Visual Studio

Tim Heuer takes a look at what a code snippet is in Visual Studio 2005, some examples of them, tools to create them, and a community resource for sharing code snippets on GotCodeSnippets.NET.

Visual Studio 2005 provides an easy way to manage the development environment through an XML schema structure. Thom Robbins shows how you can import and export settings using Visual Studio 2005.

XML Comments is a new feature for VB.NET developers within Visual Studio 2005. In this video Thom Robbins takes a look at how it can be used.

Visual Studio 2005 introduces Web Parts as a native part of the .NET Framework. In this video Thom Robbins shows how they can be used.

Thom Robbins takes a look at the Report Viewer Control within Visual Studio 2005. This new control provides a way to include reports directly within application projects.

Thom Robbins shows how you can use the object data source within Visual Studio 2005 to bind against a Web Service.

If you have been developing with ASP.Net you may have used some custom built page templating system.  Now in ASP.Net 2.0 the templating functionality is built in and its called Master Pages.  Thom Robbins provides a simple demonstration of what they look like in VS2005.…

Thom Robbins introduces us to the new Class Designer in VS2005.  Looks like someday you'll only need a TabletPC and an ink pen to "draw" your application.  Who needs a keyboard?

Thom Robbins shows off the new Data Source Configuration Wizard and how VS 2005 can get your datagrid connected faster than ever.  Notice the Object as a choice for data sources, good stuff!

Thom Robbins demonstrates that Edit and Continue has indeed returned in VS 2005.