Tuesday, March 11, 2008

New book on Visual Studio Extensibility by Keyvan Nayyeri

Yesterday a new book with the title "Professional Visual Studio Extensibility" by Keyvan Nayyeri has been officially released.

The book is available from Wiley and Wrox and will be available from Amazon shortly. Well, good job Keyvan - keep it up!

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Monday, March 3, 2008

Web Editor Performance Fix for Visual Studio 2008

If you didn't know yet, there is a hotfix available for VS 2008. Read blog post "Downloadable Hotfix: Performance and Editor fixes for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008" for details.

Web Tools team of Visual Studio released patch, that fixes following issues:

   1. Freezes while typing in page with custom controls
   2. Conversion between source code and designer view
   3. Very slow behavior, while opening large HTML document
   4. Visual Editor stops response with big HTML files
   5. And more performance oriented issues.

You can download this patch from here.

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Saturday, March 1, 2008

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 released

Ken Levy just announced in VSX Team blog that PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 is now available for free download. PowerCommands, is a set of useful commands for Visual Studio 2008.

Visit MSDN Code Gallery website for more details about PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 project and commands functionality. Below is the list of the commands included in PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 version 1.0:

  • Collapse Projects
  • Copy Class
  • Paste Class
  • Copy References
  • Paste References
  • Copy As Project Reference
  • Edit Project File
  • Open Containing Folder
  • Open Command Prompt
  • Unload Projects
  • Reload Projects
  • Remove and Sort Usings
  • Extract Constant
  • Clear Recent File List
  • Clear Recent Project List
  • Transform Templates
  • Close All

If you are looking for such functionality for Visual Studio 2005, have a look at CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 from Gaston Milano.

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