Visual Studio Links #38

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.

Anthony Cangialosi announced the release of new features for Visual Studio Gallery.  A new ratings system has been introduced that allows the community to provide ratings and reviews of the extensions.

Microsoft announced that the next major version of Visual Studio Team System Database Edition will support IBM DB2.

Aaron Marten posted a link to the announcement for Namespace#, a tool that helps to diagnose problems with Help 2.0 files.

Carlos Quintero:

• Empty ProjectProperties4 and ProjectConfigurationProperties4 interfaces in VSLangProj90.dll?
• Carlos updated his article on how to prevent Visual Studio .Net events being disconnected from add-in.
• The strange case of InvalidCastException using EditPoint.FindPattern with Visual Studio Database Projects.

Tess posted Setting .NET breakpoints in Windb for applications that crash on startup.

Visual C++ Team Blog has posted some C++ gotchas.

Scott Guthrie announced the release of Silverlight 2 Beta2.

Web Developer Team has written an article describing the new features and changes for Silverlight Tools Beta 2.

Sara Ford’s Tip of the Day #232 describes the settings in the New Project Dialog Preferred Language category.

Via Jason Haley:  Announcing the “Parallel Programming in Native Code” blog.