Using the Apple Xcode development environment
View two files side-by-side Open the Project Navigator Click the first file in the Navigator Option-Click the second file in the Navigator The two files are displayed next to each other, so you can compare them and copy code between them. Using tabs In…
Create an iPhone, iPod or iPad app – Part 4 – Deploy the app to an Apple device
In the prior parts of the series we have created a simple iOS application and tested it in the iOS Simulator. The real gratification comes when we can see our own app on a real device, an iPhone, iPod or iPad. In this article we will deploy the app to an…
Create an iPhone, iPod or iPad app – Part 3 – Make it work
In this article we will make our application work. We already created a simple application and added a Text field, a Label and a Button to the view. We created connections between the user interface elements and the View Controller. To make more room to…
Create an iPhone, iPod or iPad app – Part 2 – Adding User Interface elements
Add user interface elements to the view Open the MainStoryboard.storyboard file in the project navigator Open the Utilities area by clicking the right most view button in the upper right corner of the screen In the Library selector bar of the Utilities…
Create an iPhone, iPod or iPad app – Part 1 – Getting started
As of the writing of this article to create iOS apps for iPhone, iPod and iPad you need a Macintosh computer with the Lion (Mac OS X 10.7), Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8) or later operating system. Check the hardware requirements of Lion and Mountain…
Display deleted items in the Microsoft Visual Studio Source Control Explorer
When you delete a file or folder in TFS by default it is no longer displayed in the Source Control Explorer. To be able to “undelete” a file or folder enable the visibility of deleted items in Microsoft Visual Studio. To see deleted items in…
How to open SQL files in Visual Studio 2012
The default installation of Visual Studio 2012 cannot open SQL documents when you double click on them in Source Control Explorer. To be able to do that you have to install the SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio 2012 Open the ” December…
Add if conditional statement to the Visual Studio pre-build and post-build events
There are times when you want to execute statements in the pre-build and post-build events of a Microsoft Visual Studio project when certain conditions met. In the next example we will copy the environment specific config file to the web application…
How to add the Config folder to a Microsoft Visual Studio project even if the folder is not in the project directory
Corporations maintain multiple server environments for development, testing and production purposes. All of these environments require specific settings to connect to the databases and other resources. When the build master builds the application for the…
How to enable jQuery intellisense in Microsoft Visual Studio
To enable jQuery intellisense in Microsoft Visual Studio Open the _references.js file in the editor by double clicking it Drag the jquery-x.x.x.intellisense.js file into the _references.js file in the editor. The name of the file will be added to the…