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How to get some of Visual Studio 11's new tools TODAY in Visual Studio 2010

So much has come out this week at //Build/ that it’s hard to keep track of everything. For developers, the big thing is the first preview of Visual Studio 11 and the new SDKs and tools that go along with it. As you download the tools from dev.windows.com or your MSDN subscription, you may or may not have noticed that some of the new features come straight out of the Productivity Power Tools that are available TODAY from the Visual Studio Plugin Gallery.  So, if you’re trying out the new Windows 8 dev build and like what you see, you may want to also check out the power tools.  It’s no ReSharper, but it does have some cool features that’ll help you navigate your solutions!

 

Download: Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools

Dowload: Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview

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Visual Studio 2010 SP1 brings Intellitrace to x64 and SharePoint 2010

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta is out for MSDN subscribers, and brings great new features for everyone – not to mention SharePoint development.  If you’ve used Intellitrace to step backwards through your code to debug tricky situations that require more context, you know how awesome it is.  Unfortunately, that’s not available for x64 bit and SharePoint projects currently.   Finally, SP1 bring that functionality to us along with a lot more.  Here are some of the highlights via Jason Zanders’ Weblog:

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How to Build an RSS Feed Reader in Windows Phone 7 – Part I: Retrieving, Parsing, and Displaying Post Titles

One of the first applications that I write for a new platform to learn the ropes is an RSS reader.  That rule holds true for Windows Phone 7.  The great thing about the Windows Phone 7 SDK and the .NET 4.0 platform is that everything you need to work with RSS or any other syndication feed is ready for you right out of the box!  With Android development, you need to parse the XML and return values yourself.  For just reading an RSS feed, it’s a nightmare.  The references don’t, however, show up in Visual Studio 2010 automatically, so you’ll need to add them manually.  I’ll go over it all in this guide to programming RSS feeds in Windows Phone 7.

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