Playful Code Adventures
Practice debugging and troubleshooting. Solving code problems can be a challenge, especially when the errors aren't obvious. With a bit of debugging practice, though, you can learn to quickly identify and fix common errors. One of the ways you can practice your troubleshooting and critical thinking skills is to take an application that is broken, ...continue reading "Debugging Code: Poem Generator (C#)"
One button to control it all! Create a simple proof-of-concept UWP application with a dynamic button. Navigate linear content stored in an array with one 'Next' button. After all content has been shown, button text changes from 'Next' to 'Start Over'. Notes This post is an update of the Dynamic Button (Windows Form). This tutorial ...continue reading "Dynamic Button UWP: Navigate Array Content"
Code text editor and IDE recommendations. Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and text editors (for coding) can make programming much easier with syntax coloring and other helpful options. You might even want one of both if you'll be working with several languages and different types of projects. There are many excellent free programs, and some that ...continue reading "Free Programming Development Options"
Regions allow you to name a section of your code to better organize it. You can also collapse or condense regions by using the - and + signs next to the region area. If you hover over a collapsed region, it will show the code inside.
CTRL + K and then CTRL + D will format your code. This is helpful, for example, if you have code that isn't indented. Using these two keyboard shortcuts will have Visual Studio reformat your code.
Commenting multiple lines is easy with keyboard shortcuts. Multiple lines can be commented and uncommented by selecting them and clicking the comment icon, or by using the keyboard shortcut [CTRL + E, C] to comment, and [CTRL + E, U] to uncomment. (Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 Screenshots)