved to 12/16 @ 10 a.m. Please update your calendars to reflect this change.] I wanted to announce two upcoming MSDN Webcasts that will be presented by Visual Studio Platform PMs...

Quan To is a program manager on the Visual Studio Platform team.  Quan is responsible for the Extension Manager and Visual Studio SDK.  Quan has been with Microsoft for over ten years and has also spent time working on the Tablet PC Team and...

Noah Richards – Developer, Visual Studio Editor Team Short Bio: Noah has been working on the Visual Studio Editor team since he graduated college two and a half years ago. He maintains a blog , posts sample code for editor extensions, and frequently answers...

Short Bio: Pavan Adharapurapu is a developer on the Visual Studio Project and Build team. As part of VS 2010, he has worked on numerous features of the VC++ project system such as property sheets, filters, property pages, platform and tool extensibility...

First of all, let’s take a look at the example from one of my previous posts . It creates an expression tree for calculating the factorial of a number. ParameterExpression value = Expression .Parameter( typeof ( int ), "value" ); ParameterExpression...

Hi again – Josh here, Toolbox developer. If you've created or installed a toolbox item, but it doesn't appear in the toolbox when the appropriate designer is active, the first thing to do is select "Show All" from the toolbox and check to see if the...

Several of our VSIP partners have asked me if they can host their VSIX file on their own server and what would the user experience be? To answer the first question, yes, you can host your VSIX file on your owner server. It doesn’t have to live on the...

Paul Harrington – Principal Developer, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: Paul Harrington is a principal software developer on the Visual Studio platform team. He has worked on every version of Visual Studio .Net to date. Prior to joining the Visual...

Adrian Collier – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio : I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2004 back in the UK and crossed the pond last year to work on Popfly, since then I’ve been working in Visual Studio land primarily working on...

Brittany Behrens – Program Manager, Visual Studio Editor Team Short Bio : I’m Brittany, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Editor team. Some of you may recognize me from Connect bugs or as the main voice of @VSEditor on Twitter , and I’m responsible...

Weston Hutchins – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio : I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2005 and have been working in Visual Studio ever since. I’m currently a PM on the VS Shell Team. No, not the “ Isolated ” or “ Integrated ”...

Weston Hutchins – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio : I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2005 and have been working in Visual Studio ever since. I’m currently a PM on the VS Shell Team. No, not the “ Isolated ” or “ Integrated ”...

Update : We have diagnosed and fixed the issue that was causing comments to be discarded. If you were trying to post a comment in the last few days, we'd appreciate it if you could repost -- we love to hear feedback. If you are having any more issues...

In addition to making announcements, showcasing features, posting walkthroughs, and sharing Visual Studio tips and tricks, we’ll also be using this blog to raise awareness of commonly-encountered bugs and explain their workarounds. As many of you know...

VSIX is a new technology created for deploying Visual Studio extensions.  It’s a zip file that uses the Open Packaging Convention .  By renaming the file extension of any .VSIX file to .ZIP, you can open up the file in Windows Explorer and take...

I’m Brittany, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Editor team. Some of you may recognize me from Connect bugs , @VSEditor on Twitter , or the Visual Studio Editor blog , which has recently moved to its new home here at The Visual Studio Blog . I’m...

Hi, my name’s Josh and I’m a developer on the VS Shell team. Among other things, I’m responsible for the Toolbox. In VS 2010 Beta2, we’ve added the ability to search for controls in the toolbox by name. To use it, put focus in the toolbox (by clicking...

The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this year is in Los Angeles from November 17 th to 19 th . The PDC is an opportunity to mingle with architects and developers from the software industry and to listen to the leaders, heroes and legends from...

Since this week is already filled with other notable launches , we figured it would be fitting to unveil one more important launch: The Visual Studio Blog! Since the majority of our users are utilizing not just one, but multiple aspects of Visual Studio...

In the previous post I showed how you can use the new dynamic feature and the ExpandoObject class to add and remove properties at run time, and how this can make your code more readable and flexible than code written with LINQ to XML syntax. But there...

You have probably already heard about the new dynamic feature in C# 4.0 and how it is used to support COM interop. If you haven't, I strongly recommend reading the following MSDN articles: Using Type dynamic and How to: Access Office Interop Objects by...

Expression trees first appeared in Visual Studio 2008, where they were mainly used by LINQ providers. You can use expression trees to represent code in a tree-like format, where each node is an expression. You can also convert expression trees into compiled...

LINQ provides a convenient syntax and many useful methods for operating with collections of objects. However, to be correctly processed by LINQ comparison methods such as Distinct or Intersect , a type must satisfy certain requirements. Let’s take...