Some good news to Visual Studio developers, Full Visual Studio integration with Gits and Visual Studio now can talk to Gits repository projects. Also full support to Team Foundation servers and now you can create traditional team foundation projects and Git version control projects all integrated inside team foundation server. You can download this Visual Studio extension tool from here...
Visual Studio 2012 Update1 features
Visual Studio team aimed to deliver regular updates to the 2012 version which is update one includes not only the new features but also bug fixes and performance improvements. This post details the new features and improvements in Visual Studio 2012 update1. You can download the Visual Studio 2012 update 1 from here 1. It gives you the ability to write C++ applications using Visual Studio...
Using Code Map in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate
This post explains how to analyze and navigate complex code using Code Map in Visual Studio 2012. The new Code Map feature in Visual Studio 2012 ultimate allows you to create visualizations in your source code. This helps you to identify and quickly fix the bugs in your code. You need to install Visual Studio update to get this feature from here. With Visual Studio 2012 you can right click on...
Testing features added in Visual Studio 2012 Update1
This post explains the enhanced testing features that were introduced with Visual Studio 2012 update 1. Visual Studio 2012 now supports code coverage analysis during the manual testing. This functionality can be enabled by configuring test settings in Microsoft Test manager. This feature is currently supported for ASP.NET applications that running on IIS. To enable this feature click the Test...
Web Publishing Features in Visual Studio 2012
There is no formal build and publishing process for Websites in Visual Studio 2010, it is really a set of files and folders. If you use the web site templates while creating a project in Visual Studio 2010 then publishing experience is vastly different from what available on web application projects. New updates have been released for improving publishing experience in Visual Studio 2010 and...
ASP.NET and Visual Studio loves HTML5
ASP.NET and HTML5 works together and in fact ASP.NET & Visual Studio loves HTML5. You can do everything in HTML5 using ASP.NET server language. This post explains some examples how asp.net works with HTML5.
Example:
Using new HTML5 capabilities in ASP.NET File upload control, First thing remove the text after html in DOCTYPE tag in your aspx page then your document is HTML5.
Creating prototype projects with SketchFlow for Visual Studio 2012
SketchFlow is a tool which you can use to create prototypes for interactive applications. Prototype can be used to workflow of your application or it can be a complex graph. SketchFlow is available in Blend Studio and it can be downloaded from here for Visual Studio 2012. This post discusses the SketchFlow features and then creating a prototype project for Visual Studio 2012. You can do the below...
Automated UI Testing with Visual Studio 2012
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...