CodeRush Stops Intellisense Working – I absolutely love DevExpress products. I love CodeRush even more and once you have used it, it’s easy to see why. But has the Intellisense in Visual Studio 2013 suddenly stopped working after installing CodeRush? (more…)
Writing Faster Code – I’m sure that many of you already know the following tips. Some of these are probably not even confined to Visual Studio 2013. Nevertheless, I called the article ‘Writing Faster Code With Visual Studio 2013’ because that is the version of the Visual Studio IDE I use. I feel however that this is a nice article to include on my blog, as it will make many of us more productive. (more…)
Parallels Desktop 10 – Do you love your Windows Applications and wish you could run them on your Mac? Well as some of you might or might not know, Parallels Desktop is the perfect solution for you. I write software for a living, so I am what I guess you would call a power user? Nevertheless, I wanted to see how well Parallels Desktop would perform. How would it perform if I wanted to write software using Visual Studio 2013 on my Mac. (more…)
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Install Windows 10 on Hyper V How to install Windows 10 Technical Preview on Microsoft Hyper V in Windows 8.1 Pro ?, Senthil Kumar Other Hosting the VS 2013 ALM VM in a Windows Azure Virtual…
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Fluent-Style Syntax Using Fluent-Style Syntax when Chaining Iterators, Sean Sexton Other Lies, Damn Lies and Version Numbers, Burke Holland Flipboard: a great example of “Why Windows”, Steve “Guggs” Guggenheimer Git- Integration With Visual Studio 2013, James Quick How…
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Developer Superhero Developer’s Life – Every Developer is a Harry Potter, Pinal Dave Other C# Specifications: Using Visual Studio 2013 to compile a DLL and EXE, Sam Stokes The 10 commandments of documentation, Jason Mark Microsoft…
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Free Ebooks 15 Free Ebooks For Mobile App Developers, Azzief Khaliq Other Become a Social Developer (Get Involved), Scott Hanselman The Great Works of Software, Paul Ford Largest collection of FREE Microsoft eBooks ever, Eric Ligman Formatting…
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Deep dive: Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC and Azure SDK 2.3, Mohit Srivastava Other Meet the man who created the 'catastrophic' Heartbleed bug, Patrick Howell O'Neill Python Tools…
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Solving iOS Battery Drain The Ultimate Guide to Solving iOS Battery Drain, Scotty Loveless Other How your feedback is shaping .NET, Immo Landwerth [MSFT] Facebook is removing messaging from its iOS and Android apps, pushing…
CodeFluent Entities – I love being a lazy software developer, especially when a great tool such as CodeFluent Entities is involved. It is incredible how much control this tool puts in my hands while allowing me to generate code with ease. In this article I will show you how to create your first project and generate your database scripts and data access code. (more…)