Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express Prerequisites

The followings are necessary, if you want to install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express in your system


System Requirements
1.1 Supported Architectures

• x86
• x64 (WOW)

1.2 Supported Operating Systems

• Windows XP (x86) with Service Pack 3 - all editions except Starter Edition
• Windows Vista (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 2 - all editions except Starter Edition
• Windows 7 (x86 and x64)
• Windows Server 2003 (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 2 - all editions
• Users must install MSXML6 if it is not already present.
• Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86 and x64) - all editions
• Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2 - all editions
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) - all editions

1.3 Hardware Requirements

• 1.6 GHz or faster processor
• 1024 MB RAM (1.5 GB if running on a virtual machine)
• 3 GB of available hard-disk space
• 5400 RPM hard-disk drive
• DirectX 9-capable video card running at 1024 x 768 or higher display resolution
• DVD-ROM drive

Error: Visual Studio setup cannot run in compatibility mode

Today I tried to installing .. Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW in my system. i faced the following Error:

Problem:
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setup.exe
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Visual Studio setup cannot run in compatibility mode. For more information see the 'Installing' section in the
Visual Studio Readme at "http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=143397".
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OK
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Solution:
After Google the solution for this problem, i got the followings steps..


1. Right click on setup.exe and click Properties
2. Switch to the Compatibility tab
3. Untick the "Run this program in compatibility mode for" checkbox
4. If you have a button at the bottom of the dialog entitled "Show settings for all users" click this and Untick the "Run this program in compatibility mode for" checkbox
5. Click OK until you have dismissed all dialog windows
6. Go back to the uninstall entry and uninstall as normal.

Wow... It works fine.. :)
Hope It Helps

Visual Studio 2010 Professional Whitepaper

The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional development system is an integrated environment that simplifies creating, debugging, and deploying applications. Unleash your creativity and bring your vision to life with powerful design surfaces and innovative collaboration methods for developers and designers. Work within a personalized environment by targeting a growing number of platforms, including Microsoft SharePoint and cloud applications, and accelerate the coding process by using your existing skills. Integrated support for test-first development and new debugging tools let you find and fix bugs quickly and easily to ensure high quality solutions.


Download VisualStudio2010Professional_Whitepaper.xps

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - January Release

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including:

• C# 4.0
• Visual Basic 10
• F#
• Parallel Extensions
• Windows Communication Foundation
• Windows Workflow
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• ASP.NET 4
• Windows 7
• Entity Framework
• ADO.NET Data Services
• Managed Extensibility Framework
• Visual Studio Team System

This version of the Training Kit works with VS 2010 Beta 2 & .NET Framework 4 Beta 2.

Download VS2010TrainingKitJanuarySetup.exe

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate provides an integrated environment of tools and server infrastructure that simplifies the entire application development process. Deliver business results using productive, predictable, customizable processes and increase transparency and traceability throughout the lifecycle with detailed analytics. Whether creating new solutions or enhancing existing applications unleash your creativity with powerful prototyping, architecture and development tools that let you bring your vision to life targeting an increasing number of platforms and technologies including cloud and parallel computing. Realize increased team productivity by utilizing advanced collaboration features and use integrated testing and debugging tools to find and fix bugs quickly and easily ensuring high quality solutions while driving down the cost of solution development.

For more information on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 visit

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/products/2010/default.mspx

This virtual machine does not have anti-virus installed. It should not be connected to any network until it has anti-virus installed. In addition, the operating system and programs installed were patched with all updates as of December 10, 2009.

Download Details:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 Hyper-V Image

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 for Windows Virtual PC Image

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual PC SP1 Image

Visual Studio 2010 - Highlighting References

This is another enhanced feature of visual studio 2010 Editor, the new feature is Highlighting References.

When you click on the identifier in the code window, immediately all instances of that identifier will automatically highlighted in the document.

For Example, See the exhibit, here I clicked on the variable, "iTotal" then all the references of the "iTotal" is highlighting as shown in the display.

In this screenshot, I marked two identifiers in red color box. It is also having same identifier name "iTotal". But it is not highlighting, because it is belongs to different reference. Highlighting feature works well.

You can navigate all the highlighted references by just pressing SHIFT+CTRL + UP ARROW or Down Arrow

These highlighting features will only works on identifier or any user defined methods, not any internal keywords.

Visual Studio 2010 - Zoom Text Editor

This is an enhanced editor feature in Visual Studio 2010. You can Zoom the text content in Visual studio IDE. This feature already integrated with all Microsoft products, but in Visual Studio, it is introduced in VS 2010 version only.

In Visual Studio 2010 code editor window, you can quickly Zoom in or Zoom out by pressing and holding the CTRL key and Scroll Mouse Wheel.

Also you can zoom the textual tool windows of VS 2010 IDE, for example, the Output window.

Note: The zoom feature does not work on any design surfaces, designer windows that contain icons, for example, the Toolbox or Solution Explorer.

See the Exhibit Of sample of this new feature:

New Features in VS 2010 - IntelliSense suggestion Mode

In Visual Studio (VS) 2010 is come up with new features in IntelliSense.

Visual Studio 2010 provides two alternatives for IntelliSense statement completion.

They are

1. completion mode

2. Suggestion mode.

In prior version of Visual Studio’s IntelliSense search only the sequential character, in VS 2010, IntelliSense search the character in the Members from IntelliSense List.

You can toggle the mode by using CTRL+ALT+SPACEBAR

Completion Mode:

Suggestion Mode:

Note: Use Capital Case to search. For Example, use RL to search ReadLine

Some More Example of IntelliSense:

Here IntelliSense listing the members based on the character cu

This IntelliSense listing the members based on the character RL

This IntelliSense listing the members based on the character SW

MSMQ Activation for WCF Workflow Service Application

This article describes how to set up MSMQ activation for WCF Workflow Service Application hosted in Windows Activation Service (WAS).

In .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010, you can build pure Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services, pure Workflow Foundation (WF) applications, or a workflow service, which is a workflow application exposed as a WCF service. The out-of-box messaging activities, e.g. Send and Receive activities, come with implicit WCF endpoints, which can be employed for external communication to the workflow, including WCF activation of the workflow instance when the first message arrives. A workflow service, like any application with a communication component, can benefit from the advantages of queuing technologies. Adding a queue element to application design can improve robustness. The queue can also provide load-balancing support and improve scalability.

Download HowToSetUpMSMQActivation.docx

Visual Studio 2010 SDK - Download

The Visual Studio 2010 SDK includes project templates that help developers create tool windows, menu commands, isolated shell projects, and editor extensions. The editor extensions include text adornments, colorizers, and margins.

The Visual Studio 2010 SDK also includes build tasks that help developers build and debug extensions. Building and debugging are managed in a second instance of Visual Studio named the experimental instance. The experimental instance provides a test bed for extensions without changing the primary installation of Visual Studio.

The SDK also puts shortcuts to online documentation, samples, and other developer resources on the Start menu.

Download Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 2

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 - ISO

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate provides an integrated environment of tools and server infrastructure that simplifies the entire application development process. Deliver business results using productive, predictable, customizable processes and increase transparency and traceability throughout the lifecycle with detailed analytics. Whether creating new solutions or enhancing existing applications unleash your creativity with powerful prototyping, architecture and development tools that let you bring your vision to life targeting an increasing number of platforms and technologies including cloud and parallel computing. Realize increased team productivity by utilizing advanced collaboration features and use integrated testing and debugging tools to find and fix bugs quickly and easily ensuring high quality solutions while driving down the cost of solution development.

For more information on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 visit http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/products/2010/default.mspx

Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 - ISO

Download VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit Beta 2

 

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. 

 This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including:

• C# 4.0
• Visual Basic 10
• F#
• Parallel Extensions
• Windows Communication Foundation
• Windows Workflow
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• ASP.NET 4
• Windows 7
• Entity Framework
• ADO.NET Data Services
• Managed Extensibility Framework
• Visual Studio Team System

This version of the Training Kit works with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2.

Download VS2010TrainingKitSetup.exe

Read Event Log using C#

The Following sample code helps to Read Data from Event Log. This is a sample windows application written by using C#.

In the following sample code, I used 2 controls, Listbox and EventLog Controls.

Set the Log Property of Eventlog control to name of the log to read or write. I selected System Log to test this code

In the Form Load Event, I written the following code,

foreach (System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntry entry in eventLog1.Entries)
{
listBox1.Items.Add(entry.EntryType.ToString() + " - " + entry.TimeWritten + " - " + entry.Source + " - " + entry.UserName);
}

This code, read the Data from Log file and written display in to listbox control.

Now if run the code, it will display as shown in screen shot

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio July 2009 CTP

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 to enable the creation, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure.

Please note that this is a CTP release and should not be used on production systems. Please see the EULA for more details.

New for the July 2009 CTP:

• Support for developing and deploying services containing multiple web and worker roles. A service may contain zero or more web roles and zero or more worker roles with a minimum of one role of either type.


• New project creation dialog that supports creating Cloud Services with multiple web and worker roles.


• Ability to associate any ASP.NET Web Application project in a Cloud Service solution as a Web Role


• Support for building Cloud Services from TFS Build


• Enhanced robustness and stability

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio includes:

• C# and VB Project Templates for creating a Cloud Service solution


• Tools to change the Service Role configuration


• Integrated local development via the Development Fabric and Development Storage services


• Debugging Cloud Service Roles running in the Development Fabric


• Building and packaging of Cloud Service Packages


• Browsing to the Azure Services Developer Portal


• SSL Certificate selection

Download VSCloudService.exe

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio July 2009 CTP

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 to enable the creation, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure.

Please note that this is a CTP release and should not be used on production systems. Please see the EULA for more details.

New for the July 2009 CTP:

• Support for developing and deploying services containing multiple web and worker roles. A service may contain zero or more web roles and zero or more worker roles with a minimum of one role of either type.


• New project creation dialog that supports creating Cloud Services with multiple web and worker roles.


• Ability to associate any ASP.NET Web Application project in a Cloud Service solution as a Web Role


• Support for building Cloud Services from TFS Build


• Enhanced robustness and stability

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio includes:

• C# and VB Project Templates for creating a Cloud Service solution


• Tools to change the Service Role configuration


• Integrated local development via the Development Fabric and Development Storage services


• Debugging Cloud Service Roles running in the Development Fabric


• Building and packaging of Cloud Service Packages


• Browsing to the Azure Services Developer Portal


• SSL Certificate selection

Download VSCloudService.exe