Visual Studio Links #82

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

Codart has released dev\efor, an extension to Visual Studio that helps you monitor your development process.

Greg Duncan posted a link to the release of Microsoft Chart Controls for .NET Framework 3.5.

Via Alvin Ashcraft:  IronPython 2.0 Release Candidate

Sara Ford’s Tip of the Day #343 explains creating file or item templates.

Channel 9 Stuff:

• This Week on C9- Windows 7, Silverlight 2 ships, and PDC attendee fun
• Joe Marini- Microsoft’s direction with Visual Studio Extensibility
• ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
• Lynne Hill- Parallel Computing Platform – The Vision and Future
• Cogwheel- Building World of Warcraft Addons
• This week on C9- Clean hard drive space, Microformats, Crack.NET, Pex updates & more
• QuakeLight Preview

Ken Levy announced that he is one of the hosts of a new podcast for .NET developers called CodeCast – The Late Night Show for .NET Developers.

Greg Duncan posted a link to the VPC Image download for VSTS 2010 and .NET 4 CTP.

New on Visual Studio Gallery:  HelpRegister – Help 2.0 Registration Tool

Shawn Burke announced that the Silverlight Toolkit is now available on CodePlex.

The Visual C++ Team has posted a description of some of the upcoming VC10 functionality – Lambdas, auto, and static_assert: C++0x Features in VC10, Part 1.