Visual Studio Links #69

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.

Busy week this week so this is a quick all at once version.

Greg Duncan posted a link to release announcement for XamlPadX 4.0.

Sasha Goldshtein gave an overview of Garbage Collection Notifications in .NET 3.5 SP1.

Sara Ford:

• Tip of the Day #298 shows how to hide or show the Script Debugging Disabled warning message.
• Tip of the Day #299 explains how to load symbols form the Modules window.
• Tip of the Day #300 (Go Sara Go!) explains how to delay loading symbols.
• Tip of the Day #301 shows how to cache symbols locally to disk (handy when using a symbol server).
• Tip of the Day #302 explains how to load only specified symbols when you want to.

The Web Developer Tools Team has a summarizes the Silverlight Tips of the Day for week 5.

Daniel Moth announced that the source for NetFx 3.5 SP1 is available for debugging.

The Visual Basic Team has posted a link to a new video – How Do I:  Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks?

The Visual Web Developer Tools Team has posted a summary of the support for the latest out of band releases in the new VS 2008 SP1.

The Visual C++ Team Blog has an example of an STL allocator – The Mallocator.

Tess explained how to create a UI module for IIS7 to watch current requests.

Via Alvin Ashcraft:  New for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and FxCop 1.36 – Multi-Targeting Rule

Via Steve Pietrek:

• Download CopySourceAsHtml
• Enable the Expression Tree Visualizer in VS 2008

VS 2005 KB:  Recommended practice for Multiple vsmdi Files after Running Team Test with VSMDI file under Source Control.

VS 2008 KB:  Hotfix available for The Visual C++ 2008 native 32-bit (x86) code generator may generate incorrect code when you use the /O2 compiler option or the /Ox compiler option.

Pablo Galiano:

• How do I save a project via API in silent mode
• Visual Studio guids
• How do I know when a model element is being added by a user demand
• How do I know if the solution is still building
• How do I get the Visual Studio command line switches
• How do I obtain a project GUID
• How do I get a Project from a IVsHierachy and viceversa
• How do I cancel a model element property value editing operation

Carlos Quintero:

• Question: DTE.Version = “7.00″ for VS.NET 2002, “7.10″ for VS.NET 2003,… which are the next values in the series for VS 2005 and VS 2008?
• The convoluted build configuration automation model (EnvDTE/EnvDTE80)

Dave Gardner continues his tip of the week series with The DebuggerHidden Attribute.

DiveDeeper blog has a new Longer version of Package Reference Sample Deep Dive.

The Web Developer Tools Team posted Tip #6 Did you know…About the “Tag Navigator” feature?

Via Alvin Ashcraft:

• Visual Studio Next Wish List
• Visual Studio Shell 2008- Bringing More .NET Languages Into the Visual Studio Fold

The Windows SDK Team posted How it works:  Windows SDK Documentation (Part 1).

Via Alvin Ashcraft:

• F# Addin for MonoDevelop
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• Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool