Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta 1 Released :)
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET FX 4 Beta 1 have been released and is available for download if you have an MSDN subscription. The beta 1 will be publicly released very soon. Check out...
View ArticleVisual C++ 2010 Beta 1 and the Windows 7 RC SDK
The Visual C++ 2010 Beta 1 release contains the Windows 7 Beta SDK. For Direct2D and DirectWrite there were some breaking changes between the beta version of the SDK and the RC version of the SDK. So...
View ArticleIntroduction to DirectWrite
Microsoft has added two interesting new API’s to Windows 7: Direct2D and DirectWrite. Direct2D replaces GDI and GDI+. It can render more accurate results and has support for hardware acceleration on...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 are now available. The final version is scheduled for 22nd of March 2010. I’m looking forward to it For Visual C++ developers there are lots of new things...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate
Microsoft has released the Release Candidate version of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4. See Scott Guthrie blog post about it. Right now it’s available for MSDN subscribers. On Wednesday...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2010 Licensing White Paper
Microsoft has released a white paper for Visual Studio 2010 licensing which provides an overview of the complete Visual Studio 2010 product line. The paper also gives a number of example deployment...
View ArticleMicrosoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Released
Today, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4. A lot of new features are included. One of them is a completely new editor. “Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 have...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2010 RTM not Compatible with the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP
A few days ago, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010. Unfortunately, for the time being, this final version is not compatible with the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP that was released a while ago....
View ArticleNew Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP is Compatible with Visual Studio 2010 RTM
Microsoft has just released a refreshed version of the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP. The biggest change is that it is now compatible with the final version of Visual Studio 2010 RTM The CTP...
View ArticleDefining x64 Target Platform for VC++ Projects
Marius Bancila posted an excellent post on his blog explaining how to define x64 target for you Visual C++ Projects. If you want to port an existing 32-bit application for the x64 platform (especially...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 Released
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 to MSDN subscribers which extends testing, code visualization and modeling capabilities in VS2010. Its main features are more advanced platform and...
View ArticleFree eBooks Related to Microsoft Technologies
Here is a list of free eBooks related to Microsoft technologies. Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (10 chapters by Patrice Pelland, Pascal Paré, and Ken Haines) Introducing Microsoft SQL Server...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2010 SP1 – Help Viewer
Microsoft is planning to include a new help viewer with Visual Studio 2010 SP1, which is long overdue You can see a presentation here.
View ArticleVisual Studio 2010 SP 1 Beta
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta. It’s available right now for MSDN subscribers and will be available to everyone on Thursday. It includes a new help viewer that I mentioned in my...
View ArticleVisual Studio 11 Beta Announced
Microsoft has announced that it will release Visual Studio 11 Beta on 29th of February, and that it will be “go live,” meaning you will be allowed to start using it in production environments. Read the...
View ArticleVisual Studio 11 UI Updates Coming in RC
Most op you will know by now that the Visual Studio 11 Beta UI is rather gray. There was a lot of feedback about this from the communities, and it seems Microsoft is listening. They have announced a...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2012 Update 2 Now Available
Microsoft has released Update 2 for Visual Studio 2012 (VS2012.2). You can get it here. Just as with VS2012.1 (which is installed as part of VS2012.2 for those of you who don’t already have VS2012.1...
View ArticleVisual Studio “14” CTP
Microsoft has released Visual Studio “14″ CTP. You can read the announcement on Soma’s blog. Visual Studio “14″ will most likely be available sometime in 2015. Note: This is a CTP release, thus it...
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