Visual Studio Class Designer announcements
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Jason Zander wants you to tell MS directly:
"It's been just over 6 months since we launched Visual Studio 2010 in April. I hope you've been busy digging in and taking VS out for a spin. Your feedback was invaluable to us as we were building VS - thank you! It's a great time for us to hear what you think so far. We are especially interested in hearing about your experience with regards to performance, reliability, and quality. The more details you share with us in this survey, the better we can understand your experience and apply what we learn into future versions."
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This forum is for .NET-based class diagrams. In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack installed, you can create UML class diagrams from code. For more information, see How to: Create UML Class Diagrams from Code.
Please post questions about UML class diagrams in the Visual Studio 2010 Visualization & Modeling Tools forum. Thanks!
Visual Studio Code Analysis and Code Metrics announcements
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Version 10.0 of FxCop is the version that ships with Visual Studio 2010 Premium. FxCop 10.0 is part of Version 7.1 of the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4.
Instructions
- Download the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 Version 7.1
- Using elevated privileges execute FxCopSetup.exe from the %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\FXCop folder.
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Please see our blog for a description of the new Code Analysis functionality available in Visual Studio 2010: http://blogs.msdn.com/codeanalysis/archive/2010/03/22/what-s-new-in-code-analysis-for-visual-studio-2010.aspx
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Following is a collection of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding PreFAST, FxCop, Managed Code Analysis and Code Metrics.
Visual Studio 2010 Rule Sets
Question: How do I ensure that the same code analysis rule set is used for all the projects developed by my team(s)?
Answer: See JB Browns blog post on this topic.
Rule Behavior
Question: Why does FxCop generate violations against itself?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Question: Why do some sources recommend extending ApplicationException while FxCop does not?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Question: Why does FxCop ignore my in-code (SuppressMessageAttribute) suppressions?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Question: Why does DoNotExposeGenericLists recommend that I expose Collection<T> instead of List<T>?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Question: How do I indicate to DoNotDeclareReadOnlyMutableReferenceTypes that a type is immutable?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Custom Rule Development
Question: How do I integrate my custom FxCop rules into Visual Studio 2010?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Question: Where is the official FxCop custom rules SDK?
Answer: There is currently no official custom rules SDK developed by Microsoft. The primary reason is that we are currently rewriting key components of the FxCop metadata reader and data flow analysis engine. This work guarantees that rules written today will need to be modified or entirely re-written in the future. Rules developers who have been working in FxCop for the past few years can attest to the fact that every release has involved some churn in the custom rules API. Each release readme contains detailed information about porting existing rules to the latest architecture.
As soon as the FxCop metadata and other relevant API stabilize sufficiently, we will develop an official FxCop custom rules SDK with samples demonstrating common patterns written in several languages. Until then, there are several resources available to custom rules developers:
· This forum. Post your rules development questions here.
· Rules samples uploaded to the MSDN Code Gallery. Search for 'FxCop'.
· Rules samples developed externally. Search the web for 'fxcop' and 'rules'
· Visit the custom rules category on the FxCop blog
Question: How do I integrate custom rules with Visual Studio?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Question: How do I access the locals for a method?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Visual Studio Database Development Tools (Formerly "Database Edition Forum") announcements
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Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools ...
...provides an integrated environment for database developers to carry out all their database design work for any SQL Server platform (both on and off premise) within Visual Studio. Database developers can use the SQL Server Object Explorer in VS to easily create or edit database objects and data, or execute queries.
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Visual Studio Editor in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP announcements
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my name is Selma Ikiz and I am a PM for the New Code Editor in Visual Studio.
We have devised a set of walkthroughs for you in this Visual Studio 10 release. Please use the walkthroughs as a hand-held guide to use this release. Given that this is the first release of Code Editor in Visual Studio, we are excited to hear your feedback.
You can use the Connect website to report bugs.
This forum will cover the Code Editor Walkthroughs:
How to Use a Shell Command to Add a Comment Adornment in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor
You can implement features in the Visual Studio 2010 editor from a typical VSPackage. This walkthrough shows how to add a comment adornment to a text view in the Visual Studio 2010 editor by invoking a Visual Studio shell command.
How to Add Syntax Coloring in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor
You can add many different visual effects to the Visual Studio 2010 editor by creating Managed Extensions Framework (MEF) components. This walkthrough shows how to add syntax coloring.
How to Highlight Text in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor
You can add many different visual effects to the Visual Studio 2010 editor by creating Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) components. This walkthrough shows how to highlight every occurrence of a string in a text file at the same time. For example, if a word occurs more than one time in a text file, and you position the cursor in one occurrence, every occurrence is highlighted.
How to Provide IntelliSense in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor
You can implement IntelliSense in the Visual Studio 2010 editor by creating a Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) component.
This walkthrough shows how to implement two IntelliSense controllers, one for method signature descriptions and one for statement completion. IntelliSense controllers are responsible for listening to the events that trigger completion, displaying the appropriate list, and removing the display when it is committed (that is, when a selection has been made) or dismissed. This walkthrough also shows how to implement IntelliSense controller providers, which create the IntelliSense controllers for individual text views.
When you run the sample code, pressing CTRL+J or "." shows the list of methods; you can dismiss the list by pressing ESC. Pressing CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR or "(" shows the list of parameters; you can dismiss the list by pressing ESC. The displayed lists of methods and parameters are static lists that are defined in the Helpers class.
How to Adapt to the Visual Studio 2010 Editor
The Visual Studio 2010 editor offers many features that you can use from your existing code components. These instructions show how to consume editor services directly from a Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) component or a non-MEF component, for example a VSPackage. It also shows how to use adapters, or shims, to get the services of the Visual Studio 2010 editor in both managed and unmanaged code.
If you have not downloaded or would like more information about the CTP, please visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129231.
You can find the walkthroughs on the VPC disk: C:\users\Public\documents\CTPWalkthroughs\Visual Studio.Thanks!
Selma Ikiz
Code Editor PM
Visual Studio Gallery Feedback announcements
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Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit announcements
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This update to the Guidance Automation Extensions - February 2008 Release addresses the following issues:
- registering and using guidance packages with the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Experimental hive;
- performance issues when using long names of operations or messages.
Visual Studio Lab Management announcements
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Visual Studio LightSwitch - General (Beta) announcements
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Visual Studio LightSwitch has released! Download the release version and check out our team blog post for more resources and install notes:
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 RTM is Here!
This BETA forum is now closed. Please ask all your LightSwitch questions in the RTM forum here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitch/threads
Thanks to all of you that downloaded the beta and provided feedback and help here in this forum. We appreciate all your hard work! Now please continue to support the growing LightSwitch community in our new forum.
Enjoy!
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Hello LightSwitch developers!
We've got a lot of new content and a fresh look for the LightSwitch Developer Center on MSDN (just click the "Home" tab above). Check it out! Whether you are just beginning or have been using LightSwitch for a while, we've got something for you.
We've also done a major overhaul to the LightSwitch Developer Learning Center in order to organize learning topics, blog articles, tips & tricks, and documentation better and allows us to easily roll out more training content each week. You can access training, samples, How Do I Videos, articles and more here.
We'll also be updating the Training Kit (that you can also access from the Learning Center) on Thursday for the public release.
Also check out our team blogs and bloggers for more information on LightSwitch. We're in the process of updating all our Beta 1 blog posts to Beta 2 so keep checking back.
Also check out the Dev Center Commuity page for more from the LightSwitch community.
Have fun!
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We are extremely happy to announce the release of Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ Beta 2! MSDN subscribers can access LightSwitch Beta 2 today and public availability will be Thursday, March 17th. Please see Jason Zander’s post that walks through some of the new features.
- MSDN Subscribers download LightSwitch Beta 2 now!
- The general public can download Beta 2 on Thursday at 10AM PST here
Read What’s New in Beta 2 for information on new capabilities in this release. We’d also like to announce that Beta 2 comes with a “Go Live” license which means you can now start using Visual Studio LightSwitch for production projects!
We’ve also done some major updates to the LightSwitch Developer Center with How Do I videos based on Beta 2 as well as a new and improved Learning Center and Beta 2 samples to get you up to speed fast, whether you’re a beginner or advanced developer. We’ll be rolling out more in-depth content and training in the coming weeks so keep checking back.
INSTALLATION NOTES: Visual Studio 2010 Express, Professional, Premium, Test Professional or Ultimate users must install Visual Studio 2010 SP1 before installing Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2. Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 users should uninstall Beta 1 before installing Beta 2. Also see the Beta 2 readme for late breaking issues. These are known incompatible releases with Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 (see links for details on compatibility and workarounds):
- Visual Studio Async CTP - known compatibility details(see *Async CTP Issues with VS2010 SP1* announcement)
- Windows SDK 7.1 - known compatibility details
- Help Viewer Power Tool – known compatibility details
PROJECT UPGRADE NOTES: Due to the many improvements in Beta 2, projects created in Beta 1 cannot be opened or upgraded. You will need to recreate your projects and copy over any user code that you have added. You can get to the user code files by switching to File View in the Solution Explorer. Please note that some APIs have changed so you may need to update some of your code appropriately. At this point we do not plan to introduce breaking changes post-Beta 2 that will cause you to need to recreate your Beta 2 projects.
We want to hear from you! Please visit the LightSwitch Forums to ask questions and interact with the team and community. Have you found a bug? Please report them on Microsoft Connect.
Have fun building business applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch!
Visual Studio Performance Tools (Profiler) announcements
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Visual Studio Source Control and SourceSafe announcements
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Visual Studio Team System - Testing announcements
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Visual Studio UI Automation Testing (includes Coded UI tests) announcements
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Coded UI Tests help automate browser based applications built on Internet Explorer. We are now enabling cross-browser testing of such applications. Users will be able to perform functional testing of web applications across IE/Firefox/Chrome. One can use IE to record tests and validate control properties using Coded UI Test Builder. Users also have an option to hand code cross browser tests. If user needs to playback on IE, she can click on Run All in Test Explorer which plays back the recording using Coded UI inbuilt IE Plugin. On the other hand, if the user needs to playback on non-IE browser, she can set BrowserWindow.CurrentBrowser as “firefox” or “chrome” in the test depending on which browser she wants to test before running from the test explorer. In this case, Coded UI Engine communicates with Selenium Web Driver to execute the playback.
Hope you like this feature. Feel free to drop your feedback here
System Requirements:
- Operating System: Windows 8 X86 Client/Windows 8 X64/Win7 X64/Win7 X86/Win2k8 R2 SP1
- IE version - IE9/ classic IE10
- Firefox version - 15+
- Chrome version - 21+
- Visual Studio Ultimate - VS 2012 RTM + VS 2012 Update 1 CTP
- Selenium NET Bindings and the Selenium ChromeDriver made available to you through an installer on Visual Studio Gallery. Refer to the file attachment "CUIT Cross Browser Testing Acquisition" for more details
Features:
The following features are available across the various web browsers:
- Recording support for actions and validation on supported IE browsers
- Hand-coding scenarios support for such things as control properties, search, and playback waiters.
- Support for popups and dialog
- Ability to execute basic JavaScript with no return type
- Search resilience (via smart match) and performance improvements
Scenario Videos:
Record on IE and Playback everywhere
Author cross browser tests with Coded UI Test Builder
Author cross browser tests using plain hand coding without UI Map
Run cross browser tests sequentially on multiple browsers
Troubleshoot cross browser test failures
Known Limitations
- No support for Safari browser
- Browser launch needs to be part of the UITest. In case you have a browser already open and you want to run steps on the opened browser, playback will fail for non-IE browser windows. Hence, it is advisable to have launch too as part of the test case.
- Automating browser based actions such as Maximize/minimize/restore is not supported
Troubleshooting tips
Enable HTML Logger - follow http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj159363.aspx
Feedback Survey:
Please fill in the survey to register your feedback on this feature: https://s.zoomerang.com/s/CrossBrowserTesting. Your feedback will help us plan for further enhancement to the cross browser feature.
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Using the Microsoft Visual Studio UI Test plugin for Silverlight, you can create Coded UI Tests or action recordings for Silverlight applications. Action recordings let you fast forward through steps in a manual test using Microsoft Test Manager. Coded UI Tests let you record actions, generate code and play back user interface tests using Microsoft Visual Studio.
This plugin supports Silverlight 4 & 5 applications hosted in Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 & 10. It requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 RC.
A few members of the product team got together and built this plugin as an off-hours project. It is not an official Microsoft release. We will monitor the Qand A section on the Visual Studio Galley site for feedback and queries.
For more details and to download the plugin visit VisualStudio Gallery.
Deepak Singhal, Mathew Aniyan, Siddhartha Pandey, Tapas Sahoo, Vishnupriyan Radhamanalan.
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The purpose of Code First API Library, Scaffolding & Guidance for Coded UI Tests is to help you write more maintainable Coded UI tests for your web apps. When building Web UI Tests the way that's proposed here - you aren't going to be recording test scripts nor building UI Maps. Instead, you'll be writing Page Objects that are interacting with the elements on the page.
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You can see a list of articles related to Coded UI Test (organized into various sections) in the link below.
http://blogs.msdn.com/mathew_aniyan/pages/content-index-for-coded-ui-test.aspx
It is a great place to start your exploration of Coded UI Test feature.
Visual Studio Web Performance and Load Testing announcements
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Visual Studio WPF/SL Designer announcements
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DEV313 | Making the Most of the Microsoft Silverlight and WPF Designer in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010Session Type: Breakout SessionTrack: Developer Tools, Languages & FrameworksSpeaker(s): Mark Wilson-Thomas, Mark BoulterLevel: 300 - AdvancedBuilding Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications has become much more straightforward in Visual Studio 2010. Whether you’re already a seasoned WPF/Silverlight developer or the technologies are new to you, come along to this session and see a data-driven Silverlight application built up from scratch using the new designer features – we show you tips and tricks for how to leverage the new tooling to get great results with the least sweat!
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The Visual Studio WPF and Silverlight Designer Team is delighted to inform you that Visual Studio 2010 RTM is now available! Take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/download
What's New for WPF and Silverlight Developers in Visual Studio 2010 ?
1. The Silverlight Designer is a fully functional drag-drop designer for Silverlight 3 RTM release out of the box, and for Silverlight 4 via an add-on (for info see http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsldesigner/archive/2010/04/15/silverlight-4-releases-silverlight-4-tools-for-visual-studio-2010-rtm-available-now.aspx)
2. The Data Sources Window works for Silverlight 3 and 4
3. The Property Browser has been reworked to be more usable – showing a better Category view and a "Set Properties" view
4. The designer now lets you load controls that have references to static resources at app scope
5. The designer shows helpful errors when things such as controls fail to load, without the need to attach a debugger to Visual Studio.
Check out these Channel 9 videos for more info:
Designing Data Driven Forms
Styling Your Forms
Looking Forward
Feedback
We hope you enjoy the new release, and are really looking forward to hearing your feedback.
You can send both positive and negative feedback and questions to us using this Forum, and we also encourage you to raise any bugs and issues you find via Connect (see this article on how to raise bugs in Cider)
Thanks!
Mark Wilson-Thomas
Program Manager, WPF & Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio
Visual Studio Online "Monaco" announcements
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need help with "Class Doesn't support Automation" error.
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Failed to map the path '/'.
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cuite.dll: Unable to load the test container - i am getting this error message when i am opening .sln . How i know that i am missing build , and how to download that?
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HOW TO: FIX ERROR - "the 'microsoft.ace.oledb.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine"
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SQL Server Data Tools and missing ".net framework data provider"
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How to ignore users in VS 11 Sql Server Database project publish
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Why is the dbo.__RefactorLog table created in the deployment script in my server project?
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how to connect a css3 file to an html5 web page file.
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Assertion failed
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How do I turn off datadude background processing?
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Visual Studio Class Designer announcements
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This forum has been locked; it will still be available for review in the Archived Forums folder. Any future posts on this topic should be put in the Visual Studio Visualization & Modeling Tools forum.
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Jason Zander wants you to tell MS directly:
"It's been just over 6 months since we launched Visual Studio 2010 in April. I hope you've been busy digging in and taking VS out for a spin. Your feedback was invaluable to us as we were building VS - thank you! It's a great time for us to hear what you think so far. We are especially interested in hearing about your experience with regards to performance, reliability, and quality. The more details you share with us in this survey, the better we can understand your experience and apply what we learn into future versions."
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This forum is for .NET-based class diagrams. In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack installed, you can create UML class diagrams from code. For more information, see How to: Create UML Class Diagrams from Code.
Please post questions about UML class diagrams in the Visual Studio 2010 Visualization & Modeling Tools forum. Thanks!
Visual Studio Code Analysis and Code Metrics announcements
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Version 10.0 of FxCop is the version that ships with Visual Studio 2010 Premium. FxCop 10.0 is part of Version 7.1 of the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4.
Instructions
- Download the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 Version 7.1
- Using elevated privileges execute FxCopSetup.exe from the %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\FXCop folder.
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Please see our blog for a description of the new Code Analysis functionality available in Visual Studio 2010: http://blogs.msdn.com/codeanalysis/archive/2010/03/22/what-s-new-in-code-analysis-for-visual-studio-2010.aspx
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Following is a collection of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding PreFAST, FxCop, Managed Code Analysis and Code Metrics.
Visual Studio 2010 Rule Sets
Question: How do I ensure that the same code analysis rule set is used for all the projects developed by my team(s)?
Answer: See JB Browns blog post on this topic.
Rule Behavior
Question: Why does FxCop generate violations against itself?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Question: Why do some sources recommend extending ApplicationException while FxCop does not?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Question: Why does FxCop ignore my in-code (SuppressMessageAttribute) suppressions?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Question: Why does DoNotExposeGenericLists recommend that I expose Collection<T> instead of List<T>?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Question: How do I indicate to DoNotDeclareReadOnlyMutableReferenceTypes that a type is immutable?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Custom Rule Development
Question: How do I integrate my custom FxCop rules into Visual Studio 2010?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Question: Where is the official FxCop custom rules SDK?
Answer: There is currently no official custom rules SDK developed by Microsoft. The primary reason is that we are currently rewriting key components of the FxCop metadata reader and data flow analysis engine. This work guarantees that rules written today will need to be modified or entirely re-written in the future. Rules developers who have been working in FxCop for the past few years can attest to the fact that every release has involved some churn in the custom rules API. Each release readme contains detailed information about porting existing rules to the latest architecture.
As soon as the FxCop metadata and other relevant API stabilize sufficiently, we will develop an official FxCop custom rules SDK with samples demonstrating common patterns written in several languages. Until then, there are several resources available to custom rules developers:
· This forum. Post your rules development questions here.
· Rules samples uploaded to the MSDN Code Gallery. Search for 'FxCop'.
· Rules samples developed externally. Search the web for 'fxcop' and 'rules'
· Visit the custom rules category on the FxCop blog
Question: How do I integrate custom rules with Visual Studio?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Question: How do I access the locals for a method?
Answer: Answered on the FxCop blog.
Visual Studio Database Development Tools (Formerly "Database Edition Forum") announcements
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Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools ...
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ForumDevelopers will also appreciate the familiar VS tools we bring to database development, specifically; code navigation, IntelliSense, language support that parallels what is available for C# and VB, platform-specific validation, debugging and declarative editing in the TSQL Editor, as well as a visual Table Designer for both database projects and online database instances.
Visual Studio Editor in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP announcements
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Hi,
my name is Selma Ikiz and I am a PM for the New Code Editor in Visual Studio.
We have devised a set of walkthroughs for you in this Visual Studio 10 release. Please use the walkthroughs as a hand-held guide to use this release. Given that this is the first release of Code Editor in Visual Studio, we are excited to hear your feedback.
You can use the Connect website to report bugs.
This forum will cover the Code Editor Walkthroughs:
How to Use a Shell Command to Add a Comment Adornment in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor
You can implement features in the Visual Studio 2010 editor from a typical VSPackage. This walkthrough shows how to add a comment adornment to a text view in the Visual Studio 2010 editor by invoking a Visual Studio shell command.
How to Add Syntax Coloring in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor
You can add many different visual effects to the Visual Studio 2010 editor by creating Managed Extensions Framework (MEF) components. This walkthrough shows how to add syntax coloring.
How to Highlight Text in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor
You can add many different visual effects to the Visual Studio 2010 editor by creating Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) components. This walkthrough shows how to highlight every occurrence of a string in a text file at the same time. For example, if a word occurs more than one time in a text file, and you position the cursor in one occurrence, every occurrence is highlighted.
How to Provide IntelliSense in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor
You can implement IntelliSense in the Visual Studio 2010 editor by creating a Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) component.
This walkthrough shows how to implement two IntelliSense controllers, one for method signature descriptions and one for statement completion. IntelliSense controllers are responsible for listening to the events that trigger completion, displaying the appropriate list, and removing the display when it is committed (that is, when a selection has been made) or dismissed. This walkthrough also shows how to implement IntelliSense controller providers, which create the IntelliSense controllers for individual text views.
When you run the sample code, pressing CTRL+J or "." shows the list of methods; you can dismiss the list by pressing ESC. Pressing CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR or "(" shows the list of parameters; you can dismiss the list by pressing ESC. The displayed lists of methods and parameters are static lists that are defined in the Helpers class.
How to Adapt to the Visual Studio 2010 Editor
The Visual Studio 2010 editor offers many features that you can use from your existing code components. These instructions show how to consume editor services directly from a Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) component or a non-MEF component, for example a VSPackage. It also shows how to use adapters, or shims, to get the services of the Visual Studio 2010 editor in both managed and unmanaged code.
If you have not downloaded or would like more information about the CTP, please visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129231.
You can find the walkthroughs on the VPC disk: C:\users\Public\documents\CTPWalkthroughs\Visual Studio.Thanks!
Selma Ikiz
Code Editor PM
Visual Studio Gallery Feedback announcements
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Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit announcements
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This update to the Guidance Automation Extensions - February 2008 Release addresses the following issues:
- registering and using guidance packages with the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Experimental hive;
- performance issues when using long names of operations or messages.
Visual Studio Lab Management announcements
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Visual Studio LightSwitch - General (Beta) announcements
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Visual Studio LightSwitch has released! Download the release version and check out our team blog post for more resources and install notes:
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 RTM is Here!
This BETA forum is now closed. Please ask all your LightSwitch questions in the RTM forum here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitch/threads
Thanks to all of you that downloaded the beta and provided feedback and help here in this forum. We appreciate all your hard work! Now please continue to support the growing LightSwitch community in our new forum.
Enjoy!
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Hello LightSwitch developers!
We've got a lot of new content and a fresh look for the LightSwitch Developer Center on MSDN (just click the "Home" tab above). Check it out! Whether you are just beginning or have been using LightSwitch for a while, we've got something for you.
We've also done a major overhaul to the LightSwitch Developer Learning Center in order to organize learning topics, blog articles, tips & tricks, and documentation better and allows us to easily roll out more training content each week. You can access training, samples, How Do I Videos, articles and more here.
We'll also be updating the Training Kit (that you can also access from the Learning Center) on Thursday for the public release.
Also check out our team blogs and bloggers for more information on LightSwitch. We're in the process of updating all our Beta 1 blog posts to Beta 2 so keep checking back.
Also check out the Dev Center Commuity page for more from the LightSwitch community.
Have fun!
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We are extremely happy to announce the release of Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ Beta 2! MSDN subscribers can access LightSwitch Beta 2 today and public availability will be Thursday, March 17th. Please see Jason Zander’s post that walks through some of the new features.
- MSDN Subscribers download LightSwitch Beta 2 now!
- The general public can download Beta 2 on Thursday at 10AM PST here
Read What’s New in Beta 2 for information on new capabilities in this release. We’d also like to announce that Beta 2 comes with a “Go Live” license which means you can now start using Visual Studio LightSwitch for production projects!
We’ve also done some major updates to the LightSwitch Developer Center with How Do I videos based on Beta 2 as well as a new and improved Learning Center and Beta 2 samples to get you up to speed fast, whether you’re a beginner or advanced developer. We’ll be rolling out more in-depth content and training in the coming weeks so keep checking back.
INSTALLATION NOTES: Visual Studio 2010 Express, Professional, Premium, Test Professional or Ultimate users must install Visual Studio 2010 SP1 before installing Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2. Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 users should uninstall Beta 1 before installing Beta 2. Also see the Beta 2 readme for late breaking issues. These are known incompatible releases with Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 (see links for details on compatibility and workarounds):
- Visual Studio Async CTP - known compatibility details(see *Async CTP Issues with VS2010 SP1* announcement)
- Windows SDK 7.1 - known compatibility details
- Help Viewer Power Tool – known compatibility details
PROJECT UPGRADE NOTES: Due to the many improvements in Beta 2, projects created in Beta 1 cannot be opened or upgraded. You will need to recreate your projects and copy over any user code that you have added. You can get to the user code files by switching to File View in the Solution Explorer. Please note that some APIs have changed so you may need to update some of your code appropriately. At this point we do not plan to introduce breaking changes post-Beta 2 that will cause you to need to recreate your Beta 2 projects.
We want to hear from you! Please visit the LightSwitch Forums to ask questions and interact with the team and community. Have you found a bug? Please report them on Microsoft Connect.
Have fun building business applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch!
Visual Studio Performance Tools (Profiler) announcements
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Visual Studio Source Control and SourceSafe announcements
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Visual Studio Team System - Testing announcements
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Visual Studio UI Automation Testing (includes Coded UI tests) announcements
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Coded UI Tests help automate browser based applications built on Internet Explorer. We are now enabling cross-browser testing of such applications. Users will be able to perform functional testing of web applications across IE/Firefox/Chrome. One can use IE to record tests and validate control properties using Coded UI Test Builder. Users also have an option to hand code cross browser tests. If user needs to playback on IE, she can click on Run All in Test Explorer which plays back the recording using Coded UI inbuilt IE Plugin. On the other hand, if the user needs to playback on non-IE browser, she can set BrowserWindow.CurrentBrowser as “firefox” or “chrome” in the test depending on which browser she wants to test before running from the test explorer. In this case, Coded UI Engine communicates with Selenium Web Driver to execute the playback.
Hope you like this feature. Feel free to drop your feedback here
System Requirements:
- Operating System: Windows 8 X86 Client/Windows 8 X64/Win7 X64/Win7 X86/Win2k8 R2 SP1
- IE version - IE9/ classic IE10
- Firefox version - 15+
- Chrome version - 21+
- Visual Studio Ultimate - VS 2012 RTM + VS 2012 Update 1 CTP
- Selenium NET Bindings and the Selenium ChromeDriver made available to you through an installer on Visual Studio Gallery. Refer to the file attachment "CUIT Cross Browser Testing Acquisition" for more details
Features:
The following features are available across the various web browsers:
- Recording support for actions and validation on supported IE browsers
- Hand-coding scenarios support for such things as control properties, search, and playback waiters.
- Support for popups and dialog
- Ability to execute basic JavaScript with no return type
- Search resilience (via smart match) and performance improvements
Scenario Videos:
Record on IE and Playback everywhere
Author cross browser tests with Coded UI Test Builder
Author cross browser tests using plain hand coding without UI Map
Run cross browser tests sequentially on multiple browsers
Troubleshoot cross browser test failures
Known Limitations
- No support for Safari browser
- Browser launch needs to be part of the UITest. In case you have a browser already open and you want to run steps on the opened browser, playback will fail for non-IE browser windows. Hence, it is advisable to have launch too as part of the test case.
- Automating browser based actions such as Maximize/minimize/restore is not supported
Troubleshooting tips
Enable HTML Logger - follow http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj159363.aspx
Feedback Survey:
Please fill in the survey to register your feedback on this feature: https://s.zoomerang.com/s/CrossBrowserTesting. Your feedback will help us plan for further enhancement to the cross browser feature.
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Using the Microsoft Visual Studio UI Test plugin for Silverlight, you can create Coded UI Tests or action recordings for Silverlight applications. Action recordings let you fast forward through steps in a manual test using Microsoft Test Manager. Coded UI Tests let you record actions, generate code and play back user interface tests using Microsoft Visual Studio.
This plugin supports Silverlight 4 & 5 applications hosted in Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 & 10. It requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 RC.
A few members of the product team got together and built this plugin as an off-hours project. It is not an official Microsoft release. We will monitor the Qand A section on the Visual Studio Galley site for feedback and queries.
For more details and to download the plugin visit VisualStudio Gallery.
Deepak Singhal, Mathew Aniyan, Siddhartha Pandey, Tapas Sahoo, Vishnupriyan Radhamanalan.
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The purpose of Code First API Library, Scaffolding & Guidance for Coded UI Tests is to help you write more maintainable Coded UI tests for your web apps. When building Web UI Tests the way that's proposed here - you aren't going to be recording test scripts nor building UI Maps. Instead, you'll be writing Page Objects that are interacting with the elements on the page.
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You can see a list of articles related to Coded UI Test (organized into various sections) in the link below.
http://blogs.msdn.com/mathew_aniyan/pages/content-index-for-coded-ui-test.aspx
It is a great place to start your exploration of Coded UI Test feature.
Visual Studio Web Performance and Load Testing announcements
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Visual Studio WPF/SL Designer announcements
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DEV313 | Making the Most of the Microsoft Silverlight and WPF Designer in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010Session Type: Breakout SessionTrack: Developer Tools, Languages & FrameworksSpeaker(s): Mark Wilson-Thomas, Mark BoulterLevel: 300 - AdvancedBuilding Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications has become much more straightforward in Visual Studio 2010. Whether you’re already a seasoned WPF/Silverlight developer or the technologies are new to you, come along to this session and see a data-driven Silverlight application built up from scratch using the new designer features – we show you tips and tricks for how to leverage the new tooling to get great results with the least sweat!
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The Visual Studio WPF and Silverlight Designer Team is delighted to inform you that Visual Studio 2010 RTM is now available! Take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/download
What's New for WPF and Silverlight Developers in Visual Studio 2010 ?
1. The Silverlight Designer is a fully functional drag-drop designer for Silverlight 3 RTM release out of the box, and for Silverlight 4 via an add-on (for info see http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsldesigner/archive/2010/04/15/silverlight-4-releases-silverlight-4-tools-for-visual-studio-2010-rtm-available-now.aspx)
2. The Data Sources Window works for Silverlight 3 and 4
3. The Property Browser has been reworked to be more usable – showing a better Category view and a "Set Properties" view
4. The designer now lets you load controls that have references to static resources at app scope
5. The designer shows helpful errors when things such as controls fail to load, without the need to attach a debugger to Visual Studio.
Check out these Channel 9 videos for more info:
Designing Data Driven Forms
Styling Your Forms
Looking Forward
Feedback
We hope you enjoy the new release, and are really looking forward to hearing your feedback.
You can send both positive and negative feedback and questions to us using this Forum, and we also encourage you to raise any bugs and issues you find via Connect (see this article on how to raise bugs in Cider)
Thanks!
Mark Wilson-Thomas
Program Manager, WPF & Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio
Visual Studio Online "Monaco" announcements
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