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Updated Productivity Power Tools
Four new extensions added to this popular set of power tools. Update includes tools options support, solution navigator, quick access, and auto brace completion.

Download the Visual Studio 2010 SDK
Build your own tool windows, create menu commends, and add extensions to the new VS editor.

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Featured Visual Studio Blogs

Willy-Peter Schaub
Solution Architect
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers â€“ Bill Heys
Friday, Jul 23

Cameron Skinner
Product Unit Manager
Final Feature Builder Power Tool Released
Thursday, Jul 22

Brian Harry
Technical Fellow
Scrum taskboard for the new Scrum template
Tuesday, Jul 20

Jason Zander
Corporate Vice President
Updated Productivity Power Tools Now Available
Tuesday, Jul 20

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Visual Studio Team Blogs

Tip: Fixing VSPerfASPNetCmd metabase errors
Friday, Jul 23 by profiler
Reporting Blog Posts and Articles
Friday, Jul 23 by aaronbjork
Tips when creating a workspace
Tuesday, Jul 20 by mmitrik
Announcing the Solution Navigator
Tuesday, Jul 20 by Adrian Collier
Scrum taskboard for the new Scrum template
Tuesday, Jul 20 by bharry
Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 is Final
Tuesday, Jul 20 by bharry
Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools Updated
Tuesday, Jul 20 by bharry

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Visual Studio MVP Blogs

Microsoft releases Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template
Wednesday, Jul 21 by neno
Professional Scrum Developer trainingâ€“Sprint 1
Tuesday, Jul 20 by anthonyborton
AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board updated
Tuesday, Jul 20 by Lars Roith
Bind a Silverlight 4 HyperlinkButton NavigateUri in a DataGrid to a DataSource value
Monday, Jul 19 by Benjamin Day
Microsoft Test Manager Test Artifact organizationâ€¦
Monday, Jul 19 by [email protected] (ClemensReijnen)
Change the Bug Status report to reflect additional states to the Bug
Friday, Jul 16 by ewald hofman
Reflect the rename of a state for the Bug Work Item
Friday, Jul 16 by ewald hofman

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ALM with Visual Studio

Important updates and highlights of ALM with Visual Studio content in the MSDN Library.

Create and Work with a Custom Build Process Template
Learn how to create a custom build process templat... more
Tuesday, Jul 20 by Microsoft

How to: Connect to a Team Project For the First Time from Microsoft Test Manager
Get step-by-step instructions for accessing a team... more
Tuesday, Jul 13 by Microsoft

Back Up Team Foundation Server
Learn how to back up the SQL Server databases used... more
Tuesday, Jul 6 by Microsoft

Exploring Existing Code
Use diagrams to visualize the organization, relati... more
Tuesday, Jun 29 by Microsoft

Visual Studio Professional

Important updates and highlights of Visual Studio content in the MSDN Library.

How to: Arrange and Dock Windows
Shows how to dock, float, tile, and auto-hide tool... more
Monday, Jul 12 by Microsoft

Custom Start Pages
Describes how to install and apply a custom Visual... more
Monday, Jun 28 by Microsoft

Working with Settings (Visual Studio 2010)
Describes settings in Visual Studio, how they work... more
Wednesday, Apr 28 by Microsoft

Quick Tour of the Integrated Development Environment (Visual Studio 2010)
An overview of the development features and tools... more
Wednesday, Apr 28 by Microsoft

Visual Studio Extensibility

Important updates and highlights of Visual Studio Extensibility content in the MSDN Library.

Visual Studio Editors
The Visual Studio editor has been rewritten in man... more
Monday, Jul 12 by Microsoft

How to: Localize Menu Commands
Shows how to provide localized text for menu comma... more
Monday, Jun 28 by Microsoft

Walkthrough: Creating an Options Page
Shows how to create Options pages so that users of... more
Wednesday, Apr 28 by Microsoft

Introducing the Visual Studio SDK (Visual Studio 2010)
An overview about how to use the tools, samples, a... more
Tuesday, Apr 13 by Microsoft

Interviews about Visual Studio on Channel 9

Cloud Cover Episode 20 - Visual Studio Tools with Jim Nakashima
Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow. In this episode: ... more...

Hanselminutes on 9 - "Razor," IIS Express, SQL 4 Compact Edition and VS2010 Tooling with Damian Edwards
Scott's in Redmond this week and chats with developer Damian Edwards aboutÂ "Razor," IIS Express, SQL 4 Compact Edition and VS2010 Tooling.Â ScottGu r... more...

Visual Studio 2010 Seattle Simulcast (Part 5 of 6): Web & Cloud Development with Visual Studio 2010
This recorded session from the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Seattle launch event talks about building Web applications and how Visual Studio 2010 brin... more...

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Visual Studio Gallery

Value Converter
A Value Converter for Silverlight and WPF data binding.

LinqConnect
LinqConnect is a fast and easy to use ORM solution, developed closely to the Microsoft LINQ to SQL technology, and supporting SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

DateTime Editors for Silverlight
Select Date and Time Values in Silverlight

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CodePlex Projects and Downloads

NetGen
O NetGen é um projeto de geração automatizada de interface Web em ASP.NET a partir de modelo de classes do LINQ-TO-SQL, estando disponível como um Addin para o Visual Studio 2008.

Linquify
Linquify is a Visual Studio 2008/2010 Addin and C# .NET business class / DTO generator for LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework. It supports rapid development of .NET and ASP .NET web appl... more...

MSBuild Launch Pad (mPad)
This is just another shell extension for MSBuild to enable quick execution of MSBuild scripts via Windows Explorer context menu.

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Code Gallery Samples and Downloads

Creating OneNote 2010 Extensions with the OneNote Object Model
Learn how to build applications and plug-ins that interoperate with data from OneNote 2007 and 2010 using the OneNote Object Model library freely available on CodePlex. Andy Gray demonstrates how easy... more...

Mytrip.Mvc
Mytrip.Mvc (MTM) is an open source Content Management System, based on Microsoft's .NET MVC technology, which enables you to build Web sites. For now project include several modules:... more...

How to create and then to call ADO.NET Data Services for different data sources
This article describes an All-In-One Code Framework sample that is available for download. This code sample includes a step-by-step guide for how to create and then to call Microsoft ADO.NET Data Serv... more...

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