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Visual Studio 2005 Learning Guide
We've added a plethora of articles, tips, book excerpts and other references to this learning guide, which dives deeply into Microsoft's IDE for application development. Learning Guide
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Mini-Guide: Visual Studio Tools for Applications
VSTA brings the familiarity of Visual Basic for Applications into the .NET Framework. This Mini-Guide introduces the technology and offers tips for getting started with it. Mini-Guide
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Visual Studio Tools for Office Learning Guide
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office isn't your father's VBA. The line between Windows and Office development continues to blur with Word and Excel now integrated within the Visual Studio IDE. Developers can use new host controls to extend Office obje... Learning Guide
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VSTO Fast Guide
VSTO represents a major upgrade over Visual Basic for Applications. This reference offers a quick intrpoduction to Visual Studio Tools for Office. Learning Guide
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Q&A: Visual Studio expert on using Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC and XAML
When learning Visual Studio 2010, how do you decide on WPF or Silverlight? When will you have to move from visual editors to actual code, and what challenges might you face with ASP.NET MVC? In this Q&A, author and Microsoft MVP Joe Mayo tackles thes... Interview | 20 May 2010
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Q&A: Author and Microsoft C# MVP highlights new enhancements and common challenges with Visual Studi
While Microsoft fixed many issues to Visual Studio in version 2010, updates are "evolutionary not revolutionary," says author Alex Mackey. In VS 2010/.NET 4.0, Microsoft updated a number of APIs and has made parallelization much easier. On the down s... Interview | 18 May 2010
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 hits the mark: What developers are saying
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 was released recently and so far developers and analysts have mostly positive feedback. With a host of new development and test tools, fixes to buggy tools and a WPF-based IDE, early adopters are saying VS 2010 hits the m... Article | 29 Apr 2010
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Q&A: Why Microsoft TSF 2010 improvements and WPF base matter to Visual Studio developers
What's changed in Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 and why are those changes important to Visual Studio 2010? Also, what's the significance of part of Visual Studio 2010 being built on Windows Presentation Foundation? Microsoft MVP Steven Porter... Interview | 20 Apr 2010
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Q&A: Microsoft MVP surveys Visual Studio 2010's debugging, test tools
Microsoft new release of Visual Studio, VS 2010, offers enhancements in debugging and diagnostic tools, according to Microsoft MVP Steven Porter. In this Q&A, he points out new VS 2010 enhancements that streamline development and gives his verdict o... Interview | 19 Apr 2010
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Using SharePoint, Office to develop portals and mashups
SharePoint 2007 and Microsoft Office aren't just for the desktop anymore. A recent conference showed how they can be used to build portals and business mashups. Article | 22 Feb 2008
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Gates offers musings on Office, services at ODC
Bill Gates' keynote address at the Office System Developers Conference focused on more than just Office. He also spoke about software plus services and the future of computing. Article | 13 Feb 2008
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Office System Developer Conference 2008 preview
Next week's Microsoft Office System Developer Conference 2008 is shaping up as a significant display of Office-related tools. It is a big-step in the company's effort to forward the notion that Office can be born again as a new type of application de... Article | 08 Feb 2008
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What Visual Studio 2008 brings to client application development
For several years, Microsoft's tools for client application development, such as VSTO, have been a bit scattered. Visual Studio 2008 brings them all together. Article | 11 Dec 2007
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Component works with Word files inside .NET applications
Aspose.Words lets .NET applications read, write and edit Microsoft Word documents without having to open Word itself. Article | 15 Oct 2007
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Using TFS to manage distributed teams
Microsoft Visual Studio the latest version of Team Foundation Service (TFS) is packed with features that facilitate the coordination and management of distributed teams. Tip
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Using search engines effectively in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio provides a number of handy search tools. The most obvious place to use search is in your source code but Microsoft has also made search available in other parts of the IDE like the ToolBox and property grid windows. Tip
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Setting up the XAML editor in Visual Studio 2010
Nothing stirs up controversy like discussing naming conventions or code styling. Learn some configuration settings for the XAML editor in Visual Studio 2010. Tip
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Where are the Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office?
VSTO has been integrated with Visual Studio 2008. It just takes a bit of digging to determine what VS 2008 editions actually contain Visual Studio Tools for Office. Tip
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On migrating from VBA to VSTO
The release of Visual Studio 2008 provides further compulsion to migrate applications from VBA to VSTO. Microsoft addressed some best practices for these types of migrations at DevConnections Las Vegas. Tip
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VSTA: How lightweight can you get?
Visual Studio Tools for Applications helps ISVs and other developers customize applications buildtaround Office 2007. Here we take a closer look at VSTA. Tip
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Using 2007 Office System Tools for Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio 2005 now sports a set of tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System. Ed Tittel takes a look at the tools that are available and what can be done with them. Tip
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Using Office 2007 Ribbon UI development tools
Blogger Bil Simser has put together a list of the toolkits that are available for developing Office 2007 "Ribbon"-style user interface elements in applications. Tip
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The Actions Pane: Ch. 15 of Visual Studio Tools for Office
This book excerpt shows how to use VSTO to customize the Actions Pane, which blends Office 2003's Document Actions and task pane. Tip
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Migrating add-ins from VBA to VSTO
Many enterprises have stuck with VBA solutions because of legacy applications. A recent MSDN tip shows what developers can gain by migrating to Visual Studio Tools for Office. Tip
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Are additional licenses or permissions needed to sell software developed using VS.NET?
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Can't find the 'Visio UML' button to perform reverse engineering
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Running VS6, VS.NET 2002 and VS.NET 2003 in the same environment
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Setup says to insert XP Pro SP 1 CD, but I already installed it
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GLib
GLib is a utility library that can simplify programming in C, especially for projects involving the languages GNOME and GTK+. Many programmers believe that the utility functions in GLib are more consistent than those in C... (Continued) Definition
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Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET or VB .NET)
Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET or VB .NET) is a version of Microsoft's Visual Basic that was designed, as part of the company's .NET product group, to make Web services applications easier to develop. (Continued...) Definition
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Expression Web Designer
Expression Web Designer is Microsoft's new tool for building and enhancing Web sites with design elements such as cascading style sheets, personalized task panes and compatibility with non-Microsoft Web browsers like Firefox. Web sites built using Ex... Definition
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Using TFS to manage distributed teams
Microsoft Visual Studio the latest version of Team Foundation Service (TFS) is packed with features that facilitate the coordination and management of distributed teams. Tip
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Using search engines effectively in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio provides a number of handy search tools. The most obvious place to use search is in your source code but Microsoft has also made search available in other parts of the IDE like the ToolBox and property grid windows. Tip
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Setting up the XAML editor in Visual Studio 2010
Nothing stirs up controversy like discussing naming conventions or code styling. Learn some configuration settings for the XAML editor in Visual Studio 2010. Tip
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Q&A: Visual Studio expert on using Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC and XAML
When learning Visual Studio 2010, how do you decide on WPF or Silverlight? When will you have to move from visual editors to actual code, and what challenges might you face with ASP.NET MVC? In this Q&A, author and Microsoft MVP Joe Mayo tackles thes... Interview
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Q&A: Author and Microsoft C# MVP highlights new enhancements and common challenges with Visual Studi
While Microsoft fixed many issues to Visual Studio in version 2010, updates are "evolutionary not revolutionary," says author Alex Mackey. In VS 2010/.NET 4.0, Microsoft updated a number of APIs and has made parallelization much easier. On the down s... Interview
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 hits the mark: What developers are saying
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 was released recently and so far developers and analysts have mostly positive feedback. With a host of new development and test tools, fixes to buggy tools and a WPF-based IDE, early adopters are saying VS 2010 hits the m... Article
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Q&A: Why Microsoft TSF 2010 improvements and WPF base matter to Visual Studio developers
What's changed in Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 and why are those changes important to Visual Studio 2010? Also, what's the significance of part of Visual Studio 2010 being built on Windows Presentation Foundation? Microsoft MVP Steven Porter... Interview
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Q&A: Microsoft MVP surveys Visual Studio 2010's debugging, test tools
Microsoft new release of Visual Studio, VS 2010, offers enhancements in debugging and diagnostic tools, according to Microsoft MVP Steven Porter. In this Q&A, he points out new VS 2010 enhancements that streamline development and gives his verdict o... Interview
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GLib
GLib is a utility library that can simplify programming in C, especially for projects involving the languages GNOME and GTK+. Many programmers believe that the utility functions in GLib are more consistent than those in C... (Continued) Definition
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Where are the Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office?
VSTO has been integrated with Visual Studio 2008. It just takes a bit of digging to determine what VS 2008 editions actually contain Visual Studio Tools for Office. Tip
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About Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
Learn about Visual Studio Tools for Office, Microsoft's tool for developing client applications modeled after Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2003.