My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.
I’ve been on vacation in Alaska for 10 days so this is an extra long list of links.
Sara Ford:
- Tip of the Day #236 covers the file window layout mode.
- Tip of the Day #237 discusses the new tracepoint feature in VS2008.
- Tip of the Day #238 covers editing a variable via the data tip while in debug mode.
- Tip of the Day #239 covers the conditional breakpoint.
- Tip of the Day #241 shows how to use the immediate window to enhance debugging.
- Sara wants to know about women who are working on projects hosted on CodePlex.
Microsoft Windows SDK Blog announced the release of the Windows Installer 4.5 SDK.
Jonathon Wood has created a video – How Do I: Work with Unicode Text in MFC?
The Visual C++ Team has posted a list of links to good Visual C++ Resources.
The Visual Basic Team has announced the availability of the PInvoke Interop Assistant on CodePlex.
Brad Abrams has posted ASP.NET Dynamic Data: An Introductory Demo.
Visual Web Developer Team:
- Multiple control selection in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM.
- Anti-virus programs can affect VS build performance.
- Faster switch to design view in VS 2008 SP1 RTM.
Visual Studio 2008 KB:
- How to: Analyze crash information using a mapfile for a mixed-mode application.
- Workarounds are available for: MFC application with CHtmlView-derived view may stay running invisibly after closure if Active Accessibility client used. Also applies to VS2005.
Visual Studio 2005 KB: Resolution available for Winforms: Spacing between text displayed within a control may change at runtime and design-time.
Marlon Grech posted an easy way to reduce CPU consumption for WPF animations.
VSX Team:
- VSX DevCon 2008 attendees will receive a free copy of Professional Visual Studio Extensibility.
- The VSX Team will be publishing an email news letter similar to MSDN flash. Sign up to receive the emails.
- Links to generate Package Load Keys and Shell Load Keys are now on the VSX main page.
- Links to the VSX Tour presentations for Spring 2008 have been posted.
- VSX Community Letter for June 2008.
- The fall 2007 VSX Survey results have been posted.
Carlos Quintero:
- The strange case of Package ‘Visual Studio Explorers and Designers Package’ has failed to load properly
- BUG: Empty interfaces in VSLangProj90.dll.
DiveDeeper blog continues the LearnVSXNow! series with Thinking about a new MPF. This post is more of a proposal for future direction than the tutorial style of previous posts.
Visual Studio How Do I Videos:
- Hilton Giesenow demonstrates how to add branding to your VSPackage.
- Dylan Miles shows how to create your own project item templates.
Via Jason Haley: .Net Regular Expressions Find and Replace Add-In for VS2005.
Via Steve Pietrek: ReSharper 4.0 Keyboard Shortcuts PDF.
Via Jason Haley: Multiple Image Sizes for ToolStrip Items.
Via Steve Pietrek: Brain Ritchie has posted a list of Debugger Visualizers and plans to maintain the list going forward.
Via Jason Haley:
- Aaron Stebner has posted an explanation of how to install the VS 2008 SDK in silent mode.
- How it Works: DLL Injection.
