In Visual Studio Orcas, the CSS property grid renders a red strikethrough when it wants to tell you that a property is either non-inherited or it is overridden by a rule with higher precedence. Read the tooltip when you see a red strikethrough on your property and it will give you the exact reason for the strikethrough. Here are the different reasons why you might be seeing this red strikethrough in your CSS property grid. 1. Property is overridden by an inline style You will see this tooltip when a CSS property is overridden by an HTML tag's inline style. Let us look at an example: < style type ="text/css"> .MyStyle { color : #808000 ;} </ style > ... < input id ="MyButton" type ="button" value ="button" style ="color: #FF00FF...

Pointers to a few Script# projects and related works from a tutorial to a VS add-in to an actual commercial offering... Read More...

Microsoft earlier today announced a new product called "Microsoft Surface". If you haven't checked out the online videos of it yet, I highly recommend watching them here . It is one of those products that looks and feels like it comes from a science fiction movie - but it is actually real. Popular Mechanics also has a good article (including their own video) of how it works that you can read and watch online here . One of the really cool things about Microsoft Surface is that the table UI experience is built entirely using WPF and the .NET Framework - which is a great statement about the power of what WPF provides. If you are interested in learning more about programming WPF, there are two great books out there that I've been recommending to...

Life From Redmond Webcast TOMORROW ! Join me with Todd Anglin from Telerik as Todd demonstrates building your own custom Forums application from scratch using Telerik RAD Controls. He says he’ll do it in 60 Minutes !!! [Click HERE to register for the webcast.] Read More...

One thing I love about blogs is the informal, “instant”, raw feedback it enables. While I would not bet my next 4 billion dollar product plan on the feedback I get on my blog, I certainly let it influence my, and my teams, opinions on a wide range of topics. So, can I buy you a beer and ask you a question? What is your primary editor you use with you ASP.NET development? I know from reading the forums and talking to some of you at conferences that many of you experience ASP.NET through Visual Studio (did you know we have an absolutely free, completely functional version of Visual Studio ??), but I also have some data that indicates some ASP.NET developers do not primarily use Visual Studio… If you don’t use VS, what do you use and why? Is there...

I am pretty excited about Teched '07 June 4-8th in Orlando (if you are not already attending, you can still register). Here are a few of the sessions that I think will be very cool. WEB319 - A Lap around Silverlight - Scott Guthrie If you are making it to TechEd, you have got to come see Scott give an overview of Silverlight... Even if you have been closely following Silverlight.net, you will get a ton out of this.. Scott does an excellent job of explaining the platform in a fun and excited way! WEB318 - Creating and Delivering Rich Media and Video on the Web with Silverlight, Expression Studio, and Windows Server 2008 - Brad Abrams (and co) I am going to give an evolution of the session I gave a Mix on how to take advantage of Silverlight from...

Check out the latest on the IIS FastCGI project, including the new IIS7 FastCGI in Longhorn server beta 3, the out-of-band developer update, and the new PHP 5.2.2. Read more at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/05/29/The-latest-on-the-FastCGI-project-and-PHP-support-on-IIS.aspx . Read More...

Glenn posted about two new projects on CodePlex : WCSFContrib SCSFContrib These two projects are there to allow the community to post contributions, extensions, modules, etc that others can use. They compliment Enterprise Library Contrib , which Tom has already posted about . Enjoy. Read More...

In Part 1 of my LINQ to SQL blog post series I discussed "What is LINQ to SQL" and provided a basic overview of some of the data scenarios it enables. In my first post I provided code samples that demonstrated how to perform common data scenarios using LINQ to SQL including: How to query a database How to update rows in a database How to insert and relate multiple rows in a database How to delete rows in a database How to call a stored procedure How to retrieve data with server-side paging I performed all of these data scenarios using a LINQ to SQL class model that looked like the one below: In this second blog post in the series I'm going to go into more detail on how to create the above LINQ to SQL data model. LINQ to SQL, the LINQ to SQL...

I customer email me asking how to iterate the values of items in the AJAX Control Toolkit ReorderList Sample. Thanks to Shawn Burke for the hints. Here is how you get to them. Assuming an Item template that includes 2 label controls….. 1 Protected Sub Button2_Click( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click 2 Dim l1, l2 As Label 3 Dim i, max As Integer 4 5 Label3.Text = "" 6 max = ReorderList1.Items.Count - 2 7 For i = 0 To max 8 l1 = CType (ReorderList1.Items(i).FindControl( "Label1" ), Label) 09 l2 = CType (ReorderList1.Items(i).FindControl( "Label2" ), Label) 10 Label3.Text = Label3.Text + " " + l1.Text + " " + l2.Text + "<br />" 11 Next i 12 End Sub Read More...