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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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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Tasklist Comments / TODO in Visual Studio – Tip Of Week #14

Task list comments are a great way to remind you or others of something that still needs to be done or something that may need to be revisited for enhancement.
The task list (Ctrl-Alt-K/View.TaskList) is a handy tool that is most often used to view errors or warnings from the compilation of [...]

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