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IntelliSense Crash in VS 2010 RC when using UI Automation
Shortly before the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC) was released, the Visual Studio team discovered a significant VS crashing bug on machines using UI Automation (UIA... more
Tuesday, Feb 9

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Now Available!
If you haven’t read the news on other notable MSDN blogs, I’m pleased to announce that the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidates are now available for dow... more
Tuesday, Feb 9

Visual Studio First Launch Sequence
With the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate around the corner, I would like to talk briefly about some changes we have made to the first-launch-after-installation s... more
Sunday, Feb 7

Announcement: Unpublishing Extensions from Beta 2 to RC
UPDATE 2/8: I forgot to mention a change to the VSIX file format in the Release Candidate that might impact your extensions. The valid <Edition> val... more
Thursday, Feb 4

Visual Studio “Tip of the Day”
If you like the tips and tricks we sometimes post on this blog, you might want to check out the Visual Studio Tips and Tricks blog. It’s written by Zain Naboulsi, a Seni... more
Tuesday, Feb 2

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Visual Studio Extensibility Team Member Blogs

Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing
There is plenty of new functionality in VS 2010 but not nearly as much informati... more
by acangialosi

Problems building VS 2008 SDKSample
Recently, one of our partners had a question pertaining to Help 2.0 integration,... more
by Ed Dore

All Your RegKeys Are Belong To Us
I’ve been in many discussions lately with various folks about Visual Studio 2010... more
by aaronmar

Extending UML designers in VS2010 Beta2
As mentioned in this post, the UML designers in VS2010 Ultimate now come with a... more
by Stuart Kent

Jean-Marc blogs about DSL Tools in VS2010 Beta2
Back from holiday (in Cyprus, 30 degrees C, very relaxing thanks), and as I sugg... more
by Stuart Kent

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Featured Library Content

Important updates and highlights of Visual Studio content in the MSDN Library.

Contributing to the Automation Model (Visual Studio 2010 Beta)
Links to topics that show how to let users of your... more
Tuesday, Nov 10 by Microsoft

How to: Create Solution Add-ins (Visual Studio 2010 Beta)
A solution add-in can help when you have to meet s... more
Monday, Oct 26 by Microsoft

Introducing the Visual Studio SDK (Visual Studio 2010 Beta)
An overview about how to use the tools, samples, a... more
Monday, Oct 19 by Microsoft

Walkthrough: Customizing the Domain-Specific Language Definition (Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1)
Teaches how to customize a basic FamilyTree domain... more
Wednesday, Oct 14 by Microsoft

Walkthrough: Customizing the Domain-Specific Language Definition (Visual Studio 2008 SDK)
Teaches how to customize a basic FamilyTree domain... more
Wednesday, Oct 14 by Microsoft

Learning Center Resources

	IDE Extensibility Learn how to extend the project system, extend the editor, create custom wizards, and more . . . Help Integration Custom Wizards Debugger Project System User Interface Editors
	DSL Tools Learn how to use DSL Tools in the Visual Studio SDK to build graphical models to generate code.
	Visual Studio Shell Learn how to use the Visual Studio Shell to accelerate the development of tools or languages.
	TFS Extensibility Learn about the broad range of customizations and integration options available with the Team Foundation Server.

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Visual Studio Gallery

Multi Column Collapsible Tree List
The Silverlight MultiColumnTreeList is a great way to visualize and edit hierarchical data in a collapsizble multi-column tree grid. Binding to it is... more...

Visual Studio Editor Auto Close
Visual Studio 2008 version of the Eclipse IDE "Close Editors Automatically" feature. This add in closes the least recently used editor window automati... more...

Klik! ListLib.Net for Windows Forms
Klik! ListLib.Net is a set of User Interface controls/components designed especially to add sophisticated listing features to your .Net Windows Forms... more...

Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK
Allows developers to build applications that enable up to 25 individual mouse devices to work simultaneously on one computer.

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CodePlex Projects and Downloads

WPF ShaderEffect Generator
The WPF ShaderEffect Generator is an integration to Visual Studio to automatically generate the code-behind ShaderEffect classes for shader (*... more...

Transform Templates Tool
When you are working on more then one dsl's or T4 templates in a solution and you click Transform All Templates it transform all the templates. Wi... more...

All-In-One Code Framework (简体中文)
微软一站式开发技术框架解决方案通过不×... more...

Visual Studio 2010 Editor Samples
Several samples showing how to extend the new WPF-based editor in Visual Studio 2010.

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Code Gallery Samples and Downloads

All-In-One Code Framework (A Sample Code Project)
Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework delineates the framework and skeleton of Microsoft development techniques through typical sample codes in three po... more...

Visual Studio SDK 2010 Samples -- WCF Service Consumption Tools
These samples are for Visual Studio SDK 2010 in the WCF Service Consumption Tools area.

All-In-One Code Framework (AIO)
All-In-One Code Framework code-name CodeFx delineates the framework and skeleton of most Microsoft development techniques (e.g. COM, Data Access,... more...

PcwTESample for VS 2008
This sample is an updated version of the PcwTESample, that fixes a number of problems with the original sample that shipped with the Visual Studio 200... more...

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