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Extract to User Control in visual studio11

Thu, 24 May 2012 15:17:52 GMT

I have been playing with Visual Studio 11 beta recently and everyday I am amazed with new features of it. Today I have found one more very useful feature Extract to User Control feature. In large projects, we are having large pages and its always good to user control(.ascx) but sometimes we are so lazy to create user controls and we remain with the whole page and even we can't reuse that code. In similar kind of situation 'Extract to user control' can be quite useful. Suppose we have long HTML mark up and we need to convert one div to user control and then we can do it very easily with Visual Studio 11 beta Extract to User Control feature.

Browser selection in Visual Studio 11

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:41:56 GMT

In the earlier version of the Visual Studio if you want to run your page in browser then you have to do it with view in browser. But now you have directly that on the Visual studio 2012 toolbar like below. Here you will have a list of all the browser installed on your machine and you don't do 'View in browser'. And once you click on that it will open up the URL in your selected browser like following.

Developer Productivity Tools and Visual Studio Extensions

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:03:07 GMT

Mehdi Khalili shares what's in his toolbox for Visual Studio. It's a curated list of some of the best productivity boosters available.

Creating a Centralized NuGet Packages Folder

Sun, 13 May 2012 09:14:51 GMT

I would imagine most people by now will have discovered and use the NuGet Visual Studio extension (http://www.nuget.org/). It is a great way of adding and maintaining 3rd party code libraries in your projects. One problem I find though is that every time I create a new project or solution I end up installing the same old NuGet packages. By default NuGet downloads the source code for these packages into a new "packages" folder in your project/solution root directory. This means I have the same source code downloaded multiple times, in multiple locations. This can easily be fixed as you can...

An Introduction to NuGet

Thu, 10 May 2012 17:19:46 GMT

Getting started with NuGet can be very confusing because there are really four parts to it with separate downloads. This post is an effort to make it easier to grasp and get started.

Image preview in solution explorer Visual Studio 2011 beta

Wed, 09 May 2012 18:59:34 GMT

Everyday I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2011 beta and everyday I learn some cool feature of it. In today's post I am going to explain one cool features of Visual Studio 2011 beta solution explorer. As a web developer we all want to see the image preview in solution explorer and visual studio 2011 beta is now having it. We can see image preview in solution explorer just like following.

Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in RC

Wed, 09 May 2012 13:41:33 GMT

The Visual Studio team has taken into account some of the feedback about the beta, and presents the changes in the user interface of VS 11 RC

Css Enhancement in Visual Studio 2011 beta

Mon, 07 May 2012 19:27:28 GMT

In this post we are going to look at some of CSS enhancement features in Visual Studio 2011 beta. First thing you notice in Visual Studio 2011 is better intellisense for the CSS. Now same kind of intellisense are available which we are using for C# and other languages.

Go to definition in JavaScript feature of Visual Studio 2011 beta

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:59:13 GMT

In recent days I am exploring the Visual studio features and this blog post is also part of that. I am loving visual studio 2011 beta more and more after exploring features that make developer's life easy. Today I am going to talk about one of the features that is going to make developer's life easy. JavaScript is a client scripting language which is an integral part of any web application now days. So if you are web application developer you are surely going to write lots of JavaScript those days. With earlier version of visual studio navigating code in JavaScript is not easy. But in visual studio 2011 beta we have go to definition features which one of most favourite features of visual studio for visual C#.

Project Dialog in Visual Studio 2011 beta

Fri, 04 May 2012 19:25:56 GMT

Today we are going to look at the New project dialog and some other improvements in visual studio 2011 beta. New project dialog comes with streamlined metro style icons of the project and looks beautiful. You can see some new project templates like portable class library which is a project template for creating dlls which can run on the windows,Silverlight and windows phone 7 and Xbox 360 just like following.

Visual Studio 2011 Beta First Review.

Thu, 03 May 2012 20:48:38 GMT

Before some days Microsoft has release visual studio 2011 beta and I have started playing with it. Have you played with it yet? If not then this series of post is for your. I am going to start a series for few post here and this post also will be part this Visual Studio 20111 beta features series. I am basically a developer by heart. So out of latest offering from Microsoft I am concentrating more on Visual studio 2011,ASP.NET 4.5,C# new features and ASP.NET MVC 4. So here we got let's load visual studio 2011 beta.

Introducing: Workspace Reloader by Scott Hansleman

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:57:20 GMT

Scott Hansleman has thrown together a nifty Visual Studio extension that allows you to reload your workspace without losing all your open windows. Very handy for anyone using distributed version control with Visual Studio.

Open Tabs to the Right in Visual Studio 2011 Beta

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:23:50 GMT

I've previously shown how to set this in VS 2010. In the new VS 2011 beta, it's a little harder to find.

10 illustrated examples of Visual Studio 11

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:08:10 GMT

Visual Studio 11: it's new and it's grey but there's more to it than just a dour monotone veneer. Here are 10 things that make it a step forward from the old.

Full screen in Visual studio 2010

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:35:00 GMT

Visual studio is a great IDE and I am learning everyday something new and I have found one great feature today which is available from the Visual studio 2008. So I thought it would great to be share with all you guys. We all like to have most portion of screen to cover code part so we can view all the lines and we don't have to use page and page down keys to navigate through code. You can have visual studio in full screen mode with View->Full Screen or via pressing Shift + Alter + Enter as shortcut..

Become a VS11 Master Detective - A Look into the Page Inspector

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:51:22 GMT

Now I can hear some of you asking "What is this Page Inspector, and what makes it so special?" Well, let me tell you :) The Page Inspector found in VS11 brings in some of the most useful features within our favorite modern browser's developer tools...

Handling nasty Crystal Reports issues

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:29:28 GMT

In this post I tell you how to get rid of few nasty issues of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio.

Features NO ONE NOTICED in Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:49:58 GMT

Scott Hanselman takes us through new features in VS11 Express for Web that most people probably didn't notice.

How to install packages when NuGet is down

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:18:13 GMT

How to set up different feeds for NuGet in Visual Studio

How to access NuGet when NuGet.org is down (or you're on a plane)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:10:05 GMT

This will only work for those packages that you have already downloaded. But it will keep you going in the event that nuget.org does go down or you are working disconnected.

Interview with Billy Hollis, Presenter in a VSLive! Las Vegas Workshop

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:35:59 GMT

In this SilverlightShow interview, we talk with Billy Hollis - the presenter at the most-awaited workshop at Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas conference (March 26-30, 2012) - 'Creating Today's User Experiences - An Entry Point for Developers'. As we have announced, SilverlightShow is the Social Media Premiere Partner for this conference and we'll be sending one SilverlightShow member to this conference for free.

Compare Visual Studio 11 Beta editions, Features Chart

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:48:52 GMT

See which features and other benefits are included in Visual Studio 11 Ultimate, Premium, Professional, and Test Professional

ASP.NET Web API

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:15:59 GMT

ASP.NET Web API is Framework for building for building HTTP services on top of the .NET Framework. It ships with ASP.NET MVC 4. You can install the ASP.NET MVC 4 from here. ASP.NET Web API is a integrated Framework resulted in joint effort from WCF and ASP.NET teams. WCF REST is now replaced by ASP.NET Web API. You can read the post to migrate your existing WCF Web API to ASP.NET Web API. This post briefly discuss about why we need it and how we can use it in ASP.NET and other projects.

Visual Studio 2011 Beta Developer Experience

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:08:51 GMT

This post briefly discusses about developer scenarios and improved developer experience in Visual Studio 2011 IDE. The modern IDE inside Visual Studio 2011 looks promising and contain simplified developer workflows.

Visual Studio 2011: Lipstick on a Pig is Not UX

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:26:58 GMT

Microsoft's new Visual Studio attempts to "engender the impression that VS feels lighter and less complex". In other words, instead of radically rethinking what a great development experience would be like, they focused on obfuscating the problem.