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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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VSCmdShell 1.1 Released to Codeplex

Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:06 PM by jledgard
To catch everyone up... The VSCmdShell provides users with a shell window inside the Visual Studio IDE that can be used for Visual Studio commands as well. Current version allows user to use either Windows Command Shell (cmd.exe) or Windows PowerShell Read More...
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John D'Addamio's blog : Power Toys and code coverage

Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 12:49 PM by jledgard
John is the lone SDET on the developer solutions team. He's fairly outnumbered by his developer and PM counterparts so, he spends a good amount of his time working on ways to automate and increase the amount of testing provided by unit tests and the other 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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Solutions Developer Bertan Blogs

Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:38 PM by jledgard
I don't think I'd yet linked to another member of our team that now has a blog. Bertan is blogging as well. ( http://blogs.msdn.com/bertan/) He's a developer working on the Power Toys. Currently he's working on an update to the VSCmdShell project & Read More...
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ASP.NET Best Practice Tool Alpha Released

Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:59 PM by jledgard
Last week our team published a binary Alpha of an upcoming Power Toy for Visual Studio. Try it out and let us know what you think. Via Joe Announcing the Best Practice Analyzer for ASP.Net! It’s currently just an alpha preview version—a shell of the application 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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Good Comments on Source Code Release Best Practices

Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 9:48 AM by jledgard
I asked for feedback on keys to successful source releases and it’s started to trickle in. I figured I’d post what we’ve heard so far. Will says that communication is key : “Along the lines of your "Experts" point - it might be Read More...
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What makes for successful source code releases?

Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 7:55 PM by jledgard
We’re preparing to release the source code to the latest Power Toys for Visual Studio and the question has come up a few times. What makes for successful source code releases? Specifically… what makes for successful releases if you’d like to encourage Read More...
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Mickey Gousset on why you should join the Developer Solutions team

Posted Wednesday, April 26, 2006 3:36 PM by jledgard
Previously on scooblog…. I asked why somone should work on the Developer Solutions team (we’re hiring for dev and pm). Mickey from www.teamsystemrocks.com provided a great answer… Now remember, this is all from my perspective, but for me, I would push Read More...
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