wintellectnow|Oct 12, 2014

Work Smarter Not Harder with Visual Studio Extensions

Learn to use Visual Studio’s Extensibility Features to automate your team’s development Visual Studio is more than just an IDE for creating your own applications, it’s also a platform for developer productivity.  In this video excerpt from Eric Greene’s course Introduction to Visual Studio Extensions, Part 2 you’ll see how to use the EnvDTE2 object…
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wintellectnow|Oct 5, 2014

Share the Load with Visual Studio Online

Learn to use the capacity planning features of Visual Studio Online! Velocity is a great way to plan your team’s sprint, but how do you know when enough is enough?  In this video excerpt from John Petersen’s new course “Agile Planning with Scrum and Visual Studio Online” you’ll see how to use TFS to track…
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Blogs|Apr 23, 2014

Under the Hood with Windows Universal Projects

One of the main themes coming out of the keynotes and content at this year’s //Build 2014 conference was the continued convergence of the Windows Store and Windows Phone development platforms.  One exciting result of the fact that both these platforms now target very similar Windows Runtimes (WinRT and WinPRT, respectively) is the support for…
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Blogs|Dec 3, 2010

Quick Tip: Right-click VS 2010 Command and Admin Command Prompt

It seems that I’ve become very familiar with this command: xsd /c /l:cs schema.xml If you’re not familiar with it, this allows you to parse a schema into a strongly typed class, which then allows you to deserialize an XML document to that type. Pretty nifty, but it requires being in a “Visual Studio 2010…
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