Launching the Lock Screen in Windows Phone Emulator
When testing your app in the Windows Phone 8 Emulator, the developers may want to see how the application behaves specially when the lock screen is launched / triggered. How do you bring up the Lock...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Disable All Caps in Menu title
In Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, the menu titles are shown in caps by default. If you want to display the menu tile in lower case or in Pascal casing, here’s how you do...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Disable the Preview of File on Single...
In Visual Studio 2013, the file opens up in the Preview page when you single click on the file in the Solution Explorer. How to disable this from Visual Studio Solution Explorer? There is a Toggle...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Disable the Preview of File on Single...
In one of my previous Visual Studio 2013 tips and tricks article, I explained how to disable the preview of file on single click from the Visual Studio 2013 Solution explorer. This article will explain...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Enable / Disable Code Lens
Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 has a new feature called Code Lens which shows the reference count of the methods along with the other information like Show Authors, bugs, work items etc. It is definitely...
View ArticleText Macros for Visual Studio 2012/2013
Text Macros for Visual Studio 2012/2013 is an open source extension for visual studio 2013 published by Xavier Poinas (Xavier Poinas). This extension adds the support of macros in the code editors in...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Prevent Closing of IIS Express after...
When you start your web application in previous versions of visual studio and then stop debugging, the IIS Express would still remain running. By default in visual studio 2013, you would observe that...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Waiting for a Keystroke before the Console...
This trick is applicable not just for Visual Studio 2013 but also for the previous versions of the Visual Studio. By default, when you run a Console Application in Visual Studio by pressing the F5 key,...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Incremental search
Incremental Search is one of the nice little feature that is available in Visual Studio 2013. This is available in previous versions of Visual Studio as well. How to Perform an Incremental Search in...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Regular Expression in Find and Replace Dialog
The Visual Studio 2013′s Find and Replace Dialog provides the option for the user to find and replace text in the project using regular expressions or wildcards. To enable the Regular Expression in the...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Search in Only Specified File Types
In Visual Studio 2013, the Find and Replace Window can be used to provide additional options for your search terms. You can launch the Find and Replace Window using the shortcut key “Ctrl + Shift + F”....
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Stack Overflow in Visual Studio 2013
StackOverflow is one of the popular websites that has almost become a big part of the developer’s life. It is one of the sites where in the developers would search for or post the questions and get it...
View ArticleHow to Delete the Current Line in Visual Studio 2013 ?
Here’s a simple keyboard shortcut that can be used to delete the Current Line in Visual Studio 2013 Code Editor. How to Delete the Current Line in Visual Studio 2013 ? Place the mouse cursor on the...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Feedback in Visual Studio 2013
Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 includes the Feedback menu that allows the developers to quickly provide feedback from Visual Studio 2013. The Feedback menu can be accessed by clicking the Chat balloon in...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Tab pinning
Tab pinning is one of the feature in Visual Studio 2013 that allows the developers to pin the individual windows so that they stay open when you navigate through the editor in Visual Studio . To pin a...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Browser Link
Generally the Web Developers have the challenging task to update the web pages and verify the same in different browsers . Visual Studio 2013 includes one of the cool feature called Browser Link that...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – How to Disable Browser Link in Visual...
In one of my previous blog post , i demonstrated how to use the Browser Link feature in Visual Studio 2013 . The Browser Link feature is enabled by default . You can disable it in 3 different ways . 3...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – CSS Editor Color Picker
Most of the time , the developers had to provide the Hex value of the colour when using them in the CSS file . Visual Studio 2013 has a small but yet a cool feature that lets the developer pick the...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips and Tricks – Regions in CSS File
Visual Studio 2013 lets the developers to have regions within the CSS file and logically group your style rules with in the region . The region here lets the developers to hide them when they don’t...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Tips and Tricks – JavaScript Editor enhancements
Visual Studio 2013 has some cool features for the JavaScript developers . Below are some of the enhancements in the JavaScript editor in Visual Studio 2013. jQuery and Intellisense When you type $...
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