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One of the top reported Microsoft Connect issues with VS 2010 has been an issue with the Find and Replace dialog – which grows 16px each time you use it (which is pretty annoying). The Visual Studio team recently released a patch that fixes this issue.
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This is the twenty-seventh in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post continues on from the Debugging Tips post I did last week, and covers some useful searching and navigation tips/tricks you can take advantage
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This is the twenty-sixth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post covers some useful debugging tips that you can use with Visual Studio. My friend Scott Cate (who has blogged dozens of great VS tips
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I just got back from my trip to India and the UK last week – and will be returning to more regular blogging shortly. This Wednesday (August 18th) I’m going to be doing another online LIDNUG chat session . The chat will be from 10:00am to 11:30am
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I just checked and it looks like the folks at .NET BC have managed to get around to post my up-coming presentation. Topic: A Lap around WebMatrix Please join Rob Chartier, VP of Engineering & Support at DotNetNuke, in a brief Lap around the new WebMatrix
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I’ve blogged in the past about the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions – a free set of Visual Studio 2010 extensions that provide some nice additional functionality. You can read my previous blog posts about it here and here . In today’s
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Last month I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option. EF “code-first” enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to: Work with data without ever having to
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The (awesome) UK developer community is holding an all day event with me in London on August 13th. The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden). The website for the event is here . Content
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This is the twenty-fifth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post is the first of several posts I’ll be doing that cover some of the improvements we’ve made around web deployment. I’ll provide a high-level
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Earlier this week the Visual Studio team released updated VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters . These posters are print-ready documents (that now support standard paper sizes), and provide nice “cheat sheet” tables that can help you quickly lookup
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This morning we posted the “Preview 1” release of ASP.NET MVC 3. You can download it here . We’ve used an iterative development approach from the very beginning of the ASP.NET MVC project, and deliver regular preview drops throughout the development
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Last week I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option. The EF “code-first” option enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to: Develop without ever having
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Last month I blogged about the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools Extensions – a free set of Visual Studio 2010 extensions that provide some really nice additional functionality. The initial Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools release included a bunch
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.NET 4 ships with a new and much improved version of Entity Framework (EF) – a data access and OR/M library that lives within the System.Data.Entity namespace. When Entity Framework was first introduced with .NET 3.5 SP1, developers provided a lot
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Earlier today we shipped the beta of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools. You can download them here . What is included in the Windows Phone Developer Tools The Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta includes: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows
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