Web Essentials and CSSCop for Visual Studio 2010
| This post discuss about new features in Web Essentials extension and Image optimizer which helps developers to write web applications faster. A new extension CSSCop which is a FXCop for style sheets. You can download the Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2010 here. The CSSCop can be download from here. Download link for Image Optimizer is here. You can read my previous post on Web Standards update here to refresh your memories. |  |
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1 commentVisual Studio Achievements
What is Visual Studio Achievements?
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Gamification is an idea behind Visual Studio Achievements. Visual Studio is a powerful tool and it contains many features which you may not know about it. Visual Studio Achievement is something you earn when you unlock the Visual Studio feature. It is an add-in to Visual Studio and works with Visual Studio 2010 professional and above. If you are having a Visual Studio professional edition then you need to download FXcop to add-in work. |
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Download the Visual Studio achievements from here.
When you launch Visual Studio it prompts Channel9 login, you have enter your Channel9 credentials. This is just one time process and it is just an installation step.
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No commentsWeb Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 Editor
| Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1, which provides HTML5 and CSS3 support. Microsoft team said Visual Studio next version have better support for HTML5. This update gives you HTML5 Intellisense and fixes some bugs in SP1 support for HTML5. CSS3 intellisense on latest specification from W3C. |  |
Download Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 Editor
Please note this is not an official release from Microsoft.
HTML 5 Features support in this update
Complete Valid Markup -
We need a type attribute in script tag in SP1. It throws a validation error if you miss the attribute. Now you do not need to put this attribute. New items in the type list like text/x-jquery-tmpl
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1 commentHeterogeneous Development using Visual Studio 2010
| Your organization might have .NET and Java developers working on different platforms to develop the applications. Each development team might have been using different processes to develop the application. With this separation, Organisations have no end-to-end visibility on the development efforts. With Visual Studio 2010 this separation become a thing of past. |  |
Visual Studio 2010 ultimate supports Heterogeneous development and helps to manage multiple teams and spans the team to multiple platforms.
1. Eclipse is a familiar interface for Java developers and everything is based on perspectives. Open the perspective Team foundation server explorer which is an add-on to eclipse.
You can download the Team Explorer from every where from here
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1 commentCreating Code UI Tests in Visual Studio 2010
| This post discusses about creating a test case for windows application in both Microsoft Test Manager and using a Code UI Test in Visual Studio 2010. It also discuss about editing a Code UI test by adding assertions into the UI map using UI controller. |  |
1. Before creating test case we will create small windows application notepad.
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No commentsWCF Services in Windows Azure
| What is Windows Azure? Windows Azure provides developers computation power storage and can scale web applications on internet through Microsoft Datacenters. Developers can use Azure platform to build WCF service application using their existing Visual Studio 2010 expertise. |  |
Windows Azure supports the protocols and formats including SOAP, REST and XML. This post discuss about creating a simple WCF Service and hosting it on Windows Azure and consuming in client application.
1. Create a WCF Service Contract in Windows Class Library project as shown below which in-turn you use in Web role, worker role and in client application. Read more about roles in windows Azure here
1: using System;
2: using System.ServiceModel;
3: namespace WCFContract
4: {
5: [ServiceContract]
6: public interface IContract
7: {
8: // This operating returns the server information, including
9: // the role's name and instance id
10: [OperationContract]
11: string GetRoleInfo();
12:
13: // This operation returns the information of the channel
14: // being used between the client & the server.
15: [OperationContract]
16: string GetCommunicationChannel();
17: }
18: }
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1 commentJavaScript Intellisence for SharePoint 2010 Projects
| Visual Studio 2010 is really have useful and helpful capabilities from tooling prospective and it allows JavaScript developers to more productive through JavaScript Intellisence and JavaScript debugging. This post discusses about getting the JavaScript Intellisense in SharePoint 2010 projects. |  |
1. Create an empty SharePoint 2010 project as shown below
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2 commentsUsing Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum template in TFS
| This post defines the SCRUM and discusses how to use SCRUM Template 1.0 to manage projects in Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server. You can develop the enterprise projects using SCRUM framework which is based on Agile development methodology. | |
What is SCRUM?
SCRUM is an iterative framework for project management and agile software development.
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1 commentVisual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks
This post discusses about tips and tricks in Visual Studio 2010 which helps developers to write the code faster and make their life easier in day to day work much better. Especially you need these tips when you are concurrently working on two many projects.
Let us group these tips and tricks
1. IntelliSense
- Filtering
IntelliSense options are filtered in Visual Studio 2010 let us take an example when you are typing the list will filter with the words you type
this feature is not available in earlier versions. It is not only matching the prefixes but also matches the substrings as shown below
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1 commentMicrosoft Visual Studio 2010 IDE next version features
| This post discuss about new IDE features that microsoft planned for next version of Visual Studio. These features improves the developer experience by simplifying the environment and streamlining the common tasks. Let us take a specific example finding a word in file as shown in below | |
