Last week I was in New Orleans, Louisiana with Sean Kearney, Mitch Garvis, John Bristowe, Damir Bersinic, Ruth Morton, Rick Claus and about 10,000 other Developers and IT Pros from across the World. We were all attending TechEd North America a four day Conference put on by Microsoft to train Developers, IT Pros and Managers about new Technologies and Best Practices while using Microsoft Software and Development Tools. I was Particularly interested in attending as many Windows Azure, Windows Phon...
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This will be a short entry, but I think that it might save some people some time when building out ASP.NET MVC websites.
If you find that Cassini is crashing when you are testing out your ASP.NET MVC Application here is one more thing to check. Look at your master page file, it is generally a good idea not to touch any of the code that gets generated by the Visual Studio Designer, but from time to time you may find yourself playing around with the code in order to minimize the amount of content...
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Some of the neat hidden features in Visual Studio 2010 that not too many people know about. These tips were learnt during the #Dev315 Session at TechEd North America. Zooming your Code in Visual Studio 2010 [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [<] or [>] Love your Visual Studios 2010 Windows Layout? You can save out your windows layout which is included in the Export Settings Dialog located under the Tools Menu. Take it home, Screw with your co-workers, or share it online. Navigate hidden tabs from you...
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If you’ve heard anything about the new feature set of Visual Studio 2010 one of the game changing features for any developer is the Built in Extension Manager, this functionally is using MEF. What exactly is MEF? The Managed Extensibility Framework is as Framework for creating loosely-coupled, extensible applications. I am blogging this from the TechEd North America Session, When and Where to use MEF: Too much is never enough. Where can I find MEF? No MEF isn’t found in your local dark alley, ...
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New Capabilities for Visual Studio 2010 Even though Microsoft just Launched Visual Studio 2010, they are constantly going back to create new features. Just launched today is a new set of features for workflow in Visual Studio. You can Download the new Visual Studio Pro Power Tools from Visual Studio Gallery Some examples of the new Features Hold ctrl – Click : Urls to Code Triple Click : Place Cursor far left Pin Tabs in IDE with Project Based Tab Coloring Search on Add Refere...
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