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Ramp Up is a new learning program on the MSDN website. About Ramp Up: Introduction Take the Next Step on Your Career Path Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your portfolio of professional development skills. Ramp Up...
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Microsoft released the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio October 2008 CTP, available at the Microsoft Download Center . The Windows Azure Software Development Kit October 2008 CTP is available also at Microsoft's Download Center . Although they have just released the Visual Studio 2010...
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I’m doing some work with TypeMock and I start to love it more and more. For example, how about removing your database completely from your continuous tests? Sure you can do some database testing during the nightly build, but please keep the tests as fast as possible. A little story about a build Just...
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A little snippet that I use from time to time when I need information on how long something takes. Type ‘sw’ (without the quotes) and tab-tab . Installation is easy, just create a file called “sw.snippet” in your %Documents%\Visual Studio 2008\Code Snippets folder and paste the following in the file...
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This has taken us some time; depending on which environment you are, telling Visual Studio 2008 for Database Professionals Edition (or simply DataDude) what user it should use to deploy the SQL scripts, during an automated build. We're working with Windows XP users, Windows Vista users and Windows...
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I was looking for CopySourceAsHtml for Visual Studio 2008, but for some reason it's not on the 'official' page so I had to search for it. There are multiple versions, but on Guy Burstein's blog there's more information and the only RTM version I could find. I always search on Jan...
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In Visual Studio 2008 you can right-click a project and choose for "Add service reference" to create a proxy class for your web service. WCF preferred, of course. But for some reason, the Visual Studio team disabled it when you're in debug mode. Something that used to work in Visual Studio...
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When people want start learning about .NET in general or a specific subject like Silverlight or security, can be send to the "How Do I?" videos. I do this myself a lot of times, because a lot of videos aren't 60+ minutes. Just as a reminder to myself, the root url is this one .
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David , Alex and me just needed to get a load of data from some Excel sheets and work with the data. What's better than to load the data into a DataSet using OleDB and process it using LINQ to DataSets? Make sure you know what the format of your columns is and that the first row in your sheet holds...
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Hello again, long time no write. I must apologise for my absence, I have been involved in a fairly large personal project which occupied the very little remaining intellectual capability I have left after my day job - not to mention time. What I learned during that time can wait for another time, however...
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Grigori Melnik announced the February 2008 release of the Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) and Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX). GAT and GAX can be used to extend Visual Studio and automate development tasks from within the Visual Studio IDE. It's great to see that after a series of CTP versions...
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I blogged about new Unit Testing features in Visual Studio 2008 , but missed the following features back then. I thought it's still cool to share these with you. Short cut keys to run tests I used to use TestDriven.NET in the past for executing my NUnit tests really fast. It always started them in...
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For those that are still curious after my previous post about using C# 3.0 features in .NET 2.0 . You can compile any .NET Framework 3.5 project and run it in a .NET Framework 2.0 environment (read, no .NET Framework 3.5 installed) without any problems... as long as there are no dependencies to the ...
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Yesterday I wrote an article on the property snippet in Visual Studio 2008 and that it had changed from Visual Studio 2005. Only a few hours later, I questioned myself if even a few people might be interested in this. Not because of the snippet, but because of the abilities that Visual Studio 2008 and...
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In .NET Framework 3.5, we've gained automatic properties. Automatic properties are really simple to understand. Instead of writing a full getter and setter with a private field (called a backing field, because it belongs to the property) you just write your property like this. namespace ClassA.Examples...