Visual Studio Editor Blog

We aren’t going away -- we’re just moving to a better home. To give you even more news, articles, and walkthroughs on Visual Studio, the Visual Studio Editor Blog is moving to become part of The Visual Studio Blog . As part of The Visual Studio Blog ...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 has shipped! As of today (Wednesday, October 21), it’s publicly available as a free download. Check out this page for the official product and download information. Find out more about the VS 2010 release Want more information...

Every developer knows that navigating code is vital to happy and productive coding. We’ve added several new features for code search and navigation in Visual Studio 2010, including Navigate To and an improved Call Hierarchy, to complement search staples...

Making extensibility easier and more accessible is one of the VS Platform team’s major goals for Visual Studio 2010. In addition to consulting samples , documentation , and forums , you can now learn about extensibility and have your questions answered...

You may have noticed that we haven’t been blogging quite as often lately, which begs the question, “What has the Editor team been doing since Beta1?” The answer: a lot! We’ve been focusing on a few specific goals since Beta1, and this post should give...

Samples In an effort to help more people get started with Editor extensibility quickly and easily, we’ve recently posted some new code samples on the VS 2010 Editor. Each of the links below will take you to a sample, complete with description, instructions...

In an attempt to bring extension building to the masses, the editor team submitted a hands on lab for TechEd this year that walks you through creating a real-world extension. While one of the goals of the lab is to show you how to build extensions in...

Thank you to everyone who has downloaded and tried VS 2010 Beta1 so far! In the two weeks since Beta1 was released, you’ve sent us tons of feedback that has helped us fix some of the most commonly reported bugs. This post details frequently-encountered...

Since VS 2010 Beta1 became publicly available last week, the Editor team has heard from quite a few users who miss box selection (aka column selection, block selection, or rectangular selection). Yes, it’s missing from the beta, but the good news is that...

It’s official: Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 has shipped! Check out this page for the official product information or download it (free!) here . So what’s new for the Editor in Beta1? We’ve made significant improvements since the CTP, including better stability...

One of our goals for the new editor is to make extensibility easier and more powerful than ever before. From custom text coloring to visual adornments painted directly on the editor surface, extensibility can dramatically change and improve the development...

The new editor is featured in the cover story for the April issue of Visual Studio Magazine ! The magazine publishes news and information for professional developers, and this month it is spotlighting Visual Studio 2010 in an article called “IDE Evolution...

The Editor team wants to build the best product possible, and we need your help! This week, the team would like to ask for direct feedback on how you use tab size and indent size. Tab size is the amount of space each tab occupies, while indent size is...

To complete the VS 2010 Editor’s new look, we’re updating the default font to 10-pt Consolas! It’s a fixed-width font that Microsoft’s typography experts designed specifically for developers, so it’s great for reading and writing code. Consolas also has...

You may have seen a glimpse of the Visual Studio 2010 editor in the past couple of months, but you've never seen it look like this! At VSLive! in San Francisco last week, Visual Studio General Manager Jason Zander unveiled a completely new UI for Visual...

Hi, As Sean mentioned below, the new VS10 Editor was unveiled at TechEd EMEA this week. We are all excited to introduce the new VS10 Editor to the world! The VS10 Editor was designed with extensibility from the ground up, and we want to enable our...

Today at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona Spain, Jason Zander demonstrated a ton of new features that are part of the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4.0 release. One of the key features that was well received by the audience was the New Editor...

I know that quite a few people are running into an issue where any edition Visual Studio 2008 can crash when users open the find dialog if they are running on Windows XP 64-bit or Windows 2003 Server. There's a patch available for Microsoft Support. You...

I've got good news! Consolas, a cleartype font designed specifically for to make code more readable is now available for download for users of Visual Studio 2005 from the Microsoft Download Center . One important thing about Consolas is that it will...

I'm investigating the MSDN Product Feedback Center issue where Find Next Selected should not use regular expressions or wildcards( http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewFeedback.aspx?feedbackid=18ff6379-d9e2-4baa-9c61-3a99889c6ba1 ). The intention...

We have released a new powertoy Snippy . It is a Code Snippet editor that will allow you to create new code snippets or modify existing ones. Please let us know if you have any problems installing or using it. There are two versions posted, one for the...

Several people have been reporting problems on MSDN Product Feedback with Visual Studio Beta 2 in which the Editor stops responding to most commands but still allows typing. The good news is that we have identified a fix for the issue, we know how to...

I hope that everyone has had a chance to download Beta 2 of Whidbey as there have been many improvements since Beta 1. If not, you can download it here: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/get/ . Two of the features that we've improved since Beta...

Check out the new Edit.PasteParameterTip feature in Whidbey Dec CTP... http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2005/01/21/358393.aspx

This is just a quick post to let everyone know that the VS Core Editor Team and the C++ Editor team will be having a chat this Wednesday at 1 PM Pacific. We'll be there to answer questions about new Whidbey features such as Code Definition Window, Call...