Visual Studio

At Xamarin Evolve 2013, I caught up with Xamarin CTO Miguel de Icaza after his keynote. It's been a while since I last chatted with Miguel, so it was great to catch up. Clearly, he and team have been very busy pushing Mono forward and building Xamarin—a new technology that enables developers to…

Code Digger is a lightweight version of Pex that allows you to explore public .NET methods in Portable Libraries directly from the Visual Studio 2012 code editor. It's a highly simplified and nifty way to leverage the power of Pex and Z3, one of the…

Welcome to this series of lessons about the C# programming language. In this episode, Bob Tabor from LearnVisualStudio.NET introduces the topic, sets expectations for the series, and provides tips on how to get the most out of it. Bob also tells you where you can download the software you'll need to…

This week on Channel 9, Mark and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including; [01:07] Introducing a new Windows Dev Center experience, Windows Dev Center [02:25] Windows 8.1 at //build (Windows Keeps Getting Better) (Brandon LeBlanc) [03:25] Channel 9 Highlight: Programming Windows with…

This lesson teaches you how to create a simple application—first using Windows Notepad and the C# Command Line Compiler, and then by using Visual Studio or Visual C# Express Edition. The point of this episode is to demonstrate how utilizing an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is far easier…

This lesson picks up from the previous one by discussing at length each completed action and written line of code. It discusses the relationship between the C# code, the C# compiler, the .NET Framework, and more. The lesson discusses the concept of code blocks at a high level explaining how methods,…

Async involves some new concepts. They're not difficult; just unfamiliar. Over the past year Lucian Wischik has been watching how people use async/await in C# and VB. This series distils out the three top async patterns and anti-patterns. Tips: Async void is for top-level event-handlers only, and…

In this lesson we start adding C# syntax to your vocabulary by talking about one of the fundamental building blocks: data types and variables. As well as basic topics such as naming conventions, data type conversions are discussed.    Download the source code for Declaring Variables and…

Today's "I don't know what to call it" Wednesday project is one that's just a little different, not a game or anything, but something I've not seen mentioned too much recently. Visual Studio has these cool things to help you in your debugging, called Visualizers. They help you see beyond…

This lesson demonstrates some common Visual Studio IDE features, various windows, debugging features, code window features, customizations, and more found in Visual C# Express Edition. A more complete discussion of features is found in the Visual C# Express Edition Fundamentals series and the Visual…