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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:37 PM

Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: How to Use Wizards with Project Templates

Visual Studio provides the IWizard interface that, when implemented, enables you to run custom code when a user creates a project from a template. For details, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms185301.aspx .
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Monday, December 29, 2008 5:08 PM

Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: How to Locate and Organize Project and Item Templates

Template files must be placed in a location that Visual Studio recognizes in order for the templates to appear in the New Project and Add New Item dialog boxes. You can create custom subcategories for templates so that these subcategories appear in the
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Monday, December 29, 2008 3:34 AM

Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: How to Manually Create Project Templates

Visual Studio provides wizards to help you generate templates from projects that are open in the development environment. However, if you want to create a template outside of the development environment, you can use this procedure to manually assemble
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Saturday, December 27, 2008 4:30 PM

Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: How to Create Project Templates

This procedure enables you to create a template using the Export Template wizard. For details, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xkh1wxd8.aspx .
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Friday, December 26, 2008 5:08 PM

Visual Studio 2010: What's In It?

A 15-minute video has recently been posted on the Channel 9 web site. In this video, you'll get a very high-level look at Visual Studio 2010. You'll discover what types of features you can expect to see in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 depending
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 4:47 AM

Visual Studio 2010: Code Focused Development Features

Learn more about features such as Highlight References, Quick Search, Call Hierarchy, and Consume-First Development by visiting http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/12/19/code-focused-development-in-vs-2010.aspx .
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 4:43 AM

Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: Introduction to Visual Studio Templates

Visual Studio project and item templates provide reusable and customizable project and item stubs that accelerate the development process, removing the need to create new projects and items from scratch. For details, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms247121.aspx
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Monday, December 22, 2008 9:45 PM

Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: How to Enable Temporary Projects

You may want to create a temporary project to do something such as experimenting with a particular feature of Visual Studio, a programming language, or a technology without the overhead of creating a project and saving it to disk. For details, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165252.aspx
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Friday, December 19, 2008 8:33 PM

Most Important Tasks

I find the concept of most important tasks to be very helpful in identifying my most important work and having a sense of accomplishment while completing it. I got this idea from the following two blog posts: Purpose Your Day: Most Important Task (MIT)
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Friday, December 19, 2008 7:41 PM

Visual Studio 2010 September CTP: How to Download, Install, and Run

An 11-minute video has recently been posted on the Channel 9 web site. It shows you how to download, install, and run the Visual Studio 2010 September Community Technology Preview (CTP). This CTP is designed as a Virtual PC (VPC) image so that it can
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Monday, December 15, 2008 9:59 PM

Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: Visual Studio Conversion Wizard

This page describes how to upgrade your Visual Studio projects created with versions before Visual Studio 2008. (Solutions or projects converted using this approach are no longer compatible with Visual Studio versions that are earlier than Visual Studio
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Monday, December 15, 2008 9:54 PM

Tackling E-Mail, Part 4: Using Outlook Keyboard Shortcuts

Here are the keyboard shortcuts that I use most frequently in Outlook 2007 to speed up creating and managing my e-mail: Delete: Ctrl + D Close Window: Alt + F4 New... Mail Message: Ctrl + N Task: Ctrl + Shift + K Note: Ctrl + Shift + N Go To... Mail:
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Friday, December 12, 2008 5:01 PM

Visual Studio 2010 Overview

Take a look at what we're working on, see product highlights, get the product overview datasheet in PDF or XPS format, download the Community Technology Preview (CTP), and more. For details, see http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2010/overview.mspx
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Friday, December 12, 2008 4:54 PM

Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: How to Target a Specific .NET Framework

This page describes how you can create a project that targets a specific .NET Framework version and how you can change the target .NET Framework version for an existing project. For details, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb398202.aspx .
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 5:51 PM

Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: .NET Framework Multi-Targeting Overview

The multi-targeting feature of Visual Studio 2008 lets you specify the .NET Framework version that is required to use your application.... For details, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb398197.aspx .
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Monday, December 08, 2008 8:00 PM

Tackling E-Mail, Part 3: Delaying Responses

In addition to limiting the number of times that I check e-mail each day, I'm also doing the following to free up more of my time for project work: Pushing back on all potentially actionable e-mail that doesn't have a clear action or deadline stated.
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Saturday, December 06, 2008 12:18 AM

Tackling E-Mail, Part 2: Checking E-Mail

I try to look at my e-mail only two or three times a day. I get so sidetracked, so distracted sometimes at work when I look at my e-mail that I've had to stop doing it as much. I've also turned off my Outlook e-mail notifications to keep me from getting
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:50 PM

Tackling E-Mail, Part 1: Inbox Subfolders

I use Microsoft Outlook to manage my e-mail (go figure, since I work for Microsoft!). I recently reduced and simplified the number of Outlook Inbox subfolders that I have as follows, and I feel like I'm really benefitting from it: A Follow Up subfolder.
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 6:52 PM

Tracking Work Requests

Once you've scheduled and assigned work requests, tracking progress is fairly straightforward. For smaller work requests and for smaller projects, I typically only note whether each work request is still in progress or if it was finished. For larger work
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 4:58 PM

Scheduling Work Requests

For shorter projects, I usually work straight through until I'm done. For longer projects, I usually need to break the time into chunks, commonly referred to as work iterations. Breaking projects into month-long work iterations seems to work best for
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Monday, December 01, 2008 9:44 PM

Assigning Work Requests

For most of my projects, I don't get the benefit of assigning work requests to others. (However, for one of my current projects, the project's chief decision-maker and I have agreed to let me assign work requests when I finish them back to her for review.)
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