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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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2006 Microsoft Developer Out of Box Releases

Posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 5:24 PM by jledgard
So Visual Studio 2005 shipped last year. We shipped a service pack in 2006, but in addition to working onthe service pack and the next version of Visual Studio team's in Developer Division have also shipped a lot of cool stuff "out of box". Here is a Read More...
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How do I find out what's running when I start windows

Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 1:46 PM by jledgard
And furthermore.. how do i turn it off? I was recently asked what application you should use to detect programs and services that run when you start windows. While it's not my area of expertise I would personally recommend Autoruns . It's fairly comprehensive, 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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Download hotfixes without contacting support!

Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:06 PM by jledgard
I'm thrilled to say that today we've launched the Devdiv hotfix Public Availibility Pilot Program . This pilot program will allow you to download the most frequently requested Visual Studio 2005 hotfixes without having to contact Microsoft Developer Support Read More...
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