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Learn how to use Visual Studio 2005 to create an ASP.NET website, select a site template, run it without IIS, and use built-in web controls.

Refactoring allows developers to use the built-in feature of Visual Studio to rename and convert and change the signatures and definitions of a class members. In this article, I will show you how refactoring feature provided by Visual Studio 2005 can be a handy tool when you are reorganizing or optimizing your existing projects.

In this article of Learning Visual Studio 2005 IDE series, I will explore some of the designer features and the breakdown of the classes of a Windows Forms project.

An overview of Visual Studio .NET and how it integrates multiple development languages into one IDE with shared libraries and tools.

Learn how to create an empty C# project in VS.NET, add a class and methods, create a Main entry point, and build and run the application.

This article shows how to to migrate your solution from VS 2003 to VS 2005.

We all have seen Document Outline feature in Visual Studio 2003, which allows ASP.NET developers to select a control on a Web Form and in code editor, it would select the code respective to that control.

ASP.NET 2.0, the latest version of ASP.NET has many improvements that greatly increase developer productivity. This article gives you a peek into many of these new features available in ASP.NET Whidbey.

Learn how to use the ASP.NET Configuration tool in Visual Studio 2005 to manage web site security, roles, profiles, application settings, and providers.

The ILDSAM tool parses any .NET Framework EXE/DLL Module and shows the information in a human-readeble format

In this article, I will describe what a performance counter is and introduce you to the predefined counters that you can use to monitor the state of the CLR while your applications run.

Learn how to create a Visual Studio add-in that inserts a copyright statement at the top of the active code window.

When working in enterprise development there are occasions when you have a solution file with 10 or more projects in it all using private assemblies.

Create a Visual Studio .NET macro that generates a strong-name key with SN.exe, adds the .snk file to a project, and updates AssemblyInfo.cs for GAC deployment.

How do I change the default exe name of my project?. I received this question in an email.

All of us have used Macros in Microsoft Office and Add-ins in Visual Studio 6 and I am very sure all of us have been impressed as well by their power to control their own working environment.

In my previous article, you learned about how to create wizards and some simple objects such as DTE, Solutions, Project and Project Item. These objects help us to customize our Visual Studio working environment.

One of the main advantages of building components is to promote reusability.

Here an article for beginners that shows how to create and use configuration files.

QuickModeler is a Visual Studio .NET add-in for reverse engineering and UML modeling, with autolayout, inheritance and association modeling, and cross-language support.

Learn how to create a simple Visual Studio .NET add-in with the Add-in Wizard, use the DTE extensibility object, and handle Connect class methods.

In this first part of this two parts series, we will get started with globalization and localization in .NET.

Learn how to use Visual Studio 2005 refactoring tools to rename members, extract code and interfaces, and change class member signatures while improving existing projects.

In this article of Learning Visual Studio 2005 IDE series, we will take a quick look at Toolbox and see what are the new controls added to it.

Learn about Visual Studio 2005 features for building websites with new controls, including creating pages without writing code.
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