HTML5 Intellisense in Visual Studio 2010/2008

Recently I was playing with HTML5 and I was in need of the HTML5 intellisense in Visual Studio 2010. I found a great extension which will provide me a great intellisense for HTML5. I thought its great to share with you all.  You can download that tool from following link.

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d771cbc8-d60a-40b0-a1d8-f19fc393127d

Once you download install it. You need to change your validation to HTML5 in your Visual Studio 2010 configuration. For that you have to go to Tools->Options->Text Editor->HTML->Validation and there you need to select the HTML5 like following.



That’s it now your visual studio 2010 or 2008 will have intellisense for HTM5. Just like following.



That’s it. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more..Happy programming.

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What’s new in SQL Server ‘Denali’ Management Studio.

Before sometime Microsoft has launched SQL Server Denali CTP a new version of SQL Server. I have downloaded it and install it on my machine. I have found variety of new features in SQL Server. Today I am going to explore some of the new features in SQL Server Denali Management Studio. Following are some of the new features of SQL Server Denali Management Studio.

New Font and New Colour Scheme:

First thing you notice when you start SQL Server Management Studio is the colour scheme it has nice blue theme just like Visual Studio 2010. Also if you see that now the default font is ‘Consolas’. Just like following.

Multi monitor Support:

Now SQL Server management Studio also can be work in multi monitor also. You can drag each window and set it for another monitor.Now you can each window can appeared out of shell of SSMS and You can drag with each window in different monitor like following.

Code Snippets:

Now there are lots of code snippets are available and you can that code snippets via right Click Query window-> Insert snippets like following.



Once you click Insert snippets it will open lots of built in snippets and create syntax for you directly.

Zoom Functionality:

Now you can zoom the query editor window. There is a dropdown given in left bottom corner of the window and you can zoom the query editor windows as you need like following.



There are many more features in SQL Server Denali Management studio. I have just explore few of them. For more details please visit following link which contains lots of list of new features.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174219(v=sql.110).aspx

That’s it. Hope you like it.. Stay tuned for more.. Happy programming.

 

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Task list window in Visual Studio 2010

Task list is a great feature of visual studio and I think its most unappreciated features of Visual Studio 2010 and most of developers are not aware of it or don’t know about it and that’s why they are not using it. So I decided to write blog post about it.

As .NET Developer we spend lots of time writing code with Microsoft Visual Studio and sometimes we need to write comments for future reference like for debugging we need to some code undone or we need to write some code in future at that time this Task List feature of Microsoft Visual Studio comes very handy .

Let’s first see how we can configure Task List Window in Visual Studio to help us better in coding. You can configure Task List window options via Tools-> options then go to Environment and then click Task list then a window will appear like following.



Here you can see the Standard Token of Visual Studio Also you can add your own Tokens also..You can see task list window via View-> Task List window like following. or you can use short cut like Ctrl +\,T.



and Task list window will appear like below.



Task list windows show two kind of task list one 1) User Task 2) Token Comments.
User Task are like general comment or general task that developer need to remember during development of project. You can see the the in above picture I have added one task for login code.

As we already know we can configure various token comments via configuration area and that comments will listed in Task list window. Let’s write some like below which contains TODO Token and then we will list that stuff with Task list Window.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace Blogging
{
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }
    public void DoSomething()
    {
        //TODO : I have to write code for do something
    }

    public void DoAnotherThing()
    {
        //TODO : I have also wirte code for Do another thing.
    }
}
}

As you can see in above code there are two TODO events and let’s see how it it list in task list windows so let’s open task list window and select comments from dropdown and here you go its appearing in TaskList window as following.



That’s it. You can see Task list window is making developers life more easy. Hope you liked it. Stay tuned for more.

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