New Cool Features present in Visual Studio 2017 RC

Today we are going to see what are the new features present in the visual studio 2017 RC version, its a great version of visual studio, more support for intellisense to support developers. Let we see one by one.


1. Goto
2. Advanced Intellisense Window
3. Advanced Reference Window 
4. Predictive intellisense
5. Run execution Here
6. Performance data on Debug
7. Xaml Edit and Continue
8. Live Test Run
9. Xaml Predicitive Intellisense
10. Xaml Rename
11. Xaml Namespace
12. References information above members
13. Open Folder option in Editor
14. More Faster build and launch



Goto :

Click the Edit menu and select the Goto option, you can find many options like Type, All, Members, symbols, classes etc ..
This will launch the Window for Goto the specific code place.

Advance Intellisense Window:

In newer version we can find the intellisense window is separated or group against, classes, members, propeties etc

Predictive intellisense

In newer version when user types the input for a method, the values predictive to the equal to the actual one based on type.

Advance References Window

In newer version The reference Window are showing the results with grouping of places against files.

Run Execution here

In newer version when user breakpoints the code, then they can see the each and every line after the break point have a run buttton on left side of each line of code, that means if they click that button then the code executes and stops at that position, 

Performance options

In newer version performance data are shown in the debug mode like number of seconds to took reach  the certain place.

Xaml Edit and continue

In newer version we can able to edit the value of xaml and see the changes in the UI. using visual tree helper.

Live Test Run

In newer version we can run a Live test run , by click on the Test menu--> then click on the Live unit Test

This will run a Live test run and shows the result in  the live windows, even we can in the left of each member an information regarding whether this member have any test cases or not

Xaml Predicitive Intellisense

In newer version Xaml have a Predicitive intellisense, with more faster and quicker, just with in the shorter type we can get the value for example For ColumnSpan  we can type  CS, it will bring the value

Xaml Rename

In newer version we can select any one xaml tag candidate and rename it, it will change the dependency also in xaml

Xaml Namespace

In newer version Xaml Namspace issues are showed in intellisense, if you miss the namespace then intellisense will suggest you solution

Reference information of members

In newer version we can see information on each members like number of references for each members

Open Folder option

In newer version we can have new option called Open Folder option to work with project , in newer Angular 2 are all having this kind of options



Faster Build and launch 

The newer version is faster in launch and build , when compare to previous versions.








From this you can learn some new cool features present in the Visual studio 2017 RC.

Installing the Extension in Visual studio 2013 results in The Extension Manifest in Invalid [Resolved]

In this article we are going to see some problems and there solutions, for example you may had came across a error when installing a extension in Visual studio 2013 like "Extension Manifest is Invalid".

Why this error occur ?
  This is because in your system , you may have various versions of visual studio when double click the extension it target the wrong  version , i.e you may have visual studio 2013 in ur sysetm , later you are installing Visual studio 2010 for some purpose now this causes the porblem.

To solve this problem many of them will re install the visual studio 2013, then it will  work , to avoid this we can do this simple steps.

Steps:

1. Right click the extension and select Open with options.



2. In the above options select more Options to browse
3.Then scroll down to click the Look for another app in this PC to Browse 




4. Go to the Following Vs installation path 
   "{{installtion Drive}}\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Visual studio 12.0\Common 7\IDE\VSIXinstaller.exe"        to browse for vsix installer.

5.After select this you can see the icon for the Extension will change as like this 

From this article you can solve some problem in the installation of extension in the visual studio 2013.

Unable to connect TFS with in VS2013 in windows 8.1 - Resolved

    In this article we are going to see some problem and it's solutions, sometimes you can notice that unable to connect TFS with in Visual studio 2013 in windows 8.1, But it will work in some other visual studio versions.

Error Message will be like this format :
Unable to connect to this Team Foundation Server http://{{server}}:8080/tfs

Why this error occur ? In depth you can see a another error message that specifies "key not valid to use in specified state when entering source control

To Avoid this error and connect the TFS successfully with visual studio follow the below steps.


Solution:

1. Close all instance of the Visual studio 2013.
2. Delete the following Key "TokenStorage" from RegEdit, to do that follow the below steps
3. press Windows + R
4. Type RegEdit in run window and enter.
5. Now Register Editor will launch.
6. Iterate to the following key in Regedit and Delete the Key
7. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VSCommon\12.0\ClientServices\TokenStorage

From this article you can solve problems related to TFS connect with visual studio.