Paul Cornell
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Visual Studio 2010: How to Use the New Code Editor
In this 19-minute video, you'll learn about the new code editor in Visual Studio 2010. See:...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 02/11/2009
Video: How Do I - Learn About the Integrated Development Environment in Visual Studio 2008?
How Do I: Learn About the Integrated Development Environment in Visual Studio 2008? (14 minutes)...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 02/06/2009
Visual Studio 2010: What's In It For Web Developers?
In this 19-minute video, you will begin learning about new features in Visual Studio 2010 and the...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 01/01/2009
Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: How to Use Wizards with Project Templates
Visual Studio provides the IWizard interface that, when implemented, enables you to run custom code...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/30/2008
Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: How to Locate and Organize Project and Item Templates
Template files must be placed in a location that Visual Studio recognizes in order for the templates...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/29/2008
Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: How to Manually Create Project Templates
Visual Studio provides wizards to help you generate templates from projects that are open in the...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/28/2008
Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: How to Create Project Templates
This procedure enables you to create a template using the Export Template wizard. For details, see...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/27/2008
Visual Studio 2010: What's In It?
A 15-minute video has recently been posted on the Channel 9 web site. In this video, you'll get a...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/26/2008
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These blog postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights.
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/23/2008
Visual Studio 2010: Code Focused Development Features
Learn more about features such as Highlight References, Quick Search, Call Hierarchy, and...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/23/2008
Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: Introduction to Visual Studio Templates
Visual Studio project and item templates provide reusable and customizable project and item stubs...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/23/2008
Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: How to Enable Temporary Projects
You may want to create a temporary project to do something such as experimenting with a particular...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/22/2008
Most Important Tasks
I find the concept of most important tasks to be very helpful in identifying my most important work...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/19/2008
Visual Studio 2010 September CTP: How to Download, Install, and Run
An 11-minute video has recently been posted on the Channel 9 web site. It shows you how to download,...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/19/2008
Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: Visual Studio Conversion Wizard
This page describes how to upgrade your Visual Studio projects created with versions before Visual...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/15/2008
Tackling E-Mail, Part 4: Using Outlook Keyboard Shortcuts
Here are the keyboard shortcuts that I use most frequently in Outlook 2007 to speed up creating and...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/15/2008
Visual Studio 2010 Overview
Take a look at what we're working on, see product highlights, get the product overview datasheet in...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/12/2008
Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: How to Target a Specific .NET Framework
This page describes how you can create a project that targets a specific .NET Framework version and...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/12/2008
Visual Studio Documentation Page o' the Day: .NET Framework Multi-Targeting Overview
The multi-targeting feature of Visual Studio 2008 lets you specify the .NET Framework version that...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/09/2008
Tackling E-Mail, Part 3: Delaying Responses
In addition to limiting the number of times that I check e-mail each day, I'm also doing the...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/08/2008
Tackling E-Mail, Part 2: Checking E-Mail
I try to look at my e-mail only two or three times a day. I get so sidetracked, so distracted...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/05/2008
Tackling E-Mail, Part 1: Inbox Subfolders
I use Microsoft Outlook to manage my e-mail (go figure, since I work for Microsoft!). I recently...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/04/2008
Tracking Work Requests
Once you've scheduled and assigned work requests, tracking progress is fairly straightforward. For...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/03/2008
Scheduling Work Requests
For shorter projects, I usually work straight through until I'm done. For longer projects, I usually...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/02/2008
Assigning Work Requests
For most of my projects, I don't get the benefit of assigning work requests to others. (However, for...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 12/01/2008
Estimating Work Requests
Estimating work requests can be difficult when you do it for the first time or when you have no...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 11/30/2008
Phrasing Work Requests
As I develop my projects' lists of work requests, it helps to phrase these work requests as specific...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 11/28/2008
Creating Work Requests
When managing a project, it's critical that I get all known and possible work requests out into the...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 11/27/2008
Prioritizing and Stack Ranking Work Requests
When managing projects, I find it critical to develop a solid list of work requests. For larger...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 11/27/2008
I'm Back!
A lot has happened in the near-two years since my last post to this blog. I won't bore you with the...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 11/25/2008
Where Have I Been?
As you've probably noticed, I haven't made any posts to this blog for several months. Here's why....
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 01/22/2007
Visual Studio 2005 SDK v3 Docs Now Wiki-Enabled
Now that we've published the Visual Studio 2005 SDK v3 documentation to MSDN (the doc set's...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 09/19/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SDK v3 Release Now Available - Without "Sign-In" Step
You can now download the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SDK version 3.0 here directly from the...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 09/15/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SDK v3 Release Now Available
The "v3" version of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SDK released here today. The Web version of the...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 09/15/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SDK Documentation Now Available on the Web
I am pleased to announce that the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SDK documentation is now available to...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 09/08/2006
IronPython 1.0 is Now Available
IronPython 1.0 released here today. -- Paul ------------------------------------This posting is...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 09/05/2006
You're Invited! Visual Studio SDK Documentation Survey
My team, Visual Studio SDK User Education team, participated in a recent customer event on the...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 09/03/2006
Getting (My) Things Done
When I first started working at Microsoft many years ago (almost 9 years, in fact), many of the...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 09/03/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SDK August 2006 CTP is Now Available
The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SDK August 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP) is now available...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 08/02/2006
Sandcastle July 2006 CTP Now Available
The Sandcastle July 2006 Community Technology Preview is now available for download. Sandcastle is a...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 07/31/2006
IronPython 1.0 RC1 is Now Available
Soma blogs about IronPython 1.0 RC1 and discusses IronPython project integration into Microsoft...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 07/26/2006
MSDN May 2006 Library Content Now Available for Download
The MSDN May 2006 Library content is now freely available for download here. The MSDN Library...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 07/25/2006
Snippy Makes Writing IntelliSense Code Snippets Easier
Check out Snippy. It's a tool that makes writing IntelliSense code snippets for Microsoft Visual...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 06/27/2006
How to use the Visual Studio SDK on Windows Vista
Allen Denver blogs about how to use the Visual Stuido SDK on Windows Vista. -- Paul...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 06/27/2006
Learning IronPython #9: Classes
I can declare a class in IronPython as follows: # File name: MySimpleMathClass.py# Instantiate an...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 06/01/2006
Learning IronPython #8: The if, while, and for Statements (and Array List Syntax)
Here's an example of the if statement: >>> x = 5>>> if x > 6:... print "x >...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 05/31/2006
Learning IronPython #7: Running Script Files
To build upon my last post, you can run a script file by calling the execfile function and pass in...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 05/31/2006
Learning IronPython #6: Creating and Working with Modules
Section 6 of the Python Tutorial has this to say about Python modules: "If you quit from the Python...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 05/29/2006
Learning IronPython #5: Helpful Resources
Here are just a few that I found, both on Python and IronPython: Python Library Reference Python...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 05/29/2006
Learning IronPython #4: Using the Console, Calling the dir Function, Using the import Statement, and Exploring the sys Module
Now that you know how to start the console, let's start giving IronPython something to do. At the...
Author: Paul Cornell Date: 05/29/2006