Visual Studio Tutor

To configure and setup Microsoft symbol servers with Visual Studio, follow the below steps: In the Visual Studio Tools menu, select Options. When the Options dialog opens, select the Debugging node, and click Symbols. In the Symbols page, select Microsoft Symbol Servers in the Symbol files (.pdb) locations box. Set the symbol cache directory by either [...]

Visual Studio can be installed from an ISO file using one of the below two methods: Burn the Visual Studio ISO file to a CD/DVD with CD/DVD burning software such as Nero or Roxio etc.  and then run the CD/DVD to install VS. Use a Virtual CD/DVD Drive Software which can run an .ISO file [...]

To change the default browser Visual Studio opens when running a web application simply follow the below 3 steps: Right-Click on any webform ( such as default.aspx ). Select “Browse With…” In the dialog box you will be shown the currently installed browsers. Highlight the browser you wish to use and click the Set as [...]

To debug a stored procedure (sproc) in Visual Studio follow the below steps Start Visual Studio and then create a new SQL Server project (File > New > Project > Database Projects) In the dialog box, select the database (in this example the NORTHWIND database) and click Yes to create the project. Add a  new [...]

There are three methods for turning off Javascript debugging in Visual Studio (which is enabled by default). Method 1 Start the application without debugging it (press Ctrl + F5) Attach the Visual Studio Debugger to WebDev.WebServer.exe process Method 2 Right click the app to debug and select Properties Hit the Web tab on the left [...]

To use Visual Studio remote debugging both the remote machine and the local machine need to be in the same domain. Ensure that you are using the same account / password on both machines and that both have Administrator privileges. Then follow the below steps to implement remote debugging: Log on the remote machine  with [...]

Introduction As a DBA, you will be responsible for managing several of the SQL Server instances; some of which may have similar setup and configuration while the other might be having completely different setup and configuration. On each instance there might be some server level objects for which you would like to maintain a change [...]

Introduction Prior to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, managing database projects had been a real challenge. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Database Professional Edition (also known as Data dude) simplified this process and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition GDR 2 further, along with several bug fixes, enhanced its capability to support newest feature of SQL Server 2008. New release i.e. Microsoft Visual [...]

Visual Studio LightSwitch (previously codenamed Kitty Hawk) is a new VS extension from Microsoft which is targeted at professional developers looking to create custom enterprise apps using data from multiple sources. Developers building apps for large enterprises often encounter the problem that the data required to be pulled into the app exists in numerous different [...]

T4 is a Visual Studio code-generation language which was introduced with Visual Studio 2005. T4 templates are used in the Entity Framework and MVC and can be useful for your own development purposes. T4 is not tightly integrated into Visual Studio and there iss no item templates in File > New Item and no intellisense [...]