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Featured Visual Studio Blogs

	Jason Zander Favorite VS2010 Features: Layer Validation In my previous favorite features post I talked about doing architectur... More... Thursday, Feb 18
	Visual Studio Data Team Blog Using Printer to print all the records of DataRepeater One question being asked about DataRepeater in the MSDN forum is that... More... Friday, Mar 5 by Yunfeng Dong
	Visual Studio Platform Team Blog WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 4 : Direct Hosting of WPF content This is the fourth part in the series of posts on Visual Studio 2010’s... More... Tuesday, Mar 16 by visualstudioblog

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Windows Applications

Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) are key technologies for Windows development.

Office Applications

Build Office Applications using the integrated programs, servers, services, tools, and technologies included in the Microsoft Office System.

Browser Applications

Create powerful Web applications with ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET AJAX, and Silverlight, which are all available in Visual Studio.

Mobile Device Applications

Use integrated Visual Studio support to develop Windows CE and Windows Mobile-based rich-client applications for smart devices.

SharePoint Applications

Create powerful SharePoint applications with Visual Studio 2008.

Visual Studio 2005 and Previous Versions

MSDN Library, Downloads and Support resources targeted at helping you build applications with older versions of Visual Studio.

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

Installing Visual Studio Versions Side-by-Side
Visual Studio 2010 can be installed on a computer... more
Tuesday, Mar 16 by Microsoft

What's New in Visual Studio 2010
Learn about the new features and enhancements in V... more
Saturday, Feb 27 by Microsoft

Window Management (Visual Studio 2010)
Shows how to position and move among Visual Studio... more
Saturday, Feb 27 by Microsoft

Working with Settings (Visual Studio 2010)
Describes settings in Visual Studio, how they work... more
Monday, Oct 19 by Microsoft

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Recent Visual Studio Articles in MSDN Magazine

Thread Diagnostics: Performance Tuning with The Concurrency Visualizer in Visual Studio 2010
Understanding performance bottlenecks in multithreaded apps used to require significant instrumentat... more
Wednesday, Feb 24

Basic Instincts: Generic Co- and Contravariance in Visual Basic 2010
Dig into the new co- and contravariance features coming in Visual Studio 2010. Binyam Kelile provide... more
Wednesday, Feb 24

Toolbox: UI Mockups, User Experience Tips, JavaScript Checker and More
Scott Mitchell reviews a user interface mockup tool, a blog for user experience tips, a JavaScript c... more
Wednesday, Jan 6

Extreme ASP.NET: Text Template Transformation Toolkit and ASP.NET MVC
The Visual Studio T4 code generation engine lets you parse an input file and transform it into an ou... more
Wednesday, Jan 6

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Featured Microsoft Developer Blogs

Scott Hanselman
Principal Program Manager
Mix 10 Rollup Post
Wednesday, Mar 17

Brad Abrams
Principal Product Unit Manager
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client
Tuesday, Mar 16

J.D. Meier
Principal Program Manager
Getting Started with Windows Azure
Tuesday, Mar 16

Stephen Walther
Senior Program Manager
Microsoft, jQuery, and Templating
Tuesday, Mar 16

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Interviews about Visual Studio on Channel 9

IE 9 - Surf on Metal with GPU Powered HTML5
Get your hands on the IE9 developer platform preview! We drop in on IE PM and graphics enginering legend Ted Johnson and IE dev platform PM John Hr... more...

IE 9 and SVG - Past, Present and Future of Vector Graphics for the Web
Get your hands on the IE9 developer platform preview! Graphics programming master Christian Fortini and IE SVG PM Patrick Dengler discuss IE9's nat... more...

IE 9 Performance Pipeline Overview
Get your hands on the IE9 developer platform preview! IE Performance PM Jason Weber and Performance Dev Lead Venkat Kudallur take us through the up... more...

Introducing the IE9 Developer Platform Preview
Get your hands on the IE9 developer platform preview! The IE team has been very busy working on the next version of Internet Explorer, aka IE 9. To... more...

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Visual Studio Gallery

Menu and Context Menu for Silverlight
Free Menu and Context Menu controls for Silverlight

Color Picker Completion
Makes it easier to select colors in Intellisense by replacing the completion icons with colors.

CollabNet Desktop - Visual Studio Edition
CollabNet, founder & sponsor of Subversion and AnkhSVN, provides an agile, integrated, collaborative ALM platform for Visual Studio developers. The on... more...

ImageGear for Silverlight
Silverlight imaging SDK

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CodePlex Projects and Downloads

MyColorSprite
This Silverlight app is a color selection tool especially great for creating gredient color brushes for the xaml code. It allows a user create/pick a... more...

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

VsTortoise - a TortoiseSVN add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio
VsTortoise is a free addin for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010RC standard or higher, that provides an interface to perform the most common revi... more...

RAD Studio Code Generation Toolkit
RAD Studio is the ultimate class object creator / stored procedure generator and data tier creator for C# and other Visual Studio developers.RAD Studi... more...

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Code Gallery Samples and Downloads

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

KB980920 - VS2010 crashes with System.InvalidOperationException w/QuickInfo
KB980920 - Visual Studio 2010 crashes with System.InvalidOperationException when performing QuickInfo

KB980610-VS2010RC:Intellisense crash using Tablet,Multi-touch,Screen Reader,etc
VS 2010 RC Patch: Intellisense Crashes when using Tablet, Multi-touch, Screen Readers, etc

WebDev Server Manager
This application replaces the built-in WebDev.WebServer.exe file that comes with Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. It does not display those annoying popu... more...

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