How to Install IIS in Windows 8..1

 
Its best practice to install webserver and then install visual studio for web app development . This will automatically configure the required files while installing Visual Studio 2013
Go to Run command type appwiz.cpl

Click on Turn Windows Features on or OFF

The Following windows features screen appears

Click Internet Information Services Check Box

 

 

 

Press Ok. Windows Features will apply changes ,

When you select internet information services, the IIS and its required features are installed by default  , These features will help you to run and host website . However if you further require the framework extensibility, WWW services or security you can check the features that you require.  You can edit these settings whenever you need provided you are an admin to the system. You need to do a reset IIS (iisreset) to get this effected after the edit.

Now you can go ahead and install visual studio 2013

Hope this helps  .

 

VS 2010 Ultimate RC crashes

I installed RC Ultimate working fine till yesterday. Suddenly today I got the problem as Microsoft Visual Studio has encountered a problem and needs to close.


As the restart check box is checked the message is continuous and annoying.

I rebooted the system, reset the settings reset user data tried different scenarios.
But none of them worked. Suddenly I remembered that I have turned on handwriting settings in the morning for some reason.

So I just removed the hand writing settings and open the visual studio. I didn't even restart the system.



It worked.When I add the handwriting settings the problem again araises.Hope this is bug in RC2 and will be fixed by RTM.

I am using Windows XP SP3 running in my box.

So please be sure to check handwriting settings when ever your VS2010 crashes.

Incremental Search in Visual Studio I DE

Have you ever used Incremental search in Visual Studio. If not just try it.
Incremental Search is a feature in VS 2010 to search for particular term or keyword in the current document. Here the search is driven by key strokes as it allows you to type for the search term, with out interacting UI.
You can do incremental search by navigating to Edit->Advanced->Incremental Search or
Press Ctrl+I. Start typing the text you are searching for. You'll see the cursor jump to the first match, highlighting the same search string:
Pressing ESC or clicking on mouse will stop the incremental search.
The searched term appears in find box as well.
Press Shift+Ctrl+I to navigate to previous.

Happy Coding

Visual Studio 2010 Series

DotnetSlackers has published my articles on VS2010, please check this link that explains on VS2010 new features.
The features are explained in a very clear manner to be understandable to the beginner also.

VS2010 IDE enhancements are explained in detail

The features of Code improvements, Code intellisence, Consume first, Pascal Casing search and intellisense, Call Hierarchy ,Highlight references are explained in depth.

VS2010 series of articles
Part2
In this article I explained Multi monitor support, Multi targeting, Parallel Development, Side by Side execution, Backward compatibility and SqlServer 2008 integration.

Part3
Part 3 In this article I am going to explain Add Reference enhancements for developers, Windows 7 support for developers, Share Point 2010 enhancements , Office Business Application Support, Cloud Development, Document Map Margin and Visual Studio 2010 Tips.

Please feel free to tweet or dig this, feedback on the article, if you find that article is interesting.

This is because of my hard work and time that I have spent on this during weekends.
I am thankful to my family, parents and in-laws, friends who is constantly supporting and encouraging me.

[UPDATE]
I am very happy to share that These articles are featured in MSDN

Multi Targeting Support in VS 2008

Introduction

Vs 2008 is the MS latest IDE for developing Windows, Web, Smart Device Applications. It comes along with .NET Framework 3.5, C# 3.0, LINQ, ASP.NET AJAX and VSTO . Now with the power of VS 2008 we can target multiple versions of .NET Framework.
Installation steps here

VS 2008 Multi-Targeting Support:

Previously every VisualStudio release supports its own specific version of .NET Framework.
That is VS 2002 with .NET 1.0
VS 2003 with .NET 1.1
VS 2005 with .NET 2.0
VS2008 now supports 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Frameworks.

For example if we want to run /create /modify ASP.NET 2.0 application from VS 2008, we can easily do that. The advanced features, projects, controls and assembly references that don't work with 2.0 Version of the framework will be hidden. When we build our application we'll be able to take the compiled output and copy it onto a machine that only has a 2.0 version of the .NET Framework installed. No doubt the application works.


And now we will be able to take advantage with our existing projects without having to upgrade our framework/ASP.NET version.

These features are
1. JavaScript intellisence
2. JavaScript debugging that is not possible in previous versions
3. Nested ASP.NET master page support at design-time
4. CSS editing and layout support within designer
5. Split-view designer for having both source and design views open on a page at the same
6. AJAX Control Extender support etc.

Upgrading to new version using VS2008

Click on Project Properties in Solution Exploere. Now Click on Application We can change the "Target Framework" dropdown to select the version of the framework we want the project to target. After selecting the framework will cause VS to automatically update compiler settings and references for the project to use the correct framework version. System.Core, System.Web.Extensions, System.Xml.Linq are the 3 new dll references that are added I 3.5 framework. There are also newly added controls like ListView and LinqDaraSource in VS 2008 . We can see these controls once we upgrade to 3.5 Frame work.
NET 3.5 which delivers new ASP.NET controls/runtime features and provides built-in ASP.NET AJAX support .
We are no longer need to download the separate ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 install as its built-in with the .NET 3.5 setup

Limitation:

Multi-targeting support works with versions .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 only. That means it will not work for .NET 1.0 or .NET 1.1 versions. The reason is that there were significant CLR engine changes between .NET 1.x and 2.x. This makes debugging difficult to support. We can run VS 2003, and VS 2002 targeting 1.0 or 1.1 Framework on the same machine as VS 2008.

Conclusion:

Multi- Targeting in VS 2008 is explained clearly
Note
Download VS2008 from here