IBloggable - implemented

<strong>This article is written on a pre-release version. Things mentioned below are bound to change in future releases.</strong>

If you want to know the current screen resolution and the pixels per inch (PPI) scale that your app is having to deal with on any device, use ResolutionScale.

This article is written on pre-release version of the software and is subject to change in future release.

I recently started getting to know about Metro Style Apps on Windows 8. It looks pretty interesting so far and VS2011 definitely helps making it easier to learn and create Metro Style Apps. One of the features available for developers is the ability to save user data so it can be retrieved the next time the app is run after being closed by the user or even launched from back suspended state.

To add a asp:DetailsView, all I typed was <dv, and it’s there for you.

Some time back I blogged about Parallel Tasks that was introduced in .net 4.0. This was a part of the Task Parallel Library (TPL) made available to the developer community to add parallel / concurrency concepts to their applications.

I got to know about this DebuggerDisplay attribute that you can use on your types for ease of debugging, seems like this has been there since VS2005.

The more I play with VS 2011 (in Dev Preview, don’t hold me if things in future versions don’t have what I’ve mentioned below), the more interesting I find it. Productivity Power Tools is a VS plugin which has some interesting features (blogged here) and one of them was the Solution Navigator. A good number of the features from Solution Navigator have been incorporated in the good ol’ Solution Explorer now.