This blog will be part of visual studio 2012 features series.

I personally like the Metro UI for Visual Studio 2102 but  still some people are not happy with it. They really like Old Visual Studio 2010 layout and they wanted to have same kind of color in visual studio 2012. For those who want to change the color of Visual studio there is a plug in called Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme editor. From which you can set colors for visual studio UI and make your visual studio look colorful. Following is a link for that.

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05

Once you download that from above location and click on installer it will ask for accepting terms and conditions like following.

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I am writing a whole new feature series about Visual Studio 2012 new features. Following is the link for that. I have written couple of post there.

Visual Studio 2012 features series. What's new in Visual Studio 2012

I thought it would be great idea to write summary post for this. So this post will be a summary of all the post I have written so far. Here it will describes what’s new in visual studio 2012 and what are the features that I have covered so far. It will be quick of tour of some of the feature in Visual Studio 2012.

Visual studio 2012 first review(Earlier known as Visual studio 2011 beta)

In this post, I have written about the Metro UI of visual studio 2012. It’s totally different then the older version of visual studio 2012. Now its empathize more on code instead of visual appealing things. In this blog post I have also described solution explorer and tool box features also. Following is a link for that.

Visual Studio 2011 Beta First Review(Now known as Visual Studio 2012)

Project dialog box changes in visual studio 2012

In this post, I have written about Project dialog box changes and also written about new project templates which are included in the project dialog like ‘Portable Class Library’. I have also explained some of new other additions in project template like ‘Light switch category’ and ‘Coded UI test project’ in visual studio 2012. Following is a link for that post.

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This post will be part of Visual Studio 2012 feature series. As Visual studio 2011 beta is now known as Visual Studio 2012

I have been playing with Visual Studio 11 beta recently and everyday I am amazed with new features of it. Today I have found one more very useful feature Extract to User Control feature.

In large projects, we are having large pages and its always good to use  user control(.ascx) but sometimes we are so lazy to create user controls and we remain with the whole page and even we can’t reuse that code. In similar kind of situation ‘Extract to user control’ can be quite useful. Suppose we have long HTML mark up and we need to convert one div to user control and then we can do it very easily with Visual Studio 11 beta Extract to User Control feature.

You just need to select code you want there in user control and then you need to right click and click ‘Extract to User Control’ like below.

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This blog post will be a part of Visual Studio 2012 features series. As now Visual Studio 2011 beta know as Visual Studio 2012.

In the earlier version of the Visual Studio if you want to run your page in browser then you have to do it with view in browser. But now you have directly that on the Visual studio 2012 toolbar like below.

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This post will be part of Visual Studio 2012 feature series. As Visual Studio 2011 beta is known as Visual Studio 2012.

Everyday I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2011 beta and everyday I learn some cool feature of it. In today’s post I am going to explain one cool features of Visual Studio 2011 beta solution explorer. As a web developer we all want to see the image preview in solution explorer and visual studio 2011 beta is now having it. We can see image preview in solution explorer just like following.

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This blog post will be part of Visual Studio 2012 feature series.As now visual studio 2011 beta is known as Visual Studio 2012.

In this post we are going to look at some of CSS enhancement features in Visual Studio 2011 beta. First thing you notice in Visual Studio 2011 is better intellisense for the CSS. Now same kind of intellisense are available which we are using for C# and other languages.

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This blog post will be a part of Visual Studio 2011 Beta feature series.

In recent days I am exploring the Visual studio features and this blog post is also part of that. I am loving visual studio 2011 beta more and more after exploring features that make developer’s life easy. Today I am going to talk about one of the features that is going to make developer’s life easy.

JavaScript is a client scripting language which is an integral part of any web application now days.  So if you are web application developer you are surely going to write lots of JavaScript those days.  With earlier version of visual studio navigating code in JavaScript is not easy. But in visual studio 2011 beta we have go to definition features which one of most favourite features of visual studio for visual C#.

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This post will be a part of the Visual Studio 2012 Feature Series. As now visual studio 2011 beta is known as Visual Studio 2012 .

Today we are going to look at the New project dialog and some other improvements in visual studio 2011 beta. New project dialog comes with streamlined metro style icons of the project and looks beautiful. You can see some new project templates like portable class library which is a project template for creating dlls which can run on the windows,Silverlight and windows phone 7 and Xbox 360 just like following.

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This post be a part of Visual Studio 2012 feature series. As know Visual Studio 2011 beta known as Visual Studio 2012.

Before some days Microsoft has release visual studio 2011 beta and I have started playing with it. Have you played with it yet? If not then this series of post is for your.

I am basically a developer by heart. So out of latest offering from Microsoft  I am concentrating more on Visual studio 2011,ASP.NET 4.5,C# new features and ASP.NET MVC 4. So here we got let’s load visual studio 2011 beta.

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Microsoft Visual Studio11 Developer preview comes with bunch of new features and Solution explorer is also get some new features in it. There are few new icons added at top of solution explorer like below.

Create new window with copy of this Window Feature:

Now there is a one feature given with solution explorer you can create a another instance of solution explorer via clicking on last icon on solution explorer. Once you click the Last Icon for create copy. It will open a new solution explorer windows as below.

Properties in Solution Explorer:

Now only you can not only the see the properties of class but you can also see the methods property. Once you double-click class then it will show all methods available when you double-click method it will load the code in editor like in below.

Now once you click Page_load method you will see the page_load highlighted  in code editor

Previous next view in solution explorer:

You can move previous and next with solution explorer. For example you have search with about like following .



It will search and load About us view like following.

As you can see in above image this is About us view and you can also see that first previous button is enabled. Now once you click that it will return to default view.

Search in Solution Explorer:

Now in Solution explorer search is also provided you can search specific item in solution explorer.



As you can see in above image it is a incremental search so when you start typing it will start searching.
That’s it. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more.. Till then happy programming..

Namaste!!

Recently before some days at Build Conference on September 14,2011 Microsoft has announced release of “Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview. You can download that from following link.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh127353

I have downloaded the .NET framework 4.5 and Visual Studio11 Developer preview from the above link. First I have installed .NET Framework 4.5 like below.



Once after I have installed .NET Framework 4.5. I have installed Visual Studio 11 Developer preview like following.



After installing once you load Visual Studio 11 developer preview it will look like following. It is much similar look like Visual Studio 2010.

 

What’s new in Visual Studio11 Developer Preview:

 

There are lots of new features in Visual Studio11 Developer preview let’s go through some of new features like following.

 

Create new project template:

 

New project template is almost same except there are .NET Framework 4.5 selection is also available with other framework 3.5 and 4.0.

Solution Explorer:

 

In solution explorer if you compare the stuff there are lots of new feature’s are available. You can see there are lots of Icon there in solution explorer compare to Visual Studio 2010.



Now you can do lots of things with Solution Explorer like Browsing Types,type members, search symbols and find relationship among them. I will explain them all this features in different post.

 

Quick Launch:

 

Another new feature you will notice is a Quick Launch. You can find lots of command and other stuff in visual studio from here. Suppose you want to create a new page then just type new it will give you all the options with new just like following.

 

Line Highlighter:

 

Another things I have found is line highlighter in code editor. It will highlight the current line in Editor.



There are so many other features that needs to be discover. I will post that in future posts. Hope you liked it. Stay tuned for more..Namaste!!