I have posted Why developer should blog? earlier where I have given various reasons why every developer should have a blog because it’s a great way to give back some thing to community and you can also market your self as a developer across community. Scott Hanselman and Rob Conery has created one of best video regarding same topic call Get Involved. Here they have explained how you can get out there and get involved with community with blogging, twitter, github , stackoverflow, user groups and conference. It will make you happier, more productive developer and inspire you take your career on next level.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Visual Studio 2013, Team Explorer and GitHub
Recently Git version controlling system has gained lots of popularity and more and more developers are using it for software development and version controlling. Microsoft also tied with Git with Visual Studio 2013. So if you use Visual Studio as your primary IDE and then its high time to learn about it. With Visual Studio 2013 team explorer you can easily tied code in your git repository so I thought it will be a good idea to write a blog post about How we can create git repository in local with team explorer in Visual Studio 2013 and publish it to github a well know open source a powerfull code hosting site for the open source projects.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Visual Studio Command Window- A useful but unknown feature
All the Microsoft developers love visual studio as Integrated Development Environment(IDE) because it has build with lots and lots of features and developers are more productive then ever. But still there are lots of feature which are not popular among the developers. Visual studio command window is one of the best feature but still lots of developers are not aware about it. In this post we are going to learn about Visual Studio Command Window feature and we will see how we can increase productivity with this command window.
Command windows enables features of visual studio with commands. You can invoke command window via View-> Other windows –> Command window menu or via just pressing(Shortcut) Ctrl + Alt + A.
Command windows enables features of visual studio with commands. You can invoke command window via View-> Other windows –> Command window menu or via just pressing(Shortcut) Ctrl + Alt + A.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Book Review : Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports
Again Marketing Team of Packt Publication (Jay Raval) has contacted me to review a book called “Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports” and I always have fun to review books so I said yes to them. This blog post is all about reviewing a book “Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports”.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Enum support for views in ASP.NET MVC 5.1
Recently before some time Microsoft has announced release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1. It’s comes with tons of feature and Enum support is one of them. In the earlier release of ASP.NET MVC there was no direct support for the Enums and in the views but with ASP.NET MVC 5.1 Microsoft is providing directly @html.EnumDropDownList for which directly creates a dropdown from the Enum itself. So What we are waiting for. Let’s take an example.
Example of Enum support for views in ASP.NET MVC 5.1:
Let’s create a new empty project for ASP.NET MVC from Visual Studio 2013 like following from File Menu-> New Project
Example of Enum support for views in ASP.NET MVC 5.1:
Let’s create a new empty project for ASP.NET MVC from Visual Studio 2013 like following from File Menu-> New Project
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Test Driven Development is your friend
I have seen lots developers are not seeing benefits of Test Driven development. When you do Test Driven development there are lots of benefits. So I thought it will be good idea to write a blog post about it.
What is Test Driven Development:
As per wikipedia Test Driven Development is
What is Test Driven Development:
As per wikipedia Test Driven Development is
Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes an (initially failing) automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces the minimum amount of code to pass that test, and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standardsKent Ben an American software engineer and creator of extreme programming rediscovered this technique. There are three main indicators of Test Driven development.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Creating a WordPress blog on azure websites
In this post we are going to learn how we can create WordPress blog with Azure web sites.
What is Azure Web Sites?
Before some time Microsoft has released Azure web sites for South East Asia region. Windows Azure web sites offers secure and flexible deployment and scaling options for any kind of web application. You can use your existing tools to create and deploy applications to Azure Websites.
Windows Azure web site provides following features.
What is Azure Web Sites?
Before some time Microsoft has released Azure web sites for South East Asia region. Windows Azure web sites offers secure and flexible deployment and scaling options for any kind of web application. You can use your existing tools to create and deploy applications to Azure Websites.
Windows Azure web site provides following features.
- Provision and deploy fast
- Secure platform that scales automatically
- Great experience for Visual Studio developers. Even you can edit some code with online visual studio(Monaco).
- Open and Flexible for anyone
- Monitor and Alert
- Auto scale to optimize cost and performance
- A great gallery of most popular applications and easy direct deployment.
