In today's edition, Jose M. Aguilar shares a free 80 page e-book he has published with CampusMVP.NET covering various parts of SignalR (The RC2 release). You will need to register to get the download link. We also have some tidbits on the evolution of DevLabs and an awesome article by Jonas…
Have you ever had to take over a project from a developer who has left the company or did work as an outside contractor and now you need to enhance / add to that code?
As you then probably know, it takes a bit of code surfing to get to know the code and how everything fits together. It is also not immediately clear which dependencies are present in your code. Luckily Microsoft has built a tool that can help.
With Visual Studio Ultimate, you can create Dependency Graphs from your code to help you visualise how that code is organised and it also helps you understand the dependencies more easily. (Compare Visual Studio editions)
It is an excellent tool for working with unfamiliar code. Dependency Graphs give you an overview of all the code in your solution. With this post I will give you an overview of what you can do with Dependency Graphs.
For a more in-depth article, see Visualize Code Dependencies on Dependency Graphs. (more…)
Scott Hanselman talks about ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 which is echoed by Scott Guthrie. Mark Arteaga talks about Windows 8 App Templates. Then, since the Cloud has become a reality, it has surely changed the job of a developer. Buck Woody talks about how the Cloud impacts a Developer's…
In this edition, Nick Berardi discusses the dark side of releasing your code as open source. Paul Thurrott tells us a bit more about Blue while Kunal Chowdhury has a bit of fun with the Yield Return keyword. As always, Jon Skeet has the final word on matters C# and…
If you are using Windows 8 and you need to run Visual Studio as Administrator, you could always Right Click on the shortcut, then right click on the Visual Studio icon and then select Run As Administrator. But do you really want to do this each and every time you need to run Visual Studio?
Typical Developer's Life - I really enjoy these GIF's that illustrate a different meaning than the original scene they were taken from. I decided to create a few myself, just for the fun of it. If you know of some really funny ones, let us know in the comments. Also…
Before you start this new week, take a few minutes to sample today's edition of The Daily Six Pack. Filip Ekberg talks about decompiling .NET applications. You know, for those times when you need to make a change to a production system and the developer that originally wrote the application…
The weekend is here and Saturday is a great day to relax with a few nice articles. Today Eric Vogel talks about Managed Extensibility Framework Improvements while Jonathan Hassell makes us aware of the 7 things IT pro's should know about SharePoint 2013. Take a gander at the Microsoft Product…
If someone had to ask me to identify an authority on SQL, I would have to list Pinal Dave as one of them. He discusses dbForge Studio for SQL Server in his latest post. Michael Sorens talks about TortoiseSVN and Subversion. There are 10 parts to his series, I suggest…
Pinal Dave is discussing what a semantics model is and Jesse Liberty shows us how to store app data in Windows 8. James Michael Hare brings us another excellent C# Little Wonders post. Feel free to subscribe to his blog. The Little Wonders series is well worth following. And can…