October, 2009

Weston Hutchins – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio : I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2005 and have been working in Visual Studio ever since. I’m currently a PM on the VS Shell Team. No, not the “ Isolated ” or “ Integrated ”...

Update : We have diagnosed and fixed the issue that was causing comments to be discarded. If you were trying to post a comment in the last few days, we'd appreciate it if you could repost -- we love to hear feedback. If you are having any more issues...

In addition to making announcements, showcasing features, posting walkthroughs, and sharing Visual Studio tips and tricks, we’ll also be using this blog to raise awareness of commonly-encountered bugs and explain their workarounds. As many of you know...

VSIX is a new technology created for deploying Visual Studio extensions.  It’s a zip file that uses the Open Packaging Convention .  By renaming the file extension of any .VSIX file to .ZIP, you can open up the file in Windows Explorer and take...

I’m Brittany, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Editor team. Some of you may recognize me from Connect bugs , @VSEditor on Twitter , or the Visual Studio Editor blog , which has recently moved to its new home here at The Visual Studio Blog . I’m...

Hi, my name’s Josh and I’m a developer on the VS Shell team. Among other things, I’m responsible for the Toolbox. In VS 2010 Beta2, we’ve added the ability to search for controls in the toolbox by name. To use it, put focus in the toolbox (by clicking...

The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this year is in Los Angeles from November 17 th to 19 th . The PDC is an opportunity to mingle with architects and developers from the software industry and to listen to the leaders, heroes and legends from...

Since this week is already filled with other notable launches , we figured it would be fitting to unveil one more important launch: The Visual Studio Blog! Since the majority of our users are utilizing not just one, but multiple aspects of Visual Studio...

In the previous post I showed how you can use the new dynamic feature and the ExpandoObject class to add and remove properties at run time, and how this can make your code more readable and flexible than code written with LINQ to XML syntax. But there...