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RunAtServer website new version

As you may know I am the co-founder of RunAtServer Consulting , a company based in Montreal, we are specialized in web development with Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight. We have launched our new website! www.runatserver.com...

[Cool Tool] Vector Magic

Vector Magic is an online tool that converts bitmaps into vector images . It provides a wizard that helps you through the process, so you can easily generate your vector graphics from bitmaps, then import into Microsoft Expression Designer or Blend. I...
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My Silverlight talk at Microsoft Innovation Briefing

This morning I did a Silverlight 2 talk at Microsoft Montreal, during a half-day briefing called Building Compelling Websites on the Microsoft Platform . That was a 1 hour talk to present Silverlight 2, DeepZoom, Expression Blend and create from scratch...

[Cool Tool] FTP Live

This is not a "must have" but a "good to know", as it can be pretty useful. Have you ever been is a situation where you have to upload files to an FTP server but have no access because FTP ports are disable (at work for example) ?...
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[Cool Tool] Meta Tag Analyzer

Meta Tag Analyzer is a free online tool by SubmitExpress that analyze your web site and tells you how good/relevant your title and description are in relation to your content and chosen keywords. Try Meta Tag Analyzer: http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer...
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Save A Developer. Upgrade Your Browser.

A new campaign has raised on the web to invite IE6 users to upgrade to a high level browser (IE7, Firefox, Opera or Safari) in order to make everyone happier (users + developers). "Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their...
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Testing web apps on IE6, IE7 and IE8

As web developers we have to test our websites on IE6, then IE7, and now IE8. You can find tips and tricks to install several versions of IE on the same machine, but it may be easier and cleaner to use VPC instead. Microsoft provides a link to download...
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VS2008 and IE8 auto Js debugging mode

Here is a nice feature of IE8: Remember both "Disable script debugging" options you had to uncheck in IE to enable JavaScript debugging ? You no longer have to! You can now stay on default "script debugging off" mode in IE and when...

[Cool Tool] Browsershots

Browsershots is a free online tool that makes screenshots of your web site in different browsers/versions on multiple platforms (Win, Mac, Linux). Use it to test the look of your web sites : http://browsershots.org/ Set your choices then come back later...
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Expression Web 2

Back from MIX08 I've just installed Expression Studio 2 and my first try is Expression Web 2, not for the new features yet, but to check if my 2 most frustrating bugs were fixed, and they were! 1. EW2 now remembers your credential when accessing remote...
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