Visual Studio Links #84

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

Greg Duncan has posted a list of PDC sessions and downloads for their videos and presentations.  He also went to the trouble of writing code to make sure the links that are posted work, which is also included at the end of the post.

Greg also posted links to the Release of XNA Game Studio 3.0 and Blacklight 1.0 – WPF/Silverlight “Controls for Designers”.

Sara Ford’s Tip of the Day #346 explains jumping to the Class View with Ctrl+Shift+C.

The Web Developer Team posted a Downloadable Hotfix for False C# compilation errors for ASP.NET code-behind files in SP1.

The US ISV Developer Evangelism Team posted a link to the download for Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (CTP).

The Web Developer Team has posted a few new tips:

• Did you know… How to absolute position controls on copy paste or drag drop from Toolbox?
• Did you know… How to set the default view to Design view?

Sara Ford’s Tip of the Day #347 explains how to create folders to organize your objects and methods within the Class View.

Gareth Jones posted an explanation of using extension methods in T4 templates.

Dave Gardner announced that Chapter 32 (ASP.NET Web Applications) from Professional Visual Studio 2008 is available as a free download.

New on Visual Studio Gallery:  Feature Model DSL.