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Visual Studio General Questions
Discuss and ask questions about general Visual Studio topics.
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Visual Studio Setup and Installation
Discuss and ask questions about the install and setup of Visual Studio.
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Visual Studio Extensibility
Discuss and ask questions about Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX), using the Extension Manager, building VSIX containers for deployment, the Visual Studio SDK, Text Templates (T4), add-ins, macros, and more.
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Visual Studio Tools for Office
Discuss and ask questions about using Visual Studio to create managed code solutions for Microsoft Office.
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Visual Studio Editor
Discuss and ask questions about editor features in Visual Studio.
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MSBuild
Discuss the Microsoft build engine aka MSBuild. Topics including: usage of MSBuild, build customization, and MSBuild extensibility via tasks, loggers and hosting.
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Visual Studio LightSwitch Extensibility
Discuss and ask questions about how to develop LightSwitch Extensions. Check the LightSwitch General forum on general LightSwitch development topics.
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Visual Studio LightSwitch - General Questions
General questions and discussions around Visual Studio LightSwitch
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LightSwitch HTML Client Preview
Discuss and ask questions about the Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client Preview.
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Visual Studio Visualization & Modeling Tools
Discuss the code visualization and software architecture modeling tools in Visual Studio, such as dependency graphs, layer diagrams, UML diagrams, and Architecture Explorer.
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Testing with Visual Studio Test Manager (MTM)
Discuss and ask questions about the manual testing and lab management functionality in Microsoft Test Manager.
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Test Tools in Visual Studio 2010 and 2012
Discuss and ask questions about the Test tools in Visual Studio including web performance, load testing and of course the hot new Coded UI testing.
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Visual Studio Unit Testing
Discuss and ask questions about using the new Visual Studio Test Explorer, Unit Testing providers and general Unit Testing, fakes, stubs and mocking techniques.
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Visual Studio Diagnostics (Debugger, Profiler, IntelliTrace)
Discuss and ask questions about the Visual Studio Debugging tools, Visual Studio Profiler tools, and Visual Studio Ultimate IntelliTrace.
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Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)
Discuss and ask questions about Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA).
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Visual C#
Discuss and ask questions about the C# programming language, IDE, libraries, samples, and tools.
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Visual Basic
Discuss and ask questions about the Visual Basic programming language, IDE, libraries, samples, and tools. (Not for VB6 questions).
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Visual C++
Discuss and ask questions about the Visual C++ IDE, libraries, samples, tools, setup, and Windows programming using MFC and ATL.
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C++ Standards, Extensions, and Interop
Issues regarding the C++ language, compiler, and linker. This forum covers all standardized languages, extensions, and interop technologies supported by Visual C++.
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Parallel Computing in C++ and Native Code
Discuss and ask questions about parallel computing in C++ and native code -- including C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP), the Parallel Pattern Library (PPL), the Asynchronous Agents Library, the Concurrency Runtime (ConcRT), and other concurrency building blocks.
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Visual F#
Discuss and ask questions about the F# programming language, IDE, libraries, samples, and tools.
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Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP
Discuss and ask questions about the Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP.
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.NET Framework Setup and Servicing
Discuss and ask questions about the setup and deployment of .NET Framework.
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.NET Framework Class Libraries
Discuss and ask questions about .NET Framework Base Classes (BCL) such as Collections, I/O, Regigistry, Globalization, Reflection. Also discuss all the other Microsoft libraries that are built on or extend the .NET Framework, including Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), Charting Controls, CardSpace, Windows Identity Foundation (WIF), Point of Sale (POS), Transactions.
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Discuss and ask questions about how to use XAML technologies to productively create visually appealing and differentiating applications and to improve user experience
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JScript for the .NET Framework
Ask about the JScript language and compiler for the .NET Framework (JScript.NET).
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Common Language Runtime Internals and Architecture
Discuss and ask questions about issues regarding the very core of .NET, including security, performance, hosting, base classes, interop, reliability, debugging, GC, and profiling.
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Windows Communication Foundation, Serialization, and Networking
Discuss and ask questions about general managed code networking topics such as serialization, System.NET, Windows Communication Foundation(WCF), and Web Services.
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Chart Controls for .NET Framework
Issues related to programming with the charting controls.
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Windows Workflow Foundation
Discuss and ask questions about Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), a programming model, engine, and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications using .NET. Windows Workflow Foundation includes support for both system workflow and human workflow across a wide range of scenarios.
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AppFabric Caching
Post feedback, questions and suggestions related to future versions of Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity”.
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.NET StockTrader Sample Application
Discuss this end-to-end sample application that illustrates WCF and .NET Enterprise Technologies.
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Claims based access platform (CBA), code-named Geneva
This forum is for discussion of "Geneva" Server, "Geneva" Framework and Windows CardSpace "Geneva."
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Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework
Discuss and ask questions about parallel, concurrent, and asynchronous programming using the .NET Framework -- Including usage, performance, scaling, future development, and more.
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Visual C#
Discuss and ask questions about the C# programming language, IDE, libraries, samples, and tools.
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Visual Basic
Discuss and ask questions about the Visual Basic programming language, IDE, libraries, samples, and tools. (Not for VB6 questions).
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Visual Studio Visualization & Modeling SDK (DSL Tools)
Discuss the Microsoft Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Tools and extensibility for the Visual Studio 2010 modeling tools.
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Team Foundation Server - General
Discuss and ask questions about Team Foundation Server general topics such as Power tools, reports and other general concepts.
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Team Foundation Server - Setup and Administration
Discuss and ask questions about Team Foundation Server setup, administration, configuration, and operations.
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Team Foundation Server - Build Automation
Discuss and ask questions about Team Foundation Server setup, administration, configuration, and operations.
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Team Foundation Server - Process Templates
Discuss Team Foundation Server process template development and customization.
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Team Foundation Server - Source and Version Control
Discuss and ask questions about Team Foundation Version Control, including branching, merging, and shelving.
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Team Foundation Server - Project Management & Work Item
Discuss and ask questions about Team Foundation Work Item Tracking for all Team Foundation Server clients, including Storyboarding, Excel, Project, Project Server, Feedback, Taskboards, Backlogs, work item customization, and Office integration.
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Team Foundation Server - Eclipse and Cross Platform
Discuss and ask questions about using Team Foundation Server from Eclipse based IDE's or from Mac, Linux and Unix platforms.
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Team Foundation Service
Discuss Team Foundation Service concepts, post questions and suggestions
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Team Foundation Server – Migration and Integration
Team Foundation Server has multiple tools for migrating data from other systems, as well as the TFS Integration Platform which can be used to build tools that connect other systems to TFS. This forum is the place to discuss issues hit during migration, ask questions about building tools, and propose new features for the platform.
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Team Foundation Server - Reporting & Warehouse
Discuss Team Foundation Reporting, which uses SQL Server 2005 Reporting services to report team project metrics.
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