My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.
Miguel de Icaza announced that Microsoft has changed the Managed Extensibility Framework License. (Now MS-PL)
New on Visual Studio Gallery: TFS Build Status Screen. Shows real-time status of TFS builds.
Greg Duncan has posted some good links:
- XAML Power Toys.
- Reflecting on COM component with ITypeInfo, for when you don’t have Interop assembly/Runtime Callable Wrapper.
Miguel de Icaza announced the release of Mono 2.0.
Scott Guthrie posted a summary of good links: October 10th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAZ, jQuery, IIS.
Sara Ford:
- Tip of the Day #328 shows how to make a project be the startup project with a single-click.
- Tip of the Day #329 shows how to configure the MSBuild verbosity in the Output window.
- Tip of the Day #321 shows how to keep recently-used files from falling off the File Tab Channel.
- Tip of the Day #322 explains how to edit a project file within the IDE.
The Web Developer Tools Team:
- Troubleshooting “Visual Studio 2008 Design view hangs” issues
- Exclude Files and Folders from WDP Output
- Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 8
- Tip #11 Did you know… New Style builder can be invoked from various other tool windows in Visual Web Developer
- Tip #12: Did you know..How to create an IIS Virtual Directory from within Visual Web Developer?
- Tip #13: Did you know… How to get the browser agent using ASP.NET Ajax?
Daniel Moth announced that the Parallel Extensions are now part of the .NET Framework 4.0.
The Visual Basic Team:
- Looking for Setup and Deployment Project Templates?
- VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 6: Writing an XSLT Transformation in VB
- VB Catch … When: Why so special?
- VB Video Tutorials on ASP.NET Dynamic Data
Jonathan Wood has created a new video – How Do I: Use the SHFileOperation Function in MFC?
Tess explains how to use VSTS Test and Profilers to troubleshoot a High CPU in GC issue.
Microsoft Windows SDK Team:
VS2005 KB:
- Workarounds available for Performance issues in compute-intensive VC++ application after upgrade from VS 2003 to VS 2005.
- Hotfix available for The compiler may generate incorrect code when you compile an application in Visual C++ 2005 on the x64 platform and when code optimization is turned on.
Quan To explained what happened to msenv.pdb for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.
Carlos Quintero:
- More on the build configuration automation model
- The OnConnection method and ext_ConnectMode.ext_cm_UISetup of Visual Studio add-ins
DiveDeeper’s blog continues the LearnVSXNow! series with Working with Hierarchies Part 1 – Hierarchy Basics and Working with Hierarchies 2 – Internal Structure of Hierarchies.
