This post outlines the new features that are added to the C# new version 6.0. Enhancement to Auto Properties:  currently auto properties are needed to have setters. This puts disadvantage to immutable data types. Now C# 6 allows only getters on auto properties.C# 6 also  allows initializers to auto properties as shown in the following picture Using Static classes – Now 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...
Visual Studio 2013 TIP: Accessing file or subfolder path
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...
Windows Azure API Management Features
You build the web API and decided to sell number of API calls like selling the data behind it, another example is you partners may want to integrate your product into their environment.Microsoft making easy way using Azure API management to discover, use and manage easy way to access resources. Azure Web API has got inbuilt Analytics engine. You can create an instance of API management in...
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...
For XML Auto Mode Example in SQL Server
For XML clause in Select Query allows you to return the query results in XML format. You can specify Auto, RAW, EXPLICIT and PATH in For XML clause. This post shows an example on Auto Mode. Auto Mode generates the nested XML as a result based on the column name order that you have specified in the select clause. The Auto mode can be used for generating simple XML hierarchies as a result. Define...
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...