Announced Visual Studio 2010 launch date!

by Vitaly Zayko 15. January 2010 18:49

And it will be April 12, 2010.

BTW: April 12 is Space Day in Russia: 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became first man on Earth orbit.

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Using Windows 7 Jump List in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

by Vitaly Zayko 2. November 2009 20:48

If you are on Windows 7, you probably have noticed about new feature – Windows 7 Jump List. If you right-click on an App icon (let say – Internet Explorer) you will see additional menu items which you as a programmer can handle in your solutions. If you are on Visual Studio 2008, the only way is to use an additional Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework. But there is a modern way for Visual Studio 2010 (at least for WPF):

  • Open App.xaml file of your App
  • Add reference to JumpList as shown below:

<Application x:Class="WpfApplication1.App"

             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

             StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml">

    <Application.Resources>    

    </Application.Resources>

    <!-- Add reference to JumpList here: -->

    <JumpList.JumpList>

        <JumpList ShowFrequentCategory="True" ShowRecentCategory="True">

            <JumpTask Title="Notepad"

                      Description="Open Notepad"

                      ApplicationPath="notepad.exe"

                      IconResourcePath="notepad.exe"/>

        </JumpList>

    </JumpList.JumpList>

</Application>

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available for MSDN Subscribers!

by Vitaly Zayko 19. October 2009 21:21

VS_v_rgb_ai If you are lucky MSDN Subscriber, you can download VS2010 as well as TFS2010 right now! I already did.
BTW: TFS2010 has "go live" license which means you can use it in your daily work instead of just testing purposes. Here are more details: Brian Keller's blog.
If you don't have the subscription, you just need little wait - it will be available for everyone in October 22nd.

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