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• Parallel Programming for Managed Developers with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio

  Oct 05, 2010 at 3:24 PM

  This is a really excellent presentation on TPL.  Great stuff!

• Inside Windows Phone #03: Optimizing Windows Phone Silverlight Applications

  Sep 10, 2010 at 4:22 PM

  Doh!  Why aren't all the Silverlight 4 embedded players support pinned full-screen.  For us multi-monitor users out here, it is very annoying to have the video go out of full screen mode when we try to do something on the other monitor.

• Preview The New Channel 9

  Jul 28, 2010 at 10:18 AM

  The full-screen pinning ROCKS!  I also like the more modern, cleaner look of the new UI.

• Lap Around .NET 4 with Scott Hanselman

  Apr 22, 2010 at 11:05 AM

  What the cuss?  I am playing this on Silverligth **4**.  I put the video in full screen on my second monitor then proceed to work on my first montior and the video kicks out of full screen mode upon the first mouse-click on the app I want to work in.  I thought Silverlight 4 was supposed to support this scenario?  That's what ScottGu said during his DevConnections keynote.  If this requires a config change on the content side then please update your silverlight content to support this new functionality in SL4.

• Microsoft Help Viewer - New Help System in Visual Studio 2010

  Nov 19, 2009 at 6:10 PM

  One feature of DExplore I'm missing in the new help system (and MSDN online) is the "Sync with Table of Contents" button.  Many times I'll do a search (or use the index) to find a .NET type and then I want to see the type in the context of the namespace it was defined in.  That way I can quickly surf related types.

• IE8: Dev Tools

  Feb 27, 2009 at 12:19 PM

  To ship is to choose.  I know how it goes. 

• IE8: Dev Tools

  Feb 26, 2009 at 1:57 PM

  Why don't the developer tools show the HTTP response headers like Kothari's web dev helper?  Seems like an unfortunate omission or is it in there and I'm just not finding it?

• Mike Barnett - Getting started with Code Contracts in Visual Studio 2008

  Feb 23, 2009 at 9:46 PM

  My guess is because any expressions (a == b || c != d) you put in an attribute (as a string) can't be verified by the compiler.   Any errors wouldn't be noticed until runtime.

• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Jeffrey Snover - Inside PowerShell

  Dec 03, 2008 at 10:54 PM

  IIRC Jeffrey said at his PDC session that CTP3 would be available in the December/January timeframe.

• Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks

  Nov 01, 2008 at 5:56 PM

  Data breakpoints is something I definitely miss.  Where you have properties in your own code it is easy enough to set a breakpoint in a setter.  But where the code isn't your own (think slot in an array or entry in a List<T>), it sure would be nice to be able to set a breakpoint on write.

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