Visual Studio 2012 comes with a lot of enhancements. One of the significant one is the Solution Explorer enhancement and it has many. Solution Explorer looks like a build from scratch. The new Solution Explorer is the combination of Object Browser, Class View, Find All References etc. Ideally you do not need to go to any other Window to work
Here are the few
Solution Explorer is now Object Browser
Solution Explorer now behaves like Object Browser. So you can see fields, methods etc. from solution explorer windows itself
Solution Explorer let’s you search
From Solution Explorer can search anything from the file and its content. Then you hit ENTER it opens the file.
It is contain search. That is because
You can also search using Pascal breaking
Navigation would open the file in Editor
So when you select a file in Solution Explorer it opens the file in editor. You do not need to double click to open. Once navigated away it then closes the file. This opens in a separate tab called “Preview Window”. This is reusable Tab and every time we select a different file it uses the same window to open the content. When you type then the Tab gets committed and opens in left. Otherwise it stays at right. Also you can click on the tab to open and commit the tab to left.
Scoping down to small list
From a big list of solution explorer content you can scope it down to one file and view the content from there.
Then the window looks like this,
To be back from this view use the short cut Ctrl + Right Arrow
Multiple Solution Explorer Windows
You can have multiple Solution Explorer windows and this helps in multi monitor scenario.
Apart from this you also have
Solution Explore Shows only the open files
So if you have 5 files open out of 100, it will only show them
Namoskar!!!
On May 29 I am going to deliver one event to partner on Windows Phone. The title of the event is Integrating WP7 Applications into the Cloud: Windows Azure.
Date and Time: May 29, 2012 at 10 Pacific Target Audience: Developer Delivery Mode: Online
We will discuss various topics around integrating Windows Phone application with Windows Azure and cloud. We will explore the possibilities of exploring the opportunities like consuming 3rd party data to our phone. We will also create custom OData to Windows Azure and consume to our application and heavily use SQL Azure and Windows Azure Table during the demo.
Developer!!! Developer!!!Developer!!! Windows Phone!!! Windows Phone!!! Windows Phone!!! Demo!!! Demo!!! Demo!!!
Please register https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=800909
See you on May 29 at 10 Pacific time.
Use your desktop’s keyboard to type in textboxes while checking apps in Emulator for Windows Phone. This is very handy when you do not have touch feature enabled and need to type a lot.
Ctrl + PAGE UP
Now my Emulator is Nokia Lumia 800 Blue
Download it from http://wp7emuskinswitcher.codeplex.com/
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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tfservice/archive/2012/05/11/maintenance-on-5-14-12-9-am-pdt-9-pm-pdt.aspx
Visual Studio 11 Solution Explorer item selection opens the file in editor. Once you select another file it will close the previous one and open the new one on the editor. You do not have to keep double clicking the file to open on editor if you are actually not editing a file.
In Visual Studio 11 you have an option to view things like SQL Server Management Studio (unlike Server Explorer)
This opens window like,
Visual Studio 11 now updates through Extension Manager. Clean approach indeed
Namoskaar!!!
The EF 5 sample is available for download from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Entity-Framework-Sample-6a9801d0#content
This contains source to help you understand the extensibility feature of with source code.
I have been missing the great UI of Visual Studio 2010 in Visual Studio 11. Finally some of the feedbacks are being incorporated and RC UI is changing heavily.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/08/visual-studio-11-user-interface-updates-coming-in-rc.aspx
Some of the clips (from Visual Studio Blog)
And few of the icons has color
Obsolete Types in the .NET Framework 4.5 Beta http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh419162(VS.110).aspx
Obsolete Members in the .NET Framework 4.5 Beta http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh419161(VS.110).aspx
You can monitor Windows Azure Hosted Services using Visual Studio Server Explorer. You can add new hosted services if you have the certificate locally installed along with the X509 counter part upload to the portal.
I am pleased to announce that I will be delivering the talk for Microsoft Partners on Managing, Debugging, and Monitoring Windows Azure
Register https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=785804
Target Audience: Professional Developer Level: 200-300 Content Type: Technical
Desirable Prerequisites
Good to have working knowledge of Visual Studio 2010 and C#.
Session Details
Windows Azure offers a number of ways to deploy code. Attend this session to learn which one to choose! This workshop will help you understand the Windows Azure deployment and management model. Discover how to monitor your services and any caveats that might apply. We will also discuss how to troubleshoot your services in the cloud.
Resources before you join
Windows Azure Service Management REST API Reference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee460799.aspx
Troubleshooting and Debugging in Windows Azure
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/gg465380.aspx
Diagnostics and Debugging in Windows Azure
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh694035(VS.103).aspx
Monitoring a Windows Azure Application
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh694039(VS.103).aspx
Managing Hosted Services in Windows Azure
Administering Windows Azure Hosted Services
Managing Subscriptions, Storage Accounts, and Affinity Groups in the Windows Azure Platform Management Portal
Deploying a Windows Azure Service
Managing Upgrades to the Windows Azure Guest OS
Managing Certificates in Windows Azure
Identifying Status Messages in the Windows Azure Platform Management Portal
Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlet Reference
Collecting Logging Data by Using Windows Azure Diagnostics
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg433048.aspx
Using Visual Studio 2010 Server Explorer you can manage the Windows Azure Storage and Hosted Services. By default the development storage is added. If you want to add the live storage you can add them by selecting that node and right clicking
After that
Then add the required information.
In Visual Studio 2011 you can pin the most used files.
Now in Visual Studio 2011 you can filter the error list based on the open document. So it will show you only those errors which are part of the currently focused file.
In Visual Studio 2011 you can search in the error list. Pretty cool.
In Visual Studio 2011 you can search within Toolbox and this is contains search (“%%”)
Visual Studio 2011 Quick Launch enables you to search within Menu, Toolbox, Open Document. It also has a feature of “Most Recently Used” option.
You can check the option to set where it will search and this can be extended.
I do not use anything but NuGet to associate EntityFramework dll to my project. Here are some of the version specific commands
EntityFramework 5.0.0-beta2
PM> Install-Package EntityFramework–Pre
EntityFramework 4.3.1
PM> Install-Package EntityFramework -Version 4.3.1
EntityFramework 4.2.0.0
PM> Install-Package EntityFramework -Version 4.2.0.0
EntityFramework 4.1.10715.0
PM> Install-Package EntityFramework -Version 4.1.10715.0
Namoskar!!!!
Now in EF 5 designer you can color code the entity to differentiate the category. Data Access is now more colorful
EF5 edmx designer now will highlight the related properties and navigation properties once the association bar is selected. You know who all ganged.
Now in EF5 we can import all stored procedure to function at one shot. This is a great pleasure indeed. No more individual import one by one.
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