Visual Studio:

Winners of Windows Phone competition announced, more NZ Windows Phone apps

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:49 +1200

Microsoft has announced the winners four Samsung Focus Flash Phones in New Zealand.

Shane S Anderson - Auckland Bus Stops

Donald Dingwall - Tap That

Brian Donovan-Smith - Ye Be Lame

Craig Moodie - Hip Hop Blo... (more in the full post)

Customise your Visual Studio 2010 colour scheme

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:12 +1200

While the default blue on white base colour scheme in Visual Studio 2010 is fine for most, some people (like myself and several of my colleagues) prefer working against a darker background or with different sets of font styles and colours - in my cas... (more in the full post)

Secure Development Tips and Techniques for use in Asp.net websites and web applications

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:42 +1200

When developing any type of website or web application in .Net there are plenty of tips to help make sure your creation is protected against hackers and scanners.

I have compiled a check list of tips and techniques that I have built up in th... (more in the full post)

NuGet Package Manager extension for Visual Studio 2010

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:48 +1200

One of the most exciting add-on extensions that have appeared for Visual Studio 2010 has to be Nuget.

Without a doubt it has profoundly changed the way we work with external libraries and dependencies in our projects here at Red Jungle.

... (more in the full post)

Competition: be in to win one of four Samsung Focus Flash Windows Phone by developing a Windows Phone app

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:00 +1200

NOTE: Your app doesn't have to be published on the Marketplace by January 31st, but it should have been submitted. If you still don't have a Marketplace account, email us a screenshot of your app to get a free one-year Marketplace token.

So ... (more in the full post)

Consuming JSON web APIs with Visual Studio

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:59 +1200

Most web APIs (including the recently introduced Geekzone API) will happily return a JSON result. Using a little serializing and de-serializing magic from JSON.NET it's now a trivial task to consume such services in a nice object oriented way. In thi... (more in the full post)

Test driven development in Visual Studio 2010

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 02:33 +1200

For every development project it is definitely a great idea to incorporate some sort of testing, either automated or by user. In this blog post I will be covering some of the basics with automated testing using Visual Studio 2010, more specifically U... (more in the full post)

Web.config transforms

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:21 +1200

Most web applications (and probably all ASP.NET applications) will, as they go through the various stages of the development and deployment process, be required to run in a number of different environments with different characteristics. A developme... (more in the full post)

Getting Started with Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:45 +1200

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is the newest edition of the Visual Studio Family. It's a simplified, self-service development tool that enables you to build business applications quickly and easily for the desktop and cloud, regardless of y... (more in the full post)

Welcome to the Visual Studio blog on Geekzone!

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:05 +1200

Hello and welcome to this Microsoft-sponsored Visual Studio blog on Geekzone. A few years back we ran the quite successful Visual Studio 2008 blog, a curated blog where some developers from the New Zealand .Net community had a space to share tips, tr... (more in the full post)