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January 2006 - Posts

Monday, January 23, 2006 6:37 PM

Customizing and Extending Visual Studio

There are lots of ways to customize and extend Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to help you be more efficient and productive as you create solutions and tools for yourself and others. When we discuss customizing Visual Studio, we generally refer to changing
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:13 AM

Introducing Starter Kits

New for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Starter Kits are enhanced project templates that can be shared with other members of the community. A Starter Kit includes code samples that compile, documentation, and other helpful resources to enable you to learn
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 3:09 AM

Taking Shortcuts

I was building an application in C# this evening, but when I pressed the CTRL + B shortcut key combination expecting to build it, nothing happened. That's because different Microsoft Visual Studio supports different shortcut key mapping schemes. For example,
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Friday, January 13, 2006 7:32 PM

Coding with Class

I cut my programming teeth on Microsoft Visual Basic, having started with version 3.0 and following through to versions 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, and then learning Visual Basic .NET. But over the past few years I have been gravitating toward Microsoft Visual C#.
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Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:04 PM

What Do You Want to Code Today?

Deciding Which Technologies and Tools To Use is a rather long yet helpful topic if you're new to coding with Microsoft Visual Studio or the .NET Framework or you're coding a type of solution in Visual Studio or the .NET Framework that you've never coded
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006 5:58 PM

What is MSBuild?

MSBuild is the new extensible, XML-based build engine that is included with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. MSBuild introduces a new XML-based project file format that is straightforward to understand and extend, and is fully
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 5:46 PM

Getting Started

Hi! My name is Paul Cornell, and I am a Documentation Manager for Microsoft Visual Studio . What does a Documentation Manager do, you may ask? Well, simply put, I guide teams of writers and editors to produce high-quality technical documentation on time
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