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...
Schema Compare for SQL Server in Visual Studio 2013
This post outlines the new Schema Compare and Data Compare features in Visual Studio 2013 which supports SQL Server and Windows Azure databases. Schema Compare provides the capability to analyse and compare database schema along with presenting the results in visual and highly configurable manner.It can also calculate the actions necessary that affects the changes on the source. It supports...
Visual Studio Online Overview
Visual Studio Online is a platform of services that are now making available to development teams. It is platform helps you to plan, build, deploy and manage applications using a comprehensive suite of services. Visual Studio Online is not just TFS(Team Foundation Services), it is a set of other services on top of TFS hosted by Microsoft. It is really easy to setup go to this page. You can plan...
Bootstrap for ASP.NET Development
It is critical for the web developers to target their websites to render on different devices and form factors. ASP.NET templates now using a framework called Bootstrap. What is Bootstrap? Bootstrap is front-end framework for easy and faster web development. This post explains how to use Bootstrap in ASP.NET applications and outlines some of the features of this framework. Create a new ASP...
What is new in ASP.NET Signal R2
This post outlines the some of the improvements in new version of SignalR that included in Visual Studio 2013. In this version 2 issues related performance, stability and API usage are addressed. What is SignalR? SignalR enables you to do the real time browser-server communication that uses the best technology client and server support. SignalR API improvements One of the first features that you...
What is new in ASP.NET Web API 2
Visual Studio 2013 is shipped with ASP.NET Web API2. ASP.NET Web API 2 allows you to easily build secure http services that can be called from any client including browsers and mobile devices. This post outlines how to build a secure http service using OAuth 2 and Visual Studio 2013. 1. Open Visual Studio 2013 and create File –> New Project, select the Web API click on Change Authentication...
Code Analysis Improvements in Visual Studio 2013
This post outlines the improvements that are added to the Visual Studio 2013 IDE. Using the Code Analysis window you categorize the results and you can control the window by saying always appear or not.You can launch Code Analysis window by clicking RunCodeAnalysis on Solution option under Build menu The improvement is ability to sort the results, you can sort the results by rule id, rule name ...
New Features in Visual Studio IDE 2013
Visual Studio 2013 Integrated Development Environment is having great features like new roaming support, notifications and new Visual Studio update experience. This post outlines the many productivity improvements and IDE features. The Connected IDE features Most of the developers might use Visual Studio on two or more machines. It is a challenge to recreate your customisations when you use two...