When you working on project if you need to find or access the file in the project, open visual studio 2013 and inside the IDE go to the one of the tabs in code window as shown in the following picture Right click on the code window to see the options, there will find the Copy Fulll Path which contains full path of the file. This can avoid looking the folders up and down for files. Another thing...
Windows Azure API Management Features
You build the web API and decided to sell number of API calls like selling the data behind it, another example is you partners may want to integrate your product into their environment.Microsoft making easy way using Azure API management to discover, use and manage easy way to access resources. Azure Web API has got inbuilt Analytics engine. You can create an instance of API management in...
Bootstrap components for building responsive UI
Visual Studio 2013 automatically uses the boot strap as default template. How to customize the template generation. This applies for MVC developers and Web form developers. Boot strap is open source and it is just html, java script and css. Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS and JS Framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web. Solves basic tasks example – page...
Visual Studio 2014 CTP 3 highlights
Visual Studio 14 CTP 3 and .NET Framework vNext was released on August 18th. You can get it from Microsoft Download center or you can use VM in AZURE. Complete list of features can be read here. .NET Framework vNext is currently only available on VS 2014 CTP3. It is an in place update on top of .NET Framework 4 or later versions. Some of the highlights in this release are outlined in this post...
LightSwitch features in Visual Studio 2013
This post outlines how to build a modern business application using LightSwitch and new features for Lightswitch in Visual Studio 2013. Imagine a scenario where you want to build a Tradeshow mobile application. Create a new project in Visual Studio 2013 and select LightSwitch from window and select LightSwitchHTML Application option as this is a modern business application Give a name to...
Data Manipulation using Power Query and Power Pivot
Power Query is an excel Add-in which allows you to connect wide variety of data sources. Power Query has an intelligence to find a data set on a webpage. Once you have the data set you may notice that is not in right shape. Using Power Query you can combine data sets using join, merge operations. Power Query generates the script when you are performing the steps in loading and cleansing the data...
What is Katana and OWIN for ASP.NET?
Katana is not a revolutionary new project in ASP.NET world. It is just a next step in ASP.NET, The points that drive to go for Katana and OWIN are, Basically ASP.NET was optimised for two types of customers one classing ASP developers and second one LOB(line of business app) developers. From the beginning it was expected to run these applications under IIS(internet information services)...
Windows 8 File Explorer Tips
File Explorer is a great way to see the files and folders on your computer as well as libraries, folders and control panel.This post outlines some enhancements and tips in using File Explorer in Windows 8. 1. The first thing in File Explorer which you can notice is the menu is a ribbon menu. The File ribbon shows you the frequently used locations. It also let you to open the new window, new...
Top Developer News this week (May Week 2)
This post outlines Top links for Microsoft developers in May week2. Windows Blue public preview available date Build conference will announce the Windows Blue public preview. “Windows Blue†is a code name for the next release of Windows. If you attend the Build conference then you will get the Windows Blue preview. Visual Studio 2012.3(Update 3) “go live†CTP is available Visual Studio...
Top developer news this week
This post gives you the links for latest announcements for Microsoft developers. Announcing the Release of WebMatrix3 As most of the developers probably know that WebMatrix is free light-weight tool for building ASP.NET applications. There are tons of new features in this release including Windows Azure integration, ScottGu outlined the features here and this tool can be downloaded from here...