Monthly Archives: April 2012

Visual Studio 11 Video Demo: Overview of Xaml Authoring Features in Blend and Visual Studio (Microsoft Expression Blend Team Blog) “Now that many of you have had the opportunity to check out Kirupa’s Visual Studio Toolbox episode on Channel 9 for visually building HTML apps using Blend you are probably wondering where is the video [...]

Visual Studio 11 Visual Studio 11 Beta: Test Controller Goes 64 Bit!! (Rubel’s Blog) “Visual Studio 2010 supported 64 bit Test Agent which used to allow us to do 64bit test runs as explained here. But Test Controller was capable of running in 32 bit mode only. As a 32 bit process, it was limited [...]

Visual Studio 11 Automatically Check for Updates to Visual Studio 11 (Zain Naboulsi) “If you haven’t been playing with Visual Studio 11 yet, I strongly encourage you to get it today. … When you DO have it one of the first things you should do is turn on automatic checking for updates to extensions found [...]

Visual Studio 11 Visual Studio Fakes Part 2 – Shims (Peter Provost) “Let me start by saying Shims are evil. But they are evil by design. They let you do things you otherwise couldn’t do, which is very powerful. They let you do things you might not want to do, and might know you shouldn’t [...]

Windows 8 Windows 8 Release Preview Coming June 2012 (Doug Holland) “Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division, announced today from Japan’s Windows 8 Dev Days that the Windows 8 Release Preview will be available during the first week of June. /via @BuildWindows8″ Visual Studio 11 Auto-Vectorizer in Visual Studio 11 – How it [...]