Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for its Visual Studio 2010 flagship integrated development environment (IDE).  Visual Studio SP1 provides many new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes including:

• Stand-alone Help Viewer 1.1
• Silverlight 4 support
• Basic Unit Testing support for .NET 3.5
• .NET Framework 4 improvements
• Performance Wizard for Silverlight
• Visual Basic Runtime embedding
• IntelliTrace for 64-bit and SharePoint
• Fix for partial or mixed Visual Studio installations
• IIS 7.5 Express support
• SQL Server CE 4 support
• Razor support for ASP.NET Web Pages and MVC 3
• Web Platform Installer integration
• HTML5 and CSS3 preliminary support
• WCF RIA Services localized and supported
• XAML Editor/Designer improvements
• XAML Style IntelliSense
• C++ MFC-based GPU-accelerated graphics and animations
• New AMD and Intel instruction set support

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When building a C# interface, you may find a need for both public and internal methods, such as:

public class MyClass : IMyInterface
{
    public void MyPublicMethod() { }
    internal void MyInternalMethod() { }
}
public interface IMyInterface
{
    public void MyPublicMethod();
    internal void MyInternalMethod();
}

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There is No PaddingF

There is Point and PointF, Size and SizeF, Rectangle and RectangleF, Padding and… wait, there is no PaddingF!

System.Drawing vs. System.Windows.Forms

The 2-D drawing functions in the System.Drawing namespace accept both integer and floating point measurements.  That’s why the main 2-D drawing structures have both int and float versions such as Point and PointF, respectively.

However, the Padding structure is defined separately in the System.Windows.Forms namespace where most 2-D measurements are in integers.  Hence, there is an integer Padding structure but no floating point PaddingF.

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Microsoft has updated the free Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2010.  These are add-ins that provide very useful additional functionality for Visual Studio.  New in this release:

• No More Extension Resets – This version of the Productivity Power Tools will be the last which resets the extensions.
• Find – Quick find & incremental search now pops up at top right-hand corner of the editor.
• Enhanced Scrollbar – Icons overlay the scrollbar to show edits, breakpoints, bookmarks, errors, warnings, etc.
• Middle-Click Scrolling – Use your scroll wheel to quickly scroll through your document.
• Organize Imports for Visual Basic – Sort the imports logically and remove the ones that aren’t being used.

Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2010

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