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Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012 and SDK Released

Microsoft has released the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012 and Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012 SDK which is available for download from Microsoft Download Center. The Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications is a tool that allows the developers to add and run VSTA customizations in VSTA Read More →

How to enable Edit and Continue in Visual Studio 2012 within the ASP.NET MVC project?

The Edit and Continue is a feature that is useful specially for debugging . When the debugger breaks , the developers can edit the code and still continue debugging with this feature. There are couple of ways to enable this feature in Visual Studio . One such way is to enable Read More →

When is Visual Studio 2010 Certification Exams Retiring ?

Want to know when is visual studio 2010 certification exams retiring ? Veronica Sopher (Microsoft Learning) in the Born to Learn Blog shares some important information about the retirement dates for the certifications exams of Visual Studio 2010 . One of the important announcement was that the Visual Studio Read More →

LINQ Insight 2.0 now supports RavenDB

Recently , Devart released the LINQ Insight 2.0 with the support for RavenDB and other new features .

What is LINQ Insight ?

LINQ Insight is a Visual Studio add-in which allows the execution of the LINQ queries at design time . Some of the features of LINQ Insight 2.0 includes

TODO comments in Visual Studio – Does it really matter ?

Visual Studio is one of my primary IDE used for coding .

TODO comments in Visual Studio - Does it really matter ?

It's just a personal choice . You can use whiteboard , maintain excel sheet or put it into TFS. In my case , I tend to use the TODO comments Read More →

Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.5 Released

The Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.5 is released and is now available for download from the Codeplex website.

What is Python Tools for Visual Studio?

Python Tools for Visual Studio is an Open Source plug in for Visual Studio that supports the programming in Python Language. The Python Tools for Read More →

How to renew your Developer License in Windows 8 using Visual Studio?

You can renew your Developer License in Windows 8 easily using Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. Note that the Developer License is slightly different from the Windows Store developer account. The Developer License allows the developers to develop, test and install app for evaluating on Windows 8 system.

How to renew your Developer Read More →

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Launched

Few days back, Microsoft had officially launched the Visual Studio 2012 including .NET Framework 4.5 during the Visual Studio 2012 Launch event. Most of the tools like Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 etc. were already made available for download for the Microsoft's MSDN Users few weeks back. Microsoft has also announced its free Read More →

Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 now Available for Download for MSDN Users

Yesterday , Microsoft had released the Windows 8 RTM along with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 which is now available for download for the MSDN Subscribers . Microsoft had released the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2012 last month and it is a popular tool now to develop Windows Read More →

Getting Started with the Windows 8 App Development

Microsoft had released Windows 8 Release Preview which can be downloaded from the Official Windows 8 website. Windows 8 includes some interesting features like Live Tiles, Windows 8 UI (Code named "Metro") and more importantly the UI which looks almost the same like my Windows Phone :)

What is Windows 8 Read More →

Auto Incrementing Version Number for a C# Project in Visual Studio

The version number for a .NET Application (c#) will generally contains the following
  • Major version
  • Minor version
  • Build number
  • Revision
This is generally specified in the "AssemblyInfo.cs" file in your project via the attribute
"["assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.0")]"
For the correct version number, you would specify all the values. The other option is to default the last two Read More →

Visual Studio Achievements for Visual Studio 2012 RC announced

The Visual Studio Achievements version for the Visual Studio 2012 RC has been released. The Visual Studio Achievements extension enables the .NET developers using Visual Studio to unlock various achievements based on the developer activity. When you make an achievement, Visual Studio 2012 will let you know the details of Read More →

My 10 favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts

Below is a compiled list of my 10 favorite shortcuts in Visual Studio 2010 that i use every day... 1. Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D Autoformats the code 2. Shift+Alt+Enter Run Visual Studio in full screen mode. 3. Ctrl+K, Ctrl+K Want to Bookmark a line of code? The Ctrl+K, Ctrl+K shortcut key help you to bookmark the Read More →

Hotfix for Visual Studio 2010 – KB2591016 Released

Here's an Hotfix for Visual Studio 2010 for the Knowledge base article KB2591016 that resolves issues that occur when using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1 to create ASP.NET MVC3 Web Projects or ASP.NET MVC 4 Web projects. Hotfix for Visual Studio 2010 - KB2591016 download file size is about 2.4 MB. You Read More →

Windows Azure SDK for .NET with Visual Studio 2012 RC support Released

Jason Zander, in his blog announces the release of Windows Azure SDK for .NET, a June 2012 release of Windows Azure SDK for .NET which now supports Visual Studio 2012 RC.

The June 2012 Release of Windows Azure SDK for .NET can be downloaded here

Jason also demonstrates Read More →

Download Visual Studio 2012 RC and .NET Framework 4.5 RC

Few days back, Microsoft had released the Visual Studio 2012 RC (Release Candidate) and .NET Framework 4.5 RC (Release Candidate) which is now available for download from Visual Studio product Website. Last one week has been a Download week with the other releases of Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Read More →

Embarcadero Prism XE2.5 Released – Now develop Windows 8 apps…

Today, Embarcadero has released the Embarcadero Prism XE2.5.

Embarcadero Prism XE2.5 is a Pascal development environment for .NET and Mono and provides a Delphi like programming language for developing the following Applications

  • .NET
  • Mono
  • ASP.NET
  • Data Driven applications for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

With the release of Embarcadero Prism XE2.5, the early Read More →

Xamarin Designer for Android released for Visual Studio and MonoDevelop

Xamarin Designer for Android was released few days back that enables the Android developers to create some cool layouts for the Apps from Visual Studio and MonoDevelop.

With the Xamarin Designer for Android available for Visual Studio, the developers can get some what experience that is closer to the C# developers Read More →

Fix for IntelliSense feature in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 may stop working after you install Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Today , i encountered a wiered thing in my SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 where the intellisense was somehow not working in SSMS 2008 R2 :( . I had only SQL Server 2008 R2 Express installed on my machine and had recently installed the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack Read More →

VisualHG – Mercurial Plugin for Visual Studio

Mercurial is a free , cross platform, distributed source control management tool for software developers . VisualHG is a source control Mercurial Plugin for Visual Studio and works with Visual Studio 2005 , Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 . VisualHG enabled the developers to quickly verify the file status and Read More →
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