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Strong free one two combination for creating localized applications

Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 1:21 PM by jledgard
So you started your application and now realize you've hardcoded strings and you need to start offering localized version. There are two freely available tools you can use to help with this transition. Step One: Remove hardcoded strings and put them in Read More...
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Refactor String Resources to Resx Files in Vb.Net and C#

Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 10:43 AM by jledgard
Last week our team released the 1.0 beta of a new refactoring menu option for Visual Studio 2005. Bertan, the developer, has the details on his blog . The Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the Read More...
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Creating a simple multi-install package for your customers

Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:46 PM by jledgard
If you've downloaded something like the "Google Pack" in the past and wanted something like that for your companies products. Something that, with a small footprint, lets users pick and choose a suite of components to install, downloads the requested Read More...
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Help us find VSCmdShell Bugs

Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:56 AM by jledgard
Our team is going to release a 1.1 update of the VSCmdShell tool window for Visual Studio and we are spending the day looking for bugs. Because the project is public you can participate as well. Head on over to the codeplex site http://www.codeplex.com/WorkItem/List.aspx?ProjectName=VSCmdShell Read More...
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Developer Solutions Sprint 6: BPA Tool, 1.1 Releases, & The Developer Power Pack

Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:44 PM by jledgard
Today the Developer Solutions team has begun its 6 th five week sprint. Sprint 5 saw the release of the VSCmdShell tool & an Alpha of our Best Practices Analyzer for ASP.Net 2.0 . There was buy-off to begin working with CSS on a detailed plan for Read More...
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Next Prototype Tool: Resource Refactoring

Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 11:28 AM by jledgard
Bertan recently blogged about his next project. Feel free to leave him feedback. I saw the demo and it's a slick feature. Unfortunately not much dev work is going to get done in the meantime... he's out for four weeks on vacation to get married and enjoy Read More...
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Know & love your big picture

Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:00 PM by jledgard
This is a question that just about every PM at Microsoft has to answer frequently. "What's your big picture?" or "How does this fit into the big picture?" Our culture is one of visualization and we love our grand views. (Hidden pun most certainly intended... Read More...
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Questions about the Developer Solutions Team

Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:17 PM by jledgard
Here is my reply to a mail that I can post publicly. The mail was from a team in another organization that had some questions about how our team is working. I saw the recent announcement about the v1.0 Power Toys and that generated some questions from Read More...
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NDoc Just Playing Possum; Kevin confirms 2.0 version in the works

Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:34 PM by jledgard
Kevin Downs paid my blog a visit yesterday to let everyone know that a new version of NDoc is in the works. Apparently he has also been receiving help from MS employees who deserve kudos for giving him some much needed information. This makes me think Read More...
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How to lend a hand to NDoc and other non-MS Developer Tools

Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:21 PM by jledgard
I was forwarded an interesting suggestion today from the Product Feedback Center. Here it is: Put some developers on the open source nDoc project We have used the XML documentation system with our C# code. Full integration with VS 2005 and .NET 2.0 is Read More...
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