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  • Change the Product Key in Visual Studio Installer

    Following to Scott Guthrie's post with some answers to common questions about Visual Studio 2008 , I just want to point out how to change the default product key in Visual Studio installer. You know that by default, Visual Studio installer doesn't allow the change in the product key and you just can view it. While you can upgrade your trial editions easily (as Scott has outlined), you may be interested to have a single installer with your product key to use everywhere when you want. This...
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  • Visual Studio 2008 Released

    There is nothing better than seeing the news about the final release of Visual Studio 2008 after getting back to home after a very bad day. Visual Studio 2008 is available for download for MSDN subscribers and we can consider this as official release of Visual Studio 2008. Of course, the launch day is later in February 2008. As a .NET developer who spends much of his time in this IDE everyday, this is important news for me but more than this, it's important because of the correlation of my forthcoming...
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  • Professional Visual Studio Blog

    I randomly found Professional Visual Studio blog by Nick Randolph and David Gardner. The name reminds you of Wrox Professional series and that's right! This blog is a blog about Visual Studio written by authors of Professional Visual Studio 2008 book. This is a revised edition of Professional Visual Studio 2005 book that is due to be published in mid-2008. I found some good posts on this blog. Authors are trying to share some tips, tricks and news about Visual Studio on the blog to promote their...
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  • A Great Post on Visual Studio Performance

    I'm going to assume that most people that read my blog, will also read ScottGu's blog but if even one person doesn't and finds this great post via my blog, then it's worth it. Check out Scott's tips for getting the most out of Visual Studio . Personally, I run a 150 GB, 1.5 Gb/s, 16 MB Cache Western Digital Raptor as my OS drive with a 250GB 7,200rpm drive with all my projects on. For me, both Windows Vista x64 and Visual Studio are lightening fast so I'd totally agree with...
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  • Renaming My New Book

    It's been quite a while since I updated the status of my new book on this blog. In this while we've been working hard on the book to deliver the best content to the community and due to the fact that we're working on a not released product, we had to apply some changes as well. One of these changes is renaming the book and having a new title to reflect the content better. The original idea of the book was working on a book about Visual Studio add-ins and extensions based on C# so we chose...
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  • T4 Editor Beta Released

    After 2-3 days of being off due to a lost and found Internet connection and being away to the service for many hours, now I'm back online! Earlier today I saw the news about the Beta release of T4 editor on Victor's blog . Those who know DSL, also know about Text Templating Transformation Toolkit (aka T4) which converts text and generates codes for DSL tools, GAX and Software Factories and other code generation purposes (download the Visual Studio SDK to see the Microsoft work on this). The...
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  • Weird Behavior in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 XAML Editor

    If you have worked with XML editor in Visual Studio, already know that it inserts closing tags for each element automatically if you don't close the element manually. And if you close it then it doesn't do anything. This is very helpful when authoring XML documents and XML based documents. Not only it saves you from writing the end tags, but also it guarantees the well-formed structure of the document. But for new XAML editor in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 things are different! I supposed that...
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  • Visual Studio Extensibility Community Letter for October 2007

    Yesterday Ken Levy , the Program Manager of Visual Studio Tools Ecosystem team at Microsoft, posted the VSX community letter for October 2007 including lots of latest news and information about Visual Studio extensibility. Since we're getting closer to the final release of Visual Studio 2008 and I'm working on a book about VSX, am getting sensitive about the news to avoid redoing things and finish the book on time. My book heavily depends on the final release of Visual Studio 2008 and its...
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  • Visual Studio Add-in C# Code Template

    Yesterday, Bill Bridges (Development Editor of my new book) sent me an email about a problem in one of the recent chapters of my upcoming book about Visual Studio Extensibility. The problem, that had taken half an hour of his time to get fixed was a simple formatting problem in one of source code samples. A a non-technical man, he was honest to change all lines of a source codes manually one by one. Book publishers like to use spaces for code indentations not tabs. In that chapter, one code sample...
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  • What is New with Professional Visual Studio Add-ins and Extensions?

    While I announced my new book in July, I've been working on the book everyday to get things done on time. Although it has been so hard to manage this life with these troubles (that others provide for me in this country) but fortunately I've been able to keep things managed to now and pass a reasonable percentage of the book content. It has been almost 2.5 months that I've begun working on the book and our team including myself as author, Bill as Development Editor and Cody as Technical...
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  • Update Visual Studio 2005 Add-ins for Visual Studio 2008

    A blog post by Andreas Erben about updating CopySourceAsHtml add-in for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 (which was a part of Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer Tools 2007 ) bit me to write this point and give a more general description about updating your Visual Studio 2005 add-ins for Visual Studio 2008. I know working on this stuff for the book makes me old!! In general, you can upgrade a Visual Studio 2005 add-in for Visual Studio 2008 by copying its DLL file, add-in file and configuration file...
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  • Unit Test Visual Studio Dialog Boxes with DialogBoxPurger

    When working on the book , I noticed something very nice in Visual Studio 2008 SDK. Maybe it was a part of Visual Studio 2005 SDK but I haven't tested it! Visual Studio SDK installs a code template for unit testing Visual Studio dialog boxes (and some other common scenarios) by default. When working on VS related stuff, this comes very handy to let you unit test your UI and results easily. This code template is DialogboxPurger class which will be added to your unit test projects and works closely...

  • Organize Usings in Visual Studio 2008

    One of new features for language editor of Visual Studio 2008 is the Organize Usings option. This is a simple option that lets you organize Using references in your code. This option lets you to remove unused Usings and sort them or both. You can get access to this option just by right-clicking on the code editor. If you choose to remove unused Usings, it removes all unused Usings and just keeps what you need. On the other side, if you choose to sort Usings, it will sort them alphabetically. Since...
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  • WCF SvcConfigEditor in Visual Studio 2008

    One of new additions to latest Beta 2 version of Visual Studio 2008 was a new helpful editor named SvcConfigEditor. This is an editor for WCF service and client configuration files. Using this editor, you can create and edit service or client configurations easily. Editor You can access to this editor via Tools->WCF SvcConfigEditor. After opening this editor, you can see the main window. In this editor, you can create new configuration files for services or open existing configuration files, executables...
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  • CopySourceAsHtml Add-in for Visual Studio 2008

    My regular visitors know that I've been using CopySourceAsHtml add-in for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 to highlight source code samples on my blog from the beginning to now. And probably you know that this add-in is the most popular way to present source codes on blogs and sites on .NET community. I wrote sample codes for the previous post in Visual Studio 2008 (codenamed Orcas) and was going to copy source codes to my blog but I didn't have any choice to do this. Looking for a solution, I...
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