Microsoft Visual Studio Gallery – Products and Extensions for Visual Studio

Are you to looking to find products, extensions, and add-ins for Visual Studio.

 

Your search ends at Microsoft Website. Microsoft is providing Gallery with

Tools  (Build, Coding, Data, Documentation, Modeling, Performance, Programming Languages, Reporting, Security, Setup & Deployment,Source Control, Team Development, Testing and  Web )

Controls (ASP.NET Controls, Silverlight Controls, Sharepoint Controls, Windows Forms Controls, WPF Controls and Framework & Libraries)

Templates (ASP.NET, Office , Mobile Device, Silverlight, SQL Server, WCF, Windows Forms, Workflow and WPF)

click here to access all the above mentioned  Tools, Controls and Templates.

Happy Coding !!!

 

 

Controls

• ASP.NET Controls

  261
• Silverlight Controls

  54
• Sharepoint Controls

  36
• Windows Forms Controls

  145
• WPF Controls

  63
• Framework & Libraries

Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 on MSDN

Visual Studio 2010 Screenshot

Microsoft has posted Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 downloads on MSDN. The public will get Beta 1 on May 20th,2009.MSDN subscribers now have access to the Beta 1 releases of both Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. If you have MSDN access, go ahead and start downloading. You may also want to check out the Visual Studio 2010 MSDN Library. From what I’ve heard, performance is supposed to be significantly improved over the CTP and earlier interim builds. Also, the releases seem to work just fine with the Windows 7 Release Candidate build. Here is a list of all the downloads that subscribers now have access to:

• Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 (x86) – DVD (English)
  Includes: Professional;
• Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugger Beta 1 (x64) – (English)
  Includes: Additional Resources;
• Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugger Beta 1 (x86) – (English)
  Includes: Additional Resources;
• Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1 (x86 and x64) – DVD (English)
  Includes: Team Foundation Server;
• Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Suite Beta 1 (x86) – DVD (English)
  Includes: Team System;
• Visual Studio Team System 2010 Test Load Agent Beta 1 (x86) – (English)
  Includes: Additional Resources;
• Visual Studio Team System 2010 Test Load Controller Beta 1 (x86) – (English)
  Includes: Additional Resources;
• .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 (ia64) – (English)
  Includes: Additional Resources;
• .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 (x86 and x64) – (English)
  Includes: Additional Resources;
• .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 (x86) – (English)
  Includes: Additional Resources;
• .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile Beta 1 (x86 and x64) – (English)
  Includes: Additional Resources;
• .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile Beta 1 (x86) – (English)
• Includes: Additional Resources;

On Wednesday(May 20, 2009), Microsoft will be giving out Beta 1 downloads for public consumption on the Microsoft Download Center.

Happy Coding !

Cool Features of Visual Studio 2008 – Part 2

It took almost a month and half for me to present Part-2. In second part, I would introduce LINQ, VB 9 and C# 3.0.

Part-2 of this series covers the following topics:

• LINQ – Language Integrated Query
• VB.NET: Implicit types
• VB.NET: Extension Methods
• VB.NET: IntelliSense
• C# 3.0: Implicit typed local variables
• C# 3.0 Object Initializers
• C# 3.0 : Collection Initializers
• C# 3.0: Anonymous Types
• C# 3.0: Lambda Expression

Cool Features of Visual Studio 2008 – Part 1

Visual Studio 2008 promises numerous improvements for Visual Basic, a data query called the Language Integrated Query (LINQ), a new Entity Framework for ADO.NET and updated tools for ASP.NET AJAX and Office 2007 development.

This series examines the IDE’s new features . This article looks at the improvements to the IDE and the aforementioned ADO.NET Entity Framework. Also we look looks at what’s new in Visual Basic 9 and LINQ; as you will see, these two concepts are closely related. All the new features in C# 3.0 are also discussed more clearly in further parts.

Part-1 of this series covers the following topics:

• Multi-targeting
• N-tier application development
• Transparent Intellisense Mode
• CSS Style Manager
• Split view
• Web Designer, Editing and CSS Support
• JavaScript debugging
• Project Designer
• ASP.NET AJAX and VSTO for Office 2007
• The ADO.NET Entity Framework