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Fri, Mar 9 2012 7:56

VS 11 Beta issue: EnvDTE.Project.CodeModel returns null for a project just loaded without open documents

Two of the unit tests of my MZ-Tools add-in failed due to a change in VS 11 Beta that took me a couple of hours to isolate: if your add-in opens a solution and no document is open (for example, because the solution was closed previously with all documents...
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Thu, Mar 8 2012 16:46

VS 11: Target framework combobox now in "Application" section of VB.NET Project Properties

Since Visual Studio 2008 introduced multi-targeting .NET Framework , one weird thing of VB.NET projects was that to change the .NET Framework of a VB.NET application you had to go to the project properties window, "Compile" section (whose settings...
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Sat, Mar 3 2012 6:52

VS 11 Beta bug: EnvDTE80.Solution2.GetProjectTemplate("ClassLibrary.zip", "VisualBasic") returns Windows Metro template

When running the unit tests of my MZ-Tools add-in today, I have found the following exception when creating a Class Library project: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80042003): The project file '<omitted>' cannot be opened...
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Sat, Mar 3 2012 5:02

VS 11 Beta: again a painful release for add-ins (and other extensions)

A couple of days ago VS 11 Beta was released . I installed it yesterday and I am still shocked. A few days before, we could read in the Visual Studio Blog about the " New Developer Experience " of VS 11. First I thought is was a joke what I...
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Fri, Jan 6 2012 3:04

VS11 Developer Preview bug: textRanges of EditPoint.FindPattern returns incorrect values for second occurrence

This is another issue caused by the VS 11 and the new Find feature with .NET regular expressions change that has been acknowledged and closed as fixed (supposedly in the next build): Add-Ins: textRanges of EditPoint.FindPattern returns incorrect values...
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Fri, Jan 6 2012 2:53

VS11 Developer Preview issue: EditPoint.ReplacePattern in add-in causes COMException 0x800A00B9

The VS 11 and the new Find feature with .NET regular expressions change not only affects the EditPoint.FindPattern method, it also affects the EditPoint.ReplacePattern method. I have found an issue that I reported to Microsoft Connect as a bug but it...
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Thu, Jan 5 2012 10:20

VS 11 and the new Find feature with .NET regular expressions

When Microsoft released Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework 1.0 back in 2002, one of the quirks of the IDE was that while the .NET Framework has one syntax for regular expressions , the Find dialog has another syntax for them . This has been so...
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