April, 2010

I was chatting with some of my friends about Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 and they asked me why should they move their application to .Net Framework 4, I am answering the question here for everybody to benefit. Frankly speaking there is no...

Nathan Halstead is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team. He is responsible for various aspects of Visual Studio extensibility, and is an avid ice hockey enthusiast. On occasion, he’s been known to guest author technical articles on various Microsoft...

The first thing that you notice after opening your existing projects in Visual Studio 2010 is the very familiar Visual Studio Conversion wizard. Internally we call it Project Migration wizard. Personally I love this wizard because of its simplicity, my...

The “Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Deployment.FrameworkVersionMismatchException” is thrown due to the specific implementation of how VSTO 2010 runtime loads the appropriate CLR to install a VSTO customization. This exception is thrown when...

On Monday, the VSTO team released a Whitepaper documenting how to get your VSTO customizations building in a Team Build environment. No longer will you need to install Visual Studio on your build machine in order to accommodate building VSTO projects...

Whooo hooooo! It’s been ~2 years in the making but Visual Studio 2010 has been released ! This is my first full product cycle since I started Microsoft and oh what a ride! I’ve been watching live interviews from the Vegas launch event all day on Channel...