Technical News and tips from My learning

Visual Studio 2010 & .NET v4 would release on 22nd March. Microsoft is giving an offer by name “Ultimate Offer” and the deadline for this offer is 12th March. Below is the image that clearly explains the various features of this “Ultimate Offer”

This week, Microsoft released a new Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit. This is a downloadable version of the training content and includes 17 presentations, 21 Demos and 26 Hands-on Labs. The January preview adds content for Office , SharePoint and Application Lifecycle Management ! The content in this training kit has been tested with Beta 2 and is ready for you to use. Download: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit

Can you tell me about TFS & VSTS in 5 minutes?   Can any one really tell about TFS in 5 minutes!! I doubt. But it is true. It’s a reality. Steven van Niekerk, an Architect from Microsoft, started a project on this concept of telling about TFS & VSTS in 5 minutes. And a broad range of MVPs are supporting him to let community know in 5 minutes. Their first cut of release is ready and you can tryout. They are tagged as Rangers, ie., Visual Studio ALM Rangers. Their mission is to provide out of band solutions for missing features or guidance. Their objectives are A “What is” section A “What are the new and important features” section A “Quick Reference Poster” section All these above are packed decently in a zip format and is available from this link . Did you try this?

For the ASP.NET pages that has no user input it is a best practice to have the page register with EnableViewState=“false”. This will increase the response time to 200% of the default. Along with that, you can also do the one more important is that, anyhow these pages have no user input. Secondly, these will have data that is read-only from database. Thus, you are sure that there is no activity from the user that could be saved onto disk. Perhaps the user might work with the data that is available on the page. Hence, keeping all the above point in mind, by setting the session’s state to read-only makes the WebPages more effective and the response time increases drastically to about another 200%. Think this and change your web page attributes from the next time onwards del.icio.us Tags: ASP.NET , Performance , Response Time , Tips Technorati Tags: ASP.NET , Response Time , Tips

The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management. I've downloaded this, if any one require this, you can drop me a mail or can collect from me.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team has announced the new font for the Visual Studio Editor . The old font in the Visual Studio editor will look like the below one. You might wonder what is the difference between the old code font as well as the new Microsoft Consolas Font Family. The main difference in the words of microsoft is.. " All characters have the same width , like old typewriters, making it a good choice for personal and business correspondence". You can download the latest font from Download Section. Where as the new font will have the look as displayed below I've updated my Visual Studio with the latest font. Did you? ----------------------- If you have something to share in person on this post, pl drop me a mail at dskcheck@gmail.com with the title in the subject.

One of the frequently seen situations from a technical standpoint in a large scale of Business Layer objects is, invoking methods from different objects when they contain same method name. Today, am going to make it simple to give an example for Runtime Polymorphism. Leave your comments if am mistaken At this stage, I don’t think to mention about "Polymorphism", as hope that you are aware of how polymorphic behavior can be fused using C#. If you want a start up, in simple words, implementation of one Method with many definitions, as mentioned below. class Employee { /// <summary> /// Invoked for the Regular salaried employes /// </summary> /// <param name="intEmpId"> Employee ID </param> /// <param name="intAbscentDays"> Number of days </param> /// <returns></returns> public long CalculateSal( int intEmpId, int intAbscentDays) { return (GetEmpSal(intEmpId) * (GetWorkingDays( DateTime .Now.Month) ...

Use F8 to switch to next error in your code. It could be either HTML Error or CodeBehind. ----------------------- If you have something to share in person on this post, pl drop me a mail at dskcheck@gmail.com with the title in the subject.

While working with Debugging our current application, surprised to note that all the variables are showing their value in Hexadecimal format at Immediate Window. After doing some R&D got to know that some of team member set at to display in Hexadecimal value. To revoke that format, all you have to do is, goto Watch Window and right click on any row and you will observe that "Hexadecimal Display" is enabled. Select or Deselect depending on your requirement. Dont go to Tools => Options => Debugging => ... The tools option may not be available with some VS flavors like Professional or Architect. But for every edition, the Watch Window works. What do you say? ----------------------- If you have something to share in person on this post, pl drop me a mail at dskcheck@gmail.com with the title in the subject.