Understanding existing, and writing new, code As the complexity of applications grows so does the challenge of understanding the code that you’re working on. With Visual Studio 2010 the IDE provides integrated support for understanding what is happening in the code section that you’re viewing. The editor in Visual Studio 2010 has been rebuilt using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology. WPF enables the editor to richly present information about the code in the context of presenting the actual source. This ability enables features such as the “Document Map Margin” to render a...

Hi Guys, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 CTP in October. You’ll be amazed with the download size its near about 7 GB. You can download it from here. After you download you’ll run the .exe file to extract the setup and the setup is of the .vhd format that is Virtual PC hard disk. So you’ll need Virtual PC to run Visual Studio 2010. But, but, but guys please check out the minimum requirement for this CTP to run. Hard disk space required is 75 GB, yes, its not 7.5 but 75 GB. Well that’s not true you can have this CTP run if you have upto 25 GB on one drive. When you...

Parallel Development As demands for application performance increased, customers have traditionally solved the problem by simply increasing the underlying power of the hardware that the application is running on. Over the last several years developers have seen the CPUs that their applications run on start to include 2, 4 or more cores. While the power of the hardware has increased, the transition to a multi-core environment has impacted the applications that developers write. The majority of applications will not be able to automatically take advantage of this multi-core hardware change. Developers...

Cloud Development On October 27th 2008 Microsoft announced Windows® Azure™ the comprehensive cloud environment from Microsoft. With Windows® Azure™ Tools for Microsoft® Visual Studio® you can build, debug and deploy services and applications for Windows Azure. Windows Azure offers a scalable hosting environment for the Internet, built on geographically distributed data centers. It handles load balancing and resource management, and automatically manages the life cycle of a service based on requirements that you establish. With the service, you include code specifications for the service...

Web Development With ASP.NET, Microsoft delivered a ground breaking productive development model that made web applications accessible to the traditional application developer. Over the last few releases, not only has the tooling in Visual Studio improved to provide developers with a more web standard set of tools, but leading features like CSS property grids and split view design surfaces have been provided. However the industry evolves, and so do the tool requirements and patterns that developers use. Web developers are leading the push to split content from data and to use a Test Driven Development...