Interesting .NET Links – July 14 , 2011
Check if your WP7 app is a Bing Instant Answer – Adam Kinney ForEach Method for the collections – Abhijit Jana Creating a Soundboard – Rudi Grobler Retrieve the screen resolution of Windows Phone 7 using c# Parallel for loop in C# 4.0 – Jalpesh P. Vadgama Background Agents – [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: .NET Links, collections, Visual Studio
Webinar – Structuring your Visual Studio projects by Peter Shaw
LIDNUG (Linked .Net Users Group), the official INETA Linked .NET Group is organizing a webinar on the topic “Structuring your Visual Studio projects” on July 18, 2011 from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (PT) . LIDNUG is a group meant for professionals using or interested in the Microsoft .NET Technologies. [...]
Categories: Events Tags: LIDNUG, Visual Studio, Webinar
Interesting .NET Links – July 13 , 2011
Getting started cooking with Entity Framework 4.1 Code First – Getting the tools and your first dish – Greg Duncan Intro to F# Programming Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 28 – How to Detect the Current Theme? – Kunal Chowdhury Parallel for loop in C# 4.0 – Jalpesh Lazy [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: C#, links, NET, Visual Studio
Entity Framework 4.1 Language Packs
The ADO.NET Entity Framework Team in its ADO.NET Team Blog announces the release of a number of language packs for Entity Framework 4.1 that provides localized resources for Entity Framework 4.1 . The Language Pack supports Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish and also [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: Entity Framework, NET, Visual Studio
Debugger Canvas Extension for Visual Studio released
Arjmand Samueul in Microsoft Research Connections Blog discusses the Debugger Canvas extension for Visual Studio which was a joint project between Microsoft Research , Visual Studio Team and Brown University . Arjmand Samuel is a Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Connections . It is also mentioned that “the collaborative team [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: debugger canvas, Extension, Visual Studio
VsVim 1.0 Released
Jared Parson in his blog jaredpar’s WebLog ( Code, rants and ramblings of a programmer.) announces the release of VSVim 1.0 . VsVim is a Visual Studio Extension that brings Vim keybindings to the Visual Studio 2010 IDE . The Current release brings numerous number of bug fixes and improvements [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: Extension Manager, Visual Studio, VsVim
Interesting .NET Links – July 3 , 2011
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 25 – Learn about Database Connection String – Kunal From Silverlight To HTML5 – Colin Eberhardt How to slideshow images from database using ASP.Net Retreive the Device Information from Windows Phone How to retreive the list of files from Directory in C# ? Entity [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: .NET Links, HTML5, Silverlight, Visual Studio
Simple.Data 0.6.8
Mark Rendle in his Code Face Blog announce the release of Simple.Data 0.6.8 Library . The Simple.Data 0.68 provides the following capabilities Join between tables Support for Self Join Join where there is no referential integrity in database Know more about the annoouncement here
Categories: Dotnet Tags: codeface, Simple Data, Visual Studio
Interesting .NET Links – June 28 , 2011
Code refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 Part-1 – Jalpesh Reading and Writing CSV Files in C# – Jonathan Wood Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 20 – Know about the Accelerometer Tool – Kunal Retreive the country name in Windows Phone 7 Working with BigInteger in .NET 4.0 – Abhijith [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: Mango, NET, Visual Studio, Windows Phone
QFE for Visual Studio 2010 Testing Tools is now available for Download
Darshan Desai from the the Visual Studio Lab Management Blog announces the new QFE for Visual Studio 2010 testing tools . The QFE for Visual Studio 2010 testing tools has fixes for some important issues faced by the Customers and can de downloaded here The Visual Studio 2010 SP1 [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: testing tools, Visual Studio
IronPython 2.7.1 Beta 1 now available for download
The IronPython Team announces the release of the first beta release of IronPython 2.7 which can be downloaded from the Codeplex site The Current Release brings has updatd the standard library to match CPython 2.7.2 and also disabled the the IronPython Tools for Visual STudio by Default . The Current [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: CodePlex, IronPython, Silverlight, Visual Studio
Stylecop 4.5 RC8 is now available
A new version of StyleCop ( 4.5 RC8 ) is now available in the codeplex site The Current Version of the StyleCop is the StyleCop 4.5.20.0 and includes the StyleCop for ReSharper plugin and will also automatically uninstall the previous versions of the StyleCop . The Updated release also includes [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: StyleCop, Visual Studio, windows
ReSharper 6 Beta 3 Released
The JetBrains Team has announced their 3rd Beta Release of ReSharper 6 based on the feedback from previous Betas . The Beta 3 version of the ReSharper 6 offers Improved Memory Footprint Improved Performance across the new Java Script and Razor Support Few more fixes Know more about the announcement [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: JetBrains, ReSharper, Visual Studio
NuGet 1.4 Released
Phil Haack in his blog announced the release of the new version of the Nuget Package Manager which takes the new version to 1.4 . Phil Haack also highlights few things in the NuGet 1.4 in the Blog Post . The complete details of the new features of this release [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: NuGet 1.4, Visual Studio
Interesting .NET Links – June 20 , 2011
5 Compression libraries for .NET Developers Creating a Database Unit Test using Visual Studio 2010 – Kalyan Bandarupalli Help yourself in Debugging by using Call Stack and Immediate Window – Pranay Book Review – .NET Windows Development Everyday Tips , Tricks and Optimization Introduction to viewbox in WPF Windows Phone [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: links, NET, Visual Studio
Webinar – Visual Studio Tips and Tricks – Greatest Hits postponed to June 29 , 2011
The Webinar “Visual Studio Tips and Tricks – Greatest Hits” that was scheduled on June 21 , 2011 is postponed to June 29 , 2011 with the same timings . The Visitors also get a chance to win the following licenses in lucky draw . 1. Isolator for .NET for [...]
Categories: Events Tags: event, tips, Visual Studio, Webinar
Webinar – Curing Your Testing Blues with Visual Studio and TFS 2010 with Angela Dugan
LIDNUG , an official INETA Linked.NET Group is organising a webinar on Curing Your Testing Blues with Visual Studio and TFS 2010 on June 16, 2011 at 10.00 AM ( PT ) . LIDNUG is a group meant for professionals using or interested in the Microsoft .NET technologies . The [...]
Categories: Events Tags: Evangalist, Microsoft, TFS, Visual Studio
Interesting .NET Links – May 12 , 2011
InfoQ: Telerik Promises a Free .NET Decompiler Forever – Abel Implementing the Zip Operator in .NET 3.5 – Richard Carr Navigating between files in Visual Studio using CodeRush – Alex Skorkin Cryptography Application block in Enterprise Library 5.0 (part 11) – NithaDeepak Intercept Log4Net message in a Windows application – [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: .NET 3.5, CodeRush, Cryptography, Decompiler, Enterprise Library 5.0, File manipulations, Log4Net, NET, Telerik, Visual Studio, Windows Phone, Zip
Interesting .NET Links – May 10 , 2011
Common Windows Phone 7 Performance Challenges – Gergely Orosz HTML5 Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update – Scott Guthrie Remote Debugging in Visual Studio: Squashing Bugs in their Native Environment – Clive Tong SQL Server: Short Code Doesn’t Mean Smart Code – Connect SQL Working with collections in [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: SQL SERVER, Visual Studio, WCF RIA, Windows Phone 7
Webinar – Visual Studio and TFS Users:Work with these Microsoft Tools and Integrate with Others You Own!
kovair.com is organising a webinar on April 14 , 2011 at 12.00 PM IST on the topic “Visual Studio and TFS Users:Work with these Microsoft Tools and Integrate with Others You Own!”. The Webinar will demonstrate multi-vendor tools integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and Team foundation server and few more [...]
Categories: Events Tags: Dashboards, Microsoft, Team Foundation Server, TFS, Visual Studio
Webinar – Test Drive Your Code with JustMock
Telerik’s Visual Studio Productivity Webinar Series continues with the new Webinar on the topic “Test Drive Your Code with JustMock” on April 20 , 2011 11am – 12pm EDT . In this webinar , you will get opportunity to explore the features of JustMock free edition and the commercial edition [...]
Webinar – Going Beyond Visual Studio with JustCode
Telerik continues with its Visual Studio Productivity Webinar Series on April 13, 2011 11am – 12pm EDT on the topic “Going Beyond Visual Studio with JustCode ” . Only recently in the Microsoft TechEd India 2011 , i got the free license for Just Code and have been trying it [...]
Categories: Events Tags: JustCode, Microsoft, Productivity, Telerik, Telerik Ultimate Collection, Visual Studio, Webinar
Visual Studio Productivity Webinar Series – Just One More Thing
Telerik’s is conducting a webinar on April 27, 2011 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT on the topic “Just One More Thing” as a part of its Visual Studio Productivity Webinar Series . JustCode and JustMock are powerful tools from Telerik that help increase your developer productivity as you write [...]
Interesting .NET Links – April 10 , 2011
So what’s the difference between Custom Control and User Control? – Kunal F# Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4.1 – The Visual Studio Blog SQL Server Fun: A DBA’s Joke AutoCompleteBox in Silverlight 4.0 – Dhananjay Web Workers in HTML5 – Gil Fink Gartner Predicts a Promising Future for Windows [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: F#, HTML5, NET, Silverlight 4.0, SQL SERVER, TFS 2010, Visual Studio
Microsoft’s April 2011 Advance Notification Service
Pete Voss , Senior response communications manager with Microsoft Trustworthy Computing announces the advance notification of the release of 17 security bulletins out of which nine rated as critical ans eight rated as important . This month’s bulletin release will address 64 vulnerabilities across Microsoft Windows , Microsoft Office , [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: .NET Framework, Advance Notification Service, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Pete Voss, Visual Studio
Interesting .NET Links – April 7 , 2011
List all the table in given database Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.3 Released (New Message Prompt, Password Prompt controls and Toast fixes + now NuGet’able too) – Greg Duncan Novell’s .Net App Development on Android using Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Mono CodeRush Tip– Create a Select / Switch statement with branches for each [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: Android, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Mono, MS Project, NET, Phone.Toolkit, Visual Studio
Interesting .NET Links – March 29 , 2011
Difference between two Entity Set using LINQ – Abhijit Jana How to install LightSwitch Beta 2? – Kunal Using ADRotator Control in our web apps – Rajesh Mani The Visual Studio Debugger: A new series on an old topic – Cameron Skinner How to request a daily build of DevExpress [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: .NET 4, ADRotator, DevExpress IDE, Entity Set, LightSwitch Beta, LINQ, NET, Visual Studio
Interesting .NET Links – March 28 , 2011
Windows Live Writer Codehighlighting Plugin For Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter XNA is coming to Visual Basic! – Lisa Feigenbaum Implementing dependency injection pattern in .NET – Jalpesh Visual Studio – Open a file into two tabs – Arian Kulp Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: NET, Visual Basic, Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Live Writer, XNA
Interesting .NET Links – March 27 , 2011
Why one .NET vendor relies on another for finding critical performance – Redgate Working with TypeDescriptor in C# – Jonathan Wood Armadillo for .NET Developers in Beta Lessons Learned developing a Windows Phone 7 App – Cameron Skinner Handling Updates with the WCF Data Services Toolkit – Jonathan Carter Avoiding [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: NET, Redgate, TypeDescriptor, Visual Studio, WCF, Windows Phone 7