At our bi-annual TechEvent, I spoke about some productivity features in VS2017 and showed the Enterprise Edition features Live-Unit-Testing, Intellitest and Code Map. Slides: MME_VS2017ProductivityTools (PDF)
Over the years that I have been working as a .NET developer and consultant for a large number of different customers, I picked up a lot of simple, yet effective productivity tricks. As of today, there is a new category on my blog called “.NET Power Tips”. I represents a growing list of tips related […]
Copying and pasting is an essential part of every developers life. It is so essential that you can even buy a book with instructions: Ok, jokes aside, Visual Studio offers a great feature called the Cycle Clipboard ring: The clipboard ring remembers every piece of text that you cut or copy from the text editor. […]
I watch many developers deleting and copying code lines in Visual Studio in an unnecessary complicated procedure. They place the cursor inside the line that they need to delete, cut or copy. Then they use either the mouse or the keyboard to expand the selection to the entire line. With the keyboard, that would be: […]
Usually, when selecting text in a text editor, the text is selected line by line. This means that if I would hold the mouse button in the middle of a line and drag down, the selection would automatically select the current line to the end and continue with the next line. With block selection it […]
There is an interesting function in Visual Studio hidden in the options menu: Scroll Bar Map Mode. Going to TOOLS –> OPTIONS –> TEXT EDITOR –> ALL LANGUAGES –> SCROLL BARS the scroll bar style can be changed to map mode. There is a shortcut to activate the map mode: Just go to the Quick […]
You might be familiar with the standard search functionality in Visual Studio accessible via CTRL-F. Personally, I hardly use it. There is a better alternative: FIND IN FILES. Find in Files can be started with the shortcut CTRL-SHIFT-F. It will open a search window, as usual. The difference is that on enter, it will NOT […]
A very useful but little kn own window in VS2015 is the Call Hierarchy Window. It can be used to find dependencies of a method or another member of a class. Executing VIEW CALL HIERARCHY WINDOW (CTRL-K, T) opens the window: In the image, we take a closer look at the AddChild() method. A tree […]
This power tip introduces a couple of shortcuts that can be used to navigate through code files in Visual Studio. I am often surprised about how many developers don’t know or don’t use some of the most basic shortcuts. Note that the mentioned key bindings can be different in your edition of Visual Studio. […]
From the first day that I have been using Xamarin for cross-platform development, it was a struggle. One of the biggest pain-points was the use of emulators. While deploying and debugging code on a real device worked, I always had issues with emulators. My experience with the Android Emulators I tried using various emulators to […]
I think that this is related to Update 2 of Visual Studio 2015, but I am not sure. Sometimes I open VS2015 and find out that the Team Explorer Language has changed. My Visual Studio is set to the English language but suddenly only the Team Explorer window changes to German. The rest of the […]
——————————————————————————————————————– Dieser Blog Post ist eine Kopie von http://www.developer-week.de/, wo der Originalpost von mir publiziert wurde: http://www.developer-week.de/Blog/Haetten-Sie-s-gewusst-Tipps-Tricks-in-VS15 ——————————————————————————————————————— In den letzten Jahren hat sich Visual Studio zu einem wahren Koloss einer Entwicklungsumgebung entwickelt. Die Liste an Funktionen erscheint schier endlos. Folgend einige spannende Tricks für mehr Produktivität. Clipboard-Ring Code mit den Befehlen „Ausschneiden (Cut)“, „Kopieren […]
This series of blog posts will tell you everything you need to know about application insights. Part 1: The Basics Part 2: Is Application Insights really that “easy to add”? Part 3: Is Application Insights really that “easy to use”? Part 4: Application Monitoring with Application Insights Part 5: Troubleshooting Failures with Application Insights Part […]
Last week, I spoke at the Trivadis Late Lounge in Glattbrugg about Akka.NET. 18.02.2016 Trivadis Late Lounge – Skalierbar, parallel, verteilt und fehlertolerant? Gibt’s nicht! – Doch, gibt’s, mit Akka.NET Akka.NET is a framework that implements the Actor Model for the .NET CLR. The Actor Model is a concept that can be applied to software. […]
I recently held a talk for the Microsoft Solutions User Group (MSUGS) www.msugs.ch 03.02.2016 Microsoft Solutions User Group (MSUGS.cs) – Mobile Enterprise mit Microsoft Azure The session was about mobile development using Cordova and Azure. In an end-to-end sample we showed how a cross-platform mobile application can be implemented using Cordova and Visual Studio 2015. […]