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Atomineer Pro Documentation for Visual Studio 2012

Anomineer for Visual Studio 2012

One of the best tools I have ever used is Atomineer for Visual Studio. It provides excellent code comments and is far more readable (and makes more sense) than other commenting tools out there.

If you are looking for such a tool, try out Atomineer. It is very affordable and you get tremendous value for money. Each Atomineer Pro Documentation license will buy you a year of email support and software updates. I have to say that the email support is truly great and very quick.. (more…)

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The Daily Six Pack: March 9, 2013

Visual Studio Git Tools Updated, Keith Ward SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012 released online, Robert Bruckner C#/.NET Little Wonders: Extension Methods Demystified, James Michael Hare iOS Tips and Tricks: Associate a File Type with your App - Part 1, Stephen Zaharuk Standardize Table Aliases,…

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Exporting SQL Query Results to a CSV file using SQLCMD and C#

Today a colleague asked me how to export SQL Query Results to a CSV file. This got me thinking that it would be a nice exercise to do this from a C# application. So to start off, I downloaded the correct AdventureWorks database for my version of SQL from the…

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The Daily Six Pack: March 8, 2013

Welcome to Friday. I included two posts of one of my favorite bloggers, James Michael Hare (or @BlkRabbitCoder on Twitter). His C# Fundamentals series is excellent and well worth reading. Then Tareq Ateik shows us how to install and activate Windows Server 2012 while Erik Bartlow gives us the low down…

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The Daily Six Pack: March 7, 2013

Troy Hunt discusses the topic of should websites disclose their password strategy while Charles Sterling gives us a heads up on the Visual Studio Update 2 now available. Pinal Dave makes your SQL skill set more efficient in  sixty seconds and Kunal Chowdhury talks about Jan van der Haegen's excellent…

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The Daily Six Pack: March 6, 2013

Geek Champ has a great Windows 8 Dev Guide for those seeking some great Windows 8 resources. Zain Naboulsi takes us further into understanding IntelliTrace in Part VI of his series and Beth Massi brings us some more LightSwitch goodness. Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 is now available…

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The Daily Six Pack: March 5, 2013

Today, we have some great content. Fredrik Mörk gives us a 101 on Delegates and Lambdas while Manal Rayess talks about his first LightSwitch application. Paul van Bladel also gives us some LightSwitch goodness with his take on reporting with the Web-Api. Brian Rosamilia takes a look at some C# features…

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C# Programming – Caller Information Attributes

Okay, so I don’t have a specific series for this and seeing as this is more of a programming tip, I’ll leave it out of the Visual Studio 2012 Tips series. Caller Information Attributes are a very useful and probably underutilized feature implemented in the C#5.0 Compiler. Caller Information Attributes allow you to see how  your method was called. So forget having to sift through the stack trace in order to achieve diagnostic level logging, use Caller Information Attributes instead. (more…)

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The Daily Six Pack: March 4, 2013

Today is a LightSwitch edition with six excellent articles by Karthikeyan Anbarasan. From an introduction to LightSwitch right through to handling and validating data, these posts will give you a great jump start into this awesome technology. Take a look also at the free collection of Visual Studio productivity extensions for…

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