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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit - Downloadable!!

Ram Shankar Yadav — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:29:09 GMT

Hey Guys! Just found this useful stuff and sharing it!

What it is?

The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management.

Where it is?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8BDAA836-0BBA-4393-94DB-6C3C4A0C98A1&displaylang=en

Happy Learning!

Visual Studio Debugging Tricks

Ram Shankar Yadav — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:36:26 GMT

Hey Guys!

I've got something to share which will help us in our "bugging" life…………

Here it goes:

Visual Studio 2005: Cool Debugging Tricks

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/1e7daccd-ed00-4a35-a2ed-92fb0ad72bec/visual-studio-2005-cool.aspx

Happy Debugging!

MSDN Wiki

Ram Shankar Yadav — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:03:00 GMT

MSDN Wiki

What is MSDN Wiki?

MSDN Wiki provides an infrastructure for users to comment, edit, and add content to the Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 online documentation.

What Microsoft content is included on the MSDN Wiki beta site?

The site includes the English version of the Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 documentation. In addition, it includes versions of these topics that are machine translated into Brazilian Portuguese.

How is this different from the content on msdn2.microsoft.com?

MSDN Wiki pulls its Microsoft content from the same database used by MSDN, so the Microsoft content you see on the MSDN Wiki site is the same as what is available on MSDN2. With the MSDN Wiki site we are experimenting with ways we can integrate community contributions into the Microsoft content.

Will other languages be included in the future?

Within the next year we plan to add MSDN Wiki functionality to the Japanese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese documentation.

Will content I add during the beta period be carried over to the RTW version of the site?

Yes!

MSDN Wiki Home

MSDN Wiki FAQ's

Happy Wiking

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is out !

Ram Shankar Yadav — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:33:00 GMT

Hey guys it's true! It's finally out! Microsoft has finally released its next version of framework. I wrote about it in this post. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 aka WinFX is here with new things like WCF, WPF, WWF and InfoCard.

I've already installed it on my machine....

Links:

Microsoft .NET Visual Studio Developer Center

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 download page

Pre-released Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Uninstall Tool

Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation)

Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 extensions

Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System

Happy Coding!

SQL Server 2005 (T-SQL) Exception handling using Try ... Catch

Ram Shankar Yadav — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:42:00 GMT

Hey guys now the days of tedious error handing are gone atleast with new SQL Server 2005. My colleague Sugandh sent this nice link to me which show how we can implement Try..... Catch in our Transact SQL code, or better to say in our database queries and stored procedures.

TRY...CATCH (Transact-SQL)

"Implements error handling for Transact-SQL that is similar to the exception handling in the Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual C++ languages. A group of Transact-SQL statements can be enclosed in a TRY block. If an error occurs in the TRY block, control is passed to another group of statements that is enclosed in a CATCH block."

Syntax

BEGIN TRY
     { sql_statement | statement_block }
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
     { sql_statement | statement_block }
END CATCH
[ ; ]

Arguments

sql_statement: Is any Transact-SQL statement.

statement_block: Any group of Transact-SQL statements in a batch or enclosed in a BEGIN…END block.

Examples

A. Using TRY…CATCH

The following example shows a SELECT statement that will generate a divide-by-zero error. The error causes execution to jump to the associated CATCH block.

USE AdventureWorks;
GO

BEGIN TRY
    -- Generate a divide-by-zero error.
    SELECT 1/0;
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
    SELECT
        ERROR_NUMBER() AS ErrorNumber,
        ERROR_SEVERITY() AS ErrorSeverity,
        ERROR_STATE() AS ErrorState,
        ERROR_PROCEDURE() AS ErrorProcedure,
        ERROR_LINE() AS ErrorLine,
        ERROR_MESSAGE() AS ErrorMessage;
END CATCH;
GO

Links:

TRY...CATCH (Transact-SQL)

Using TRY...CATCH in Transact-SQL

No more @@ERROR required.........

Happy Coding

Free eBook : Visual Studio.NET Tips and Tricks

Ram Shankar Yadav — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:45:00 GMT

I found this great eBook, a must for all .NET developers using Visual Studio.NET.

This eBook contains lots of cool tips & tricks which will make a developer life easier and makes him more productive.

Links:

Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks eBook (Download)

InfoQ Minibook page (you need InfoQ login ID to download it from here)

Happy Reading :)

Microsoft XML Notepad 2006 is out!

Ram Shankar Yadav — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:56:00 GMT

It's finally out! Yes, Microsoft has again launched it's XML Notepad 2006.

It's not only one of the best XML editing tool but also it's fully written in C# and hey they are also supplying code and design.

XML Notepad 2006 User Interface

XML Notepad Interface Design

So when you download this cool app you will get XML Notepad 2006, it's design document, source code with unit tests!

I'm not going to copy past the features as you can easily get it from links section.

Links:

Microsoft XML home

XML Notepad 2006 Design

Microsoft XML Team's WebLog

It's a great tool to work on, and best of all it's free!

Happy Coding :)

Team Foundation Power Toys are here!

Ram Shankar Yadav — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 04:07:00 GMT

Team Foundation Power Toys are ready to rock!

Brian Harry recently blogged about the features and other stuff. Most important thing is that these powertoys come up with four cool features, here goes the extract from Brian's blog!

4 Great new Power Toy features

We're trying something new with this Power Toy release. It's the first time where we have new features that integrate seamlessly into the VS2005 IDE and are virtually indistinguishable from any other TFS feature in the IDE. I'm eager to see if people are excited about this and if so, we may see more of it in the future. In addition to the new IDE based features we also continue to enhance the Power Toy command line. In addition to the existing Power Toy features like Rollback, Online, Review, etc, the new features in this release include:

tfpt bind (command line only)

Bind is a new feature of the tfpt.exe command line that will convert from SourceSafe solution bindings to TFS solution bindings. This can be run after a database is migrated from SourceSafe to TFS to find and "fix-up" all of the version control bindings in projects and solutions. Type "tfpt bind /?" for more info on how to use it.

tfpt query and tfpt workitem (command line only)

These new commands allow workitem queries, viewing and editing to be performed from the command line. This makes things like scripting of work item operations, bulk work item operations, etc easier than ever. Type "tfpt query /?" and "tfpt workitem /?" for more info.

Annotate (IDE & command line)

Annotate is a version control feature that enables you to quickly and easily determine who last changed a section of code. It traverses the history of a file and "annotates" each line with the name of the user that last changed it and the change set # of the checkin.

An initial implementation of Annotate was actually in the tfpt command line tool the last time we shipped. However, since then, we have made substantial improvements to the engine, improving the performance, enabling incremental rendering and perhaps most importantly integrating it into the IDE! Here's a screenshot of what Annotate looks like on one of the tfpt files.

You can access Annotate using "tfpt annotate" or the Source Control Explorer or Solution Explorer right click menus or using the File -> Source Control menu when editing a file under version control.

TreeDiff (IDE & command line)

For a while now we've been getting lots of feedback that people really miss the ability to compare two folder structures, highlight the differences and take action to resolve them. The wait is over... There is a new "TreeDiff" command that enables exactly this. You can compare your local working folders to the server, two local folders or two server folders (e.g. branches). Here's what it looks like:

You can access TreeDiff either from the tfpt command line using "tfpt treediff" or using the "Compare..." menu option on the context menu on the folder tree in the Source Control Explorer.

I hope you enjoy using the new features as much as we do... We're currently targeting the end of this year for the next release of Power Toys. As that time approaches, I'll try to give you a heads up as to what's coming. As always, comments welcome and encouraged.

Links:

Brian Harry's Blog

Brian Harry's Team Foundation Power Toys post

Team Foundation Power Toys download page

Team Foundation Server - Power Toys Forum

Happy Programming :)

GotCodeSnippets.Net : Great site for VS.NET 2005 Code Snippets

Ram Shankar Yadav — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:54:00 GMT

I just found this great site consisting really good snippets. The site contains thousands of snippets. You can either Browse or Search for the snippets. The site contains snippets on various categories like Visual Basic, C#, J# and XML.

Links:

GotCodeSnippets.Net

Happy Coding :)

Visual Studio.NET 2005 Professional unknown alien character

Ram Shankar Yadav — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:45:00 GMT

It was merely a conincidence when some how an alien symbol in my Visual Studio.NET 2005 Professional. This alien character looks similar to a backslash(\) but is bigger than a back slash! My CTO (Utkarsh) also discovered this symbol in his Visual Studio.NET 2005 Team Suite.

I tried to open and close new files in the editor but the symbol was still there!

So, enjoy the joyride of this alien symbol.............., and here it goes!

Visual Studio.NET 2005 bug #1

Visual Studio.NET 2005 bug #2

Visual Studio.NET 2005 bug #3

Visual Studio.NET 2005 bug #4

Visual Studio.NET 2005 bug #5

Visual Studio.NET 2005 bug #6

Guys @ Redmond wake up, there's an alien invasion ;)