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• Inside Windows 8: Jon Berry - Desktop Activity Moderator and Connected Standby

  Apr 08, 2013 at 4:25 PM

  If we wanted to test that our desktop, network-related services and processes work correctly with DAM, is there a laptop available that supports Connected Standby?

• Improve unit testing workflow with these Test Explorer improvements: Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012

  Apr 03, 2013 at 1:16 PM

  We have thousands of unit tests that were created before VS 2012.  If we would have had the traits capability we probably would have used it.  Instead, we relied upon grouping our tests in namespaces that match the namespace of the API they're testing.  What we really need in the Test Explorer is the ability to group by Namespace.  Class is nice but too fine grained for us as we typically have dozens of associated test classes within a single test namespace.  If we could group by Namespace we could more easily test just the part of our API implementation that has changed (due to bug fix or new feature).

• The Evolution of .NET

  Nov 04, 2012 at 9:01 PM

  The lack of any specifics on .NET's future was very disappointing. I thought Herb Sutter's "The Future of C++" put this talk to shame.

• 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?

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