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Visual Studio 2013 – Check Out Some Of The Great New Features

Visual Studio 2013 Code EditorVisual Studio 2013 Code Editor – The Preview has hit our developer shores, and I have to say that I am suitably impressed. The IDE looks great (You can change the colour of the IDE to one of a few colours) and the enhancements to the Code Editor are fabulous.

I thought I would take a closer look at some of these new features and post them here for your reference. If you want to read more, see the blogs of Brian Harry and Zain Naboulsi.

If you haven’t downloaded the Visual Studio 2013 Preview, head on over to the Visual Studio site and get the preview today. (more…)

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The Daily Six Pack: July 22, 2013

Apple’s dev site was hacked on Thursday last week (or as Apple puts it, was accessed by “an intruder”). That's putting it lightly. Apple also noted that there is a possibility that developers' names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses were compromised. To all the iOS devs out there, better check…

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Resolve Windows Live Mail Error When Using smtp4dev

smtp4dev test email sendsmtp4dev is an excellent testing tool to add to your tools library. Go ahead and download smtp4dev from CodePlex. It is a dummy SMTP server which is compatible with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2010. smtp4dev Will sit in the system tray and listen for messages on the port you specify (usually port 25).

The best thing about smtp4dev is that it will not deliver the received messages. You can then view the messages or save them and inspect the source/structure. This makes smtp4dev very useful for testing/debugging software that needs to generate emails. I recently used it to test the email functionality from a VBScript. (more…)

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