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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.

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...

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

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#.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

Visual Studio Async

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:10:33 GMT

The Visual Studio Async CTP combines a new simple and composable pattern for asynchronous APIs, with "await" and "async" language keywords in Visual Basic and C#, that avoids asynchronous code having to be written "inside-out" using callbacks. The CTP is a painless install/uninstall on top of Visual Studio 2010 RTM, and comes with plenty of samples and documentation. The single AsyncCtpLibrary assembly is just 104Kb, and the Silverlight version only 132Kb. Recommended, because it's pretty likely you'll see this in C# 5. Multiple logical flow are really simple to implement now. No extra threads running, but you can implement them customly.

A list of useful link for Team Foundation Server

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:30:11 GMT

A list of useful link for Team Foundation Server, if you use TFS you probably will find these useful.

NCrunch, The Incredible TDD Tool!

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:46:55 GMT

A review of the TDD tool 'NCrunch'.

Visual Studio Achievements, now a reality!

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:13:24 GMT

Follow up to last year's comic story on Visual Studio having game-like achievements.

Colorize Visual Studio Output

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:39:49 GMT

The VSColorOutput extension provides color highlighting for the build and debug output windows in Visual Studio. Check it out on Codeplex!

Microsoft Delphi .NET Anyone?

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:20:42 GMT

Borland Software has announced that it is looking for a buyer for it's IDE business, which includes Delphi and JBuilder, to allow it to focus on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). In line with the ALM focus Borland also announced that it has agreed to but Segue Software, which makes software quality and testing products, in a transaction valued at about $100 million. I wonder if Microsoft are interested in the purchase and thereby making Delphi.NET an 'official' .NET language alongside C#, VB, etc?

Publishing Visual Studio extensions with VS 2010 and VS 11 support

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:02:05 GMT

If your Visual Studio extension supports both VS 2010/VS 11 and doesn't contain much version specific code you may want to develop it in Visual Studio 2010 and just specify that it supports Visual Studio 11 as well.

Roslyn Syntax Visualizer Tools

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:25:35 GMT

Chris Sells highlights some of the tools provided as a part of the Roslyn CTP which allow you to gain a better understanding of the details of the syntax tree, discussing the use of the Syntax Visualizer Extension and Syntax Debugger Visualizer.

Tasks in Visual Studio

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:31:37 GMT

Chances are you already use comments in your code. This article shows you how to create a list of tasks similar to creating comments in Visual Studio.

ZenCoding extension for Visual Studio 2010 review

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:14:33 GMT

Speed up HTML coding in Visual Studio 2010 expanding short Zen commands into full-fledged HTML code.

What is new in .Net framework 4.5?

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:20:34 GMT

The post has all the new features in .Net framework 4.5 in a single poster. What is nice about the poster is that it marks the feature as a significant improvement, a performance improvement, asynchronous improvement wherever applicable. It is definitely nice poster to zoom and print.

Adding Compiled .ResX Resources To NuGet Packages

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:00:31 GMT

Getting the code-behind to show up for .resx files with this hack.

Elastic Tabstops extension for Visual Studio 2010 review

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:51:32 GMT

Get columns of text in your code (like comments and assignments) automatically aligned.