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...
What is new in Visual Studio 2013 preview for Web Developers
This post outlines the new updated features in Visual Studio 2013 preview for Web Developers.Some of the features described here requires the downloading of Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2103 from here. Some interesting features on JavaScript side are Documentoutline Support to JavaScript (JavaScript Editor Features) In the Editor you can provide meta data in comments to enhance the experience...
Page Inspector in Visual Studio 2012
The typical web page in the application includes references to JavaScript and CSS files and images. It is hard to debug the page without a tool to find a certain piece of HTML where it is coming from. The Page Inspector is a debugging tool that runs inside Visual Studio and it comes with the Visual Studio. This post explains the Page Inspector features and outlines how to use it inside Visual...
Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Announced
As promised Microsoft announcing periodic updates to Visual Studio 2012, As part of this few months back Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 has released features and download link can be found here. Few hours ago they have announced Update 2 which can be downloaded from here. This post out lines the features in this update. The main feature in this release are Agile Planning , quality enablement , line...
Unit testing improvements in Visual Studio 2012 Update2
This post explains the features that have been introduced for unit testing in Visual Studio 2012 update 1 and 2. Visual Studio 2012 update 1 and 2 introduced many new features for testing which can be read here. New features grouping and filtering tests by project, by trait or by class enables testers to work with lots of tests easier. Now developers can group their tests in test explorer...