Thread Performance: Resource Contention Concurrency Profiling in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 includes new resource contention profiling features that help detect concurrency contention among threads. We walk through a profiling investigation to demonstrate how you can pinpoint and fix resource contention problems in your code.
SolutionConverter
A Visual Studio solution version converter to upgrade/downgrade solutions between VS versions.
Changes in programmer tools' infrastructure
The article describes some observations concerning changes in the infrastructure of tools used by programmers in everyday work. First of all, these changes are related to the release of Visual Studio 2010.
My Favorite New Features in Visual Studio 2010
This article explores some of the new features in Visual Studio 2010. It is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but rather highlights those features that I, as an ASP.NET
developer, find most useful in my line of work.
Code spelling checker extension for visual studio 2010 (VSX)
Building a spelling checker for source code as an extension for visual studio 2010.
Explore the Data Access Options in Visual Studio 2008
In Visual Studio 2008 running on the .NET framework 3.5, developers can not only create DataReaders and DataSets; Microsoft has also added LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, and ADO.NET Data Services, which leverages the first two. These new options of course, mean that you have new syntaxes to learn. LINQ, which is built into Visual Basic and C#, has one implementation for LINQ to SQL and another for LINQ to Entities. In Entity Framework, you have the option to use LINQ to Entities or make queries in two other ways with Entity SQL…
Developing Visual Studio Add-in to enforce company's standard modification history
Using Visual Studio.net to develop Add-in to enforce company's standard modification history
Explorer - A Visual Studio 2005 add-in which interacts with Windows Explorer
This add-in adds the ability to open Windows Explorer at specified locations and to execute the application in 'Windows Explorer mode'.
Super Context Menu
Long time ago, I wondered how Microsoft Access put an Edit control on the context menu! Then I got another idea ... why don't we use any control(s) on the context menu? This will make the user interface easier to use, learn and increase productivity. The good news here is that, you can make it the same way you design a user control or a form using the Visual Studio designer..
Visual Studio Project MRU List Editor III
An update to a stand-alone tool for editing Visual Studio's MRU list.
