Anith Gopal

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12, but you can beat the rush and secure your upgrade today by pre-ordering at the affordable estimated retail price of $549, which is a savings of $250 off the full price of $799. As announced on Soma’s blog, New Offers for Visual Studio 2010 , Visual Studio 2010 Professional comes with a 12-month MSDN Essentials subscription. MSDN Essentials is a trial MSDN subscription that gives you access to the latest core Microsoft platforms for development and test: Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter

Go over to the Visual Studio Gallery , and you’ll find almost 500 extensions available for Visual Studio 2010 RC. That’s a lot of extensions to look through and the product isn’t even officially out yet! Visual Studio Extension of the Week I am very curious to see how people are extending the Editor and the IDE. So I’ve decided to write a weekly review on extensions I found interesting

Many people may have heard of some of the ongoing “buzz” words around SmoothStreaming. SmoothStreaming is a technology born of work in the Silverlight domain. The basic idea is that allows developers to supply audio and video streams that adapt to the users current bandwidth and machine conditions (like cpu retention etc.)

Min kollega Michael S. Scherotter publicerade nyss en bloggpost om ett nytt ramverk som vi kommer att släppa som open-source via Codeplex under nästa vecka, dvs på MIX-konferensen I Las Vegas.

  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.