January 14th What's Happening Around Visual Studio

Quick recap of what's been happening on the team.

• Rangers Highlights of 2010 - Learn more about the Visual Studio ALM Rangers and the 11 Rangers solutions they shipped in 2010. To keep up-to-date, I recommend following their new Twitter feed twitter.com/wpschaub.
• Visual Basic Code Examples - Check out all the code samples the VB Team has recently made available.  If you see anything missing, be sure to let them know via the VB code wishlist.
• Using the Schemas to Edit Work Item Types and Process Templates - Team Foundation schema files are available on Code Gallery. Check out Allen Clark's post to learn more.
• Using Customer Controls to Enhance your LightSwitch Application UI - Part 1 - Karol Zadora-Przylecki walks through how you can use custom Silverlight controls to enhance UI of LightSwitch applications. 
• Parallelism: In the Cloud, Cluster and Client - Check out Amit Chatterjee's post that talks about the trends in Parallelism with a bit of "testing" woven in.
• Urban Turtle for Scrum and TFS - Brian Harry continues his series about "TFS as an open platform".  Learn more about these 3rd party enhancements in TFS.
• VB Core - New Compilation Mode in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 - Learn about this new compiler feature that enables VB to target new platforms that were not previously supported.
• Japanese Team Explorer Everywhere SP1 Beta Available - Check out Brian Harry's post to learn more about this recent Japanese release.
• Where do I put my Data Code in a LightSwitch Application? - Robert Green walks thorugh an introduction to data-related tasks.
• Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build - The second edition of this popular book was just released.
• Standard Template Library Video Lecture Series - Stephan Lavavej produced a ten part series on the general C++ library that has been very popular on Channel 9. 

Enjoy!

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Comments

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2011
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• Anonymous
  January 21, 2011
  What about all the crashes and instability? Are you guys in denial? When are you going to do something about that?

• Anonymous
  January 24, 2011
  @dude/@Charles - SP1 Beta has been out for quite a while now; we are making updates to that release based on feedback.  Please do make sure to file your feedback through the Connect site.  thanks, Jason

• Anonymous
  February 07, 2011
  This issue has been up on the connect feedback site for quite some time and has over 200+ developers pleading for it. Is it not important? connect.microsoft.com/.../564414

• Anonymous
  February 08, 2011
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• Anonymous
  February 12, 2011
  @Jaans - I checked with the team on this one.  They definitely see it is important but unfortunately it did not make the SP1 build.  The team is looking at it for a future release. @Paul - we aren't publishing a formal date yet.  But I will tell you we are in the final stages of the release.  We need to do all of our final test passes, scans, etc.  Stay tuned...