My findings after spending a day trying to bring our teams local build time down from over a minute.

The Visual Studio Unit Test framework is the only test framework provided out of the box with ASP.NET MVC 3. This article shows you how to create and install custom test project templates and view engine options.

A walkthrough of how to set up a web application for automatic deployment through TFS 2010 build server.

Let’s say you want to point to a different connection string when you deploy your ASP.NET Web Project to your hosting provider. Until recently you’d have to modify your Web.config file manually. This is an easy procedure but you might end screwing up the file in some way. Visual Studio 2010 comes w...

Recently I went through a tricky problem while working with VS 2010. I was trying to reference a Class library project in a Console project. So I opened Add Reference window from Console App, selected Projects, on top left corner of the window and located Class Library Project that I wanted to refer...

Learn how to create a basic WCF web service, with a plaintext username password authentication, that outputs all incoming and outgoing XML SOAP packet messages to the Visual Studio Console.

If like me you are sick to death of Cassini (whats that then? its the built in web server that visual studio uses) and also sick to death of playing around with IIS 7 then relief is at hand.

This article introduces you to Code Rocket's main features. Code Rocket is a pseudocode and flowchart design and visualization tool for Visual Studio (and Eclipse). It gives you on demand access to the pseudocode and flowchart views of your methods and always keeps the design in sync with the code. ...

ReSharper 5 has now been released simultaneously with Visual Studio 2010.

Cellular Emulator is one of those tools that just doesnt work out of the box....

Working with Ektron CMS

In my previous article I explained some of the nice features related to IDE, in continuation to that I am going to explain Add Reference enhancements for developers, Windows 7 support for developers, Share Point 2010 enhancements , Office Business Application Support, Cloud Development, Document Map...

I've started a new project to create jQuery Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 now that it supports HTML and JavaScript snippets. There are 131 so far.

On the last day of May I wrote about how to calculate prime numbers with LINQ in C#. To close that post I said that I’d use the primeNumbers delegate to evaluate PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) and measure the performance gains when the same calculation is done in parallel instead of in a sequential fashion. ...