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The Beta: Available Now! The newest beta, Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 is out! MSDN subscribers can download it right away , while everyone else can get their hands on it on Wednesday, October 21st (and don’t worry, I’ll remind
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You may have noticed that within tool windows like Solution Explorer, you cannot reach the toolbar by hitting tab or arrowing to it. The keyboard shortcut to reach a Tool Window's toolbar is Shift+Alt . Note that Alt+Shift will not work. Reposted from
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When a tool window is not docked... Press the Alt key once Press the Spacebar once. You will get the standard window system menu with Move and Size. Select Size Now, just arrow towards the window edge you wish to resize, and resize from there. Press Enter
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With the desired tool window selected, press Alt+Minus to bring up the tool window menu. Press Down Arrow to select the Move command and hit Enter . Now, you can control the tool window with the arrow keys. To dock, simply use the arrow keys to the desired
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There are two ways to split the current window: From the Menu Bar, go to Window - Split Using the mouse, grab the splitter control found directly above the document scrollbar But the split command only works horizontally. If you need to split vertically
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A simple, but very powerful, little feature, especially when you deal with white space as much as I did when I tested the editor. The first time I saw one of our developers using it, I thought, "Yuck!" But now I'm addicted, even when I'm not testing white
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Did you know that Visual Studio offers two different selection models Stream and Box? Stream selection is what everyone is familiar with using Shift+Arrow Key. Box selection allows you to manually select columns and lines at the same time. Just hold down
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I didn't know about incremental search until someone showed me. Now I can't live without it. Press Ctrl+I Start typing the text you are searching for. Note: You'll see the cursor jump to the first match, highlighting the current search string. Press Ctrl+I
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Sign up for the Grok and Load session at Energize IT! Visual Studio 2008 is a suite of development tools designed to help developers solve complex challenges and create innovative software. This session consists of a three-part series of hands-on and
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Over the next several months Technical communities around the world are hosting Community Launch events focusing on technical dives of Microsoft Windows Server 2008™, Visual Studio 2008™, and SQL Server 2008™. Community leaders have been trained directly
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Do you have a pressing issue or do you have any questions about Team System? Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database
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Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 has been released today! Here is the link if you want to download the bits . I'd highly recommend the Virtual PC image - if you opt for the full install, you should use a test machine, don't install it on a production machine
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The news just came out on the wire that our official launch date in Los Angeles for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 (formerly codenamed "Orcas"). The Canadian plans have not been ironed out yet, but the moment they are, we'll
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At TechEd, we made some important announcements such as the naming of the next version of Visual Studio ( Visual Studio 2008 - formerly Visual Studio Codenamed "Orcas") and SQL Server 2008 (formerly Codenamed "Katmai"). Another announcement we made was
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Believe it or not, March 19th marks the 10th anniversary "decennial" of Visual Studio 97, the first release of the product. The news was announced onstage at VSLive! in San Francisco on March 26th. Rob Caron has posted additional details on his blog .
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