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Hope most of you are aware of Nuget packages. It is a way to get 3rd party libraries into your project. Nuget also makes developer's life easier by checking for updates for all the available libraries. Apart from this Nuget also provides package restoration option, which is disabled by default. Another annoying thing about restoration is, it is very very slow. So, it means that until your restoration is complete, you can not do anything. What is the solution or workaround of this slow restoration of Nuget package ? Well, one workaround can be instead of restoring packages from Visual Studio, why can't we do it outside of Visual Studio. Interesting, isn't it ??? A Very simple and straight forward command to do this is: NuGet.exe restore [SolutionFile] –PackagesDirectory [PackagesDirectory]

We all know that DataBinding is one of the most powerful concept of WPF. So, today I thought to write something on how to troubleshoot data binding related issues while working with any XAML based application. Here I'll not talk about what and how data binding works, instead I'll jump directly on the relevant part. So, let's start by picking up the troubleshooting methods which can make developer's work bit easy. Way 1: Using Visual Studio output window Visual Studio provides high level information about binding which is sufficient to resolve very small problems like name mismatch, etc. Let's understand this along with a code snippet: <Grid> <TextBlock Text= " {Binding ElementName=label, Path=Hello, Mode=OneWay}" /> <Label Content= " Welcome" Name= " label" /> </Grid> Now open your output window and press F5, application will launch. In output window, you will notice that the message...

Introduction Nowadays, we see that software development process is shifting from enterprise-driven process to consumer-focused approach, in which applications are fully based on the taste of consumer market and the devices they want to use. And the speed at which these devices and platform are emerging, it is becoming more and more challenging for developers. Earlier applications were used to run on a server or a desktop but today many more devices like smartphones, tablets are becoming ubiquitous. So, in this case developer must either create applications that work on multiple platforms or make applications tailored to each platform with similar logic and the most important thing is, there should be a connected experience that allow user to seamlessly move among all these devices and platforms. But as long as Microsoft is with developers, developers need not worry. Agree ???  Visual Studio 2012   Launch of  Visual Studio 2012  solved a lot of pr...

As part of assignment, I was working on a project, which is having 137 projects Windows Form in a solution. Whenever I was building my solution, I was getting Out-Of-Memory error and due to this my Visual Studio use to get crash. Then the only solution left with me was to restart my Visual Studio  L . Earlier I as facing this issue once a while, but from last week, it is occurring frequently. Hope you can imagine, how painful it is restart the Visual Studio every now-and-then, especially when your solution contains such a huge number of projects. My error was something like this: “ The "ResolveManifestFiles" task failed unexpectedly. System.OutOfMemoryException: Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program.”   The only thing, which was coming into my mind, was that it is due to Visual Studio’s memory limits. I also tried to minimize Visual Studio, but no luck :( . After consulting with few people, I got an idea to breakup my solution into multiple s...

Recently I came across an error "Resource name can not be used more then once". Apart from this, error message was not showing any other information, not even line number, file name, nothing. Generally such errors came, when there is any duplicate key present in resource file, but in my case, I was not using any resource file also. So, there is no chance of duplicate keys also. I tried to hit my head many times for some online help, but no luck :( One thing I noticed was, after building my solution (it was in VS2010) for 3-4 times continuously, error was thrown. Please note, I was just building the solution, without doing any modification in my code or in any of the files. Still I didn't get any clue. So, finally I thought to remove one one project from my solution and build. Till 4-5 projects I removed and I didn't get any clue till yet. Suddenly I found that, Obj folder is added to my solution explorer. This obj folder holds all temporary files with few .resour...

In day-to-day life developers use to write huge logic involving many braces ({,}) in the code. Reaching to end/start of any condition gets complex as the lines of code increases. To simplify the same, one can use key combination of Ctrl+]. To use the given key combination, place the cursor on any brace and hit Ctrl+]. If the brace is an end brace, the control will move to the matching brace i.e. start brace of the condition and vice versa. Also the same key combination can be used to navigate to the matching comment (/*, */) or region (#region). In these cases, the cursor position should be on the comment or the region respectively. Hope this helps !!! CodeProject

Every once in a while, VS seems to take forever to display a screen to the point that it seems to hang. Most of the time, it hangs, while accessing Fonts and Colors page in Tools/Options dialog. The issue is not that there is some weird code that executes very slowly. It happens that this page is implemented using .NET components. Now the majority of VS is built with native code and during most of its execution,, the CLR is never loaded. However, when the user accesses one of these features, the CLR must be loaded, before we can begin executing the relevant IL. It is this process that is time-consuming and annoying to the user. There are two problems for the users here: first, there is no feedback during loading of the CLR; second: the problem can occur multiple times within a single session of VS. I am trying to figure out the reason for this second issue. Let me know, if any of you knows.