C++ Standards, Extensions, and Interop announcements
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There are a couple new (and exciting!) extensions available in the Visual Studio gallery:
- PGO Plug-In. This tool improves the user experience for PGO in Visual Studio 2013 by providing a guided experience through the various phases of the PGO process. It also introduces the ability to perform PGO for Windows Store applications targeting x86 and x64 applications and more!
- PdbProject Extension.This extension will allow Visual Studio 2012 to open and convert pdb into a vcxproj. The converted project will load as a normal VC project and provide IDE features such as tag browsing, intelli-sense and object browsing.
While there, check out the many other extensions available for Visual Studio and be sure to leave your feedback!
Thanks!
-Eric (ebattali@microsoft.com)
Parallel Computing in C++ and Native Code announcements
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If you are a newbie to C++ AMP please start here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nativeconcurrency/archive/2012/08/30/learn-c-amp.aspx
Visual Basic announcements
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This forum is for problems and discussions related to programming with VB inside Visual Studio for versions starting with the .Net version (2002). Before posting your question, check if your issue is related to the following categories. In order to get better response, take a look at How to Use this Forum.
Category
Appropriate forum
Other versions of Visual Basic
GUI related
ASP.Net forums (ASP and VB for MVC)
Forms Design and .Net Controls
SQL transact
3rd party products
.NET Framework Class Libraries
Windows
WCF, System.Net namespace and remoting technology
Windows Communication Foundation, Serialization, and Networking
If you have any suggestion to this table, please jump into this threadfor discussion.
You could share this announcement via this URL: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/threads?announcementId=b5956386-b706-4180-b003-6e778f582d89#b5956386-b706-4180-b003-6e778f582d89.
Visual C# announcements
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This forum is for C# related question. GUI questions become very unclear if its a WPF or Winforms or ASP.Net related question.
Please post any GUI related questions to the target forum:
Windows Forms General
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
ASP.Net forums
depending on what you are working on.
The C# forum is for C# related questions on the language constructs and not indirect component usage. THX
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) announcements
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The newest version of Visual Studio - 2013 - is now available.
For VSTO developers in particular, new in this release is the ability to code-sign VSTO solutions with SHA-256 certificates. The latest release also supports Office 2013 right-out-of-the-box without requiring a separate download, and the Office 2013 templates can now target the latest .NET Framework 4.5.1.
Visual Studio 2013 also delivers a broad set of tooling for the new apps for Office and apps for SharePoint. Some highlights include the ability to create MVC SharePoint apps, enhancements around app-publishing, and a new set of tooling around Cloud Business Apps that integrate seamlessly with Office 365 services. Learn more on the apps for Office and SharePoint blog.
Tip:
Just like Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013 continues to support the Office 2010 templates. However, to reduce clutter, we have re-categorized the project templates according to the .NET Framework version that they support. So, if you're looking for the Office 2010 templates, be sure to adjust the ".NET Framework" dropdown to ".NET Framework 4.0".We hope you enjoy Visual Studio 2013 and the many great features that this IDE has to offer!
~ Michael Zlatkovsky | Program Manager, Visual Studio Tools for Office & Apps for Office
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For details, see the blog article http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsto/archive/2014/04/10/vsto-runtime-update-to-address-slow-shutdown-and-unknown-publisher-for-sha256-certificates.aspx
This release fixes:
1. For VSTO add-ins using WPF controls, customers using touch-enabled
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Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VSTO. Rest assured that VSTO continues to be alive and well. In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO for now. At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for additional programming languages and platforms, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution, lifecycle management, and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.
To learn more, please see the blog post: "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".
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I know the documentation for Office 2013 is still somewhat limited, but hopefully the following link will help.
Microsoft Office Document: [MS-CustomUI2] Supporting Documentation - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=727
From here, you should be able to download the *.txt files for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus the imageMso information. Once a file is downloaded, it can be opened in Excel to make it easier to look through all the controls.
Best Regards,
Nathan O.
Microsoft Online Community Support
Visual Studio LightSwitch - General Questions announcements
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Thank you for your interest in Visual Studio LightSwitch! This forum is for general questions related to Visual Studio LightSwitch.
Remember, there is no such thing as a stupid question! Please treat all forum visitors with respect, and help out your fellow LightSwitch developers by providing answers whenever possible.
Also please take a look at the following learning resources on the Lightswitch Developer Center (http://msdn.com/lightswitch).
Learn to build LightSwitch Applications
Watch the instructional LightSwitch "How Do I?" videos
Become part of the LightSwitch Community:
Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog
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The LightSwitch team is proud to announce the release of the LightSwitch HTML client in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2!
Users of the previous CTP4 release should be able to upgrade with no problems. Users of the older Preview 2 please read these important upgrade instructions before installing Update 2.
The new HTML5 and JavaScript-based client is an important companion to our Silverlight-based desktop client that addresses the increasing need to build touch-oriented business applications that run well on modern mobile devices. We’ve also enabled support for the new SharePoint Apps model, so you can now also build SharePoint 2013 apps with LightSwitch.
Check out all the great resources to learn more:
Developer Center – We’ve got a refreshed website with new HTML client resources and tutorials. The Developer Center is your one-stop-shop for the best LightSwitch team samples, videos, articles and documentation. Start with the basics or go deeper and explore the architecture and hosting options of LightSwitch apps.
How Do I Videos – We also have started a new “How Do I...?” video series that shows you step-by-step how to get started building HTML clients with LightSwitch. Keep tabs on this page as we’re planning a lot more!
JavaScript Samples – We also have created some JavaScript snippets that show you how to achieve many common coding tasks on the HTML client. If you’re new to JavaScript, these snippets should help!
Ask questions in the General Forum – Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on the previews! Now that we have released, we will continue our conversations in the LightSwitch General forum. The team is listening there.
Enjoy!
Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) announcements
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You can get the VSTA 2013 and VSTA 2013 SDK through the links below:
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications lets you enable end users to customize your existing applications using Visual Basic and Visual C#. Since the VSTA 2012 release, several changes have been introduced to the licensing model as well as to how you integrate VSTA into your applications:
- There is no longer a licensing fee for the VSTA redistributable components. Your organization can distribute and use the VSTA redistributable components free of charge.
- VSTA no longer provides its own Visual Studio Environment for authoring macros. Instead, a supported version of Visual Studio Professional (Premium, or Ultimate) is required to develop VSTA macros and add-ins. VSTA has two primary modes of operation: with Visual Studio Professional (Premium, or Ultimate) installed and standalone. In standalone mode, VSTA provides your application with the means to load, compile, and run end user customizations. With a supported version of Visual Studio Professional (Premium, or Ultimate) installed on your user’s machine, VSTA extends that functionality with the means to edit and debug those customizations.
- VSTA 2013 supports .NET Framework 4.5.1.
- VSTA 2013 presents a simplified API for integrating design-time experiences into your application using either managed (Visual C# or Visual Basic .NET) or unmanaged (Visual C++) code. It simplifies tasks such as finding the installation of Visual Studio, launching the external process, and synchronizing save state, making integration significantly easier than previous versions.
- VSTA 2013 provides the ability to upgrade projects from Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications and Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Applications, compile, and run them. It also maintains compatibility with VSTA 2012 projects.
- VSTA no longer requires your application host to provide a runtime library in order to run. This gives you the flexibility to choose the method of running user code best tailored to the host application.
System Requirement:
- Windows 7 Service Pack 1
- Windows 8
- Windows 8.1
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
- Windows Server 2012
Runtime requirement for VSTA 2012:
- Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4
- Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013
Requirement to enable editing and debugging for VSTA customization:
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Professional, Premium or Ultimate with VSTA 2012 installed, or,
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Professional, Premium or Ultimate
Visual Studio LightSwitch Extensibility announcements
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We've just uploaded the updated version of the Extensibility Toolkit to the MSDN Extensions Gallery: LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit for VS 2012
The toolkit provides project types for creating new LightSwitch Extension Libraries that target Visual Studio 11 and includes templates for creating the following LightSwitch extensions: LightSwitch Business Type, LightSwitch Control, LightSwitch Data Source, LightSwitch Screen Template, LightSwitch Shell, and LightSwitch Theme.
Updated versions of the eight extensibility samples have been uploaded to the LightSwitch Extensibility Samples for VS 2012 as well.
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Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud. Professional developers can extend the functionality of LightSwitch by creating extensions using Visual Studio 2010 Professional, the Visual Studio SDK, and the Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Extensibility Toolkit. The toolkit provides project types for creating new LightSwitch Extension Libraries and includes templates for creating your own themes, shells, business types, controls, screen templates, and data sources.
You can access the toolkit plus walkthroughs, samples and documentation here on the Developer Center. Please make sure you follow the instructions carefully for installing the toolkit and the prerequisites.
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Extending Visual Studio LightSwitchHAVE FUN!
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Thank you for your interest in Visual Studio LightSwitch! This forum is for questions related to extending Visual Studio LightSwitch which is now available as of July 26th. For general questions and install troubleshooting please see the LightSwitch General forum.
To get started learning how to extend LightSwitch please see :
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LightSwitch Team Extensibility Samples that you can download to learn how to build many of the supported extension types
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Also make sure to visit the following resources:
If you have a bug to report or just want to make a suggestion please enter them through Connect: http://connect.microsoft.com/lightswitch
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MSBuild announcements
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Take a look at the Blog post below by Dan Moseley.
Visual Studio Integrate announcements
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The documentation of Visual Studio 2013 stated:
"Visual Studio add-ins are deprecated in Visual Studio 2013. You should upgrade your add-ins to VSPackage extensions."
And in the next version Visual Studio "14" add-ins will be removed (the "Add-In Manager" menu item no longer exists). So, it is time to convert add-ins to packages.
Resources
- Visual Studio "14" Community Technology Previews (CTPs):
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-14-ctp-vs.aspx - Visual Studio 2013 SDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40758 - MSDN Documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb166441.aspx - FAQ: Converting Add-ins to VSPackage Extensions:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn246938.aspx
- Visual Studio "14" Community Technology Previews (CTPs):
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- This Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, Text Templates (T4) and other non-modeling extensibility
- For questions about T4 Toolbox, please use http://t4toolbox.codeplex.com/discussions
- Visualization and Modeling Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visualization and Modeling Extensibility Forum - for domain-specific languages (DSLs) and extending the modeling tools
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content
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The Visual Studio 2013 SDK includes project templates, tools, tests, and reference assemblies that are required to build extensions for Visual Studio 2013.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40758
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This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2012.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39305
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http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?query=t4&ac=8
CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to create new projects to share with the world, join others who have already started their own projects, or use the applications on this site and provide feedback.
Visual Studio Code Visualization & Modeling Tools announcements
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- This Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visualization and Modeling SDK Forum - for domain-specific languages and extending the modeling tools
- Visual Studio Extensibility Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, and other non-modeling extensions
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content.
Thanks for posting your questions and feedback! We use them to help us improve the product and improve the help pages.
Visual Studio Setup and Installation announcements
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5 have been released to the web for MSDN subscribers, as well as trial versions for all our customers.
More information about the many features in VS2012 can be found at the links below.
If you have any problems installing Visual Studio or the .NET Framework, please download and run the log collection utility. When that completes, upload %TEMP%\vslogs.cab to an Internet share like http://skydrive.com, which gives you 7GB of free cloud storage using the same Microsoft account you use for these forums. Then share the URL here in this forum with a description of your problem.
Visual Studio Diagnostics (Debugger, Profiler, IntelliTrace) announcements
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A Channel 9 video showing the new 2010 debugger features is available at: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-34-Debugger-Enhancements-and-Improvements/
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To learn what is new in Diagnostics for Visual Studio 2013, see this collection of links:
Testing with Visual Studio Test Manager (MTM) announcements
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Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers.
- Use Microsoft Test Manager to capture and playback action recordings for Silverlight 4 applications.
- Create coded UI tests for Silverlight 4 applications with Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- Edit coded UI tests using a graphical editor with Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- Use action recordings to fast forward through manual tests that need to support Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and 3.6.
- Run coded UI tests for web applications using Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
For more details, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=192777
Visual Studio Editor announcements
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To increase the chances of the right team seeing your topic, it's very helpful if you post in the forum that corresponds to your issue or discussion. This forum (Visual Studio Editor) covers questions related to the core text/code editor *only*. This includes issues related to typing, scrolling, IntelliSense, tooltips, syntax coloring, outlining, etc., as well as editor extensibility. It does NOT include questions of the form, "How do I write code to accomplish XYZ task in language Foo?".
For topics that are language-specific, database-related, or involve any type of designer surface, debugger, compiler, etc., please start with the forums listed below:
- Web Development: http://forums.asp.net
- SQL/Database Development: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vstsdb/threads
- WinForms: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winforms/threads (general issues) or http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winformsdesigner/threads (WinForms designer)
- WPF Designer: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vswpfdesigner/threads
- Debugger: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsdebug/threads
- Test Tools: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vststest/threadsThanks for your help in posting questions where they are most likely to be answered!
Visual Studio General Questions announcements
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The following forums have been merged into this forum: Visual Studio WPF/SL Designer, Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit, Developer Documentation and Help System, Visual Studio Report Controls, and Visual Studio Editor.
Visual Basic announcements
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This forum is for problems and discussions related to programming with VB inside Visual Studio for versions starting with the .Net version (2002). Before posting your question, check if your issue is related to the following categories. In order to get better response, take a look at How to Use this Forum.
Category
Appropriate forum
Other versions of Visual Basic
GUI related
ASP.Net forums (ASP and VB for MVC)
Forms Design and .Net Controls
SQL transact
3rd party products
.NET Framework Class Libraries
Windows
WCF, System.Net namespace and remoting technology
Windows Communication Foundation, Serialization, and Networking
If you have any suggestion to this table, please jump into this threadfor discussion.
You could share this announcement via this URL: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/threads?announcementId=b5956386-b706-4180-b003-6e778f582d89#b5956386-b706-4180-b003-6e778f582d89.
Claims based access platform (CBA), code-named Geneva announcements
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The Federated Identity ”Geneva” team is happy to announce the release of Microsoft code name “Geneva”, an open platform for simplified user access based on claims. This release consists of three components: Geneva Framework for .NET developers, Geneva Server for IT Pros, and Windows CardSpace “Geneva”.
You can find all of our installation downloads and supporting documentation for each component of the Geneva platform on the “Geneva” Connect site.
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) announcements
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Hi All,
For updates to WPF, see the team blog. Also many common questions about WPF can be answered be reading the team blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/jgoldb/default.aspx
.NET Native Preview announcements
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.NET Native compiles C# to native machine code that performs like C++. You will continue to benefit from the productivity and familiarity of the .NET Framework with the great performance of native code. Popular Windows Store apps start up to 60% faster and use 15-20% less memory when compiled with .NET Native.
Useful resources for .NET Native
Download .NET Native Developer Preview and general resources:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=394990MSDN Documentation for .NET Native:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=392862General .NET announcements:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet
AppFabric Caching announcements
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This forum is dedicated to answering questions about using Windows Server AppFabric caching on-premises. Microsoft recently announced a CTP of Windows Azure AppFabric Caching, which allows you to use AppFabric caching features in the cloud. If you want more information about the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching CTP, see the documentation, http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=205141, or this blog post, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazureappfabric/archive/2010/10/28/introduction-to-windows-azure-appfabric-caching-ctp.aspx.
If you are trying to ask a question on the forums about the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching CTP, go to the Windows Azure Platform forum portal, http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsazureplatform.
Thank you.
Jason Roth
Senior Programming Writer, Microsoft
POS for .NET announcements
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This forum has been retired. It is locked; it will still be available for review in the Archived Forums folder. Any future posts on this topic should be put in the .NET Framework Class Libraries forum.
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Microsoft Point of Service for .NET v1.12 (POS for .NET) is a class library that enables POS developers to apply Microsoft .NET technologies in their products. It provides a simple and consistent interface for .NET Framework applications to interact with POS devices, in compliance with the UnifiedPOS standard (aka UPOS). In addition, it provides windows plug and play (PnP) support. There are thirty-six classes of POS peripherals supported including cash drawer, receipt printer, barcode scanner, magnetic strip reader (MSR), line display, RFID, Biometric, Belt, Check Scanner, Fiscal Printer, Electronic Journal, Image Scanner, Item Dispenser, Magnetic Ink Character Recognition Reader (MICR), PIN Pad, signature capture device, etc. In addition, POS for .NET supports many legacy devices where OPOS service objects are available.
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eaae202a-0fcc-406a-8fde-35713d7841ca&displaylang=en· Team Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/· POS for .NET Forum:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/posfordotnet/· MSDN Documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb848020.aspx· Sample Scanner (TechEd 2008 HOL)
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/attachment/8590083.ashx· Unified POS specification:
http://www.nrf-arts.org/UnifiedPOS/default.htm· Common Control Objects (OPOS):
http://monroecs.com/oposccos.htmBlog Articles
· Setting the BinaryConversions property for certain legacy devices:
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/archive/2009/09/18/setting-the-binaryconversions-property-for-legacy-opos-service-objects.aspx
This may be helpful for those that need to interface with SigCap devices (such as Ingenico)· New Blog: Interfacing with Biometric devices from POS applications
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/archive/2009/09/23/interfacing-with-biometric-devices-from-pos-applications.aspx
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The new 6.0 version, which can live side-by-side with the 5.5 version, is now live. Visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/stocktrader to download the source code with automated setup wizard.
You can read the technical whitepaper about it, including the mobile client architecture, and support for SQL Database Federation here.
You can view the application running live on Windows Azure (new HTML 5/MVC client) at https://azurestocktrader6.cloudapp.net; or the classic ASP.NET Web Forms client at https://azurestocktrader6classic.cloudapp.net.
The download also includes Configuration Service 6.0, which adds support for Azure Service Bus. You can access ConfigWeb 6.0 to explore the live deployment at https://azureconfigweb6.cloudapp.net.
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The updated StockTrader 5.5 sample is now available for download and setup. This replaces the 5.0 release of StockTrader. The installer can be downloaded from https://azurestocktrader.cloudapp.net or http://msdn.microsoft.com/stocktrader.
This new download includes the new Configuration Service 5.5 assemblies and ConfigWeb 5.5. Configuration Service 5.5 is backward compatible with 5.0 configuration repositories. You will want to rebuild solutions implementing Configuration Service 5.0 with the new 5.5 shared libraries.
StockTrader 5.5 What's New
The big change is support for Windows Azure SQL Database Federations. Federations allows horizontal partitioning, also called sharding, of the Azure SQL Database data tier. You will note that we have also split the previously single database into two separate physical databases: a QuoteDB and an AccountDB. By default after install, neither will be federated. You can use the new \stocktrader\builds\SQL_Loader\TradeSQLLoader.exe to create new QuoteDB/AccountDB databases, and choose the number of federation members when creating the initial databases. You can then deploy (to Azure) and then use the \stocktrader\databaseloaders\TradeSQLAzureLoader application to load data into the federated databases.
The single DAL layer works now against on-premises SQL Server (including SQL Server running in an Azure Virtual Machine); non-federated Windows Azure SQL Database, and federated Azure SQL Databases.
Configuration Service 5.5 What's New
Configuration Service 5.5 has various bug fixes, and especially enhancements to the SQL retry logic in the SQLHelper Class. Solutions using Configuration Service 5.0 should be upgraded to the new 5.5 assemblies, as well minor updates have been made to ConfigWeb.
Coming Soon: StockTrader 6.0
Within the next few weeks, a new version of StockTrader will also be available: StockTrader 6.0. StockTrader 6.0 does not replace StockTrader 5.5; but rather is a new Azure-only implementation, and it is not backward compatible with 5.5. You will be able to do side-by-side installs. Both will remain on the MSDN site. The coming Config Service 6.0 version adds support for Windows Azure Service Bus bindings, and StockTrader 6.0 can optionally be configured to use Service Bus and reliable messaging for order processing. In addition, RESTFUL web services are used in the new Business Logic layer, and the service can serve as the cloud-based backend for new StockTrader 6.0 clients that will be included in the download: Windows 8 Modern UI client; HTML5 ASP.NET/MVC client, Windows Phone client, Android client, and IPhone client.
If you have setup issues, or questions about the sample once it is installed this is the place to post them. Thank you!
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Visual C# announcements
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This forum is for C# related question. GUI questions become very unclear if its a WPF or Winforms or ASP.Net related question.
Please post any GUI related questions to the target forum:
Windows Forms General
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
ASP.Net forums
depending on what you are working on.
The C# forum is for C# related questions on the language constructs and not indirect component usage. THX
.NET Framework Class Libraries announcements
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ASP.NET Questions are off-topic in .NET Base class library, and will be moved to the Off-Topic forum when posted. Please ask questions relating to ASP.NET at the ASP.NET Forums.
Windows Communication Foundation, Serialization, and Networking announcements
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Do you have ideas you would like to share with us? Do you always think it would be cool if WCF could do this? Here is an opportunity for you to contribute - http://tinyurl.com/wcfvnext
Thanks!
Visual Studio Visualization & Modeling SDK (DSL Tools) announcements
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- This Forum - for domain-specific languages and extending the modeling tools
- Visualization and Modeling Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visual Studio Extensibility Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, Text Templates (T4) and other non-modeling extensibility
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content
Thanks for posting your questions and feedback! We use them to help us improve the product and improve the help pages.
Team Foundation Server - Project Management & Work Item announcements
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There are a number of changeable and non-changeable attributes assigned to work item fields. For a quick reference, see the following blog post: Work Item Field Attributes - What You Can and Can't Change.
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You can now see at a glance all the work item fields that ship with default process templates TFS 2012 provides. Go here to read the blog post and access the latest content:
Introducing an Integrated Work Item Field Reference for Visual Studio ALM and TFS.
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With the current refresh of content on MSDN (today, 1/27/2010), a number of changes were made to consolidate and streamline content that addresses customization and definition of work item types. You can learn more by reading the following blog post: Significant Changes Made to Streamline the Content for Work Item Type Schema Reference.
You might notice that some topics no longer appear in the TOC. This is by design.
Also, you may need to delete your browser's cache to see the changes.
Team Foundation Server - Eclipse and Cross Platform announcements
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Just wanted to let everyone know that we just shipped a new version of Team Explorer Everywhere. It's available from the download site.
http://dl.microsoft.com/eclipse/tfs
Let us know how you get on.
Many thanks,
Mireille.
Team Foundation Server - Build and release management announcements
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I've published a blog post on Building ASP.net Applications with VSTS/TFS and I'd like to get your feedback. Please post a comment on my blog or contact me directly about issues you've run into when building ASP.net apps with the VSTS/TFS toolset.
Thanks,
Jim Lamb
Program Manager
Team Foundation Server – Migration and Integration announcements
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The latest release of the TFS Integration Tools is available for download from http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/f854dd59-8eeb-4673-8d9a-ae012989bfa2.
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In addition to the TFS Integration Platform and Tool and the VSS Converter available from Microsoft, there are also a good number of third party tools and solutions for migrating from various platforms to TFS. Check out the list at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb840033.aspx?ppud=4
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Welcome to the new forum for TFS Migration and Integration. For a long time, we have had no home for questions related to offerings such as the VSS Converter, ClearCase Migration Tool for TFS, as well as general questions about our tools, partners, and service offerings. This forum is intended to be the home for questions related to all of these things.
Something this forum is not intended to support are questions related to upgrading between TFS versions. For those questions, the TFS General (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsgeneral/threads) or TFS Setup (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfssetup/threads) forums are your best bets. -
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Willy-Peter Schaub has written the first in a series of blog posts on getting started with the TFS Integration Tools: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2011/05/11/tfs-integration-tools-where-does-one-start-part-1.aspx
This first post address the documentation that is available and where to find it.
Team Foundation Server - Process Templates announcements
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The schemas (xsd) for process template and work item types are available on Code Gallery.
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You can now see at a glance all the work item fields that ship with default process templates TFS 2012 provides. Go here to read the blog post and access the latest content:
Introducing an Integrated Work Item Field Reference for Visual Studio ALM and TFS.
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How to build sqlite 3 stdcall library
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C++ Standards, Extensions, and Interop announcements
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There are a couple new (and exciting!) extensions available in the Visual Studio gallery:
- PGO Plug-In. This tool improves the user experience for PGO in Visual Studio 2013 by providing a guided experience through the various phases of the PGO process. It also introduces the ability to perform PGO for Windows Store applications targeting x86 and x64 applications and more!
- PdbProject Extension.This extension will allow Visual Studio 2012 to open and convert pdb into a vcxproj. The converted project will load as a normal VC project and provide IDE features such as tag browsing, intelli-sense and object browsing.
While there, check out the many other extensions available for Visual Studio and be sure to leave your feedback!
Thanks!
-Eric (ebattali@microsoft.com)
Parallel Computing in C++ and Native Code announcements
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If you are a newbie to C++ AMP please start here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nativeconcurrency/archive/2012/08/30/learn-c-amp.aspx
Visual Basic announcements
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This forum is for problems and discussions related to programming with VB inside Visual Studio for versions starting with the .Net version (2002). Before posting your question, check if your issue is related to the following categories. In order to get better response, take a look at How to Use this Forum.
Category
Appropriate forum
Other versions of Visual Basic
GUI related
ASP.Net forums (ASP and VB for MVC)
Forms Design and .Net Controls
SQL transact
3rd party products
.NET Framework Class Libraries
Windows
WCF, System.Net namespace and remoting technology
Windows Communication Foundation, Serialization, and Networking
If you have any suggestion to this table, please jump into this threadfor discussion.
You could share this announcement via this URL: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/threads?announcementId=b5956386-b706-4180-b003-6e778f582d89#b5956386-b706-4180-b003-6e778f582d89.
Visual C# announcements
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This forum is for C# related question. GUI questions become very unclear if its a WPF or Winforms or ASP.Net related question.
Please post any GUI related questions to the target forum:
Windows Forms General
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
ASP.Net forums
depending on what you are working on.
The C# forum is for C# related questions on the language constructs and not indirect component usage. THX
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) announcements
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The newest version of Visual Studio - 2013 - is now available.
For VSTO developers in particular, new in this release is the ability to code-sign VSTO solutions with SHA-256 certificates. The latest release also supports Office 2013 right-out-of-the-box without requiring a separate download, and the Office 2013 templates can now target the latest .NET Framework 4.5.1.
Visual Studio 2013 also delivers a broad set of tooling for the new apps for Office and apps for SharePoint. Some highlights include the ability to create MVC SharePoint apps, enhancements around app-publishing, and a new set of tooling around Cloud Business Apps that integrate seamlessly with Office 365 services. Learn more on the apps for Office and SharePoint blog.
Tip:
Just like Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013 continues to support the Office 2010 templates. However, to reduce clutter, we have re-categorized the project templates according to the .NET Framework version that they support. So, if you're looking for the Office 2010 templates, be sure to adjust the ".NET Framework" dropdown to ".NET Framework 4.0".We hope you enjoy Visual Studio 2013 and the many great features that this IDE has to offer!
~ Michael Zlatkovsky | Program Manager, Visual Studio Tools for Office & Apps for Office
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For details, see the blog article http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsto/archive/2014/04/10/vsto-runtime-update-to-address-slow-shutdown-and-unknown-publisher-for-sha256-certificates.aspx
This release fixes:
1. For VSTO add-ins using WPF controls, customers using touch-enabled
devices experienced a 15-20 second lag when closing Office applications2. for developers using SHA256 code-signing certificates, the installation
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Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VSTO. Rest assured that VSTO continues to be alive and well. In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO for now. At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for additional programming languages and platforms, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution, lifecycle management, and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.
To learn more, please see the blog post: "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".
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I know the documentation for Office 2013 is still somewhat limited, but hopefully the following link will help.
Microsoft Office Document: [MS-CustomUI2] Supporting Documentation - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=727
From here, you should be able to download the *.txt files for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus the imageMso information. Once a file is downloaded, it can be opened in Excel to make it easier to look through all the controls.
Best Regards,
Nathan O.
Microsoft Online Community Support
Visual Studio LightSwitch - General Questions announcements
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Thank you for your interest in Visual Studio LightSwitch! This forum is for general questions related to Visual Studio LightSwitch.
Remember, there is no such thing as a stupid question! Please treat all forum visitors with respect, and help out your fellow LightSwitch developers by providing answers whenever possible.
Also please take a look at the following learning resources on the Lightswitch Developer Center (http://msdn.com/lightswitch).
Learn to build LightSwitch Applications
Watch the instructional LightSwitch "How Do I?" videos
Become part of the LightSwitch Community:
Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog
Enjoy!
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The LightSwitch team is proud to announce the release of the LightSwitch HTML client in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2!
Users of the previous CTP4 release should be able to upgrade with no problems. Users of the older Preview 2 please read these important upgrade instructions before installing Update 2.
The new HTML5 and JavaScript-based client is an important companion to our Silverlight-based desktop client that addresses the increasing need to build touch-oriented business applications that run well on modern mobile devices. We’ve also enabled support for the new SharePoint Apps model, so you can now also build SharePoint 2013 apps with LightSwitch.
Check out all the great resources to learn more:
Developer Center – We’ve got a refreshed website with new HTML client resources and tutorials. The Developer Center is your one-stop-shop for the best LightSwitch team samples, videos, articles and documentation. Start with the basics or go deeper and explore the architecture and hosting options of LightSwitch apps.
How Do I Videos – We also have started a new “How Do I...?” video series that shows you step-by-step how to get started building HTML clients with LightSwitch. Keep tabs on this page as we’re planning a lot more!
JavaScript Samples – We also have created some JavaScript snippets that show you how to achieve many common coding tasks on the HTML client. If you’re new to JavaScript, these snippets should help!
Ask questions in the General Forum – Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on the previews! Now that we have released, we will continue our conversations in the LightSwitch General forum. The team is listening there.
Enjoy!
Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) announcements
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You can get the VSTA 2013 and VSTA 2013 SDK through the links below:
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications lets you enable end users to customize your existing applications using Visual Basic and Visual C#. Since the VSTA 2012 release, several changes have been introduced to the licensing model as well as to how you integrate VSTA into your applications:
- There is no longer a licensing fee for the VSTA redistributable components. Your organization can distribute and use the VSTA redistributable components free of charge.
- VSTA no longer provides its own Visual Studio Environment for authoring macros. Instead, a supported version of Visual Studio Professional (Premium, or Ultimate) is required to develop VSTA macros and add-ins. VSTA has two primary modes of operation: with Visual Studio Professional (Premium, or Ultimate) installed and standalone. In standalone mode, VSTA provides your application with the means to load, compile, and run end user customizations. With a supported version of Visual Studio Professional (Premium, or Ultimate) installed on your user’s machine, VSTA extends that functionality with the means to edit and debug those customizations.
- VSTA 2013 supports .NET Framework 4.5.1.
- VSTA 2013 presents a simplified API for integrating design-time experiences into your application using either managed (Visual C# or Visual Basic .NET) or unmanaged (Visual C++) code. It simplifies tasks such as finding the installation of Visual Studio, launching the external process, and synchronizing save state, making integration significantly easier than previous versions.
- VSTA 2013 provides the ability to upgrade projects from Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications and Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Applications, compile, and run them. It also maintains compatibility with VSTA 2012 projects.
- VSTA no longer requires your application host to provide a runtime library in order to run. This gives you the flexibility to choose the method of running user code best tailored to the host application.
System Requirement:
- Windows 7 Service Pack 1
- Windows 8
- Windows 8.1
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
- Windows Server 2012
Runtime requirement for VSTA 2012:
- Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4
- Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013
Requirement to enable editing and debugging for VSTA customization:
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Professional, Premium or Ultimate with VSTA 2012 installed, or,
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Professional, Premium or Ultimate
Visual Studio LightSwitch Extensibility announcements
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We've just uploaded the updated version of the Extensibility Toolkit to the MSDN Extensions Gallery: LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit for VS 2012
The toolkit provides project types for creating new LightSwitch Extension Libraries that target Visual Studio 11 and includes templates for creating the following LightSwitch extensions: LightSwitch Business Type, LightSwitch Control, LightSwitch Data Source, LightSwitch Screen Template, LightSwitch Shell, and LightSwitch Theme.
Updated versions of the eight extensibility samples have been uploaded to the LightSwitch Extensibility Samples for VS 2012 as well.
Enjoy
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Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud. Professional developers can extend the functionality of LightSwitch by creating extensions using Visual Studio 2010 Professional, the Visual Studio SDK, and the Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Extensibility Toolkit. The toolkit provides project types for creating new LightSwitch Extension Libraries and includes templates for creating your own themes, shells, business types, controls, screen templates, and data sources.
You can access the toolkit plus walkthroughs, samples and documentation here on the Developer Center. Please make sure you follow the instructions carefully for installing the toolkit and the prerequisites.
Extending Visual Studio LightSwitchHAVE FUN!
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Thank you for your interest in Visual Studio LightSwitch! This forum is for questions related to extending Visual Studio LightSwitch which is now available as of July 26th. For general questions and install troubleshooting please see the LightSwitch General forum.
To get started learning how to extend LightSwitch please see :
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Extending Visual Studio LightSwitch page on the Developer Center where you can download the LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit and read walkthroughs on how to get started
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LightSwitch Team Extensibility Samples that you can download to learn how to build many of the supported extension types
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Advanced hands-on labs in the LightSwitch Training Kit where you will build and package an extension that can be reused by the Visual Studio LightSwitch end user
Also make sure to visit the following resources:
If you have a bug to report or just want to make a suggestion please enter them through Connect: http://connect.microsoft.com/lightswitch
Have fun!
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MSBuild announcements
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Take a look at the Blog post below by Dan Moseley.
Visual Studio Integrate announcements
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The documentation of Visual Studio 2013 stated:
"Visual Studio add-ins are deprecated in Visual Studio 2013. You should upgrade your add-ins to VSPackage extensions."
And in the next version Visual Studio "14" add-ins will be removed (the "Add-In Manager" menu item no longer exists). So, it is time to convert add-ins to packages.
Resources
- Visual Studio "14" Community Technology Previews (CTPs):
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-14-ctp-vs.aspx - Visual Studio 2013 SDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40758 - MSDN Documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb166441.aspx - FAQ: Converting Add-ins to VSPackage Extensions:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn246938.aspx
- Visual Studio "14" Community Technology Previews (CTPs):
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- This Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, Text Templates (T4) and other non-modeling extensibility
- For questions about T4 Toolbox, please use http://t4toolbox.codeplex.com/discussions
- Visualization and Modeling Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visualization and Modeling Extensibility Forum - for domain-specific languages (DSLs) and extending the modeling tools
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content
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The Visual Studio 2013 SDK includes project templates, tools, tests, and reference assemblies that are required to build extensions for Visual Studio 2013.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40758
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This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2012.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39305
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http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?query=t4&ac=8
CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to create new projects to share with the world, join others who have already started their own projects, or use the applications on this site and provide feedback.
Visual Studio Code Visualization & Modeling Tools announcements
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- This Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visualization and Modeling SDK Forum - for domain-specific languages and extending the modeling tools
- Visual Studio Extensibility Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, and other non-modeling extensions
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content.
Thanks for posting your questions and feedback! We use them to help us improve the product and improve the help pages.
Visual Studio Setup and Installation announcements
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5 have been released to the web for MSDN subscribers, as well as trial versions for all our customers.
More information about the many features in VS2012 can be found at the links below.
If you have any problems installing Visual Studio or the .NET Framework, please download and run the log collection utility. When that completes, upload %TEMP%\vslogs.cab to an Internet share like http://skydrive.com, which gives you 7GB of free cloud storage using the same Microsoft account you use for these forums. Then share the URL here in this forum with a description of your problem.
Visual Studio Diagnostics (Debugger, Profiler, IntelliTrace) announcements
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A Channel 9 video showing the new 2010 debugger features is available at: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-34-Debugger-Enhancements-and-Improvements/
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To learn what is new in Diagnostics for Visual Studio 2013, see this collection of links:
Testing with Visual Studio Test Manager (MTM) announcements
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Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers.
- Use Microsoft Test Manager to capture and playback action recordings for Silverlight 4 applications.
- Create coded UI tests for Silverlight 4 applications with Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- Edit coded UI tests using a graphical editor with Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- Use action recordings to fast forward through manual tests that need to support Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and 3.6.
- Run coded UI tests for web applications using Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
For more details, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=192777
Visual Studio Editor announcements
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To increase the chances of the right team seeing your topic, it's very helpful if you post in the forum that corresponds to your issue or discussion. This forum (Visual Studio Editor) covers questions related to the core text/code editor *only*. This includes issues related to typing, scrolling, IntelliSense, tooltips, syntax coloring, outlining, etc., as well as editor extensibility. It does NOT include questions of the form, "How do I write code to accomplish XYZ task in language Foo?".
For topics that are language-specific, database-related, or involve any type of designer surface, debugger, compiler, etc., please start with the forums listed below:
- Web Development: http://forums.asp.net
- SQL/Database Development: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vstsdb/threads
- WinForms: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winforms/threads (general issues) or http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winformsdesigner/threads (WinForms designer)
- WPF Designer: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vswpfdesigner/threads
- Debugger: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsdebug/threads
- Test Tools: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vststest/threadsThanks for your help in posting questions where they are most likely to be answered!
Visual Studio General Questions announcements
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The following forums have been merged into this forum: Visual Studio WPF/SL Designer, Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit, Developer Documentation and Help System, Visual Studio Report Controls, and Visual Studio Editor.
Visual Basic announcements
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This forum is for problems and discussions related to programming with VB inside Visual Studio for versions starting with the .Net version (2002). Before posting your question, check if your issue is related to the following categories. In order to get better response, take a look at How to Use this Forum.
Category
Appropriate forum
Other versions of Visual Basic
GUI related
ASP.Net forums (ASP and VB for MVC)
Forms Design and .Net Controls
SQL transact
3rd party products
.NET Framework Class Libraries
Windows
WCF, System.Net namespace and remoting technology
Windows Communication Foundation, Serialization, and Networking
If you have any suggestion to this table, please jump into this threadfor discussion.
You could share this announcement via this URL: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/threads?announcementId=b5956386-b706-4180-b003-6e778f582d89#b5956386-b706-4180-b003-6e778f582d89.
Claims based access platform (CBA), code-named Geneva announcements
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The Federated Identity ”Geneva” team is happy to announce the release of Microsoft code name “Geneva”, an open platform for simplified user access based on claims. This release consists of three components: Geneva Framework for .NET developers, Geneva Server for IT Pros, and Windows CardSpace “Geneva”.
You can find all of our installation downloads and supporting documentation for each component of the Geneva platform on the “Geneva” Connect site.
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) announcements
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Hi All,
For updates to WPF, see the team blog. Also many common questions about WPF can be answered be reading the team blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/jgoldb/default.aspx
.NET Native Preview announcements
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.NET Native compiles C# to native machine code that performs like C++. You will continue to benefit from the productivity and familiarity of the .NET Framework with the great performance of native code. Popular Windows Store apps start up to 60% faster and use 15-20% less memory when compiled with .NET Native.
Useful resources for .NET Native
Download .NET Native Developer Preview and general resources:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=394990MSDN Documentation for .NET Native:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=392862General .NET announcements:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet
AppFabric Caching announcements
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This forum is dedicated to answering questions about using Windows Server AppFabric caching on-premises. Microsoft recently announced a CTP of Windows Azure AppFabric Caching, which allows you to use AppFabric caching features in the cloud. If you want more information about the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching CTP, see the documentation, http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=205141, or this blog post, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazureappfabric/archive/2010/10/28/introduction-to-windows-azure-appfabric-caching-ctp.aspx.
If you are trying to ask a question on the forums about the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching CTP, go to the Windows Azure Platform forum portal, http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsazureplatform.
Thank you.
Jason Roth
Senior Programming Writer, Microsoft
POS for .NET announcements
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This forum has been retired. It is locked; it will still be available for review in the Archived Forums folder. Any future posts on this topic should be put in the .NET Framework Class Libraries forum.
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Microsoft Point of Service for .NET v1.12 (POS for .NET) is a class library that enables POS developers to apply Microsoft .NET technologies in their products. It provides a simple and consistent interface for .NET Framework applications to interact with POS devices, in compliance with the UnifiedPOS standard (aka UPOS). In addition, it provides windows plug and play (PnP) support. There are thirty-six classes of POS peripherals supported including cash drawer, receipt printer, barcode scanner, magnetic strip reader (MSR), line display, RFID, Biometric, Belt, Check Scanner, Fiscal Printer, Electronic Journal, Image Scanner, Item Dispenser, Magnetic Ink Character Recognition Reader (MICR), PIN Pad, signature capture device, etc. In addition, POS for .NET supports many legacy devices where OPOS service objects are available.
POS for .NET 1.12 Download page:
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· POS for .NET 1.12 Download page:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eaae202a-0fcc-406a-8fde-35713d7841ca&displaylang=en· Team Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/· POS for .NET Forum:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/posfordotnet/· MSDN Documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb848020.aspx· Sample Scanner (TechEd 2008 HOL)
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/attachment/8590083.ashx· Unified POS specification:
http://www.nrf-arts.org/UnifiedPOS/default.htm· Common Control Objects (OPOS):
http://monroecs.com/oposccos.htmBlog Articles
· Setting the BinaryConversions property for certain legacy devices:
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/archive/2009/09/18/setting-the-binaryconversions-property-for-legacy-opos-service-objects.aspx
This may be helpful for those that need to interface with SigCap devices (such as Ingenico)· New Blog: Interfacing with Biometric devices from POS applications
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/archive/2009/09/23/interfacing-with-biometric-devices-from-pos-applications.aspx
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.NET StockTrader Sample Application announcements
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The new 6.0 version, which can live side-by-side with the 5.5 version, is now live. Visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/stocktrader to download the source code with automated setup wizard.
You can read the technical whitepaper about it, including the mobile client architecture, and support for SQL Database Federation here.
You can view the application running live on Windows Azure (new HTML 5/MVC client) at https://azurestocktrader6.cloudapp.net; or the classic ASP.NET Web Forms client at https://azurestocktrader6classic.cloudapp.net.
The download also includes Configuration Service 6.0, which adds support for Azure Service Bus. You can access ConfigWeb 6.0 to explore the live deployment at https://azureconfigweb6.cloudapp.net.
-Greg
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The updated StockTrader 5.5 sample is now available for download and setup. This replaces the 5.0 release of StockTrader. The installer can be downloaded from https://azurestocktrader.cloudapp.net or http://msdn.microsoft.com/stocktrader.
This new download includes the new Configuration Service 5.5 assemblies and ConfigWeb 5.5. Configuration Service 5.5 is backward compatible with 5.0 configuration repositories. You will want to rebuild solutions implementing Configuration Service 5.0 with the new 5.5 shared libraries.
StockTrader 5.5 What's New
The big change is support for Windows Azure SQL Database Federations. Federations allows horizontal partitioning, also called sharding, of the Azure SQL Database data tier. You will note that we have also split the previously single database into two separate physical databases: a QuoteDB and an AccountDB. By default after install, neither will be federated. You can use the new \stocktrader\builds\SQL_Loader\TradeSQLLoader.exe to create new QuoteDB/AccountDB databases, and choose the number of federation members when creating the initial databases. You can then deploy (to Azure) and then use the \stocktrader\databaseloaders\TradeSQLAzureLoader application to load data into the federated databases.
The single DAL layer works now against on-premises SQL Server (including SQL Server running in an Azure Virtual Machine); non-federated Windows Azure SQL Database, and federated Azure SQL Databases.
Configuration Service 5.5 What's New
Configuration Service 5.5 has various bug fixes, and especially enhancements to the SQL retry logic in the SQLHelper Class. Solutions using Configuration Service 5.0 should be upgraded to the new 5.5 assemblies, as well minor updates have been made to ConfigWeb.
Coming Soon: StockTrader 6.0
Within the next few weeks, a new version of StockTrader will also be available: StockTrader 6.0. StockTrader 6.0 does not replace StockTrader 5.5; but rather is a new Azure-only implementation, and it is not backward compatible with 5.5. You will be able to do side-by-side installs. Both will remain on the MSDN site. The coming Config Service 6.0 version adds support for Windows Azure Service Bus bindings, and StockTrader 6.0 can optionally be configured to use Service Bus and reliable messaging for order processing. In addition, RESTFUL web services are used in the new Business Logic layer, and the service can serve as the cloud-based backend for new StockTrader 6.0 clients that will be included in the download: Windows 8 Modern UI client; HTML5 ASP.NET/MVC client, Windows Phone client, Android client, and IPhone client.
If you have setup issues, or questions about the sample once it is installed this is the place to post them. Thank you!
-Greg
Visual C# announcements
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This forum is for C# related question. GUI questions become very unclear if its a WPF or Winforms or ASP.Net related question.
Please post any GUI related questions to the target forum:
Windows Forms General
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
ASP.Net forums
depending on what you are working on.
The C# forum is for C# related questions on the language constructs and not indirect component usage. THX
.NET Framework Class Libraries announcements
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ASP.NET Questions are off-topic in .NET Base class library, and will be moved to the Off-Topic forum when posted. Please ask questions relating to ASP.NET at the ASP.NET Forums.
Windows Communication Foundation, Serialization, and Networking announcements
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Do you have ideas you would like to share with us? Do you always think it would be cool if WCF could do this? Here is an opportunity for you to contribute - http://tinyurl.com/wcfvnext
Thanks!
Visual Studio Visualization & Modeling SDK (DSL Tools) announcements
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- This Forum - for domain-specific languages and extending the modeling tools
- Visualization and Modeling Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visual Studio Extensibility Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, Text Templates (T4) and other non-modeling extensibility
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content
Thanks for posting your questions and feedback! We use them to help us improve the product and improve the help pages.
Team Foundation Server - Project Management & Work Item announcements
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There are a number of changeable and non-changeable attributes assigned to work item fields. For a quick reference, see the following blog post: Work Item Field Attributes - What You Can and Can't Change.
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You can now see at a glance all the work item fields that ship with default process templates TFS 2012 provides. Go here to read the blog post and access the latest content:
Introducing an Integrated Work Item Field Reference for Visual Studio ALM and TFS.
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With the current refresh of content on MSDN (today, 1/27/2010), a number of changes were made to consolidate and streamline content that addresses customization and definition of work item types. You can learn more by reading the following blog post: Significant Changes Made to Streamline the Content for Work Item Type Schema Reference.
You might notice that some topics no longer appear in the TOC. This is by design.
Also, you may need to delete your browser's cache to see the changes.
Team Foundation Server - Eclipse and Cross Platform announcements
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Just wanted to let everyone know that we just shipped a new version of Team Explorer Everywhere. It's available from the download site.
http://dl.microsoft.com/eclipse/tfs
Let us know how you get on.
Many thanks,
Mireille.
Team Foundation Server - Build and release management announcements
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I've published a blog post on Building ASP.net Applications with VSTS/TFS and I'd like to get your feedback. Please post a comment on my blog or contact me directly about issues you've run into when building ASP.net apps with the VSTS/TFS toolset.
Thanks,
Jim Lamb
Program Manager
Team Foundation Server – Migration and Integration announcements
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The latest release of the TFS Integration Tools is available for download from http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/f854dd59-8eeb-4673-8d9a-ae012989bfa2.
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In addition to the TFS Integration Platform and Tool and the VSS Converter available from Microsoft, there are also a good number of third party tools and solutions for migrating from various platforms to TFS. Check out the list at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb840033.aspx?ppud=4
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Welcome to the new forum for TFS Migration and Integration. For a long time, we have had no home for questions related to offerings such as the VSS Converter, ClearCase Migration Tool for TFS, as well as general questions about our tools, partners, and service offerings. This forum is intended to be the home for questions related to all of these things.
Something this forum is not intended to support are questions related to upgrading between TFS versions. For those questions, the TFS General (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsgeneral/threads) or TFS Setup (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfssetup/threads) forums are your best bets. -
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Willy-Peter Schaub has written the first in a series of blog posts on getting started with the TFS Integration Tools: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2011/05/11/tfs-integration-tools-where-does-one-start-part-1.aspx
This first post address the documentation that is available and where to find it.
Team Foundation Server - Process Templates announcements
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The schemas (xsd) for process template and work item types are available on Code Gallery.
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You can now see at a glance all the work item fields that ship with default process templates TFS 2012 provides. Go here to read the blog post and access the latest content:
Introducing an Integrated Work Item Field Reference for Visual Studio ALM and TFS.
