This post discusses about creating a fully automated UI test cases for your application using Visual Studio 2012. You can convert your existing manual tests into fully automated user-interface tests. Without manual intervention you can quickly alert the developers about possible faults in the application. Once you automated your manual tests then you can run the automated tests multiple...
Dependency graphs in Visual Studio 2012
Dependency graphs helps you visualise how your code is organised and understand its dependencies. This could be useful when you are working with un-familiar code. You can easily get visual overview of your code by creating dependency graphs.You can create dependency graphs in Visual Studio 2012 ultimate by choosing Architecture menu and then click Generate Dependency Graph –> for...
Using IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2012
IntelliTrace can be used to collect and analyze the data in production. IntelliTrace speeds debugging by showing history of what happened in your application while you run. This reduces how often you restart the application when you want look at past events. IntelliTrace automatically collects information about events when you start debugging. Some examples of events exceptions, break...
What is new in C# and Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2012
This post discusses the new language features that is introduced in Visual Studio 2012. One of the main things that language team introduced is the idea of producing windows 8 App. These APPs are talking to new API called windows runtime. Small new feature Caller Info Attributes is also added in this release. More about this feature can be read here. This release also brings iterators to...
Visual Studio 2012 Testing Features for Developers
Developer Testing in Visual Studio 2012 has been improved a lot and it is allowing them to concentrate more on the code they are writing in the application. In addition to the testing framework that comes with Visual Studio 2012, you can easily add third-party testing frameworks in the IDE. This post discusses the new unit and integration testing features for developer in Visual Studio 2012. To...
Agile Development with Visual Studio 2012
Developers want to be more agile and want to cope up with interruptions. This post helps the developers to collaborate with teams using Visual Studio 2012 and focus on what they do as developers. Assume you are in the middle of implementing some requirement or fixing the bug, something else is come may be it is high priority bug or requirement which your manager want you to work on first...
Visual Studio 2012 IDE enhancements
This post discusses the new productivity and capability features of Visual Studio 2012 IDE for developers. Visual Studio 2012 IDE has got new UI with reduced number of lines, gradients and colors. The content in the IDE differentiated by colors, Your code and icons related to the code will visible more prominent. You can notice there is only one row for tool bar buttons in above picture, others...
Web Essentials and CSSCop for Visual Studio 2010
This post discuss about new features in Web Essentials extension and Image optimizer which helps developers to write web applications faster. A new extension CSSCop which is a FXCop for style sheets. You can download the Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2010 here. The CSSCop can be download from here. Download link for Image Optimizer is here. You can read my previous post on Web Standards...
Visual Studio Achievements
What is Visual Studio Achievements? Gamification is an idea behind Visual Studio Achievements. Visual Studio is a powerful tool and it contains many features which you may not know about it. Visual Studio Achievement is something you earn when you unlock the Visual Studio feature. It is an add-in to Visual Studio and works with Visual Studio 2010 professional and above. If you are having a...
Visual Studio 11 Web and .NET 4.5 Developer Preview and ASP.NET 4.5
Three days ago, Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and .NET 4.5 were announced. You can get the more details from here. You can download the Visual Studio 11 Developer preview from here. You can run Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 11 developer preview side by side. .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview can be downloaded from here Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview...