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Microsoft Help Viewer 1.1 - Updates Planned for Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Kathleen McGrath — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:04:13 GMT

Paul O’Rear, a Program Manager on the Library Experience Team, walks us through an early build of Help Viewer 1.1, which will ship with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Help Viewer 1.1 is intended to specifically address many productivity issues raised by customers regarding the Visual Studio 2010 RTM release.

Details on the overall story of how we got to this stage can be found here: The Story of Help in Visual Studio 2010

Details on some of our specific changes for SP1 can be found here: Help Viewer Improvements in SP1

Details of the impact on Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIPs) can be found here: What does this mean for Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIPs)?

Kathleen McGrath
Developer Guidance
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Introduction to Creating Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 2010

Kathleen McGrath — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:03:00 GMT

This video provides an overview of the Visual Studio 2010 code generation features that allow testers to quickly and easily create coded UI tests directly from existing action recordings. Download the corresponding Application Lifecycle Management Hands-on Labs via the following link:

Instructions for downloading HOLs and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines

Kathleen McGrath
Developer Division User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Authoring and Running Manual Tests in Visual Studio 2010 using Microsoft Test and Lab Manager

Kathleen McGrath — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:49:00 GMT

This video demonstrates how to author and run manual tests in Visual Studio 2010 by using Microsoft Test and Lab Manager. You will learn how to author a manual test case, run the test using Microsoft Test Runner, capture an action recording, and create shared steps that can be reused across multiple test cases. Download the corresponding Application Lifecycle Management Hands-on Labs:

Instructions for downloading HOLs and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines

Kathleen McGrath
Developer Division User Education

Silverlight Object Binding in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Kathleen McGrath — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:13:00 GMT

In this video, programming writer Steve Stein demonstrates the new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 drag and drop data binding features applicable to Silverlight applications. The video demonstrates how to create a Silverlight application that displays data from custom business objects. You can follow along step-by-step in this blog entry.

Kathleen McGrath
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Binding Silverlight Controls to a Data Service in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Kathleen McGrath — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:09:00 GMT

In this video, programming writer Steve Stein demonstrates the new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 drag and drop data binding features applicable to Silverlight applications. The video demonstrates how to create a Silverlight application that displays data from a data service. You can follow along step-by-step in the corresponding Help topic.

Kathleen McGrath
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Introduction to Test Case Management in Visual Studio 2010 with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager

Kathleen McGrath — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:00:00 GMT

This video demonstrates how to use the Microsoft Test and Lab Manager in Visual Studio 2010 to manage test suites and test cases. This video is based on the Application Lifecycle Management Hands-on Labs that you can download:

Instructions for downloading HOLs and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines

Kathleen McGrath
Developer Division User Education

Enabling Help in the Visual Studio 2010 Shell

Kathleen McGrath — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:36:00 GMT

Ryan Linton, a Senior Program Manager on the Library Experience Team, walks us through a demo on how to enable Help in the Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated). More details on the Shell can be found here:

The Visual Studio Shell, Integrated Mode and Isolated Mode

Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) Beta 2 Redistributable Package

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Lists in F#

Kathleen McGrath — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:36:00 GMT

In this video, programming writer, Gordon Hogenson explains and gives examples of lists in F#.

You can also learn more in the topic Lists (F#)

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen
Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey

New MSDN Library views

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:07:00 GMT

In this video, Mark D'Urso, a Senior Development Lead on the Library Experience Team, demonstrates the new Library views on MSDN:

Lightweight view

ScriptFree view

Classic view

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen
Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey

Microsoft Help Viewer - New Help System in Visual Studio 2010

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:25:00 GMT

In this video, Ryan Linton, a Senior Program Manager on the Library Experience Team, describes the new Help system in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.

UPDATE: see the updates planned for the help viewer in Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Kathleen McGrath
Developer Guidance
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Discriminated Unions in F#

Kathleen McGrath — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:20:00 GMT

In this video, programming writer, Gordon Hogenson explains and gives examples of discriminated unions in F#.

You can also learn more in the topic Discriminated Unions (F#)

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Creating a Web Part for SharePoint by Using a Designer

Kathleen McGrath — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:15:00 GMT

In this interview, programming writer Norm Estabrook demonstrates how to create a Web Part for SharePoint by using a designer in Visual Studio. You can follow along step-by-step in the corresponding Help topic.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Embedding Type Information from Microsoft Office Assemblies

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:00:00 GMT

In this video, Mick Alberts shows you how to embed type information into an application that uses Automation objects from Microsoft Office. Embedding type information enables you to run the same build of an application with different versions of Microsoft Office on different computers, without needing to deploy a primary interop assembly (PIA) for each version of Office. For more information, see the Help topic:

Walkthrough: Embedding Type Information from Microsoft Office Assemblies (C# and Visual Basic)

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Creating an External List in SharePoint by Using Business Data

Kathleen McGrath — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:19:00 GMT

In this interview, programming writer Norm Estabrook demonstrates how to create a model for the BDC service that returns information about contacts in a sample database, and displays the contacts in an external list. You can learn more in the corresponding Help topic.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

How to Use Named and Optional Arguments in Office Programming (C#)

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:57:00 GMT

This video demonstrates some of the tasks described in How to: Use Named and Optional Arguments in Office Programming. Using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and C#, I show you how to add text to a Word document and then convert the text to a table, without using all sixteen parameters that are possible with the ConvertToTable method.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Binding WPF Controls to an Entity Data Model

Kathleen McGrath — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:55:00 GMT

In this interview, programming writer, McLean Schofield, demonstrates how to bind WPF controls to an entity data model, using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. You can also learn more in the topic: Walkthrough: Binding WPF Controls to an Entity Data Model.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Lambda Expressions in C++

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:03:00 GMT

In this interview, programming writer Thomas Petchel demonstrates how to use Lambda Expressions in C++. You can also learn more in the topic: Lambda Expressions in C++.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Copying a Document to the End User Computer after a ClickOnce Installation

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:15:00 GMT

In this interview, programming writer Mary Lee demonstrates how to deploy an Office solution and implement a post-deployment action that copies a document to the end user's desktop. You can learn more in the topic Walkthrough: Copying a Document to the End User Computer after a ClickOnce Installation.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Active Patterns (F#)

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:59:00 GMT

In this video, programming writer, Gordon Hogenson, continues the discussion of patterns by talking about active patterns, which you can use to customize and extend F#’s pattern matching capabilities. Active patterns are an amazingly flexible language feature, and in this video we just scratch the surface of what can be done with them. You can learn more in the topic: Active Patterns.

Gordon would also like to thank Chris Smith and Brian McNamara, of the F# team, for giving him some ideas for how to use active patterns. Some similar examples to those in the video are discussed in F# team blog postings, such as in Chris Smith’s blog posting on active patterns. For those interested in exploring further, you can read a paper on active patterns by Don Syme, James Margetson, and Gregory Nemerov.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/

Patterns and Match Expressions in F#

Kathleen McGrath — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:58:00 GMT

In this video, programming writer, Gordon Hogenson explains and gives examples of patterns in F# and explains the use of the match expression to control branching based on patterns in data. But first, a disclaimer Gordon wanted to make: “Regrettably, I have not been able to retrain myself yet to use the word value instead of variable. In F#, all values are immutable by default, so it’s not really correct to use the term variable, as I do in the video.” See Part 2 of this video: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/kmcgrath/Active-Patterns-F/

You can also learn more in the topics Patterns and Match Expressions.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/

Binding WPF Controls to Data in Visual Studio 2010

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:37:00 GMT

In this interview, programming writer, McLean Schofield, demonstrates how to add data-bound WPF controls to an application. You can also learn more in the topic Binding WPF Controls to Data in Visual Studio.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/

What's New in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:28:00 GMT

In this interview, programming writer, Leith McCombs, demonstrates some of the new features in the Visual Studio 2010 editor. You can also learn more in the topic What's New in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education

Implicit Line Continuation in Visual Basic 2010

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:15:00 GMT

In this interview, Doug Rothaus, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, describes the new implicit line continuation feature in Visual Basic 2010. You can also learn more in his Help topic, Statements in Visual Basic.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education

Auto-Implemented Properties in Visual Basic 2010

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:36:00 GMT

In this interview, Doug Rothaus, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, describes the new auto-implemented properties in Visual Basic 2010. He also demonstrates some of the code examples in his Help topic, Auto-Implemented Properties.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education

Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:31:00 GMT

In this interview Mary Lee, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, describes the topic Walkthrough: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer and demonstrates how you can deploy multiple Office solutions in a single package to simplify the installation and update process.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education