Lots of Free Images and Icons with Visual Studio 2008 Image Library

Microsoft has shipped a great image and icon library with Visual Studio 2008. This library is available at following location:-

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033\VS2008ImageLibrary.zip

Here is what is inside that zip file:-

You can use that icon free of cost in any of your projects. But there is one note which I found in extracted folder. Here is the text:-

As part of a visual language, the following images (or any part of the images) must be used in a manner consistent with the name of the image file.

Hopefully it will help you. Happy coding !!!

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Microsoft has released long awaited service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2010. You can download this from here.

This Service Pack includes number of feature enhancements along with the bug fixes. Major enhancement for me is the HTML 5 support and IntelliTrace (formally known as Historical Debugger) for SharePoint.

Here are some of the major enhancements:-
General

• Many Bug Fixes
• Help Viewer 1.1
• Sliverlight 4 Support
• Basic Unit Testing support for the .NET Framework 3.5
• Performance Wizard for Silverlight
• IntelliTrace for 64-bit and SharePoint
• Detecting mixed-mode installations
• Software rendering (for Xp and Win2k3)

Web development

• IIS Express support
• SQL Server CE 4 support
• Razor support (Introducing "Razor")
• Web PI integration
• Deployable dependencies
• HTML5 and CSS3 support
• WCF RIA Services V1 SP1 included

XAML Editor/Designer

• Go To value definition
• Style IntelliSense
• Data source selector
• Advanced grid commands
• New Thickness Editor
• Sample data support
• Increased stability

C++

• MFC-based GPU-accelerated graphics and animations
• New AMD and Intel instruction set support
• Visual Basic Runtime embedding

For more details on above items visit Description of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1. Also visit ScottGu's Blog for more details.

Also Microsoft has release Service Pack for TFS 2010. If you are using TFS then it is a must have for you. For further details you can go to Brian Harry's blog.