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Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 is Available
Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 is Available
Discover the range of possibilities with LightSwitch. Download the beta and learn how to develop business applications.
Process Templates and Tools
Process Templates and Tools
Learn more about Visual Studio's templates and tools that are available from Microsoft and the community.
VS2010 Community Wallpapers
VS2010 Community Wallpapers
Check out this fun collection of creative wallpapers and color schemes from the Visual Studio community.
Video: VS Lab Management Overview
Video: VS Lab Management Overview
Watch this How Do I? video that describes how Lab Management extends an existing VS ALM platform to enable an integrated Hyper-V based test lab.

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Featured Visual Studio Blogs


Willy-Peter Schaub
Solution Architect
TFS Integration Platform – Codeplex refreshed with new documentation
Friday, Sep 3
Cameron Skinner
Product Unit Manager
The Tier Interaction Profiler ( TIP )
Friday, Sep 3
Buck Hodges
Principal Development Manager
How to figure out whether a change has made it to another branch
Monday, Aug 30
Amit Chatterjee
General Manager
Archie!
Saturday, Aug 28

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Visual Studio Team Blogs

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Visual Studio MVP Blogs

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ALM with Visual Studio RSS


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

Installing Team Foundation Components
Check out the latest version of the Team Foundatio... more
Friday, Sep 3 by Microsoft
Setting Up Test Machines to Run Tests or Collect Data
Learn how to configure test machines so you can ru... more
Wednesday, Sep 1 by Microsoft
Extending Work Item Tracking by Using the Client Object Model for Team Foundation
Learn more about how to programmatically create, c... more
Tuesday, Aug 24 by Microsoft
Visual Studio Scrum 1.0
Read through the process guidance for the new Visu... more
Tuesday, Aug 17 by Microsoft

Visual Studio Professional RSS


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

Visual Studio Extension Deployment
Describes three formats for deploying extensions:... more
Tuesday, Aug 31 by Microsoft
Availability of Features in Visual Studio Versions
Shows whether features are supported in certain ve... more
Monday, Aug 16 by Microsoft
Managing Visual Studio Extensions
Describes how to use Extension Manager to add, rem... more
Tuesday, Aug 3 by Microsoft
How to: Arrange and Dock Windows
Shows how to dock, float, tile, and auto-hide tool... more
Monday, Jul 12 by Microsoft

Visual Studio Extensibility RSS


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

Walkthrough: Implementing Code Snippets
Teaches how to add code snippets to a Visual Studi... more
Tuesday, Aug 31 by Microsoft
Walkthroughs for Customizing Visual Studio By Using VSPackages
Teaches how to create a VSPackage, give it functio... more
Monday, Aug 16 by Microsoft
VSIX Deployment
Use the VSIX file-based format to deploy templates... more
Tuesday, Aug 3 by Microsoft
Visual Studio Editors
The Visual Studio editor has been rewritten in man... more
Monday, Jul 12 by Microsoft

Interviews about Visual Studio on Channel 9

MSDN Radio: Visual Studio LightSwitch with John Stallo and Jay Schmelzer
This week on MSDN Radio, John Stallo and Jay Schmelzer from the Microsoft Visual Studio team will talk about LightSwitch—a new tool that allows you to... more...
Bytes by MSDN: Burley Kawasaki and Billy Hollis discuss features & benefits of VS2010 & .NET 4
Burley Kawasaki, Director of Developer Platform Product Management, joins Billy Hollis and outlines the features and benefits of Visual Studio 2010 an... more...
Introducing Visual Studio 2010 Scrum 1.0
Microsoft has just released Visual Studio 2010 Scrum 1.0, which is a new Team Foundation Server process template that enacts Scrum. Scrum is an iterat... more...

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Visual Studio Gallery

Fix soft HyperGraphic Form
It's a Windows Form.It supports Animations,Gradients,Sounds,Spedial Events,Special Functions,Fade,Slide,ShortSlideFade,LongSlideFade,Select control by Name,Create arrays,Empey Icon,Customize speed and... more...
Magellan
Magellan is a routing and MVC framework for WPF, inspired by ASP.NET MVC. This extension contains project templates that let you create Magellan applications quickly. Nothing is installed to the GAC.
.NET Barcode ASP.NET Controls for C# and VB - NBarcode .NET
NBarcode for ASP.NET are Barcode writer and controls for C# and VB.NET. NBarcode for ASP.NET supports most popular Linear (1D), 2D barcode standards, including Code 39, Code 128,EAN 13, UPC, Postal, P... more...

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CodePlex Projects and Downloads

UsefulDB4O
UsefulDB4O is a Base Class Libray for people working with Db4o (Open Source Object Database) on Net FrameWork. A few classes and features which help you to improve your job:- migrating RDB... more...
Visual Studio Database Guide
Practical guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Database projects which is focused on Solution and Project Management, Source Control and CM, Integrating External Changes with the Project System, Build and... more...
BraceOutliner
BraceOutliner is an add-in for Visual Studio 2008. It outlines code between matching braces. For now, only C# is supported, I'm hoping to expand it to a complete code folding add-in (not j... more...

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Code Gallery Samples and Downloads

Making MapPoint 2010 and SQL Server Spatial Work Together
While SQL Server is a good repository for geospatial data, it doesn’t communicate with MapPoint as well as it could. So our geo-data experts show you how to read point and polygon objects from S... more...
Create a Silverlight 4 Web Part for SharePoint 2010
When building custom SharePoint 2010 solutions, it makes a lot of sense to take advantage of Silverlight 4 on the front end. We’ll walk you through the process of building a Silverlight Web Part... more...
Customizable Process Guidance: Visual Studio Scrum 1.0
You can download and customize the process guidance for Visual Studio Scrum 1.0, and associate it with your team projects in Visual Studio Team System.

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