Microsoft Blend allows you to finessing your UI and working with assets of Photoshop. It can be used to design windows store Apps , Windows Phone and WPF Apps. The Panels in Blend are primarily designed to let you do like design-focused tasks.Special tools in Microsoft Blend allows you to do some animations and you can visually experience it in the editor. Projects Panel is in Blend is equivalent...
AuthorKalyan Bandarupalli
My name is kalyan, I am a software architect and builds the applications using Microsoft .NET technologies. Here I am trying to share what I feel and what I think with whoever comes along wandering to Internet home of mine.I hope that this page and its contents will speak for me and that is the reason I am not going to say anything specially about my self here.
Behaviours and Actions in XAML using Blend
What is Behaviour in XAML? It is a way to add interactivity to your App without writing any code.Behaviours and Actions are always go together, Behaviours is listens to something to occur.There are three out of the box behaviours Data Trigger Behaviour, Event Trigger Behaviour and Incremental Update Behaviour.Data Trigger that listens for something that implements I notify a property change,and...
Hub App Project Template in Visual Studio 2013
Hub App Project Template is a new project template introduced in Visual Studio 2013 for Windows Store App developers. It is a three page project for a Windows Store App that uses Hub control. This post outlines the features of this project template.Open Visual Studio 2013, Create a new project and select Window Store section and select Hub App template from template dialog box and say ok Now run...
XAML Editing and Coding Experience in Visual Studio 2013
This post outlines some new things for XAML in Visual Studio 2013 release, coding and editing experience is much easier in this release. As you type in XAML editor you will get an autocomplete and it is lot more flexible now, for example if you want to add a stackpanel and you mistakenly type like “stak†it still shows in window. some times you might write nested grids in your XAML editor and...
Security and Configuration Enhancements for ASP.NET Projects in VS 2013
Number of enhancements made for ASP.NET Projects in Visual Studio 2013 release. For example, Now you can easily create a Web Forms project which has MVC as a part of it or you could create MVC project which has Web Forms. This release also enabled switching authentication types per project, For example you can create a MVC project that uses Windows Azure Active Directory or you can select...
LightSwitch features in Visual Studio 2013
This post outlines how to build a modern business application using LightSwitch and new features for Lightswitch in Visual Studio 2013. Imagine a scenario where you want to build a Tradeshow mobile application. Create a new project in Visual Studio 2013 and select LightSwitch from window and select LightSwitchHTML Application option as this is a modern business application Give a name to...
11 Productivity Features for Developers in Visual Studio 2013
Productivity Power Tools 2013 is an extension pack to Visual Studio 2013. This post outlines 11 productivity features for developers in VS 2013 which can be downloaded from here. 1. Peek Help Feature This feature allows you to fetch the MSDN help documentation for types and display it inline inside the editor. To get the Peek Help right-click on any type in the editor and click on Peek Help...
Unit Testing for SQL Server in Visual Studio 2013
Unit Testing is commonly leveraged in application development and this can applied to database development as well, In Visual Studio 2013 integrated database testing can run directly against the database.It can even be configured automatically in the team build scenario. This post outlines how to create database unit testing in Visual Studio 2013. Create a new SQL Server database project in...
Schema Compare for SQL Server in Visual Studio 2013
This post outlines the new Schema Compare and Data Compare features in Visual Studio 2013 which supports SQL Server and Windows Azure databases. Schema Compare provides the capability to analyse and compare database schema along with presenting the results in visual and highly configurable manner.It can also calculate the actions necessary that affects the changes on the source. It supports...
Visual Studio Online Overview
Visual Studio Online is a platform of services that are now making available to development teams. It is platform helps you to plan, build, deploy and manage applications using a comprehensive suite of services. Visual Studio Online is not just TFS(Team Foundation Services), it is a set of other services on top of TFS hosted by Microsoft. It is really easy to setup go to this page. You can plan...