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MSDN Subscribers: Download the VS 2010 Release Candidate
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate is available to MSDN subscribers on Monday, February 8th, with general availability on February 10th.

Learn from the best in web design and development at MIX10.
MIX10 favorites Scott Guthrie and Bill Buxton have been announced as keynote speakers. Come hear these experts and others speak on UX, design, Windows phone, and much more. Register by February 7th to take advantage of the $400 discount on your pass... more

Windows Azure Benefits for MSDN Subscribers
While Windows Azure is already available to developers, starting January 4, 2010, MSDN subscribers in many countries can now access their benefits on the Windows Azure platform. Subscribers will benefit from compute hours, storage, data transfers, S... more

Visual Studio 2010 Training Course on Channel 9
Explore Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 with a new training course on Channel 9.

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Featured Visual Studio Blogs

	Jason Zander Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) Today I’m pleased to announce we have shipped the RC for Visual Studio... More... Tuesday, Feb 9
	Visual Studio Data Team Blog Silverlight Object Binding in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Visual Studio 2010 provides drag-and-drop data binding from the Data S... More... Thursday, Feb 4 by SteveS_MS
	Visual Studio Platform Team Blog IntelliSense Crash in VS 2010 RC when using UI Automation Shortly before the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC) was relea... More... Tuesday, Feb 9 by visualstudioblog

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Build Applications with Visual Studio

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.

Featured Library Content

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

Configuration Manager Dialog Box (Visual Studio 2010 Beta)
Lets you create and edit solution build configurat... more
Tuesday, Nov 10 by Microsoft

Customizing the Development Environment (Visual Studio 2010 Beta)
You can change the appearance and behavior of the... more
Monday, Oct 26 by Microsoft

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

What's New in Visual Studio 2010
Contains links to information about new features a... more
Monday, Oct 19 by Microsoft

Visual Studio Related Technologies

Visual Studio Related Articles in this Month's Edition

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Featured Microsoft Developer Blogs

Jesse Liberty
Senior Program Manager
Silverlight Test Driven Development – Part II
Wednesday, Feb 10

J.D. Meier
Principal Program Manager
Cloud Defined
Tuesday, Feb 9

Scott Hanselman
Principal Program Manager
The Weekly Source Code 49 - SmallBasic is Fun, Simple, Powerful Programming for Kids and Adults
Tuesday, Feb 9

Brad Abrams
Principal Product Unit Manager
Tell me about your services…
Tuesday, Feb 9

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Interviews about Visual Studio on Channel 9

C9 Conversations: Yuri Gurevich On Logic, Imperative, Abstraction and Algorithms
Welcome to the latest installment of C9 Conversations. For this episode, we were very fortunate to get a chance to converse openly with one of the wor... more...

PhizzPop Develop & Design Challenge
The unique nature of The Phizzpop Design Challenge is that it pits agency Davids and Goliaths against one another to show the most innovative integrat... more...

Jason Zander: Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Released
The Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is here! Your Beta 2 feedback has been incredibly helpful to the engineering team. A big Thank You from Visua... more...

Help Desk Episode 1 with Chris Pirillo (Pilot) - Show Notes
Show Notes & Links from Help Desk Episode 1 (Pilot) 1. Bas (from the Channel 9 forums) [8:33] How do I change the program associated with an ext... more...

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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...

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

SharpSort
SharpSort is a free open source plugin for VS that makes it easier for Visual Studio 2008 developers to maintain their code clean and readable at all... more...

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Code Gallery Samples and Downloads

StyleCop+
StyleCop+ is a plug-in that extends original StyleCop features.

How to move a ClickOnce deployment
ClickOnce deployment is a Microsoft technology used to deploy smart client applications via a webserver. It provides incremental updates, and does not... more...

KB976656 - Fix for Visual C++ 2008 SP1 compiler error C1859
Fix for: Visual C++ 2008 SP1 compiler error C1859

KB978148 - TFS Beta 2 Patch 3, client side Test Patch
TFS Beta 2 Patch 3, client side Test Patch

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