Visual studio 2012 is one of best IDE I have ever used. Everyday I am discovering something new with that IDE which is more productive. Today I have discovered “Closed All But Pinned” feature. I thought It’s a good idea to write a quick tip post. Problem with Earlier Version: Earlier we used to hav...

As promised Microsoft announcing periodic updates to Visual Studio 2012, As part of this few months back Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 has released features and download link can be found here. Few hours ago they have announced Update 2 which can be downloaded from here. This post out lines the featur...

I hate reinstalling my development machine, because it's tedious and boring task to make it "as it was before". I have several tools that need to install besides Visual Studio, some extensions in Visual Studio and tons of settings that I prefer than the default one. I would love to see &qu...

Visual Studio Team aiming to release updates through out the year 2012. As part of this they have released Update1 and features can be read here. This post details the new features in Visual Studio Update2. You can download the Visual Studio 2012 udpate2 CTP from here. Visual Studio 2012 update2 mai...

MonoTouch is a way for iOS developers to use the C# programming language to develop iOS apps. MonoTouch provides both a chunk of the familiar .NET Framework libraries (for example, you can use System.DateTime) as well as wrappers around the iOS APIs. MonoTouch uses MonoDevelop as its primary IDE, al...

You want to associate Work Items to Changeset using #WorkItemId in your commit command? Just a bunch of API call and you're done, it is really simple and easy.

How to move a TF Service project based on standard TFS Version Control System to a new TF Service project based on Git, using standard git command line.

personally like the Metro UI for Visual Studio 2102 but still some people are not happy with it. They really like Old Visual Studio 2010 layout and they wanted to have same kind of color in visual studio 2012. For those who want to change the color of Visual studio there is a plug called Visual St...

Develop android applications in Visual Studio.

Using both custom server event plugins and worker jobs to automatically create new default queries for new areas in tfs.

Code to automatically create new TFS builds whenever a new solution is checked in or branched

R2P (short for ‘Refactoring to Patterns’) is a plugin that embodies a collection of features of a fairly experimental nature. It does not have a single theme but, rather, tries to do different things in different areas of ReSharper. Let’s take a look at some of the things it does.

In this post we are going to talk about search and filters provided into the visual studio 2012. There are lots of emphasis there in search and filters in visual studio 2012.You can almost search every thing including errors also. There are different search options are available for that. Quick lau...

Configuration data can be held in the App.config file, which is renamed and copied to the output folder during compilation. If the debug and release modes of a project require different settings, the configuration file can be switched using a build event.