Visual Studio 2017 has a re-designed the start page that prioritizes and rearranged items, which made it cleaner and easy to access on the things that you need to get it started. Be it a Most Recent Used (MRU) project lists, opening an existing project or even choosing the project template for your new project […]
Visual Studio 2017 having a reshaped start page. Be it with getting started documents, picking up your recent projects, or evening creating a new project. This has everything to get you started. Creating the new project has an altogether a new section to start up a new project. When you select the “Create new project…” […]
In Visual Studio, you can use Exception Settings Window to manage the exceptions – for which exception to break, at which point to break, to add or deleting exceptions. The Exception Settings windows for Visual Studio is there for quite some time. You can open the exception settings window by navigating from Debug -> Windows […]
During debugging in Visual Studio, attaching to a process is a very common activity, and as a developer, we are all familiar with it. We can attach the Visual Studio debugger to a running process by navigating from Debug > Attach to Process (Ctrl+Alt+P) and then select the specific process from the Attach to Process […]
“Expression-bodied methods” were introduced with C# 6.0, that simplify the syntactic expression for methods in C#. C# 7.0 extend this features for several new members including constructor, destructor, property assessors etc, and we have seen this one of our previous post – Expression – Bodied Members in C# 7.0. C# 7.0, also introduced local function by […]
During development, often we use literal in our code. They are the fixed values which may not alter during the code execution. Sometime these values are large, and sometime small. If it is small, it’s ok. If it long representation, it could be hard to read. Making them separate could help read them better. C# […]
In C# 7.0, you can now have your helper function defined with in the method itself. The local function can access all the local variables, and can also make use of lambda expression or even async-await. However, They aren’t available outside though.
In C#, we often used Out parameter, as like call by reference, mostly when we want to return multiple values from a method. Whenever we call a method with an Out parameter, we must have to declare that variable first, before we use it. Now, with C# 7.0, we can directly declare the Out Variable […]
In one of our previous post, Expression – Bodied Members in C# 7.0 , we have seen how C# 7.0 extended the expression bodied members features for several new members including constructor, destructor, property assessors etc. C# 7.0 also introduces throw expressions, using which you can now throw an exception along with expression-bodied members, conditional expressions […]
The Interactive Window in Visual Studio is a great utility to play around the code, language features, API’s and other .NET framework features. The Interactive Window also support features like IntelliSense, syntax highlighting and navigating through executed commands. Previously we have seen several tips around the C# Interactive Window, but there is one very […]
In Visual Studio 2017 dotted structure guide lines in your code, between the curly braces ({}), helps in identifying the individual blocks easily. Also, hover over on the lines, it will shows the tooltip with opening of that block and its parents. In the previous post we have seen how to Turning On/Off “Structure […]
Visual Studio 2017 introduced an interesting feature that draw a dotted structure guide lines on your code. It draw a dotted vertical line between the curly braces ({}) to identify the individual blocks easily. If you hover over on the lines, it will shows you a tooltip with the opening of that block and its […]