When you working on project if you need to find or access the file in the project, open visual studio 2013 and inside the IDE go to the one of the tabs in code window as shown in the following picture Right click on the code window to see the options, there will find the Copy Fulll Path which contains full path of the file. This can avoid looking the folders up and down for files. Another thing...
Bootstrap components for building responsive UI
Visual Studio 2013 automatically uses the boot strap as default template. How to customize the template generation. This applies for MVC developers and Web form developers. Boot strap is open source and it is just html, java script and css. Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS and JS Framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web. Solves basic tasks example – page...
Visual Studio 2014 CTP 3 highlights
Visual Studio 14 CTP 3 and .NET Framework vNext was released on August 18th. You can get it from Microsoft Download center or you can use VM in AZURE. Complete list of features can be read here. .NET Framework vNext is currently only available on VS 2014 CTP3. It is an in place update on top of .NET Framework 4 or later versions. Some of the highlights in this release are outlined in this post...
Visual Studio 2013 Auto History Extension Features
Auto History is a Visual Studio 2013 extension which gives you the ability to rollback your changes that you made to the code before check-in to the source control. Auto History steps into the gap between source code control and undo stack. It provides no configuration just work on your machine based on local history stack. Assume you are editing a document in Visual Studio, you do not have to...
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...