Help Microsoft to improve Visual Studio performance

Visual studio is a great IDE(Integrated Development Environment) and we love it all. There are many people who are still complaining about visual studio performance. Now Microsoft Visual Studio team has release PerfWaston diagnostic tool that helps Visual Studio team to diagnose the performance problem. Also this tool will automatically report performance and other problem.

So please download the PerfWaston tool from below link.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/fa85b17d-3df2-49b1-bee6-71527ffef441?SRC=Home

You can find more details about PerfWaston in following link.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2011/05/02/perfwatson.aspx

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SQL Management Studio in Visual Studio 2010

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is a great IDE and everyday I am discovering something new about it. Today I am also going to explain new feature of Visual Studio 2010. In this post I am going to Transact SQL Editor feature in Visual Studio 2010.

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition provides this great feature. You can run you SQL Queries in visual studio 2010 itself with all intellisense and all the stuff that SQL Server provides. Let’s explore in details.
To connect the database of your SQL Server in Visual studio Go to Data->Transact SQL Editor –>New Query connection like following.

 

Now once you click it will open the dialog box for connection SQL server like it. If you don’t have install anything it will install SQL Server 2008 express edition with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition. The dialog appear like following.




Once you are done with the connection it will open full fledge Query editor windows with intellisesnse like following.



Also it can connect to any databases including your SQL Azure databases also. Isn’t that great. You don’t need SQL management studio at all for the basic database operations. That’s it. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more.. Till then happy programming.

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Hello World application with ASP.NET pages and WebMatrix

In this post I am going to explain how we can create fast web sites without worrying about code and other stuff. Microsoft has introduced a new web development tools called ‘WebMatrix’. It’s a free tool provided by Microsoft to create website fast.

What is WebMatrix?

Web Matrix is a free tool provided by Microsoft for website development. You can develop websites lightening fast with the help of Microsoft Web Matrix. It includes IIS express(express version of IIS) and SQL Server Compact (Compact edition of SQL Server database). It also contains lots of popular web application templates like wordpress ,blogengine etc. You can also create dynamic web pages with WebMatrix. Here is the link from where you can download WebMatrix.

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=205867

What is asp.net Pages?

 

ASP.NET pages are one of easiest way to create websites pages. You can use Razor and all other syntax to create webpages. You can write script tag to write dynamic code and you can also write HTML in same page.

Creating Hello World application with WebMatrix

 

Now let’s create a very basic Hello World application without writing any dynamic code. So let’s first open WebMatrix and it will show start up page like following.




Here you will have four options My Sites, Site from Open Source Gallery, Sites from Template and Site from folder. I want to create a new site so I have clicked on Site from template. Once you click on that you will be presented to Site from template dialog where you have different options like Empty Site,Starter site,Bakery etc. like following.



As I want to create a very basic site so I have clicked Empty site.Once you click on empty site your site will be created and you will presented to following screen.



Now its time to create new page for the site. So I have clicked File->New Pages and you will be presented to page dialog like following where different options are available like HTML,CSS,Jscript,CHTML etc.



I have selected CSHTML as I want to have my site dynamic so I have one page called default.cshtml and then I have written Hello world HTML like following.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">

   <head>

       <meta charset="utf-8" />

       <title></title>

   </head>

   <body>

       <h1>Hello World</h1>

   </body>

</html>

Now let's run site in browser and following is the output.



That’s it. It’s so easy. In future post I am going to write some dynamic code using Microsoft Web Matrix.Hope you like it..Stay tuned for more.. Till than happy programming..

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Visual Studio 2010 styles

I have been working with visual studio 2010 yesterday and I was searching some thing and same time I have found one great site for Visual Studio styles. http://studiostyl.es/ This site is cool and you can find lots of visual studio 2010 styles of your choice. Here is the screenshot of site.




You can create your own color schemes for visual studio also. I have downloaded the first one(Son of Obsidian). It will be visual studio settings file.Once you downloaded you can import like following. GoTo Tools->Import and export settings in Visual Studio 2010. Once you click this It will import and export dialog like following.




I have selected Import selected environment setting and clicked next on next screen you will have option to save your visual studio settings like following.



Clicking on next you will have options for different visual studio 2010 Style like following.



Click on browse and select your downloaded style like following.



Click on open and then you will represented to recent file options click next You will come to final settings wizard like following.



Click on finish now our style is applied.Close the dialog and open your project and you can see new color scheme for your visual studio 2010 like following.



That’s it. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more..Till then happy programming..

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Box Selection in Visual Studio 2010

Every day I am discovering something new with Visual Studio 2010 and In this post I am again going to explain you new interesting feature of Visual Studio 2010. We all required to modify the code in bulk some time and there is a new features for Visual Studio 2010 which enables to made changes in multiple line at same time. Let’s take a simple example like following.

using System;

namespace Parallel
{
  class Program
  {
         private int a=10;
         private int b=10;
         private int c=10;

         static void Main(string[] args)
         {

         }  
  }
}

In above code I have three private variable a,b and c and now I want to make them protected. There is two way either I do manually one by one or I can do it with box selection and modify them together. It very easy to use this feature Press ALT+ SHIFT and draw box with help of mouse on the code which you need to modify like following.





Now I want to make it protected so I started writing protected and it will modify all the line at same time like following.



And now my code is like following.

using System;

namespace Parallel
{
  class Program
  {
         protected int a=10;
         protected int b=10;
         protected int c=10;

         static void Main(string[] args)
         {

         }  
  }
}

That's it. Hope you like it… Stay tuned for more…Till then Happy programming.

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Windows Azure Table Storage in detail

Windows Azure table storage provides two kind of storage 1) SQL Azure and other one is 2) Table,queue,blob and other storage like drives etc. In this blog post I am going to explain Table storage in details.

What is Windows Azure Table Storage:

Windows Azure table storage is a service provided by Azure platform to store data in form relational tables in windows azure storage instead of normal RDBMS System. It is a structured storage provided by Azure platform. The table storage which you create with windows azure is Unique. An account of windows azure can have any number of table storage.

Table Storage in details:

There are three important aspects when you deal with windows azure table services. Table,Entities and Properties. Here table is similar to storing data in spread sheet or storing in table with relational databases. Entity represents particular row in the table and property represents a particular column or cell in row. There are three system properties of each entity.

1. Partition Key
2. Row Key
3. Time Stamp

Partition Key:

The partition key is a unique key value that is used to group, or partition, related data on same storage node. As we all know that internally data will stored in hard disks in table storage so whenever your data grows then at that time your data may be partitioned into multiple hard drives. At that time this partition key will keep all the data on the same storage nodes. So partition key is used to organize data in storage.

Row Key:

Row key uniquely identifies a specific entities on a partition. Different partition keys may share the same row key, but the same partition may not have two entities with the same row key.The Row Key property is optional and may also be an empty string if all that is needed for uniqueness is the Partition Key value
The PartitionKey and RowKey properties both have String values (up to 1KB in size) and together they form a unique primary key for an entity in a table.

TimeStamp:

Time stamp property has a DateTime value maintained by the Windows Azure Table System to facilitate optimistic concurrency.

Column Types in Table Storage:

Table storage in windows azure support following types of columns.

1. byte[]
2. bool
3. DateTime
4. double
5. Guid
6. Int32 or Int
7. Int64 or long
8. String.

In next post I will create application for table storage. That’s it. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more.. Till then happy programming..

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New Improved IntelliSense with Visual Studio 2010

I have posted lot many things about Visual Studio 2010 features because its a great IDE(Integrated Development Environment).Today I am going to write about IntelliSense improvement in Visual Studio 2010. Today when I was working with Visual Studio 2008 for a old project(Nowadays I am working with Visual Studio 2010), I have found new improve IntelliSense feature in Visual Studio 2010.

Filtering:

Visual Studio 2010 IntelliSense is filtered better than Visual Studio 2008. I have created a sample application and I am writing Console.ReadLine that you can see in following image its filtering with read only.



In earlier version it was not possible.Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more.. Happy Programming..

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