Archive for the ‘Visual Studio’ Category.

My Visual Studio Color Scheme, Friendly IDE

After reading interesting posts about the fonts and colors in Visual Studio, I gave a try to some of them. Because I work quite a lot with Visual Studio, I realized that it is actually very important for the eyes and for productivity. Unfortunately none of the themes have pleased my friendly IDE concept, low […]

Registering Help System for Windows SDK Documentation with Visual Studio

It is explained on Windows SDK blog how to integrate the updated Windows SDK with Visual Studio. However, how about the documentation and help integration with Visual Studio or even the search for API references ? I was using the online SDK until I figured out a work around.
Here are the steps to enable the […]

F# Productization and Visual Studio 2008

It has been a long time since I haven’t blogged. Lots of things have happened on my side and on the development world. After finishing the internship at Microsoft Research Cambridge and submitting my thesis, I started to work at European Product Development Center in Dublin. I am very excited to work at Microsoft again. […]

Almost Finished,What’s Next,.NET Source Code

What a nice morning after everything… It has been more than a week since I finished my coursework which means that I unofficially finished my masters. Things are started to change now, I really didn’t understand how this month has passed and couldn’t believe it’s just finished. Well the truth is I enjoyed every […]

XNA Game Studio Express is out of Beta

XNA team today released XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 with XNA framework 1.0.

XNA Game Studio Express Main Page
XNA Game Studio Readme
XNA Framework 1.0
XNA Game Studio Express 1.0

I am working with XNA for a couple of weeks, I will definetely post some samples and give more examples and reference about the framework in later posts. […]

Migration from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0

Although Visual Studio 2005 includes a conversion wizard for old projects, this does not work properly with web applications, because Microsoft removed support for web applications at the beginning. We don’t have a web project, we have a web site. The wizard tries to convert all the files to the new framework. This fails at […]

Execute batch commands before or after compilation using Pre-build or Post-build events

Have you ever wanted to execute a set of commands before or after the compilation, like copying the contents of the directory to the target compilation directory, or copy output of the compilation to a specified folder. This feature is integrated inside visual studio with the name; “Pre-build or Post-build event command line”. You access […]