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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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Why would you choose the Developer Solutions team?

Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:27 AM by jledgard
Why would you choose to work for the Developer Solutions? See, we're currently hiring Devs, a Dev lead, and PMs and I'm sometimes put into situations where I have to sell our team to great canidates over other positions. Here's a video that gives you 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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New VBCommenter Release (1.2.5 RC1) by the Community

Posted Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:52 PM by jledgard
Background: The VBCommenter is an addin for VS 2003 that gives you the ability to automatically generate XML comment headers in the VB .NET editor similar to what the C# editor automatically generates. It will also generate the XML comment file to go Read More...
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Tips for Using Macros in Visual Studio

Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:13 AM by jledgard
Over @ the Powertoys blog I posted an article with tips for using Macros inside Visual Studio . I really just wanted it to be a simple list of instructions that walked people through how they could use the macro code posted to the blog. I ended up walking Read More...
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Write an Add-In; Win Cool Prizes

Posted Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:19 AM by jledgard
What great timing. Just after we started the PowerToys Blog Roy announced he was organizing a Add-in/Macro coding contest ! You may have noticed the added decoraction on the side of my blog if you read it in Web form. I love it when stars align. I'm hoping Read More...
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Check out the Powertoys Weblog! (You can never have enough tools)

Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2004 11:06 AM by jledgard
Almost a year ago we launched a static Powertoys page on gotdotnet. Today that page is no longer static! We're now feeding http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide with live content from the new Powertoys weblog . Overtime this site will become a categorized Read More...
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I can’t leave some things alone

Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:01 PM by jledgard
Visualizers in Whidbey are going to be cool, but you can do some awesome debug customizations in VS.NET 2003 today with the VSTweak powertoy. Check out this thread for more info. I agree with Darcy, there is no Software Crisis , unless you are a person Read More...
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VB Commenter 1.1.1 Released to the Wild

Posted Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:07 AM by jledgard
If you haven't seen them you should check out the PowerToys projects for Visual Studio that my team created a while back. I've been impressed with the level of involvement and support from the VS community for these tools. Anyway, tonight I decided to Read More...
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