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Tell Visual Studio 2012 UI Designers What to Fix by Ken Cox [MVP]

If you hate the default interface themes in Visual Studio 2012 as much as I do, you have another outlet to vent. The UI designers have posted a survey where you can tell them how distracting and annoying you find the gray themes and black icons. You even...

Hate That Gray? Wash It Away! Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor by Ken Cox [MVP]

Microsoft’s Matthew Johnson has updated his excellent free tool. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05 Once we repair the cosmetics, Visual Studio 2012 is going to be very good indeed. Is there an icon editor...

Repairing The Visual Studio 2012 UI by Ken Cox [MVP]

I have sympathy for ‘Softies who don’t like the controversial ‘Metro’ UI changes but are afraid to say so. After all, who wants to commit a CLM (Career-Limiting Move) by declaring that the Emperor has no clothes (or gradients) and that ALL CAPS IN MENUS...

A Small World in ASP.NET–NimblePros Acquired by Telerik by Ken Cox [MVP]

A few weeks ago, fellow ASPInsider Steve Smith of NimblePros passed a client to me. It’s a part-time “tweaks and maintenance” gig for a small startup. I was quite happy to take this on. I’m mostly retired and no longer work fulltime but still want to...

Not Happy With the Monochrome Visual Studio 11 Beta UI by Ken Cox [MVP]

I can’t wait for a third-party to come out with tools to return some colour to the flat, monochrome look of Visual Studio 11 (beta). What bugs me most are the icons. I feel like a newbie when I have to squint and analyze the shape of icons on the debugging...

Fix: 'Unable to load one or more of the requested types' Errors by Ken Cox [MVP]

A long time ago, I reported on an intermittent ‘Could not load file or assembly‘ bug where ASP.NET 4 was encountering a bizarre error on start-up in System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes(RuntimeModule module). I neglected to post a follow-up here....

EULAs are Fun. Mock Them Mercilessly! by Ken Cox [MVP]

In my previous post about the new, free Telerik JustDecompile beta , I made fun of the license terms that specifically forbade you from decompiling their decompiler. As you might expect, this was a copy and paste oversight and has been fixed in the latest...

Telerik’s Free Decompiler: Just Don’t Decompile It!* by Ken Cox [MVP]

Telerik has released a beta version of its new ‘always free’ .NET decompiler, JustDecompile . These guys really know their marketing and community support. (Redgate recently disappointed the community by moving the popular .NET Reflector to a $35 paid...

Fix: ASP.NET 4 Page on IIS 7 Misbehaves When Browser URL Doesn’t Include Default Page by Ken Cox [MVP]

After deploying an ASP.NET 4 application to the production server, data submitted in a form on the default page went nowhere. I discovered that the page worked normally if I included the name of the default document as in http://mydomain.com/default.aspx...

Extracting the Date from a DateTime in Entity Framework 4 and LINQ by Ken Cox [MVP]

In my current ASP.NET 4 project, I’m displaying dates in a GridDateTimeColumn of Telerik’s ASP.NET Radgrid control. I don’t care about the time stuff, so my DataFormatString shows only the date bits: <telerik:GridDateTimeColumn FilterControlWidth=...
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