Visual Studio Links #10
Written by: Darren Stokes at 3/16/2008 6:15:53 AMMy latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.
Windows Performance Tools Kit is available as a separate download. This is an update to the tools in the Windows Server 2008 SDK. See this post for additional details.
Sara Ford posted a tip on creating user tasks in VS that are separate from code.
Pablo Galiano described how to host a WPF control inside a VS tool window. StickyNotes does this.
Another good one from Pablo: He describes how you can use $if$ in vstemplates to generate code conditionally.
The US ISV Developer Evangelism Team, a group near and dear to my heart, posted links to web seminars that will be going on for Windows Mobile 6 in the middle of April.
Carlos Quintero posted on article explaining how to make sure that event handlers attached to CodeModelEvents fire properly.
Pablo Galiano announced the availability of the March 2008 CTP of VSSDK Assist. VSSDK Assist is a collection of GAX recipes, guidance, and other goodies to help with development of VSPackages using the VSSDK.
VS 2008 KB:
- A hotfix is available if you have been having problems generating type library information by using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.dll
Microsoft has released the Feb 08 CTP of the XSLT Profiler for Visual Studio. VS 2008 Team Suite with the Performance Tools feature is required.
The US ISV Developer Evangelism Team has a blog post about the free online training available from Microsoft for developers. The list in the post includes topics like .Net 3.5 and VS 2008, WPF, WCF, Workflow, Sharepoint, and other good stuff.
Phil Haack posted a description of a utility to help debug and test routes in ASP.NET MVC. Source code included.
Visual Web Developer Team postings on ASP.NET MVC Testing:
- Vishal Joshi on how to register a new test framework and templates for test generation when new ASP.NET MVC projects are created.
- Joe Cartano with a specific examples of Vishal's post using templates he created for NUnit and Rhino Mocks.
The US ISV Developer Evangelism Team posted 2 new links to screencasts on created Excel Add-Ins using VSTO.
DiveDeeper blog continues the LearnVSXNow! series with Creating a simple custom editor - the first ten meters.
The US ISV Developer Evangelism Team pointed to the download for the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit.
The JetBrains .Net Tools Blog has a post describing how to use the custom code template functionality in ReSharper.
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