As you probably know, Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 has been released and is now available for download. It fixes many issues in VS 2010. But the most interesting for me, as a VS help tool developer, is the new version of VS 2010 help - Microsoft Help Viewer (MSHV) version 1.1. This new […]

Recently, I needed to test some VS automation concepts in VS 2010. A simple task should be performed on several thousand files in a web site project. Loading the files in a web site is very slow so executing the macro takes a long time. I first tried it with only a few files […]

We have some good news here at Helixoft. We have released new major version 4.0 of our VSdocman. VSdocman is Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003/2005/2008 add-in for the quick commenting and automatic generation of class documentation from your VB .NET and C# source code files, including ASP .NET.
We are quite excited about this new version. It […]

I just have updated my macro which allows multiline search and replace in Visual Studio. Judging from comments and web logs, this macro is very popular. Updated code fixes two bugs:

In VS 2005 and 2008, when using Find/Replace in Files, the “Find what” field didn’t contain value entered by user but text from cursor position […]

Yesterday, Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 download
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 download
This is good news especially for those who have installed .NET SP1 beta. This beta contained a bug which prevented opening of our VSdcoman comment editor. We had many […]