Today I had to work in a source code of a particular exe(built in .net). I knew which Visual Studio solution has the source code for this exe file. But not exactly where in the VS solution explorer. So pressed Ctrl+Shift+F to search and locate the file.

I could open the file, could locate the file on the drive but not in the huge VS solution explorer which contains  several Solution folders. It's a pain opening every solution folder and project to check if the file belongs to the particular project.

Here is a very nice feature of Visual Studio that helped me to figure the file location on the Solution explorer quickly.

Tools->Options

Hope someone finds this useful.

Many of us have been cribbing about windows vista and Windows 7 for its own issues it has got. Even i crib sometimes, but i also exploit the features available as part of it as a developer.

 In my last article on SDLC series I talked about Iterative and Incremental Development methodologies. Now let me try to brief about Waterfall and Iterative development methodologies.
 

Most of us know most of the software development methodologies, but most of the time they look ambiguous.

Enough…

Let me try to put the difference between iterative and incremental methodologies into very simple and precise words to remove the ambiguity.

Converting nrg files created by nero burner can be converted into iso file format by using nrg2iso converter. ISO format is supported by all the burners.

We are working on an application and which had got login screen as an entry page. One day all the developers were getting time out error from the development database when they launch the application.

Ok fine. But we were able to connect to the Sql server without any issues. So Server availability was not an issue. We were able to query all the tables without any issue except the UserInfo table. UserInfo was the table which had got user credentials.

One of the features added as part of language enhancements in dotnet 2.0 is anonymous method.

What is anonymous method?

A delegate with no named method associated with it is an anonymous method.

When do we use it?

When we do not want to have a separate method for a delegate

When we need to access the local variables

 Creating a cutom control on silverlight 2 and applying default style to that

Most of us blog these days regularly. But it’s not very comfortable writing blog post directly inside the browser.  Not all blog service providers support interim save to avoid accident lose of content, spell check and other commonly used features that any word processors provide.

But we are smart enough to overcome this problem. So we frame the content in note pad or word processor. Later we copy from word processor and paste in blog. But it’s again a pain of pasting in the blog composer like security issues from accessing clipboard, losing the format and many more hurdles. Sometime it also discourages us from blogging.