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Sort Visual Studio 2008 Projects alphabetically inside Solution Folder

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:31:07 GMT

This blog article shows how to sort Visual Studio 2008 projects alphabetically inside Solution Folders

Hidden Features of C#

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:01:02 GMT

In this article, I'll just link to a pretty great StackOverFlow Question about Hidden Features of C#. Most of C# Features are obscure for us and need some explanations, the following list and explain how to use it.

Lesser Known ASP.NET Performance Tips

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:01:18 GMT

A small collection of less-popular ASP.NET Performance Tips.

Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:01:13 GMT

Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL.

What you don't know about Copy & Paste in Visual Studio

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:46:02 GMT

This post explains how to use clipboard ring and some other tricks with Ctrl-C/Ctrl-X.

StringBuilder Secrets

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:31:02 GMT

Article goes beyond the basics and looks at some more detail of StringBuilder in C#, and a benchmark that can help you improve your code that already uses StringBuilder. With graph

Jump between braces in Visual Studio.

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:01:09 GMT

Move fast between open and close braces. No more scrolling to find beginning of that illusive if statement.

Joe Stagner says you could improve your ASP.NET site one tag at a time

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:46:09 GMT

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek apparently took a brief look at Aggiorno, a Visual Studio plugin that does some interesting stuff, such as add alternate text to images, update deprecated attributes or fix tag structure for XHTML compliance. Come take a look!

ASP.NET Performance Tips

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:31:03 GMT

The article lists few of some of the many performance tweaks that can be implement to boost up ASP.NET performance.

10 Tools Which I Still Use, Even I Have VSTS 2008

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:31:11 GMT

In my last post, titled "10 Tools Which I Left After Using VSTS 2008", I have included a list of 10 tools which I am not using currently, as I have the corresponding features available in Visual Studio Team System 2008. However, on the other hand, I am still using few tools even I have VSTS 2008!

10 Tools Which I Left After Using VSTS 2008

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:01:08 GMT

I have started using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2008, recently. Previously I worked with Visual Studio 2005. As a matter of fact I had to use lots of external tools to perform and speedup my development process. However, while working with VSTS 2008, it's very exciting for me that, I found replacements for most of the external tools there. Here are 10 tools which I left after using VSTS 2008.

Get Vista to Boot faster

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:16:02 GMT

Great trick to use all your processors

VS 2008 JavaScript Debugging

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:16:02 GMT

JavaScript debugging in Visual Studio 2008