Testing with Visual Studio Test Manager (MTM) announcements
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Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers.
- Use Microsoft Test Manager to capture and playback action recordings for Silverlight 4 applications.
- Create coded UI tests for Silverlight 4 applications with Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- Edit coded UI tests using a graphical editor with Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- Use action recordings to fast forward through manual tests that need to support Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and 3.6.
- Run coded UI tests for web applications using Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
For more details, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=192777
Visual Studio Extensibility announcements
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- Information:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2013/05/07/release-candidate-to-visual-studio-update-3-now-available.aspx - Description:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2835600 - Download link:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39067 - You can vote on feedback and ideas (or add your own!) on:
http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio - If you find any issue, please go to:
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio
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- This Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, Text Templates (T4) and other non-modeling extensibility
- For questions about T4 Toolbox, please use http://t4toolbox.codeplex.com/discussions
- Visualization and Modeling Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visualization and Modeling Extensibility Forum - for domain-specific languages (DSLs) and extending the modeling tools
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content
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http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?query=t4&ac=8
CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to create new projects to share with the world, join others who have already started their own projects, or use the applications on this site and provide feedback.
MSBuild announcements
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Take a look at the Blog post below by Dan Moseley.
Visual Studio Diagnostics (Debugger, Profiler, IntelliTrace) announcements
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A Channel 9 video showing the new 2010 debugger features is available at: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-34-Debugger-Enhancements-and-Improvements/
Visual Studio Visualization & Modeling Tools announcements
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- This Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visualization and Modeling SDK Forum - for domain-specific languages and extending the modeling tools
- Visual Studio Extensibility Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, and other non-modeling extensions
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content.
Thanks for posting your questions and feedback! We use them to help us improve the product and improve the help pages.
Visual Studio General Questions announcements
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The following forums have been merged into this forum: Visual Studio WPF/SL Designer, Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit, Developer Documentation and Help System, Visual Studio Report Controls, and Visual Studio Editor.
Visual Studio LightSwitch Extensibility announcements
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We've just uploaded the updated version of the Extensibility Toolkit to the MSDN Extensions Gallery: LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit for VS 2012
The toolkit provides project types for creating new LightSwitch Extension Libraries that target Visual Studio 11 and includes templates for creating the following LightSwitch extensions: LightSwitch Business Type, LightSwitch Control, LightSwitch Data Source, LightSwitch Screen Template, LightSwitch Shell, and LightSwitch Theme.
Updated versions of the eight extensibility samples have been uploaded to the LightSwitch Extensibility Samples for VS 2012 as well.
Enjoy
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Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud. Professional developers can extend the functionality of LightSwitch by creating extensions using Visual Studio 2010 Professional, the Visual Studio SDK, and the Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Extensibility Toolkit. The toolkit provides project types for creating new LightSwitch Extension Libraries and includes templates for creating your own themes, shells, business types, controls, screen templates, and data sources.
You can access the toolkit plus walkthroughs, samples and documentation here on the Developer Center. Please make sure you follow the instructions carefully for installing the toolkit and the prerequisites.
Extending Visual Studio LightSwitchHAVE FUN!
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Thank you for your interest in Visual Studio LightSwitch! This forum is for questions related to extending Visual Studio LightSwitch which is now available as of July 26th. For general questions and install troubleshooting please see the LightSwitch General forum.
To get started learning how to extend LightSwitch please see :
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Extending Visual Studio LightSwitch page on the Developer Center where you can download the LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit and read walkthroughs on how to get started
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LightSwitch Team Extensibility Samples that you can download to learn how to build many of the supported extension types
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Advanced hands-on labs in the LightSwitch Training Kit where you will build and package an extension that can be reused by the Visual Studio LightSwitch end user
Also make sure to visit the following resources:
If you have a bug to report or just want to make a suggestion please enter them through Connect: http://connect.microsoft.com/lightswitch
Have fun!
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Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) announcements
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You can get the VSTA 2012 and VSTA 2012 SDK through the links below:
In VSTA 2012 release, we are introducing several changes to the licensing model as well as how you integrate VSTA into your application:
- There is no longer a licensing fee for the VSTA 2012 redistributable components. Your organization can distribute and use the VSTA 2012 redistributable components free of charge.
- VSTA 2012 no longer provides its own Visual Studio Environment for authoring macros. Instead, Visual Studio 2012 Professional (or above) is required to develop VSTA macros and add-ins. VSTA has two primary modes of operation: with Visual Studio 2012 Professional (or above) installed and standalone. In standalone mode, VSTA provides your application with the means to load, compile, and run end user customizations. With Visual Studio 2012 Professional (or above) installed on your user’s machine, VSTA extends that functionality with the means to edit and debug those customizations.
- VSTA 2012 supports .NET Framework 4.5.
- VSTA 2012 presents a new and simplified API for integrating design-time experiences into your application using either managed (Visual C# or Visual Basic .NET) or unmanaged (Visual C++) code. The new VSTA hosting API simplifies tasks such as finding the installation of Visual Studio, launching the external process, and synchronizing save state, making integration significantly easier than previous versions.
- With VSTA 2012, users can upgrade projects from Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications and Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Applications, compile, and run them.
- VSTA 2012 no longer requires your application host to provide a runtime library to run. This gives you the flexibility to choose the method of running user code best tailored to the host application.
Minimum System Requirement:
- Windows 7
- .NET Framework 4.5
- 2 GB of RAM
- 4 MB of hard disk space
Runtime requirement for VSTA 2012:
Requirement to enable editing and debugging for VSTA customization:
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Professional, Premium or Ultimate
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) announcements
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I'm pleased to announce that the official Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 is now available to download! For VSTO developers, this release brings .NET 4.5 support and design-time support for Office 2013, along with general design-time enhancements and bug fixes to the VSTO Runtime (released separately a few months ago via our download center and Windows Update; see KB 2796590 for information regarding the Runtime). We also heard your feedback from "Preview 2" of the tools, including the request to bring back the VSTO Runtime Bootstrapper into VS 2012 -- it is now back in the product.
Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 also includes tooling for the new apps for Office and apps for SharePoint projects, improvements to SharePoint Workflows, and more. You can read the official announcement for apps-related tooling on Soma’s blog post.
VSTO Office 2013 design-time support in Visual Studio 2012.
Note: Now that's we've added .NET 4.5 support to 2013, we've properly re-categorized the templates in the "New Project" dialog according to the .NET framework version that they support. So, if you're looking for the Office 2010 templates after installing the latest tools, be sure to adjust the ".NET Framework" dropdown to ".NET Framework 4.0". Again, to recap, both the 2010 and 2013 templates support .NET Framework 4.0, but only the 2013 templates support .NET Framework 4.5 -- and the "New Project" dialog respects that categorization.
I hope you enjoy using our new tools! If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.
- Michael Zlatkovsky | Program Manager, Visual Studio Tools for Office & Apps for Office
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Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VSTO. Rest assured that VSTO continues to be alive and well. In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO for now. At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for additional programming languages and platforms, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution, lifecycle management, and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.
To learn more, please see the blog post: "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".
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I know the documentation for Office 2013 is still somewhat limited, but hopefully the following link will help.
Microsoft Office Document: [MS-CustomUI2] Supporting Documentation - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=727
From here, you should be able to download the *.txt files for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus the imageMso information. Once a file is downloaded, it can be opened in Excel to make it easier to look through all the controls.
Best Regards,
Nathan O.
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We had discovered an issue where add-ins deployed using the ClickOnce method will, under certain conditions, try and fail to install an update, and thereby disable the add-in. For document-level customizations, an exception window with a stack trace may be shown; for application-level add-ins, the add-in will be disabled silently. See the thread http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/495098f8-6364-443a-b2e1-23e650af7e1e.
There is now a NEW VERSION of the VSTO Runtime that fixes the issue. If you're using the web bootstrapper (for add-ins developed using Visual Studio 2010), the bootstrapper will automatically chain in the latest version, so no action is required on your part, or on that of your users. If you're deploying from Visual Studio 2012, you'll need to enable the bootstrapper functionality manually: please see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsto/archive/2012/12/21/creating-a-bootstrapper-package-for-an-office-2013-vsto-add-in-with-visual-studio-2012.aspx. Users can also download the latest runtime from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=140384.
Installing the new Runtime is a preventative measure, and we highly recommend that all of your users do so! However, this will not fix add-ins that may already have gotten disabled due to the issue. Thus, for users who are already impacted:
If the install location is still accessible (and/or if the developer puts a new version into the same location)
1. Re-run setup from the original network share.
2. Re-enable the Add-In / Doc-Level Customization from within the Office application, as described below.
If the install location is NOT accessible (e.g., network share permanently down, or file was installed off of a USB stick which has since been removed)
1. Launch “regedit.exe” from the start menu / start screen. Navigate to Computer ==> HKEY_CURRENT_USER ==> Software ==> Microsoft ==> VSTA ==> Solutions.
2. There should be several entries there, identified by GUIDs. Click on each entry and check the “ProductName” data until you find the Add-In that you’re trying to re-enable.
3. For the Add-In that’s having problems, double-click on UpdateEnabled.
4. Change the “Value data” to 0 and press “OK”. This will disable Update Checking (and hence cure the problem) until a new version of an add-in is explicitly installed, or until the user repeats the same steps, and sets “UpdateEnabled” to “1”.After editing the Registry, the user should re-launch the Office App (e.g., Excel), and go through the usual steps of re-enabling the add-in (see below).
The usual steps of re-enabling the add-in: (required in either case for any user with currently-disabled add-ins)
1. Open the application’s options (e.g., “Excel Options”) and navigate to the Add-Ins tab.
2. Select “COM Add-ins” from the “Manage” dropdown.
3. Press “Go…”. A window will open.
4. Enable the checkbox for the Add-In(s) that you’d like to re-enable.
5. Click “OK”.
After performing the above steps, the add-in / document-level customization should re-activate in the host application, and also show up in the Control Panel’s “Add or Remove Programs” list.Michael Zlatkovsky | Program Manager, Visual Studio Tools for Office & Apps for Office
Visual Studio Setup and Installation announcements
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5 have been released to the web for MSDN subscribers, as well as trial versions for all our customers.
More information about the many features in VS2012 can be found at the links below.
If you have any problems installing Visual Studio or the .NET Framework, please download and run the log collection utility. When that completes, upload %TEMP%\vslogs.cab to an Internet share like http://skydrive.com, which gives you 7GB of free cloud storage using the same Microsoft account you use for these forums. Then share the URL here in this forum with a description of your problem.
Visual Studio Editor announcements
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To increase the chances of the right team seeing your topic, it's very helpful if you post in the forum that corresponds to your issue or discussion. This forum (Visual Studio Editor) covers questions related to the core text/code editor *only*. This includes issues related to typing, scrolling, IntelliSense, tooltips, syntax coloring, outlining, etc., as well as editor extensibility. It does NOT include questions of the form, "How do I write code to accomplish XYZ task in language Foo?".
For topics that are language-specific, database-related, or involve any type of designer surface, debugger, compiler, etc., please start with the forums listed below:
- Web Development: http://forums.asp.net
- SQL/Database Development: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vstsdb/threads
- WinForms: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winforms/threads (general issues) or http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winformsdesigner/threads (WinForms designer)
- WPF Designer: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vswpfdesigner/threads
- Debugger: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsdebug/threads
- Test Tools: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vststest/threadsThanks for your help in posting questions where they are most likely to be answered!
Visual Studio LightSwitch - General Questions announcements
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Thank you for your interest in Visual Studio LightSwitch! This forum is for general questions related to Visual Studio LightSwitch.
Remember, there is no such thing as a stupid question! Please treat all forum visitors with respect, and help out your fellow LightSwitch developers by providing answers whenever possible.
Also please take a look at the following learning resources on the Lightswitch Developer Center (http://msdn.com/lightswitch).
Learn to build LightSwitch Applications
Watch the instructional LightSwitch "How Do I?" videos
Become part of the LightSwitch Community:
Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog
Enjoy!
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The LightSwitch team is proud to announce the release of the LightSwitch HTML client in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2!
Users of the previous CTP4 release should be able to upgrade with no problems. Users of the older Preview 2 please read these important upgrade instructions before installing Update 2.
The new HTML5 and JavaScript-based client is an important companion to our Silverlight-based desktop client that addresses the increasing need to build touch-oriented business applications that run well on modern mobile devices. We’ve also enabled support for the new SharePoint Apps model, so you can now also build SharePoint 2013 apps with LightSwitch.
Check out all the great resources to learn more:
Developer Center – We’ve got a refreshed website with new HTML client resources and tutorials. The Developer Center is your one-stop-shop for the best LightSwitch team samples, videos, articles and documentation. Start with the basics or go deeper and explore the architecture and hosting options of LightSwitch apps.
How Do I Videos – We also have started a new “How Do I...?” video series that shows you step-by-step how to get started building HTML clients with LightSwitch. Keep tabs on this page as we’re planning a lot more!
JavaScript Samples – We also have created some JavaScript snippets that show you how to achieve many common coding tasks on the HTML client. If you’re new to JavaScript, these snippets should help!
Ask questions in the General Forum – Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on the previews! Now that we have released, we will continue our conversations in the LightSwitch General forum. The team is listening there.
Enjoy!
LightSwitch HTML Client Preview announcements
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Ask questions in the General Forum – Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on the previews! Now that we have released, we will continue our conversations in the LightSwitch General forum. The team is listening there.
Thanks!
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The LightSwitch team is proud to announce the release of the LightSwitch HTML client in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2!
Users of the previous CTP4 release should be able to upgrade with no problems. Users of the older Preview 2 please read these important upgrade instructions before installing Update 2.
The new HTML5 and JavaScript-based client is an important companion to our Silverlight-based desktop client that addresses the increasing need to build touch-oriented business applications that run well on modern mobile devices. We’ve also enabled support for the new SharePoint Apps model, so you can now also build SharePoint 2013 apps with LightSwitch.
Check out all the great resources to learn more:
Developer Center – We’ve got a refreshed website with new HTML client resources and tutorials. The Developer Center is your one-stop-shop for the best LightSwitch team samples, videos, articles and documentation. Start with the basics or go deeper and explore the architecture and hosting options of LightSwitch apps.
How Do I Videos – We also have started a new “How Do I...?” video series that shows you step-by-step how to get started building HTML clients with LightSwitch. Keep tabs on this page as we’re planning a lot more!
JavaScript Samples – We also have created some JavaScript snippets that show you how to achieve many common coding tasks on the HTML client. If you’re new to JavaScript, these snippets should help!
Ask questions in the General Forum – Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on the previews! Now that we have released, we will continue our conversations in the LightSwitch General forum. The team is listening there.
Enjoy!
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