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MSDN Low Bandwidth Bookmarklet

a.bookmarklet { border: 1px black dashed; text-decoration: none; padding: 2px; background: #fff9d8; } There’s a semi-hidden feature in the MSDN Library website : Low Bandwidth view. We’ll talk about how to use it, why I like it, and some tips for switching...

Upgrading to Visual Studio 2008 / .NET 3.5 SP1

Have your Visual Studio Installation Media Handy I was prompted for the original installation media both when uninstalling the SP1 Beta and when installing the SP1 RTM. The file it’s looking for is vs_setup.msi in most cases, but they’re not all created...

Jon's News Wrapup - May 8, 2008 Edition

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Visual Studio 2008 (Beta 2) Install - Easter Egg?

Exactly one week ago, I was testing something that required me to install the old Visual Studio 2008 (Beta 2) on a virtual machine. I got part way through the install when a bizarre set of circumstances led to my accidentally sitting on the keyboard....
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January 2008 Recap

I've had a policy against posting on big news that's likely to be common knowledge in the Microsoft development community, since nobody needs another post saying "Big News, Visual Studio 2008 is out today!" But I think I'm going to break that policy once...

Silverlight 1.1 (Alpha) cross domain webservice access makes mashups tricky

Any web mashups, by definition, require cross-domain calls. Those cross-domain calls may happen on the client (in the browser) or on the server. Regardless of the client technology (AJAX, Flash, Silverlight, etc.), cross domain calls on the client are...
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Some keyboard input tricks for Silverlight 1.1 (Alpha)

Here are a few tricks I learned while doing my "hello world" maze game in Silverlight 1.1 . Silverlight doesn't fire the KeyDown event for cursor (arrow) keys However, just about all keys will fire a KeyUp event. In my case, I was able to just handle...

Failed Orcas Beta 1 install - Check for Office 2007 Beta Installer records

The Orcas Beta 1 install kept failing on my laptop with a non-specific error. The install log didn't say anything very helpful: Microsoft Web Designer Tools: [2] Component Microsoft Web Designer Tools returned an unexpected value. setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent...
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VB.NET vs. C#, round 3?

VB.NET gets a hard time from C# developers. For a variety of reasons, the leading .NET programmers seem to be working in C# , and VB.NET developers get really tired of saying, "Hey, VB.NET can do that, too!" The VB crowd's got something new to talk about...
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CodePlex is adding support for <strike>Subversion</strike> TortoiseSVN

I just heard that CodePlex is adding support for TortoiseSVN with an estimated release date of June 5 . UPDATE: Newer comments make it look like they are just setting up a bridge from TortoiseSVN to TFS. Not clear... Although the information just says...
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