This post outlines the tools available in Visual Studio 2017 IDE for developer that can improve the productivity in areas like debugging, live code analysis, navigation, intellisense and live unit testing. It also outlines the improvement in mobile and cloud development. Live Unit Testing Make sure you refer the NUnit3TestAdapter and NUnit nuget packages for testing this feature If you use...
Visual Studio 2017 IDE features
Visual Studio 2017 announced in Microsoft Connect event today. Number of interesting announcements made in this event. Following are the highlights Key theme: Any Developer-Any App-Any platform · Visual Studio 2017 RC – Just downloaded loving the new IDE · Visual Studio Mobile Center – Using Xamarin for developing any mobile app and test on cloud · Visual Studio for Mac ·...
What is new in Web Extension Pack?
Web Extension Pack is set of extensions that helps you to become more productive in web development. Mads Kristensen has demoed the web extension pack features on channel 9. There are quite a number of extensions available for web developers in visual studio gallery but finding these extensions is little difficult without knowing they exist, what if you have a extension pack that will install...
Diagnostic tooling features in Visual Studio 2015
IntelliTrace UI has completely redesigned in Visual Studio 2015. This post outlines what improvements have been made to IntelliTrace and PerfTips which is a feature to evaluate your application performance easily during the debugging process. These features are available in VS 2015 CTP5. Using the new features in IntelliTrace, it is really easy to fix the bugs. Let’s take a scenario, Assume you...
iOS Application Development with Xamarin and Visual Studio
As Xamarin allows us to build iOS, Android and windows applications, this post outlines the steps that required developing an iOS application using Xamarin and Visual Studio. What is Xamarin? Build and execution model is different from iOS and Android. In iOS you have something called “Ahead of Timeâ€(AOT) compiling which is basically there to compile your application down to native code...
Cross platform mobile development with Xamarin and Visual Studio
This post outlines the concepts for mobile development using Visual Studio 2013 update2 and Xamarin.In perfect world, you could develop a single codebase and target all mobile devices. Unfortunately it is not as simple as it said in the statement but you have following options for developing the mobile applications. The first option uses HTML5, JavaScript and CSS using web standards basically...
Using Tasklist window in Visual Studio
Most of the time developers work on multiple tasks or code files, it is hard to keep track of what is complete or go back and update in a particular class file. Tasklist feature definitely makes developers more productive. You can bring the Tasklist in visual studio by clicking view menu and click Tasklist option Tasklist is literally a todolist; things that you want to remember to do later, you...
Visual Studio 2015 IDE Productivity features
Visual Studio has been a most productivity tool IDE for developers and introduced many new features in latest version Visual Studio 2015. This post outlines the features introduced in VS 2015.VS 2015 bringing the seem less experience for all the new devices existing like dense screens (touch capability and high-resolution screens). Touch gesture for Visual Studio Editor You can scroll up and down...
What is new in Visual Studio 2015 debugging?
This post shows improvements that made in Visual Studio 2015 to debugging. When you set a break point inside VS 2015 editor then you will notice there is toolbar pops up as shown in the following picture Using the toolbar either you can open the settings or enable or disable the break-point. You can also notice there are fewer options in the breakpoint context menu The same screen in Visual...
Tooling support for ASP.NET 5 in Visual Studio 2015
The main goal of Visual Studio 2015 development is to give wonderful developer experience for visual studio users. VS 2015 provides command to tools to support mixed environment. For example, if you have 10 team members and 8 of those using visual studio and the other two are using different tool set on mac. In new project dialogue in VS 2015, you can see new 4 options Select the ASP.NETvNext Web...