C# 6.0–Static class using statement

This blog post is part of C# 6.0 Features Series.

C# 6.0 version introduced lot of small features and one of that features is  using feature. Now with C# 6.0 you can use using statement which was not possible in earlier versions of  C#. Following is a example of using statement in C#.

using static System.Console;

namespace StaticClassUsing
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            WriteLine("With using statement");
        }
    }
}

And below is output when you run your application.

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C# 6.0–Auto implemented property initializer

This blog post is part of C# 6.0 Features Series.

As we all know C# 6.0 is there in preview mode and Microsoft has added few small features to C# 6.0 which helps  lot while you develop application. In today’s blog post we are going to learn one more small feature called “Auto implemented property initializers”.

Developers working on C# used a automatic properties a lot and there has been lot of demands from developers that automatic properties should a have initializers and Microsoft has listened to that feedback and with C# 6.0 it has been introduced. So now we don’t have to use constructors to initialize automatic properties and there will be less and much cleaner code for Automatic property initializations.

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Continuous Integration with visualstudio.com,Unit Test(Test Driven Development) and TFS

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Before some time I have written a blog post about Continuous integration with visualstudio.com and TFS and It goes quite a good number visits and lots of people are asking for unit test integration with continuous integration too. Today one of colleague also asked for the same. I thought it will be good idea to write a Blog post about it.

In this blog post we are going to create a new MVC application with a Test Project so that we can run tests and configure unit test with continuous integration. So Let’s first create a new application in visual studio.com.

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