This post discusses the new features introduced in SharePoint 2013 for Business Intelligence and how you can do the things in better way using SharePoint 2013, PowerPivot and Power View. SharePoint is really about organization, discovery, building out new solutions and managing those solutions. So With Microsoft BI tools how do you explore the data? How do you mine the data? How do you visualise...
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...
Asynchronous Lambda Expressions in C#5
Asynchronous functions make asynchronous programming similar to synchronous programming. You can read my previous post on C# 5.0 features. Normal methods can written as asynchronous as shown below 1: async Task Demo() 2: { 3: await Task.Delay(10000); 4: Console.WriteLine("Hello World!!"); 5: } You can call the method as await Demo(); Lambda Expressions and anonymous methods can be preceded by the...
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...
Caller Info Attributes in C# 5.0
Caller Info Attributes is a new feature in C# 5.0, Caller Info Attributes instructs the compiler to obtain and feed information into the parameter’s default value. You can tag optional parameters using Caller Info Attributes. Three Caller Info Attributes are [CallerMemberName] – It applies the caller’s member name [CallerFilePath] - It applies the path to the caller’s source code...
Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012
Microsoft Test Manager is a tool which comes with Visual Studio 2012 , which was built from the scratch to support the needs of Manual testers. Using this tool you can manage and track test cases that helps both developer and tester.This post gives you an overview on Microsoft Software Testing tools. Back ground Prior to the release of Visual Studio 2010 launch the testing land scape and...
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...
ASP.NET Web Forms 4.5 new features in Visual Studio 2012
This post discuss ASP.NET Web Forms 4.5 features, Web Forms in 4.5 allows you to build dynamic web sites quickly and easily. Web Forms generates much cleaner code on client-side with Unobtrusive Validation in this version. You can also build data-centric applications easily with data-binding features. Typical Web Form which contains more fields and validation controls can generate more code on...