Anith Gopal

During Summit Deb and I followed around MVPs with our video camera, cornered them in beautiful locations around Campus, and asked them to tell us about their experience in the MVP program. I’ve shared some of that video with you already, but I put together this montage that I think highlights the relationship between MVPs and Microsoft really well

  One of the coolest features I think we’ve added in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to add your own tabs into the webtest playback view.  Extending the user interface in this way allows you to do data analysis and have it pop up right in front of you in whatever format you want.  No more exporting to excel or whatever your favorite analysis tool is, just compile everything you one in one place and voila! That being said, I have been told that it can be difficult to grok at first glance.  So, I wanted to post a sort of ‘how to’ in order to get one of these working.  A colleague of mine suggested that I could use this forum to demonstrate how to keep track of something that affects the performance of many users’ websites.  Namely, Viewstate.   So, below is a step by step instruction on how to create a webtest playback tab which keeps track of the viewstate size for each request.   Step 1:  Create the add-in project Visual Studio Add-ins have their own special type of project, you can find it under “Other project types / Extensibility”.   I’ve named mine “ViewstateAddin”.   Step 2:  Walk through the create add-in wizard When the wizard launches, you’ll be add a “welcome” screen.  Click next to move to page 1.

I was spending some time responding to Connect bugs the other day when I ran across this suggestion : “It would be nice to have a clip board history window that could be next to the control toolbox as a nice utility window. (Often in presentations I see Microsoft presenters using a custom clipboard tool for such a purpose). Many times I wish I could go back to something I copied & pasted just a few minutes ago, then to have to go and copy the same text all over again.” Turns out that Visual Studio already has this “hidden” feature.  It’s called the Clipboard Ring .  If you copy a number of items to the clipboard, pressing [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[V] will paste the last text that was copied, but it will also highlight the pasted phrase.  Continue holding down [Ctrl]+[Shift] and press [V] again.  This will cause that highlighted section to cycle through the other items on the clipboard.  This is extremely useful when you have to copy multiple lines of separate text to a new document.  Now, you might be saying, “Great, but what if I want to save a piece of code that I use frequently in multiple places?  I don’t want to have to cycle through the clipboard ring every time.”  Well, there’s also a feature for that !  If you highlight a section of code (or text) and drag it to the Toolbox, VS will create a "snippet” (not to be confused with code snippets ) that can be dragged into the VS editor.

En numerosas ocasiones escuchamos a muchos clientes y usuarios las pocas posibilidades que a veces se tienen para hacer llegar información sobre comentarios y mejoras sobre nuestras aplicaciones al Grupo de Producto de Office. Bien pues en esta ocasión os ofrecemos una posibilidad única de poder participar en una muy completa encuesta que hemos elaborado con nuestros compañeros de dicho grupo y el de Office Online. La presente encuesta ha sido diseñada para recoger aparte de una serie de datos iniciales para conocer el entorno en el cual os movéis, tanto como empresa o usuarios, vuestros usos más frecuentes tanto en aplicaciones como en características específicas, a fin de conocer el tipo de perfil y facilitar las mejoras en los áreas de las tecnologías de edición, corrección, revisión de ortografía, gramática, el uso de diccionarios, tesauros, etc

Late last year we started the Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Guidance project … probably the worst time as December is a very inactive month with everyone enjoying a well deserved break and January  being a very active month to re-start initiatives, thus having little time and bandwidth for these kind of projects. Nevertheless the team has ensured that the guidance project is picking up momentum and recently released a DRAFT of the core scenarios to the Rangers for comment and are hard at work on a BETA release for the core scenarios and a DRAFT release for the extensibility and Hands-on-lab (HOL) scenarios.