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CodeRush Xpress 9.1 Beta: 59 Refactorings, 17 Consume-first providers, and Much more! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
04 May 09 08:07 PM
Very exciting news! Developer Express is coming out with a new version of the FREE add-in we all know today as Refactor! . The new product, CodeRush XPress, builds on Refactor! by increasing the refactoring count to 59! It also includes a host of other Read More...
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Did you know? You can unwind the call stack from exceptions (Bill Horst)
09 December 08 08:00 AM
The ability to unwind the call stack from exceptions is one of the debugger features that was newly introduced in Visual Basic.NET 2005. When the debugger hits a first-chance exception, you can unwind the call stack in order to make code edits to fix Read More...
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Did you know? There are many ways to insert a snippet into your code (Lisa Feigenbaum)
07 December 08 08:00 AM
Code snippets were introduced in the Visual Basic 2005 release. They provide an easy way to learn how to do a particular coding task, or to re-use a piece of code in various parts of your application. Code snippets can be inserted in a variety of ways. Read More...
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Did you know? What you can do with Debugger Datatips... (Lisa Feigenbaum)
10 January 08 09:30 AM
There's a lot of cool functionality built into VS debugger datatips that often goes unnoticed... For example, did you know that not only can you *see* values in the expanded datatips, but you can also edit them ? Watch the following walk-through... While Read More...
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Did you know? Ctrl+Tab to navigate windows in VS (Lisa Feigenbaum)
09 January 08 09:30 AM
Just like Alt+Tab for Windows you can use Ctrl+Tab for Visual Studio. Ctrl+Tab will show you the active tool windows *and* the active files, so it is a good navigation tool for both. VS2008 has even added a cool miniature-sized visualization to this view, Read More...
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Launching External Tools from inside Visual Studio (Jonathan Aneja)
27 November 07 08:08 PM
Visual Studio has a small but extremely useful feature that allows you to hook external tools directly into the IDE’s Tools menu. All you have to do is click Tools->External Tools… and then you can add your own custom menu items that will launch a Read More...
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Fun with VB !!!
06 September 07 01:08 PM
Who says you can't obfuscate VB code? For fun, I tried writing some VB code which was shaped in the letters 'vb' (that's right, the code itself forms the shape of the letters), where the 'v' and the 'b' are formed from the Visual Studio inifinity logo. Read More...
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Working with Shortcut Keys (Lisa Feigenbaum)
25 April 07 01:26 AM
Since we have so many Orcas posts going up on this blog, I've decided to continue with a few that you can use TODAY in Visual Studio 2005. This one is about working with shortcut keys... For those of you using the Visual Basic Development Settings, your Read More...
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Save Time – Use Keyboard Shortcuts! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
24 April 07 01:45 PM
Visual Studio is all about developer productivity. To help developers be more efficient, Visual Studio has built keyboard shortcuts into the product for most of the functions normally found through the user interface – just like CTRL-C for copy. To help Read More...
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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and Visual Basic 2005 Command-line Compiler (VBC.exe) Hotfix Released!
03 January 07 10:46 AM
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is now available for download. We’d like to thank everyone in the Visual Basic community for providing feedback on SP1 and helping us identify and address issues for this service pack. In some areas, more than 50% of the bugs addressed Read More...
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Interop Roadmap – UserControls, MDI, and Data
02 November 06 04:53 PM
Recently the VB team released the Interop Forms Toolkit , which allows VB6 developers to extend their existing applications using .NET. The toolkit allows developers to write a regular Windows Form in VB.NET, click “Generate Wrapper Classes”, and then Read More...
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EMEA Tour Followup
20 April 06 03:55 PM
PaulYuk and I just returned from the EMEA tour where we demoed tons of new VB 2005 features to groups in Brussells, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Belfast, and Dublin. Here (as promised) are links to more information on what I presented. If you didn't make it Read More...
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DTEE is BACK!!! by Kathleen Tamanaha
05 December 05 01:38 PM
Running Code at Design Time from the Immediate Window Back in Visual Basic 6.0, developers were able to evaluate expressions from the Immediate Window at design time (we’ll call this feature ‘DTEE’ – Design Time Express Evaluation from now on). This feature Read More...
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IDE Debugger enhancements (type viewer attributes and type visualizers) by Luca Dellamore
02 December 05 10:58 AM
In Visual Studio 2003 it was sometimes difficult to examine large complicated objects in the debugger (since it is simply impossible for any debugger to analyze arbitrary objects and figure out what the developer is really interested in knowing). To improve Read More...
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Code Generation for Overrides in Visual Basic .Net 2005
23 November 05 11:09 AM
by Mike Carter Some subtle changes were made in Visual Basic .Net 2005 to make code generation of overidden methods a little easier. In Visual Basic .Net 2003 and earlier, you used the code dropdowns as in Figure 1 below. Figure 1 When overriding a Sub, Read More...
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