Archive for June, 2010

Download Visual Studio 2010 Virtual Machine with Sample Data

Brian Keller, Evangelist from Microsoft recently announced the availability of RTM version of the Visual Studio 2010 virtual machine which included sample data and hands-on-labs in his blog. The Visual Studio 2010 RTM version Virtual Machine is available for Download from the follwoing links

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 29, 2010 at 11:10 pm

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Hotfix for Cut / Copy Insufficient Memory issue in Visual Studio 2010

The Visual Studio team had several reports of an issue that a message displayed when trying to do a Cut or Copy in Visual Studio 2010 RTM. The message looked like this .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 28, 2010 at 6:25 pm

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Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tooling Guidance is Now Available

The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have released the Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tooling Guidance.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 27, 2010 at 5:22 pm

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Error “The folder path ‘.’ contains an invalid character” in the setup projects

When a setup file is created in Visual Sudio 2010 and when we run the installation , it might result in the following error mesage: "The folder path '.' contains an invalid character" . Similar to the screenshot shown below.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 26, 2010 at 9:05 pm

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Themes for the Visual Studio 2010 IDE

I was searching for an Visual Studio extension which can theme the Visual Studio 2010 IDE , and found this nice extension "Visual Studio Color Theme Editor" created by Matthew Johnson .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 21, 2010 at 11:08 pm

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Optional and Named Parameters in C# 4.0

Optional parameters and named Parameters are the new features in C# 4.0.It provides the ability to define a parameter for a function with some default value. Visual Basic had the optional parameters and this is newly introduced in C# 4.0 .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 20, 2010 at 3:56 pm

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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – June 2010 Release

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos that introduces or helps one to learn about Visual Studio 2010 features . The June 2010 Release of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit is now available for download . This covers some of the intro. topics like New features in Visual Studio 2010 New features in C# 4 and Visual Basic 10 Intr Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 18, 2010 at 10:55 pm

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Yahoo! Open Hack India: 2010

Open Hack India ,one of the Yahoo's premier event for the Indian Developer Community is back. This is the 3rd Event that is happening in Bangalore and i have already been a part of the 1st one held on Feb 13-14 , 2009 .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 16, 2010 at 11:50 pm

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.NET Framework 4 in 10 additional languages

.NET Framework 4 in 10 additional languages

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 16, 2010 at 10:25 pm

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C# 4.0:Finding if the string contains only WhiteSpace or Null

In the the previous Versions of the C# ,To check if the string is null or empty , we do it something similar to the example stated below. if (input == null || (input == "") { Console.WriteLine("The string is Null or Empty"); } The method string.IsNullOrEmpty in earlier versions of C# ,enables to check for the string if it is null or empty . Eg : if (string.IsNullOrEmpty((input )) { Console.WriteLine( Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 15, 2010 at 10:52 pm

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Delphi and Database Components

These following components have been used for the database access since the introduction of Delphi. BDE ( Deprecated ) BDE and SQL Links ( Deprecated ) dbGO - Wrapper components for ADO Interbase Express - Specialized interbase components BDP - Wrapper for ADO.NET/Delphi ( Deprecated )

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 13, 2010 at 6:36 pm

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Start Page Improvements in Visual Studio 2010

he Visual Studio 2010 is rewritten using WPF . As an Editor , there is an improved focus on writing and understanding , navigating and publishing code . As an Platform , developers can create addons to extend the behaviour of the IDE.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 12, 2010 at 11:15 pm

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Object and Collection Initializer in C#

The Object Initializer and Collection Initializer are similar to initialized Array and Object Constructor where we are able to set the properties of the newly created objects or multiple instances of the new object in essentially one line of code. Object initializers are similar to the constructors that populates the properties of the newly created instances of the object. Unlike the constructor,you can pick and ch Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 8, 2010 at 10:06 pm

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Resources for learning ADO.NET Entity Framework

I’m planning to learn ADO.NET Entity Framework. So thought of sharing some nice links to learn Entity Framework . Here’s are some of the interesting one’s Blogs and Documentation MSDN ADO.NET Entity Framework Site MSDN Entity Framework Documentation Entity Framework Tips and Tricks LINQ to SQL vs. Entity Framework Checking out one of the new stored procedure features in EF4 NHibernate vs. Entity Fram Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 5, 2010 at 1:27 pm

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