Breakpoints – Tip of Week #19

Visual Studio offers a powerful debugger to aid with testing and troubleshooting your applications. One of the most common uses of a debugger is to set breakpoints, which are positions in the code that, when reached, cause the program execution to pause, allowing the developer to inspect the code and state of the program. When [...]

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Navigate To and From function() – Visual Stuido Tip of Week #17

Many a times you find the need to navigate to the function definition from the function call to see how the function has been defined. To do this you can either press F12 or right click on function call and select “Go to definition” option.

Similarly from the function definition to go back to the function [...]

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RexEx Search – Tip of Week #16

Regular expressions are an extremely versatile text-matching language that gives you incredible power when searching your documents and when used with replace operations, can greatly assist with repetitive changes to blocks of code.

The basic regular expression search is easily done. You simply open the Find dialog through the Edit – Find [...]

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Insert Code Snippet – Tip Of Week #15

Hi guys, do you know you can use already ready code inside your visual studio? Yes certainly you can insert code snippets into your code. You can invoke the “Insert Snippet” by using shortcut “ctrl k + ctrl x”.

You can download some of the code snippets from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718338.aspx all you need to do is [...]

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Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) – T4 Template

Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) is a template-based code generation engine. This is one of the best things I found out today, so just thought of sharing with you guys.
This is awesome code generator template. This template is best used to generate your business logic code that will communicate with the database.
You can create a [...]

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