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Microsoft Consolas Font Pack for Visual Studio 2005 (Free)

Here's a cool freebie for all Windows and Windows Mobile developers. Microsoft recently released a free font pack named Consolas. This contains a set of fonts optimized for ClearType displays and designed especially for IDEs such as Visual Studio 2005. I've been using Consolas for about a week now and it finally replaced my previous favorite mono-spaced font (Lucida Console). Here's a preview of the font:

Consolas font for Visual Studio 2005

You can download Consolas for free from here. What's your favorite IDE font?

Quick reminder: The Spot the Bug contest is still on. I've heard from 7 people so far but there are still bugs to be found. Take another close look.

Posted: Monday, June 26, 2006 6:15 PM by MelSam

Comments

Jason Haley said:

# June 27, 2006 5:11 PM

ѕcrарраd said:

Check out this cool pack from Microsoft. You can have a look at screenshot here: http://blogs.msdn.com/melsam/archive/2006/06/26/647999.aspxBrief...
# June 27, 2006 7:04 PM

Frontad said:

Hi, we want to develop an IM on Windows Mobile Smartphone, we want the better performance and speed, so which tool is better, the native code written in C++ or managed cod C#?
# July 3, 2006 5:49 AM

RAGHU said:

Hi Mel,
I saw this video it was useful ,but my intention is that I have to create a screensaver for smartphones(running on windows mobile 5.0 Os) using visual studio.net 2005 in VC++ i am trying to get documentation explaining how to do it but nothing useful document i got.What i am looking for is the .h and .cpp or .lib files like the way it is implemented for Desktop(scrnsave.lib and .h) i want for smartphones.Can u please send me the link for that files to download to mail  id:-d.raghu@rediffmail.com

Thanks in advance
RAGHU




# September 18, 2006 9:21 AM
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