From the header declaration, this macro opens up the .cpp file and creates the skeleton so you can begin to add the implementation. This makes adding functions a breeze, so now there really is no excuse for having horribly unfactored code.

A Simple Branching Strategy to Work in CI/CD and Code Review Policy in Agile

by Benktesh Sharma

Here is a simple branching strategy to work in CI/CD and code review policy in Agile

A simple guide to setting up home server using IIS and ASP.NET

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post, I am writing about the procedure to set up a home server using IIS and ASP.NET; IIS as the web server, ASP.NET as web scripting framework.

A Tough Nugget – NuGet Package Manager

by Gil Fink

The NuGet Package Manager helps to manage the Open Source component packages and their dependencies and by that decrease the amount of cumbersome work that the developer will need to do.

A TraceListener For Tests

by Paulo Morgado

A TraceListener For Tests

About #region preprocessor directive

by Gediminas Geigalas

This post talks about how #region directives are useful and when they are not appropriate.

Accessing TFS 2010 from Visual Studio 2008

by ambilykk

How to access TFS 2010 from Visual Studio 2008

AngelCode bitmap Font Parsing Using C#

by Richard James Moss

AngelCode bitmap font parsing using C#

Applying Conditional Attributes in ASP.NET MVC Views

by Rion Williams

Applying conditional attributes in ASP.NET MVC Views.

ARM Templates to Deploy your Resources to Azure

by Sander Rossel

Taking Continuous Deployment one step further by deploying your infrastructure to Azure using Azure Resource Manager Templates, or ARM Templates. The post ARM Templates to Deploy your Resources to Azure appeared first on Sander Rossel.

ASP.NET 4.0 New Features

by Dinesh K Mandal

ASP.NET 4.0 new features

ASP.NET date picker control - Part 2

by Salmanzz

In this post, I will explain you how I have embedded JavaScript, images and stylesheet to my previous article.

ASP.NET GridView Client Side Validation

by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

We will explore the technique in jQuery to validate the ASP.NET GridView.

ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Part 4 – Advanced Model Binding

by TheyCallMeMrJames

The 4th post in a series on jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 2 in Visual Studio 2010. In this article, I'm going to look at three more complex examples of real-world model binding and where jQuery might fit in the mix.

ASP.NET Repeater with jQuery Dialog Popup

by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

This blog will take you through the steps to create an ASP.NET Repeater and show the details of a particular row on jQuery Dialog popup.

ASP.NET Repeater with jQuery Dialog Popup : Reading Data from a WebMethod

by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

This blog will take you through the steps to call a simple WebMethod to get the details of one record shown on a Repeater and show the retrieved details on jQuery Dialog popup.

ASP.NET Website Project – External Assembly References

by Mohit1110

In this blog, we would learn how an ASP.NET Website project keeps the references maintained as Website project does not have any Project file to maintain the same.

Automatically Generate Stored Procedures with Visual Studio

by Steve Wellens

This is one of those tucked-away features in Visual Studio that, once you find it, can make you slap your forehead so hard that it hurts.

Automating Tasks in Visual Studio

by Raymund Macaalay

Automating Tasks in Visual Studio

Azure .NET Core Web App and Where to Locate Static Files

by frez

In Azure your web app is written to the “d:\home\site\wwwroot” folder, and if you deploy with Visual Studio and choose “Remove additional files at destination” anything not in your project will be removed from “d:\home\site\wwwroot”.

Azure Deployment using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and .NET Core

by Sander Rossel

Set up Continuous Integration and Deployment to Azure in VSTS using Azure and Visual Studio. The post Azure Deployment using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and .NET Core appeared first on Sander's bits.

Azure Functions and Serverless Computing

by Sander Rossel

Get started with Azure Functions and serverless computing in Azure. We'll see what serverless computing is and how it's implemented in Functions.

Backing Field for Automatically Implemented Property [Field] must be Fully Assigned Before Control is Returned to the Caller

by pollirrata

Backing Field for Automatically Implemented Property [Field] must be fully assigned before Control is returned to the caller

Best Practice Front-end Architecture Using Microsoft ASP.NET MVC and Rivets.js

by Ben Liebert

Best practice front-end architecture using Microsoft ASP.NET MVC and Rivets.js

Bitwise – Something You Learned During College Time

by Cruz Boon

Let’s say, we have a survey requirement. See how we can store multiple selections in a field by using bitwise.

Breakpoint in global.asax is Never Reached by Debugger in VS

by Mark Vinod Sinnathamby

Breakpoint in global.asax is never reached by debugger in VS

Building a data form with validation in 3 minutes using AOP

by DotnetShtien

Building a data form with validation in 3 minutes using xamarin and postsharp. Having a data form is very common in modern mobile applications , and of course in most cases you will need to validate user input before allowing him to submit the form..

Building a Sudoku Solver in F#

by Cyborgx37

A simple F# application that solves Sudoku puzzles. Links to helpful resources are also provided.

C# & SQLite – Storing Images

by kribo

This post aims to demostrate how to load images into a SQLite database and retrieve them for viewing.

C# Modifiers Use and Abuse – Part 1

by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Modifiers in C# - use and abuse

C++ Status at the end of 2015

by Bartlomiej Filipek

Maybe I’ll be boring with this note, but again I need to write that this was another good year for C++! Read my report from 2015.

CacheItemRemovedCallback Example in ASP.NET

by Dinesh K Mandal

Exploring the CacheItemRemovedCallback delegate provided by ASP.NET

Calling Method in Parent Page from User Control

by Dinesh K Mandal

Calling method in parent page from user control

Calling Web Service from Windows Phone 8 App

by Madhur Kapoor

How to call web service from Windows Phone 8 app

Can I Have My CPU Back Visual Studio?

by Rion Williams

Visual Studio 2017 has certainly been a major improvement over previous iteration of the flagship IDE; however, it isn't without its flaws.

Can't Move Team Services (VSTS) between Resource Groups in Azure

by OwenDavies

Unhelpful error message received while trying to move VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services) account from one Resource Group to another

Cascading DropDownList on GridView

by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

How to get the current Row of GridView inside the SelectedIndexChanged Event of a DropDownList present on the GridView itself and then find the other DropDownList and bind that

Code Snippets – List of C# snippets in VS2008

by Chris_Green

A list of C# snippets in VS2008.

Coded UI tests: Visual Studio Crashed While Moving Code from UIMap.Designer.cs to UIMap.cs from Coded UI Test Editor

by joinsaad

Visual Studio crashed while moving code from UIMap.Designer.cs to UIMap.cs from Coded UI Test Editor

Color Highlighting in Visual Studio XAML page using ReSharper 6

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Color Highlighting in Visual Studio XAML page using ReSharper 6

Color Indicator for Code Changes – Track Changes in Visual Studio 2010

by Abhijit Jana

Track Changes in Visual Studio 2010

Combining WinJS, TypeScript, jQuery and KnockOut

by Timmy Kokke

A very simple Windows Store application based on TypeScript that uses jQuery and KnockOut to get some data from the internet and show this in a GridView

Common Visual Studio Extension Woes

by Rion Williams

Here are some common Visual Studio Extension woes

Compare Two DLL Files Programmatically Using Hash

by Vasil Trifonov

Compare two DLL files programmatically using hash

Configure Git with Visual Studio Code

by Mohit1110

How to configure Git with Visual Studio code

Connecting to TFS2010 with Visual Studio 2008

by Stacy Vicknair

Connecting to TFS2010 with Visual Studio 2008.

Converting Multiple SharePoint 2010 Projects to SharePoint 2013

by Adel Refaat

How to convert multiple SharePoint 2010 projects to SharePoint 2013

Copy and Paste Formatting with Visual Studio’s Dark Theme

by Chris_Green

Copy and paste formatting with Visual Studio's dark theme

Create Multiple Files Page Objects with Visual Studio Item Templates

by Anton Angelov

Create item template for generating multiple files page objects consisting of separate files for the element maps, page's logic and the asserts.

Creating a “customizable” personal blog using ASP.NET

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is part 1 of the articles that I want to write for ASP.NET beginners, who want to build their own personal web sites, that mimic characteristics of blog. It covers the ASP.NET web application part.

Creating a Data Access layer using Unity

by Martin Hinshelwood

I am always pulling out the Unity assemblies. Maybe it is just because I am lazy, but I really can’t be bothered rolling my own dependency injection and mapping framework!

Creating a Scrum Team Project in Visual Studio 2012 using Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 Process

by kishore Gaddam

How to use SCRUM Template 2.0 to manage projects in VS 2012 TFS

Creating a Simple Sheet Designer in C#

by Mohammad Elsheimy

Give the user the flexibility to design his sheet, report, bill, invoice, whatever.

Creating Multiple Identical VMs in Microsoft Azure

by Gaston Verelst

In this post, I show how to create an image from a VM in Microsoft Azure, and use this to create identical VMs.

Cross-Platform Selenium with DotNet Core

by Andrew Blank

A bit about this project I was asked by a co-worker for an example of using Selenium Web Browser Automation with C# so I wrote a quick example in C# with MSTest and DotNet Core and I posted it to Github. https://github.com/andyrblank/Selenium-C-Sharp-Example What is Selenium?

CSS Syntax Highlighting in the DigitalRune Text Editor Control

by Richard James Moss

An article on how to apply CSS formatting rules to the DigitialRune Text Editor control.

CSS3 box-shadow and Visual Studio features

by Steve Wellens

CSS3 box-shadow and Visual Studio features.

CSS3 box-shadow and Visual Studio Features

by Steve Wellens

A few years ago, while creating an ASP.NET web site, I decided to add a gradient border to "sex up" the look of the site. Using a sophisticated image editing program, I created a small gradient image. I made sure the ending color of the gradient matched the color of the body in the target page.

Curious Case of Visual Studio Project Compatibility

by n.podbielski

This is a curious case of Visual Studio Project compatibility.

Custom Terminals and User Interface (UI) in Windows Terminal

by Jeremy Likness

How to customize the new Windows Terminal for Windows 10 for custom font, look and feel, as well as setup terminals for git-bash, Node.js, PowerShell, and Azure Cloud Shell.

Customize the Debugging Windows : Change Debugging Window View as per your requirements

by Abhijit Jana

In this blog post I am going to explain how you can customize the complete view of the debugging window during debugging of application. By complete view means, where you can add own Properties, can customize the result, manipulate the data, hide properties which may not need during debugging etc. I

Customizing Visual Studio Extension Icon in Visual Studio 2010

by Abhijit Jana

How to customize /change the default Visual Studio extension icon and provide your own icon over there.

Database Driven Unit Testing Using VSTS

by Mahmudul Haque Azad

Database driven unit testing using VSTS

DataGridView – Stacked Header

by Deepak-VS

DataGridView – Stacked Header

Debugging 64 bit application using IntelliTrace – Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta

by Abhijit Jana

Debugging 64 bit application using IntelliTrace – Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta

Debugging Android using Unity (an invasion into insanity)

by Simon Jackson

Hints, tips and advice for working well with Android in Unity

Debugging Unity 3D with VSCode

by Simon Jackson

Debugging Unity 3D with VSCode

Debugging XML Transforms (XSLT) with Visual Studio

by Steve Wellens

XSLT stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations.There is so much to learn in our technical world… and so little time….and for some of us, even fewer brain cells. Alas, such is the life of a nerd/dweeb/geek.The latest technology I spent brain cells on is XML Transforms.

Decorator Design Pattern in .NET

by Dinesh K Mandal

Decorator Design Pattern in .NET

Default Browser Switcher Extension for Visual Studio 2010 - Improve Productivity

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to install and use the Default Browser Switcher Extension for Visual Studio 2010

Default Browser Switcher in Visual Studio 2012

by Khanna_Varun

Testing application on different browsers manually would decrease our productivity and also would waste our time.

Deploying Windows applications using ClickOnce (Visual Studio 2008)

by Manjuke Fernando

How to deploy Windows applications using ClickOnce (Visual Studio 2008)

Disable Local Workspaces in TFS 2013

by Jeremy A. Wilson

How to disable local workspaces in TFS 2013

Do you know how to maintain your Google ranking while moving to a new site structure?

by Martin Hinshelwood

From time to time your website structure may change. When this happens you do not want to have to start from scratch with your Google rankings, so you need to map all of your Old URLs to new ones.

Dynamic Programming with Python and C#

by Dev Leader

With this post, we’re still just scratching the surface of what’s doable when integrating Python and C#.

Easy 8 Step HTML To SQL Data Transfer in a ASP.NET Web Form using jQuery, JSON, XML, Web Methods, node() Methods and Extension Methods.

by Patrick Cunningham

This article uses 8 steps to create example of how to read and write from HTML to a SQL database in a .NET web application using jQuery, JSON, and XML.

Embedding and Using Resources from .NET Assembly

by Dinesh K Mandal

How to embed and use resources from .NET assembly

Enabling Shell Styles for the ListView and TreeView Controls in C#

by Richard James Moss

Enabling shell styles for the ListView and TreeView controls in C#

Enabling Underflow and Overflow Checking within Visual Studio

by Rion Williams

How to enable underflow and overflow checking within Visual Studio

Entity Framework Patterns Extension and Unit Test in Visual Studio 2012

by n.podbielski

Entity Framework Patterns extension and Unit Test in Visual Studio 2012

Experimenting with C# 6’s New Features

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

C# 6 has been available for a long time, by now! Many developers have written many guides to "list" the features. I have written this post to explain those features, and to explain whether they are actually new or are they just sugar coating to the compiler.

Extending C# ListView with Collapsible Groups (Part II)

by John Atten

Continued examination of C# ListView subclass with collapsible groups.

Faster than Reflection: Delegates. Part 1.

by n.podbielski

This article is first part of the series of three. Next ones you can find here and here.. Code for all three articles, with new features and bug fixes is available on GitHub and as Nuget package.. Why not Reflection?. If you working with .

Few Tips on Customizing Debugging Window View in Visual Studio

by Abhijit Jana

A few tips on customizing debugging windows

Fiddler for Model Driven Apps

by YawerIqbal

How Fiddler for model driven apps works and getting started

FileSystem Syncher – Part 1

by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

A basic console application that copies all the files from the source path to destination path, checking if there are files already present at the destination path and doing a simple comparison

FileSystem Syncher – Part 2

by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

FileSystem syncher

Find Unused Files: v1.4.0

by Robert Hoffmann

Finds unused files and images in your website projects.

First Windows 8 App with JavaScript and HTML

by Gergo Bogdan

Some thoughts about Visual Studio 2012 and First Windows 8 App Development with JavaScript and HTML

Fixing the ASP.NET Error “The web application project is configured to use IIS. The web server could not be found” error for Visual Studio 2013

by Sujay Sarma

Fixing an ASP.NET error for Visual Studio 2013

Flexible Particle System - Code Optimization

by Bartlomiej Filipek

Several code changes that made my particle system faster: SIMD, random number generator, pointer aliasing, memory alignment

Forget PowerPoint – Make a Slideshow in… a Debugger :)

by Sebastian Solnica

The article describes how to make a slideshow in a debugger. It may help you understand the PDB API in System.Reflection.Emit as well as impress listeners on any debugging-related presentations. :)

Formatting CMake Files

by 10xlearner

How to format CMake files

Front-end development with Visual Studio

by Cybermaxs

The emergence of single page applications introduces a new need for web developers: a front end build process. Javascript MV* frameworks now allow web developers to build complex and sophisticated applications with many files (js, css, sass/less, html …).

GetMyMusicOffOfMyIpodAndOntoMy...

by timtocci

Originally this application was a console application that I developed to get the music off of my iPod. After my post on transparent forms in VIsual Basic I decided to port it to a Widget format to make it easier to use and demonstrate what goes into creating a transparent Windows Forms application.

Getting Console Output Within A Unit Test

by Vasil Trifonov

Getting console output within a unit test

Getting Exact Location of Exception in C# Code

by Pranay Rana

How to get exact location of exception in C# code

Getting SignalR-Ready in Visual Studio 2010

by Rion Williams

This post will cover how to get yourself up and running using SignalR within Visual Studio 2010 in a jiffy.

Getting Started with a Team Explorer Plugin for VS 2013 - Part 1

by Gordon Beeming

How to get started with a Team Explorer plugin for VS 2013 - Part 1

Getting Started with Erlang and Nitrogen

by Tom Janssens

Getting started with Erlang and Nitrogen

Getting Started with MonoGame using Visual Studio

by Simon Jackson

MonoGame (for those of you not yet aware) is a Game Building Framework / API born from the ashes that was the Microsoft XNA Framework that provides a very easy to use API to build games.

Getting Started with NDepend - A Visual Studio AddIn (Part–1)

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Getting Started with NDepend - A Visual Studio AddIn (Part–1)

Golang SQLite Simple Example

by John Pili

A simple example of how to use SQLite in Golang

Got Sweet Code? Save It!

by BC3Tech

Got sweet code? Save it!

Granting write access to ASP.NET apps hosted on AWS Beanstalk

by Shameel

This article describes a simple and elegant way to allow write access to ASP.NET apps to the App_Data folder. This is required for applications to work properly when deployed in AWS Beanstalk.. The post Granting write access to ASP.

Handling Big Files in Visual Studio Setup Projects

by Inaki Ayucar

How to handle big files in Visual Studio Setup Projects

Hints For Arranging Usings in Visual Studio Efficiently

by Anton Angelov

This post gives some hints for arranging usings in Visual Studio efficiently.

HoloLens Development using Visual Studio 2015 and Unity HoloLens Technical Preview

by Mark Vinod Sinnathamby

This post is a tutorial that is complimentary to the session I did, demonstrating the steps of how a simple holographic application can be built and deployed in the HoloLens emulator.

How AutoHotKey Saved the (Visual Studio) Day

by Joseph (landofjoe.com)

Lance Hilliard has created a AutoHotKey script to effectively disable the Ctrl-Shift-S keyboard shortcut for Lync.

How Can I Deploy My ASP.NET Website to Microsoft Azure?

by levelnis

How to deploy your ASP.NET website to Microsoft Azure

How can you add "Select All" behaviour for all TextBoxes in your WPF application?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Add "Select All" behaviour for all TextBoxes in your WPF application

How can you implement the Silverlight 3 Out Of Browser feature?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Here I will explain the feature & step by step process for implementing the Silverlight Out-Of-Browser functionality.

How to Add a Custom Visual Studio Workflow to SharePoint Designer

by Melick

Step by step guidelines to add a custom Visual Studio workflow to the SharePoint designer

How to build a language binding for a web API

by Pragmateek

This article describes the general principles, without diving too deeply into technical details that would be specific to a given platform.

How to Categorize Control Properties for XAML View Inside Blend and Visual Studio?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Organizing custom control properties inside Visual Studio and Expression Blend

How to Check How Many Writes Are Done While You Build

by Arik Poznanski

How you can measure how many read and writes (in bytes) your build takes.

How to Choose between IDisposable, IComponent, Component, MarshalByValueComponent and Control while Implementing a Class

by atverma

Criteria behind choosing IDisposable, IComponent, Component, MarshalByValueComponent and base Control classes(System.Windows.Form.Control and System.Web.UI.Control) while implementing a Class

How to Configure Local Nuget Repository

by Vasil Trifonov

How to configure a local Nuget repository

How to create an Azure Virtual Machine with ARM Template

by OwenDavies

Instructions detailing creation of an Azure Virtual Machine using ARM templates in PowerShell, emphasizing steps from setting up the ARM template to deploying it

How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

How to get the length (duration) of a media File in C# on Windows 7

by Williarob

If you have ever looked at a media file (audio or video) in explorer on a Windows 7 PC, you may have noticed that it displays additional information about that media file that previous versions of Windows didn't seem to have access to, for example the length/duration of a Quicktime Movie Clip.

How to host a service in Azure and expose using WCF and Visual Studio 2010: Issues Faced and Quick Fixes

by atverma

How to host a service in Azure and expose using WCF and Visual Studio 2010

How to host multiple isolated WCF services within a single Windows service with zero App.config

by StevenHollidge

How to host multiple isolated WCF services within a single Windows service with zero App.config

How to Initialize a Git Repository using Visual Studio Code and Publish the Code to Git Server (Visual Studio Team Services)

by Mohit1110

In this article, we would learn to publish the local repository to the Git Server using Visual Studio code.

How to Install NuGet Packages Directly

by Anuraj Parameswaran

How to install NuGet packages directly

How to remove /api from Azure Functions URLs

by Ryan Peden

How to customize the URLs of your Azure Functions

How to run a local Continuous Integration build via a Visual Studio shortcut key

by levelnis

Article discussing how to run a local Continuous Integration build via a Visual Studio shortcut key, with a focus on PSake

How to run NUnit tests in Visual Studio 2010/MSTest

by James Treworgy

Debug tests from directly within your project.

How To Set Elements Of An Array Of A Private Type Using Visual Studio Shadows

by Paulo Morgado

How To Set Elements Of An Array Of A Private Type Using Visual Studio Shadows

How to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio

by Abhijit Jana

A post on how to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio

How to test a class member that is not public using Visual Studio 2010

by atverma

How to test a class member that is not public using Visual Studio 2010

How to unit test SQL Server 2008 database using Visual Studio 2010

by atverma

In this article I’ll discuss about unit testing SQL Server 2008 Database project using Visual Studio 2010.

How to Unit Test SQL Server 2008 Database Using Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2

by atverma

In this article I will explore the important features that can be configured to build comprehensive database unit tests.

How to unit test SQL Server 2008 database using Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3

by atverma

This is the last article of the series “How to unit test SQL Server 2008 database using Visual Studio 2010”.

How To: Initialize a Game on Android with XPG

by XPG Live

How to initialize a game on Android with XPG

How To: Initialize a Game on iOS (iPhone/iPad) with XPG

by XPG Live

How to initialize a game on iOS (iPhone/iPad) with XPG

How To: Initialize a Game on Windows Phone with XPG

by XPG Live

Initialize a game on Windows Phone with XPG

How To: Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG

by XPG Live

Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG

I Don't Know Crap About Security (Or At Least I Didn't)

by Rion Williams

Tools to test security, a plan on how to secure your system and building good habits to help ensure you stay protected

IIS is Dead - Long Live IIS!

by ZteffDK

IIS is dead - Long live IIS!

Image Handling In ASP.NET

by raju melveetilpurayil

Explaining how to store,display, create thumbnails and add watermark on image

Image in C#: Save, Resize, and Convert to Binary

by Duy H. Thai

Some frequently-used methods for image handling in .NET

Improve Productivity using Visual Studio 2012 Default Browser Switcher

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to improve productivity using Visual Studio 2012 default browser switcher

Improved Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 to Improve Productivity

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Improved Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 to improve productivity

INotifyPropertyChanging and INotifyPropertyChanged in Real Life using Expression Trees

by atverma

INotifyPropertyChanging and INotifyPropertyChanged in Real Life using Expression Trees

Inside a 'LINQ to SQL classes' file

by Duy H. Thai

Explore the essence of an 'LTS classes' file, the classes it generates, and how it connects the object model to the database model...

Integrating and Using Github in Visual Studio 2012

by Rion Williams

How to integrate and use Github in Visual Studio 2012

Interactive ToolTip using Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this post, I will show you one nice extension behavior named “Interactive Tooltip”, which will make your development life easier.

Introduction into an Automated C++ Build Setup with Jenkins and CMake

by thoughts-on-coding

Introduction into an Automated C++ Build Setup with Jenkins and CMake

Introduction to HTML5 Development using VS 2010, HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4

by kishore Gaddam

This is an introduction to HTML5 development using VS2010, HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4

Introduction to Serverless Computing using Azure Functions

by Madhur Kapoor

One of the quickest way to get your code up and running in Azure is to use Azure Functions which makes use of the serverless architecture. When we say serverless, it means that we don’t have to worry about the provisioning and maintaining of virtual machines or servers.

Invoke Google from within VS 2008

by Ashish Sheth

Invoking Google from within VS 2008

Just A Little Visual Studio Time Saver

by kdmote

Just a little Visual Studio time saver

Just Attach

by S. Senthil Kumar

JustAttach – a macro that finds out the output file path of the startup project of your solution and automatically attaches to it.

Justin‘s VSTO Knowledge Base: 01, First VSTO Application

by izualx

Justin‘s VSTO Knowledge Base: 01, First VSTO Application

by izualx

First, let me introduce my development enviroment. I’m using Visual Studio 2010 with Office 2010 and all my VSTO applications are basing on VSTO 4.0 and .Net Framework 4.0. All my demo code is basing on them and if you are using VS 2008, you can port these code to VS2008 very easily.

Lambda Expression in C# 3.0

by Shakeel Iqbal

Lambda Expression is one of the best features of C# 3.0

Launching IIS Express from Visual Studio 2010 without admin rights on Windows 7

by levelnis

How to configure IIS Express so that it runs from Visual Studio without needing Visual Studio to be run with Admin rights.

Learning Resources from Miscrosoft

by santosh.yadav198613

In this post, we will see how we can get benefits from several Microsoft services offered to developers for free.

Leverage the .NET framework classes from VBA

by Pragmateek

Introduction Following my previous article on a similar subject, Extend your VBA code with C#, VB.Net or C++/CLI, I’ve received an interesting feedback from a VBA developer who wanted to leverage the advanced support of the .Net framework for regular … Continue reading →

Leveraging Visual Studio JavaScript IntelliSense. Part 1

by Alexander Turlov

This article aims to provide with a quick reference the most useful features of the JavaScript IntelliSense to help make it an every-day tool for JavaScript developers.

Lipstick on a Pig is Not UX

by AlexTatiyants

Microsoft's new Visual Studio attempts to "engender the impression that VS feels lighter and less complex". In other words, instead of radically rethinking what a great development experience would be like, they focused on obfuscating the problem.

Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 - Part 2

by Tarun_Arora

The details of web performance and load tests as well as why it’s important to follow a goal based pattern while performance testing your application.

Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 - Part 3

by Tarun_Arora

In part 3 I’ll be discussing Test Result Analysis, Test Result Drill through, Test Report Generation, Test Run Comparison, ASP.NET Profiler and some closing thoughts.

Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 [Part 1]

by Tarun_Arora

Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 [Part 1]

Load Test Using Visual Studio 2010

by PratapReddyP

How to perform a Load Test using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.

Log Elmah errors in Team Foundation Server

by Martin Hinshelwood

I am not sure if this is a good idea, but I was bored one day and decided to add a TFS Error Log provider for Elmah. There are 2 ways you can do this.

Log4net: Log to a JavaScript Console

by Steve Wellens

While lurking and skulking in the shadows of various technical .Net sites, I've noticed many developers discussing log4net in their blogs and posts; log4net is an extremely popular tool for logging .Net Applications. So, I decided to try it out.

Memory Barriers and Thread Synchronization

by Martin Vorbrodt

Memory barriers and thread synchronization

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestToo...

by Aligned

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestToo...

Mobile Development: AutoHide Windows Mobile Device Center 2

by hjgode

Mobile Development: AutoHide Windows Mobile Device Center 2

Mock a Database Repository using Moq

by Williarob

How to mock a database repository using Moq

Mouse automation with AutoItX

by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Hello and welcome, In this post, we are going to talk about how we can automate part of the windows desktop environment using AutoItX. What is AutoItX? Before we can talk about AutoItX first we need to talk a little bit about AutoIt.

MSTest Rerun Failed Tests Through MSTest.exe Wrapper Application

by Anton Angelov

If you need to rerun Failed Tests (MSTest), you can download the application that I wrote. Examples how to use it and code snippets.

Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools

NDepend – Analysis Report

by Nathan Gloyn

NDepend – Analysis Report

New Features of IntelliTrace Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 – Service Pack 1 Beta

by Abhijit Jana

New Features of IntelliTrace Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 – Service Pack 1 Beta

New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects

by User 271009

New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects

NuGet: How to Install a Package in 19 Easy Steps

by Ivan Krivyakov

How to install a NuGet package in 19 easy steps

NuPack Visual Studio Add Package References Crash and TypeLoadException

by eglasius

NuPack Visual Studio Add Package References Crash and TypeLoadException

One of my favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts - Very useful !

by Abhijit Jana

How to use a single shortcut key “Ctrl+.” in different places of your development

Optional passed by reference parameters with C# for VBA COM APIs

by Pragmateek

Introduction If you've already developed COM APIs with .Net, typically in C# with VBA as the consuming language, you've probably leveraged two powerful features: by-reference parameter passing that allows the API to change the input object itself, not only its ... Continue reading ...

Overview of DateTime Object Usage in ASP.NET Websites and Web Applications

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article provides an overview of the DateTime object in ASP.NET website, and a source code and example of a few scenarios in which using DateTime would be easy and simple, but tricky.

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by Petru Faurescu

Best way, performance wise, to paginate results in MongoDB

Parallelizing C++ Boost Unit Test Cases

by Naveen

An improvisation to boost unit test frame work that will let you run unit test cases in parallel.

Passing Command Line Parameters into a PSake Build Script

by levelnis

This article assumes the reader is familiar with James Kovac's PowerShell based build language, PSake, and explains how to pass parameters from the command line and use them within a PSake build script.

PDB Was Not Found - Linker Warning

by Bartlomiej Filipek

PDB Was Not Found - Linker Warning

Programming Direct2D – Part 2 – Basic Geometry

by Sarath C

In this installment, let’s cover basic primitives. The basic primitives are the mostly used shapes like lines, rectangle, rounded rectangle, circle etc.

Programming Windows Phone 7 – Hello World

by Sarath C

A simple Windows Phone 7 application

Publishing your ASP.NET App to Linux in 5 minutes with Docker

by rahulsahay20

Publishing your ASP.NET app to Linux in 5 minutes with Docker

Python, Visual Studio, and C#… So. Sweet.

by Dev Leader

Python, Visual Studio, and C#

Refactor Your Code Easily Using Visual Studio 2012

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to refactor your code easily using Visual Studio 2012

Refactoring Tools Review - Part II

by Uri Lavi

DevExpress CodeRush and Refactor! Pro Review

Remote debugging with Visual Studio 2010

by Sebastian Solnica

Remote debugging with Visual Studio 2010

Remote Threads Basics - Part 3

by Alexey Kurakin

Last part in my series about remote threads

Removing Visual Studio Bloatware

by Sujay Sarma

How to remove Visual Studio Bloatware

Resolve MSB4064: The "Retries" parameter is not supported by the "Copy" task – Team Build

by ozkary

Resolve MSB4064

Resolving Installation Issues with Visual Studio 2017

by Rion Williams

How to resolve Installation Issues with Visual Studio 2017

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by morzel

Safer Binding due to TypeScript's keyof Operator

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by levelnis

Quick overview of searching and filtering Team Foundation Server changesets

Securing WCF Service with Self Signed Certificates Programmatically

by Vasil Trifonov

Securing a WCF Service with self signed certificates programmatically

Sending Notifications with Corona Updates to Thousands of Doctors (using Azure Notification Hub)

by Gaston Verelst

How to send out regular notification updates using Azure Notification Hub

Share Code Like a Boss: Part 1 - Private NuGet Feeds in Azure DevOps

by Lee P Richardson

Private NuGet Feeds in Azure DevOps

Share Nuget Packages Between Solutions: Part 1

by Vasil Trifonov

How to share Nuget packages between solutions

Share Nuget Packages Between Solutions: Part 2

by Vasil Trifonov

Share Nuget packages between solutions

SharePoint Debugging Assistant (Free Visual Studio 2012/2013 Add-In)

by Kyriakos Akriotis

SharePoint Debugging Assistant (free Visual Studio 2012/2013 add-in)

Silverlight 5 Release Candidate is now Available - Download Silverlight 5 RC

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Silverlight 5 Release Candidate is now Available - Download Silverlight 5 RC

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by Vasil Trifonov

Small Helper Tool for Configuration Transformations

Solve build error with msbuild at Microsoft.PackageDependencyResolution.targets(198,5)

by YasIkeda

If you run msbuild and get an error message that points out Microsoft.PackageDependencyResolution.targets(198,5)., then this article may help you and your build. The problem is so simple, but if you are new with building .NET code without Visual Studio, it would not look such simple.

Specify Assembly References Based On Build Configuration in Visual Studio

by Anton Angelov

Specify Assembly References Based On Build Configuration in Visual Studio

Speed Up the Visual Studio Toolbox

by Steve Wellens

There are plenty of tips out on the web that I see no need to repeat here. But this one made such a remarkable difference on my box that I had to post it…

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by Arik Poznanski

This post discusses how you can decrease build time

Standardize Page Objects with Visual Studio Item Templates

by Anton Angelov

Learn how to create Visual Studio item templates. Create faster WebDriver Page Objects through item templates. Download the full set of Pages item templates.

Starting with Emgu CV

by ShubhamSaxena

Emgu CV is a huge library of “wrapper” functions that allows calling OpenCV functions from a Visual Studio Windows Forms application.

Strategy Design Pattern in .NET

by Dinesh K Mandal

Strategy Design Pattern in .NET

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by Lee P Richardson

How to provide strongly typed, cross platform, dependency managed access to all 2,935 Azure CLI commands in C#

T4 – Too Troublesome to Tackle?

by Ivan Krivyakov

T4 – Too Troublesome to Tackle?

T4 Preprocessed Text Templates in Visual Studio 2010

by User 271009

T4 preprocessed text templates in Visual Studio 2010

Take Advantage of Reference Paths in Visual Studio and Debug Locally Referenced Libraries

by Sebastian Solnica

This article explains how to use the Reference Paths project property to debug open-source libraries referenced by the project.

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by Brij

Task List Window of Visual Studio

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by levelnis

I often get developers who are unfamiliar with the branching and merging process within TFS asking me how it works, so I've put together a short guide that explains the basics.

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by Dinesh K Mandal

Template Method Design Pattern in .NET

Testing Private Methods with Visual Studio

by Vasil Trifonov

When writing unit tests in most of the cases, we have to test private methods. Let's see how this can be achieved using Visual Studio.

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by Diego Resnik

Using Dynamic Proxy & MSMQ Duplex to create a proxy that switches automatically between online & offline network state

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by Ashoka RKT

The not much utilized Debug->Exceptions... Window technique

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by Simon Jackson

The eternal battle with disk space

The Rise of the Null-Object Pattern in C# 8

by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Null-object pattern in C# 8

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by levelnis

I've been using ReSharper for the last 4 years and consider it to be the most useful tool I have yet come across. The purpose of this article is to highlight some of my favourite features.

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by Christoph Keller

Debugging a SharePoint 2010 Timed Job

TIP: Improve Readability with Shorter String.Format Statements

by Martin Jarvis

How to improve readability with shorter String.Format statements

Tips: Set Breakpoint to multiple Functions at the same time in Visual Studio

by Abhijit Jana

In this post, I am going to share two quick tips by which you can set breakpoints to functions very easily.

Tool: Code Metrics Viewer Extension for Visual Studio

by Bryan O'Connell

Keep an eye on your team's software code metrics

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by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

Of course, as the name suggests, it is the upcoming version of ASP.NET.

Triggering a Build when File Changed in Visual Studio

by Sebastian Krysmanski

How to trigger a build when file changed in Visual Studio

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by User 271009

Tucking ViewModels Beneath Views in Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2013.

UIAutomation, Coded UI Tests, AutomationPeer, and WPF/Silverlight Custom Controls

by jmix90

In this post, we will see how to make a custom control fully useable in a Coded UI Tests scenario.

Understanding ASP.NET MVC using Real World Example, for Beginners and Intermediate Programmers

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article provides a brief description and overview of ASP.NET's MVC framework, and how developers can covert their real-world objects into MVC framework, to create web applications.

Understanding Clean, Build and Rebuild in Visual Studio

by Mithun Pattankar

Understanding clean, build and rebuild in Visual Studio

Understanding the Visual Studio IDE for R language

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post I am talking about the "R Tools for Visual Studio" plugin, and how it can be used to make Visual Studio your default IDE for R programming.

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by Martin Hinshelwood

Staring from the original Command Line Parser v1.0 code, I wanted to be able to add multiple commands, or even nest commands. The result is a nice simple commanding architecture conducive to creating multiple commands.

Uploading the Files – HTML5 and jQuery Way!

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Uploading the files - HTML5 and jQuery way

Uploading/Downloading a File Using WCF REST Service in .NET 3.5

by Chinmoy Mohanty

How to upload/download a file using WCF REST service in .NET 3.5

Using C# 6 in ASP.NET 5

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This post is about C# 6 usage in ASP.NET 5 web applications to fine tune applications for more readability and better performance.

Using Munq IOC with ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2

by Matthew Dennis

In this article, I will walk through the modification of the default ASP.NET MVC 2 application to use the Munq IOC container.

Using Stored Procedures in Entity Framework Model First Approach (Part I - Adding New Stored Procedure)

by SRS(The Coder)

How to use Stored Procedures in Entity Framework Model First Approach

Using Visual Studio AutoRecover to Avoid Losing Your Work (and your Mind)

by Rion Williams

How to use Visual Studio AutoRecover to avoid losing your work and your mind

Using Visual Studio Code with Windows Subsystem for Linux

by Shun Huang

How to use Visual Studio code with Windows subsystem for Linux

Using WIX with Managed Custom Action

by Vasil Trifonov

Using WIX with Managed Custom Action

Utility to Generate Word Documents from Templates using Visual Studio 2010 and Open XML 2.0 SDK

by atverma

This utility generates Word documents from templates using Content controls.

Utility to Generate Word Documents from Templates Using Visual Studio 2010 and Open XML 2.0 SDK – Part 2 (Samples Updated)

by atverma

This is the second post of this series.

Utility to Generate Word Documents from Templates Using Visual Studio 2010 and Open XML 2.0 SDK - Part 3

by atverma

This is the third post of this series.

Utility to Generate Word Documents from Templates Using Visual Studio 2010 and Open XML 2.0 SDK - Part 4

by atverma

Utility to Generate Word Documents from Templates Using Visual Studio 2010 and Open XML 2.0 SDK - Part 4

Violating Single Resposibility Principle using Visual Studio Region

by Ashish Sheth

Wherever you are using "region" in your method to demarcate code, you can very well put that code in a separate method.

Visual Studio 11 Beta - First Impressions

by Jeremy Hutchinson

Visual Studio 11 Beta - first impressions

Visual Studio 2008 Productivity Tools: CodeRush/Refactor and Resharper finally play nice together

by Sky Sanders

This is how I configure CodeRush/Refactor Pro and Resharper to enable peaceful coexistance.

Visual Studio 2010 – Unattended Silent Install

by Ali BaderEddin

Unattended silent install of Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 and Target Framework Version

by Scott Dorman

Visual Studio 2010 and target framework version

Visual Studio 2010 Features – Better Productivity

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this post, I will describe the new features of Visual Studio 2010 which I already explored. I think this will be beneficial for all.

Visual Studio 2010 New Features in Debugging – Exciting & Innovative

by Ashoka RKT

This article talks about Visual Studio 2010’s powerful debugging features applicable from beginner to expert (based on latest VS2010 beta 2).

Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools Rocks!

by Raymund Macaalay

Visual Studio 2010 productivity power tools rocks

Visual Studio 2010 WPF Trace Settings Default Is Incorrect

by User 271009

Visual Studio 2010 WPF Trace Settings Default Is Incorrect

Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension

by User 271009

Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension

Visual Studio 2010: Exporting and Importing Break-Points

by Dinesh K Mandal

Exporting and Importing Break-Points in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2012 Theme Support

by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

Theme support in Visual Studio 2012

Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Improve Productivity using Quick Launch

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to improve productivity using Quick Launch in Visual Studio 2012

Visual Studio 2015 is Here!

by Bill Wagner

Visual Studio 2015 is here!

Visual Studio 2017 – Exception Helper

by Kamran Bilgrami

A quick tip on how the new Exception Helper feature in Visual Studio 2017 can make your debugging experience a little quicker.

Visual Studio 2017 – Exception Helper (III)

by Kamran Bilgrami

Exception helper in Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio ALM Video & Two Updates for TFS/VS You Should Install

by Shai Raiten

Some news for Visual Studio 2010, I'll start from several updates you should to apply on your TFS and Visual Studio

Visual Studio and vsDiffMerge with Mercurial and TortoiseHg

by Gio Palacino

Typically, when I have worked within Visual Studio on source-controlled projects I have used Team Foundation Server (TFS). With my current employer, we use Mercurial, and we use TortoiseHg to interface with it.

Visual Studio Code in Action

by rahulsahay20

Visual Studio code in action

Visual Studio Code Snippets

by n.podbielski

Visual Studio code snippets

Visual Studio Extensibility

by Ivan Krivyakov

Just wrote a quick macro for Visual Studio that would replace with >, etc.

Visual Studio Integrated ULS Viewer (free Visual Studio 2012/2013 add-in)

by Kyriakos Akriotis

Visual Studio integrated ULS Viewer

Visual Studio JavaScript Intellisense Revisited

by Sky Sanders

Or: “What I hope is not just ‘Yet Another Visual Studio JavaScript Intellisense Walkthrough’”

Visual Studio Tips - Test Explorer

by Jeremy Hutchinson

Test Explorer in Visual Studio

Visual Studio Tips - Using Data Tips

by Jeremy Hutchinson

Few tricks about data tips, the Visual Studio feature that allows you to hover over a variable and see its value while debugging

Visual Studio Tips - Window Management

by Jeremy Hutchinson

Window Management in Visual Studio

Visual Studio vNext – The New Installer

by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Visual Studio vNext – The New Installer

Visual Studio, .NET Framework, and language versions

by Scott Dorman

Visual Studio, .NET Framework, and language versions

Visual Studio/Live Writer Tip: Format as Code

by JamesHurst

Live Writer extension for inserting code. Continue reading →

Visual Studio: Adding DLL References Whose Version Changes Frequently

by HelgeKlein

How to add DLL References Whose Version Changes Frequently

Visual Studio: Use Conditional Compilation to Control Runtime Settings for Different Deployment Scenarios

by John Atten

Use conditional compilation to control runtime settings for different deployment scenarios.

Visual Studio–Painlessly Renaming Your Project and Solution Directories

by John Atten

Renaming your project and solution directories.

VS 2010 IDE Features in a nutshell

by Rajesh Pillai

Going through the VS 2010 IDE features.

VS Solution Explorer – Collapse All

by Chris_Green

VS Solution Explorer – Collapse All

VS Spell Check Extension - using Roslyn

by Gilly Barr

VS Spell Check Extension - using Roslyn

WCF: Loose coupling of WCF Service and Data Contracts

by Sky Sanders

A strategy for implementing maintaining separation of concerns and implementation hiding.

WebJobs in Azure with .NET Core 2.1

by Sander Rossel

Azure WebJobs in .NET Core 2.1

Welcome to the Family, One ASP.NET

by Rion Williams

When MVC came along however, the water became a bit muddled and developers had a major choice to make when starting up a new project: Web Forms or MVC?

What’s New in C# 6.0? - await in catch and finally Blocks

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

What’s new in C# 6.0? - await in catch and finally blocks

What’s New in C# 6.0? - Dictionary Initializer

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

What’s New in C# 6.0? - Dictionary Initializer

What’s New in C# 6.0? - Exception Filters

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Exception filters in C# 6.0

What’s New in C# 6.0? - Expression-bodied Function

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

What's new in C# 6.0? - Expression bodied function