I have downloaded a beta version of VS2010 today. First thing I did was to test the most heard intellisense support. VC++ team has done a great job and finally intellisense for C++ is almost usable and working.
Let the screenshots speak for themselves.
VS2010 intellisense
Intellisense showing method description including the type used for template
Neat description about types
It’s cool. Go and give it a try today!
Have you ever needed to convert a console application to windows application?
Recently, I worked on an application which was created to run on console, but later decided to move to windows application. To make it a windows forms application, you only have to add new windows form to the project. VS will add all necessary references automatically.
Modify your main method like, (more…)
.NET applications uses app.config file to keep the application configuration entries like database connection strings, logging information etc. Using Visual Studio, you can add a new app.config file to your application. In C# and VB.NET projects, app.config will be copied automatically to the output directory and it will be named like <Application>.exe.config where <Application> is your executable name. ConfigurationManager is a helper class which provides a neat interface to the contents of app.config.
With the above information, let us write a simple application which reads AppSettings node from the application configuration file. (more…)
