Slides: Git for .NET Developers Links Git Project Home: Info and reference materials GitHub: Popular hosting for Git projects with free public repos or private repos with paid accounts. Get the GitHub for Windows client from here or use the GitHub plugin in Visual Studio 2015 RC. Visual Studio Online: Online TFS with Git as a source control option. Free accounts with unlimited private repos all integrated with the rest of the TFS tool suite....
XAML Debugging Tools in Review In my last review of the new Visual Studio 2015 XAML debugging tools (xaml-debugging-tools-vs-snoop) I found a lot to like but a few key shortcomings compared to what has been available in Snoop. Now that the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2015 has been released the tools are farther along and closer to what their final state will be at RTM. So how are things progressing?...
The new Windows 10 Technical Preview released last week (Build 10074) along with the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2015 should finally allow a larger set of developers to start writing Universal Apps for Windows 10. One of the first things developers are likely to run into when they try to test a Universal App is an error message instructing them to “Enable Developer Mode” through the Windows Settings application. Unfortunately this part of Settings isn’t included in Build 10074....
*Update for new RC features: changes-to-visual-studio-2015-xaml-debugging-tools-in-rc Anyone who has done a significant amount of work in WPF is probably familiar with XAML debugging tools like Snoop. A few other tools have come along since with similar functionality that also works across different XAML platforms, but for WPF Snoop still packs a punch. Finally, after almost a decade, Visual Studio is getting the kind of visual tree debugging that’s been an essential part of XAML development (and it will work on all XAML platforms)....
Boston Code Camp 22 materials: Slides | Language Features Demo Code | Post on Extensions The new Visual Studio 2015 Roslyn language features include a grab bag of nice changes to help make code more compact and readable. This isn’t an exhaustive list but some of my favorites. Getter only and initialized auto-properties public string Name { get; } = "John"; This is a much simplified way to create readonly properties, which previously required a full property with a backing field declared as readonly....