VS 2010 –Some amazing features

For the past some months I'm looking into what’s there will be with Visual Studio 2010.At its beta releases VS 2010 faced a series of problems(Installer crash,Add reference empty in Silverlight project, Smart device project creation problem). Now they fixed most of the issues in the latest releases.I’m describing some of the cool new features with 2010 IDE.

View Call Hierarchy

By this we can see the hierarchical list of function usage.We can see the parameter details and function location.

Data & Schema Comparer

Previously most of us struggle a lot in comparing data's and schemas in and between databases. Also there was some third party tools Sql tool belt from Redgate, its so expensive.In Visual Studio 2010(I'm using vs 2010 ultimate) there is a new schema and data comparison tool.You can select two different databases and run the comparison task.

Architectural and UML Model Explorer

This is quite useful for functional & architect.In the tool bat Select->Architecture->Windows->Architecture Explorer.Dig into it and do more!!!

Debugging With IntelliTrace

Visual Studio 2010 had a vast changes in the debugging sections.One of the cool feature is “IntelliTrace” which will more helpful while debugging the application as it provide a detailed picture of the debug info , you can record debug information and we can later look up into the previous debug info.

With IntelliTrace, you can actually see events that occurred in the past and the context in which they occurred. This reduces the number of restarts that are required to debug your application and the possibility that an error will fail to reproduce when you rerun the application.

Also we can pin-in values to variables  while debugging!!!

Read more in MSDN Click here

Read more about debugging information on ScottGu Blog Click here

Also VS 2010 newly added

• Optional & Named parameters(like old vb 6)
• Insert Code Snippet for JS,Html
• We drag windows outside the model-Multi monitor support(Like we drag a tab to another window in Firefox&chrome)

And many more…that i will update in this chain.

Go and Rocks with VS 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Converting “Var” to Dataset

After a long time back i’m into my blog…Didn’t get enough time to sit with the things..

In some cases we need to convert the anonymous datatype var to a dataset or datatable.we cant do it directly as so.Here is a

Simple method that will return the var or List item to dataset

   public static DataSet ToDataSet(List list)
    {

        Type type = typeof(T);
        DataSet ds = new DataSet("Company");
        DataTable dt = new DataTable("Contacts");
        ds.Tables.Add(dt);
        //Dynamically adding columns to data table
        foreach (var propInfo in type.GetProperties())
        {
            dt.Columns.Add(propInfo.Name, propInfo.PropertyType);

            //You can add columns manually also here
            if (propInfo.Name == "ID")
            {
                dt.Columns.Add("Photo");
            }
        }
        foreach (T item in list)
        {
            DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();
            foreach (var propInfo in type.GetProperties())
            {
                dr[propInfo.Name] = propInfo.GetValue(item, null);
            } 
            dt.Rows.Add(dr);
        }
        return ds;
    }