VS Add-Ins

In this article you'll explore the notable features of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition.

Cloud Computing opens new opportunities for any person solving a particular task. Discover all of the steps to get Amazon EC2 for hosting an ASP.NET web site.

Learn how to create your own Visual WebGui Silverlight theme using a default theme.

Intellisense is a programmer's best friend. The framework is too big to memorize, but Intellisense can make finding things manageable. Extend Intellisense into your own code with XML comments in Visual Studio 8 and 9.

Learn about FreeDOM (Free Document Object Model), a web development technique used to create event-driven web applications. FreeDOM is designed to overcome the limitations of stateless HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) transmissions.

The release of Visual Studio 2008 brings support for using the Visual Studio Class Designer with Visual C++ projects. Look at the differences in how the Class Designer works with C++ compared to purely managed languages, and learn about the range of functionality available to C++ developers.

Today Microsoft announced the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2, Silverlight 1.0 RC, and more.

Learn about the considerations that need to be taken into account when migrating existing Visual Studio 2003 applications to Visual Studio 2005.

Discover the fundamentals of the Visual Studio package and create your first Visual Studio 2005 Add-in.

The Visual C++ 2005 IDE team made two painful cuts in Beta 2 related to the Class Designer and IDE Click Once support. Read up on these significant changes and find out how C++/CLI programmers can still take advantage of ClickOnce to deploy their applications.

MSBuild is one of the major new features in Visual Studio .NET 2005. Discover the motivation for MSBuild, how it works, and how Visual C++ developers can get their hands on it.

The good news about UML is it provides software developers an industry-standard language to describe problems and solutions. The bad news is it has sparked the same good-versus-bad debates that they fought over C# and Visual Basic .NET.

Learn about "Object Tool Bench," which is sure to become one of your favorite tools in the forthcoming 2005 version of Visual Studio.

With the introduction of the My object in VS 2005, Microsoft is still finding innovative ways to increase productivity without making VB.NET a second-class language.

In a continued examination of the new Visual C++ 2005 IDE enhancements, Nick Wienholt looks at the code definition window, changes to class view, and finally one of the big new additions to Visual C++: the class diagram.

Find out about the documentation capabilities of the Visual Studio .NET IDE. Learn how to improve the productivity within your development team and automate the generation of help files.

This second of a two-article series discusses the different editors that Visual Studio.NET provides for its deployment projects. Learn the steps involved in using each of them.

Create an add-in that automatically increments a build number contained in a separate file that will be included into the project. It also automatically tracks the build date and number in a log file.

Paul continues his two part article showing you how to turn up your productive output by using macros in Visual Studio .NET to write simplified code generators.

Another look at creating an add-in to automatically increment project build numbers for Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003.

Become a super productive programmer! Turn up your productive output by using macros in Visual Studio .NET to write simplified code generators.

Walk through the steps of creating a macro for Visual Studio .NET. More specifically, create a macro to automatically increase the build number.

[Update] A portable UML tool add-in for Visual Studio .NET. The author had been incorrect credited. This has been corrected.

Display inheritance, file use, variable reference, call, and call-by information for C++ projects.