Toolbox: Microsoft Chart Controls, Visual Studio Automatic Code Snippets, And More

Posted: Mar/19/2009 By: pankaj Points:15 Category: .NET - .NET Framework Views:116 Vote Up (0) Vote Down (0)

In this installment we look at the Microsoft Chart Controls; Snippet Designer, a free, add-in for Visual Studio 2008 for creating and editing Code Snippets; refactoring SQL applications; and this month's favorite blog.Scott MitchellMSDN Magazine April 2009

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