Windows 8.1 Preview is here. Get a feel for the OS with a first-hand look at many of the new features and improvements with the Windows 8.1 Preview. Brandon LeBlanc discusses Windows 8.1 Preview in more detail in today's featured link, so be sure to check it out especially if you can't…
Task Manager in Windows 8 has been overhauled. It now includes a lot of excellent new features. In the video below, Tim Bush walks us through some of the new features and enhancements. He also shows us some of the hidden tips and tricks you might have missed. If you…
Windows 8.1 Preview will be with us on June 26th. Some of the new features are included in the lock screen, Start screen, All Apps, desktop, Search, SkyDrive, Snap and Photos experiences. Something tells me that Windows 8.1 will be a real doozy! For those that didn't like Windows 8, why…
Code Comments are essential to every programmer's job. It is especially important if you're the programmer that needs to understand what the code needs to do. The problem is that code comments are many times a tedious affair and not many programmers keep it up throughout the project. That is…
Reverse Engineering is a very real threat in today's software development landscape. A colleague of mine had to reverse engineer an application that needed changes made to the code logic. The problem was that the previous developer left without handing over the source. The gist of today's featured link is…
Today Tareq Ateik announces the availability of Khaleej Apps. This is a one stop site where you'll find Windows Phone and Windows 8 applications in the Gulf as well as top International apps, top games, social and news apps to showcase to your customers, partners, family and friends. Be sure to…
Today we see some nice links such as the release of the Windows Azure Training Kit as well as the release of the Ajax Control Toolkit. Ricardo Peres reviewes the book Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 expert development cookbook. Have a look on CodePlex at the open source Obfuscator…
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…)
In the world of Software Development today, anyone that doesn’t protect their intellectual property is setting themselves up for disaster. Luckily, Visual Studio 2012 (as do previous editions of Visual Studio) comes with a community edition of PreEmptive Dotfuscator and Analytics. To compare the editions and other features available in Dotfuscator and Analytics visit their website. (more…)
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…)