Back in 2008 I posted a suggestion on Microsoft’s Connect website. To be precise the date was 15th May 2008. To my surprise I received an email today (5th August 2010) informing me that there is a comment on my suggestion. It only took a little more than 2 years. Wow! talk about a speedy [...]

Visual Studio 2010 provides a nifty little feature which let’s you generate code from within the editor. In this post I will show you how to use this feature. Imagine that you are having a fantastic coding day and you are coding at 100mph. You have just realised that you need a class called car [...]

Channel 9 which happens to be my favourite media station now has a section for courses. And if you have downloaded Visual Studio 2010 then this is the place to get yourself some VS 2010 training. Topics covered in this online course are: Managed Languages ASP.NET 4.0 Data Platform WCF & WF Parallel Computing ALM [...]

This post shows you how to use Breakpoints in Visual Studio with a hit count. Breakpoints can be described as bread and butter of debugging. They allow you to stop execution at any statement in your code. By doing this you can examine values in your variables, look at call stack, change values in variables [...]

Microsoft PDC 2009 site is now accepting registrations. PDC 2009 will run from 17th November to 19th November 2009 at Los Angeles Convention Center Los Angeles. Here is pricing information from PDC website. I think in or around PDC 2009 we should see commercial launch of Azure, Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0 and maybe [...]

For those who are following me on Twitter know how eager I was to get my hands on Visual Studio 2010 beta1. Today I downloaded it and installed it on my Windows 7 VM. This post is a random collection of my early observations. It is full of screenshots. Enjoy. The start page had a [...]

Where are we today? Since its inception as Avalon I have dedicated countless hours to the technology we now know as WPF. I can probably say that I am one of the few people who have worked on WPF at a commercial level at least in Australia. This is because the number of projects using [...]

CTP of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework is now available for download. Visual Studio 2010 takes the world’s best IDE to the next level by innovating on many fronts. Here is an overview from the download page. Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. [...]

An exciting news in last few days has been announcements of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. The actual products may be more than a year away. To get the ball rolling, Microsoft has posted many videos on Channel9 which give you a sneak peak into some features. Can’t wait to get my hands [...]

If there is one book I am looking forward to, it is Microsoft Visual Studio Tips by Sara Ford . I am a regular reader of Sara’s blog and I have learned a lot about Visual Studio by reading her blog. Her tips are simple, lightweight but above all very++ useful. I expect her book [...]

While working, you will always find two things running on my machine. One is without any doubt Visual Studio and second is MSDN Library. Since this morning after installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 I’ve been trying to get my hands on the latest MSDN Library. Thanks to Iftekhar who pointed me to the latest MSDN [...]

Yippeee! SP1 for .Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 has been released. This service pack includes ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services. There are WPF designer improvements and WPF performance improvements. You can find more details and download link here. Finally I can now install SQL Server 2008 without disturbing the apple cart :)