Paul Cornell : Visual Studio 2008

Video: How Do I - Learn About the Integrated Development Environment in Visual Studio 2008?

Paul Cornell [MSFT] — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:36:00 GMT

How Do I: Learn About the Integrated Development Environment in Visual Studio 2008? (14 minutes)

Contents:

0:15 How to migrate settings from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008.
2:10 Community menu options in Visual Studio 2005 move to the Help menu in 2008.
3:30 Use CTRL + TAB to switch to an open file; hold down CTRL + TAB and click an open tool window to switch to it.
4:15 How to dock a tool window.
5:05 How to change the overall environment font.
5:45 How to target a different .NET Framework for your project.
6:30 How to create a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) project.
7:50 How to create an ASP.NET Web Application Project.
9:00 How to use the web page editor.
9:55 How to use the Cascading Style Sheet editor.

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

Paul Cornell [MSFT] — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:37:00 GMT

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.

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

Paul Cornell [MSFT] — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:08:00 GMT

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 user interface.

For details, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y3kkate1.aspx.

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

Paul Cornell [MSFT] — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:34:00 GMT

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 the source files of your application into a Visual Studio project template.

For details, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms185291.aspx.

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

Paul Cornell [MSFT] — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:30:00 GMT

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.

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

Paul Cornell [MSFT] — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:43:00 GMT

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.

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

Paul Cornell [MSFT] — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:45:00 GMT

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.

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

Paul Cornell [MSFT] — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:59:00 GMT

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 2008.)

For details, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/60z6y467.aspx.

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

Paul Cornell [MSFT] — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:54:00 GMT

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.

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

Paul Cornell [MSFT] — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:51:00 GMT

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.