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Visual Basic (in some of its forms) has always been Microsoft’s choice in dynamic quarter. With the latest release of Visual Basic 9.0 (comes with Visual Studio 2008), dynamic features of VB have been further improved. So, in VB 9.0 you can use extension methods, local variable type inference, lambda expressions and others that make VB even more dynamic. What’s unique about VB is that dynamic behavior can be controlled with a simple directive..

The release of Visual Studio 2008 updates Visual Basic to version 9.0, with several key language enhancements and LINQ support. Part Two of this series will walk you through VB 9's new LINQ support features and other time-saving enhancements.

The benefits of unit testing such as shortening the development time, reducing development costs and releasing higher quality products, are well known. Below you can see a Software testing guide about how to start unit testing .NET projects. The first tool you need is a testing framework. You have a couple of choices there. If you are using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional or above, you already have the Microsoft unit testing framework installed. The framework comes also with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

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Visual Studio 2005 Addin to open *.h files on the left and *.c/*.cpp files on the right

The release of Visual Studio 2008 updates C# to version, 3.0, with several key language enhancements and LINQ support. Part Two of this series will walk you through C#'s new LINQ support features and other time-saving enhancements.

SnipPit is a Visual Studio 2008 Add-In (and a desktop application is included too) that allows for storing, retrieving, and searching for code snippets. It allows for keywords, code/language types, multiple users, public and private snippets. It also provides a right-click menu within VS and comes with a desktop program for use in applicationss other than VS.

This is a simple List<T> and Dictionary<T,T> debugger visualizer for Visual Studio.NET 2005 and 2008. The only requirement for it to work in that the classes inside the lists or dictionaries should be marked as [Serializable].

When creating new code files or designers that include code behind the design window, using statements are added automatically. With the Organize Usings command, redundant using commands can be automatically removed and the remaining items can be sorted.

With the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has updated the C# language to its latest version, 3.0. C# 3.0, contains several key language enhancements that support the recently-announced Language Integrated Query (LINQ) feature. This article, the first of a two-part series, will walk you through each of these new, time-saving language enhancements and provide a couple of code examples illustrating how to use them.