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A whole lotta free stuff with Visual Studio Dev Essentials

Published by Rami on June 3, 2016

I recently created a new Visual Studio account to share some code and collaborate with friends. Low and behold, I received an email to activate my “Visual Studio Dev Essentials membership” which include a good and long list of benefits and free stuff! Some of which are: Visual Studio Tools and Services $25/month of Azure Cloud credits for 1 year Xamarin University Training 6-month subscription to Pluralsight SQL Server 2014 Developer Edition Microsoft R Server Developer Edition (Allows you…

Visual Studio 2012 Compatible Project Types

Published by Rami on September 25, 2012

For all the developers who are already working with VS 2012 or thinking about it, here is an article on the projects and project types that it can support. The following article is a summary from the msdn article (Visual Studio 2012 Compatibility) One of the major features in the latest release of VS is that you can work with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 projects and files in both Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2010 SP1. So, if…

Visual Studio 2012 official launch

Published by Rami on September 13, 2012

Yesterday was the formal launch event for Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5, a state-of-the-art development solution for building modern applications that span connected devices and continuous services, from the client to the cloud. The launch keynote covered how Visual Studio 2012 takes you into the next era of software development. The content is available live and for subsequent on-demand viewing from http://visualstudiolaunch.com. Microsoft has a huge line-up of platform this year, from Windows 8 to Windows Phone…

Hands-On Visual Studio 2012

Published by Rami on September 12, 2012

Experience, learn & practice Visual Studio 2012 via guided, multi-lingual and real-life labs. A series of hands-on-labs, with videos, demo scripts, supporting documents and a virtual lab, that falls under the umbrella of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). In These labs you will learn all about the new capabilities of Visual Studio 2012 for application development and get the best out of it for you or your development team. Below are links to a couple of Labs. Check out…

Visual Studio and Oracle Client on Windows 7 x64

Published by Rami on October 20, 2011

I am currently developing an Asp.net application that connects to an Oracle Database on another server. it was working fine on my development machine Windows7 32bit (x86) with visual studio 2008 and using Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (32bit). when running my application on IIS or from VS, the application would easily connect to the Oracle Database with no problem. Lately i decided to upgrade to Windows7 (x64) machine. But when i ran my application…

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A whole lotta free stuff with Visual Studio Dev Essentials

Visual Studio 2012 Compatible Project Types

Visual Studio 2012 official launch

Hands-On Visual Studio 2012

Visual Studio and Oracle Client on Windows 7 x64