Visual Studio Code - A Free Cross-Platform Code Editor For OS X, Linux And Windows

Introduction:

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice-president of cloud and enterprise introduced Visual Studio Code at Microsoft Build 2015 conference held on Wednesday. Visual Studio Code is the first code editor and first cross-platform development tool supported by the OSX, Linux and Windows in the Visual Studio Family. Visual Studio Code provide built-in support for ASP.NET 5 development with C#, Node.js as well as for web technologies such as HTML, CSS, Less, SASS and JSON etc.

Installation Procedure:
Go to https://code.visualstudio.com/ and Click on Code for Windows button.

or Go to https://www.visualstudio.com/products/code-vs and Click on Download Code button.

Select operating system/platform on which you want to install (Code is free and available on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows). I am going to install it on my Windows 8 Operating System.

After Downloading VSCodeSetup.exe (58 MB approx), Double click on setup. It will hardly take 1 minute to complete the installation.

Installation Completed Successfully. We are ready to explore its cool feature.

User Interface of VSCode is divided into 4 areas:
1. Editor
2. Sidebar
3. Statusbar
4. Viewbar

Features:
1. Command Palette:
With the help of Command Palette, you can access all the functionality of VSCode. Press Ctrl+Shift+P or F1 to open the Command Palette.

2. Multi-Cursor:
VSCode has support for Multiple cursors. You can edit the same file at multiple places by pressing Alt+Click which will add another cursor(much Similar to the Sublime Editor).

3. IntelliSense and Syntax coloring:

4. Debugging, Themes Customization and lots of other features

For more information, visit https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs
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AutoCompleteTextBox in C# Windows Form Application

In this Article, We will learn how to create AutoCompleteTextBox using C# Windows Form Application. In my previous article, we learned How to Search Records in DataGridView Using C#.

Let's Begin.
Create a new Windows Form Application.

Drop a Label and TextBox Control from the ToolBox.

Now go to Code behind file(.cs code) and add the following Code:

using System; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace AutoCompleteTextBoxDemo {     public partial class Form1 : Form     {         public Form1()         {             InitializeComponent();         }         //AutoCompleteData Method         private void autoCompleteData()         {             //Set AutoCompleteSource property of txt_StateName as CustomSource             txt_StateName.AutoCompleteSource = AutoCompleteSource.CustomSource;             //Set AutoCompleteMode property of txt_StateName as SuggestAppend. SuggestAppend Applies both Suggest and Append             txt_StateName.AutoCompleteMode = AutoCompleteMode.SuggestAppend;             txt_StateName.AutoCompleteCustomSource.AddRange(new string[]{"Maharastra","Andhra Pradesh","Assam","Punjab","Arunachal Pradesh","Bihar","Goa","Gujarat","Haryana"});         }         private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)         {             autoCompleteData();         }     } }

In the preeceding code, We set the AutoCompleteSource, AutoCompleteMode and AutoCompleteCustomSource properties of Textbox named as txt_StateName so that it automatically completes the input string.
Preview:

AutoComplete TextBox using a Database:
In this example, We will Suggest/Append the data in TextBox(txt_StateName) from the Database. For Demonstration, I have created a Database (named Sample). Add a Table, tbl_State. The following is the table schema for creating tbl_State.

Add the following lines of code:

using System; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Data.SqlClient; namespace AutoCompleteTextBoxDemo {     public partial class Form2 : Form     {         public Form2()         {             InitializeComponent();         }         private void autoCompleteData()         {             SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection("Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=Sample;Integrated Security=true;");             SqlCommand com = new SqlCommand("Select State from tbl_State", con);             con.Open();             SqlDataReader rdr = com.ExecuteReader();             //AutoCompleteStringCollection Contains a collection of strings to use for the auto-complete feature on certain Windows Forms controls.             AutoCompleteStringCollection autoCompleteCollection = new AutoCompleteStringCollection();             while (rdr.Read())             {                 autoCompleteCollection.Add(rdr.GetString(0));             }             //Set AutoCompleteSource property of txt_StateName as CustomSource             txt_StateName.AutoCompleteSource = AutoCompleteSource.CustomSource;             //Set AutoCompleteMode property of txt_StateName as SuggestAppend. SuggestAppend Applies both Suggest and Append             txt_StateName.AutoCompleteMode = AutoCompleteMode.SuggestAppend;             txt_StateName.AutoCompleteCustomSource = autoCompleteCollection;             con.Close();         }         //Form2_Load Event         private void Form2_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)         {             autoCompleteData();         }     } }

Preview:

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[Download Source Code via Google Drive]

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How to Install Windows Phone 8 SDK (Step by Step Guide):

In this Post, We will see How to Install Windows Phone 8 SDK. Before Installing, Have a look at System Requirements for Installing Windows Phone 8 SDK.

You can download Windows Phone 8 SDK from Microsoft's website in two ways:
1) Windows Phone 8 SDK Offline Version (1.6 G.B.).
2) Windows Phone 8 SDK Web Version.

I am going to install it using Offline Installer. Before Installing, Go to Control Panel-> Programs and Features -> Click on Turn Windows features on or off. Install/Turn on Hyper-V.

Now Extract/Mount the .iso file of Windows Phone 8 SDK. and Double Click on WPexpress_full.exe and Install it.

After Successful Installation, Open Visual Studio -> Click on New Project -> Under Windows Phone Template, You will see Windows Phone Application projects.

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