In October, I had an opportunity to talk about Visual Studio 2015 at Microsoft Innovation Center (Karachi, PK). I talked mostly about debugging enhancements, C# 6 language enhancements, the new ASP.NET 5 ecosystem including CoreCLR, .NET execution environment (DNX) etc. Slide deck: If you are interested in reading about C# Read more…
NuGet is an excellent visual studio extension and answer to dependency management in .NET. It makes super easy to manage third party libraries. If are working on .NET and have not noticed NuGet, you are missing something very useful, read about NuGet here. If you have been working on Java Read more…
Hello folks! I am at the Seattle Airport (SEATEC) leaving for home via Dubai waiting for boarding to start. So I thought to utilize the time and share my summit experience. As I mentioned in a blog post earlier, this was my third time attending the MVP Summit and yet Read more…
Visual Studio 2012 and it’s extensions ecosystem brings excited enhancements for web developers. I am glad to see that web platform team is giving attention to open source, adapting industry trend faster than ever and making developer life easy and standard-complaint. In this post I am going to share some Read more…
***This blog post is part of the series Visual Studio underutilized features*** Visual Studio Commands Almost all interactions in visual studio in form of menus, dialog boxes, windows, toolbars etc. are executed using commands. Some of them are even available from command line argument. For instance, you can build your solution from Read more…
Navigate To is a great feature that lets you search and navigate to symbols especially when you are not sure for what exactly you are searching for. You can open up ‘Navigate To’ dialog either from menu Edit -> Navigate To or using shortcut Ctrl + , (comma). For example, Read more…
Visual Studio is a powerful IDE and have grown remarkably over the last decade. Perhaps used by great number of developers out there for building products for Microsoft platform yet I have came across so many developers who haven’t fully explored IDE features yet and are not utilizing all goodies Read more…
Microsoft announced Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Roslyn project during BUILD 2011. I am really excited about the Roslyn project (and I will tell you why soon…). Roslyn? Isn’t it name of a city? Well you are right and many of Microsoft product code names are now based on city/town Read more…
This is second post of the Dev11 series. If you have not installed preview bits, you may like to read my previous post on “Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview”. In this post, I am going to share some of the improvements in Visual Studio 11 IDE. //Disclaimer #1: This post Read more…
Like me, if you work on .NET platform and Visual Studio, you must be excited about the recent announcements of “Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview” or “Dev 11” at BUILD conference on September, 14, 2011. The next version of Visual Studio and .NET framework contains many new features and enhancements, Read more…