Sammani Palansuriya

  VS 2013 has came up with some very handy tools in the code editor. Let’s see some of those in detail. CodeLens                                                                                CodeLens allows you to find details about your code without leaving your code editor. This will give you details on top of your class or method as below. In the image above you can see two details on top of the method. References This will give you the details on the other methods which reference this method. If you click on the references it will show you the details of the references & you ca...

  You can find the sample code of adding check boxes & handling it’s checked even in Kendo Grid here : http://jsfiddle.net/sammani/Xg56P/2/

  Code Maps are now integrated with visual studio debugger. So when you debug the code you can see the stack trace in a visual manner. To Integrate you debugger you can use the following icon in visual studio so it will create the code map for you debugging session. When you start debugging of you code you will see this icon. When you click on the the icon, it will generate the code map for you, & when you stepping through the code parts it will show you visually where you exactly are as below. Arrow will show the current position. You can add comments while you debugging the code for reference. Then if you want you can share your visualized version of you debugger session with the team as below. This helps you to visualize your debugger more effective way. http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Visual-Studio-2012-Premium-and-Ultimate-Overview/Visual-Studio-Ultimate-2012Debug-visually-with-Code-Map-debugger-integration Happy Debugging !!!!!!!!!!

  In case in you have changes your computer name & you want to change the Tfs workspace name follow the following command. 1. Load the Visual Studio developer command prompt. 2. Run the Following Command tf workspaces /updateUserName: OldUserName /collection:http:// Tfs_server :8080   you can find more command here. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc31bk2e(vs.80).aspx

  Code maps is another attractive visualization tool came with VS 2012 Update 1. it is more similar to the dependency graphs but this has more usability as this has been integrated with visual studio debugger so that the user can use this to visualize their debugging stack trace using this. We will see how we can use this. Generate a Code Map : Right click on the method which you want to evaluate & then click on “Show on code map”   then it will generate a code map as below. Adding Items to Code Map: when you right click on the “DrawRectangle” in the surface you will get some options to add items to your map as you prefer. Show Fields this references :- Will show all the global fields or properties which this particular method is referencing. In the code sample which I am using this method using a global variable named rectangle. 2. Find All References :- suppose you have a bug in the DrawRectangle(). so you  need to see what are the other methods which ...

  if you want to stop user selecting a tab from the active tab based on a particular  condition or validations you can use the following code to do so. If you are new to jQuery, you can find more details on jQuery tab in the here. jQueryTab I have created the simple tab sample in jsfildler. http://jsfiddle.net/sammani/mgumC/ To handle the tab selection based on conditions is very simple.What you have to do is to call the “beforeActivate” event & return true or false based on the condition. you can find the sample code here. http://jsfiddle.net/sammani/mgumC/4/ Happy Coding !!!  

  Visual Studio 2012 has new feature where you can deploy your web projects to your production or development server in one click. following are the steps to follow. Step 1: Right click on the web project & select publish. Step 2: Then you will get the following window where we have to configure the deployment settings. There are two ways we can create profiles. Import profile from already created publishsettings file. Create a new profile. In here I will explain how to create a new profile. Step 3: In the Select or import a publish profile drop-down list, choose <New …>, and enter a name for the profile in the New Profile dialog box.   Step 4: After that you will get the following window where you have to set up the connection on the deployment.   Publish method    If you select Web Deploy and you are publishing to IIS on your own computer for testing, you must have administrative rights on your computer, and Visual Studio must...