3rd November 2009

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In this article, Sergey Zwezdin examines the capabilities of Windows 7 for developers. In particular, he provides a detailed step-by-step overview of developing with the Windows 7 Taskbar by demonstrating how to implement a progress bar, thumb buttons, and window preview.

http://aspalliance.com/1870_Developing_with_the_Taskbar_in_Windows_7

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If you clicked Add Reference in Visual Studio this morning and you’re still waiting for it to load you may like this. Visual Studio 2010 has made some performance improvements to the dialog box. It now starts on the Projects tab, so it doesn’t have a ton of places to check. It also now looks asynchronously for the other tabs, so it doesn’t lock Visual Studio while it loads them. Check out Scott Guthrie’s post for more details.

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