May 2007 - Posts
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...
This is so frustrating I thought I'd just make a blog post and see if someone has a solution. I have an old HP iPaq of the 1900 series, partnered with my Vista Laptop. I like that old PocketPC because it's fairly slim, easy to program and runs a few nice emulators like the ScummVM (mmmh, Sam & Max ...). Anyways, every single freaking time I launch Media Player on the laptop, if the iPaq is docked, I'm getting a dialog box that says "your device is using an outdated driver that is no longer supported by Windows Media Player. For additional assistance, click Web Help." No "don't show this agian" checkbox, you have to endure the dialog every single f*#$% time. So I click Web Help, and end up on this (not) very helpful page: http://www.microsoft...
Just amazing. I had seen this at internal Microsoft events and knew that something was cooking, but it's almost here. Not just a cool tech demo anymore but something that launches this winter and can already be used at the New-York Sheraton. http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ (through http://msmvps.com/blogs/luisabreu ) 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...
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...
June is going to be a really busy travel month for me. I'll be presenting at the following events if you are interested in attending and stopping by to say hi: TechEd 2007 in Orlando on June 4th and 5th : I'll be doing a Silverlight talk and two ASP.NET and VS "Orcas" talks. Click here for more details about the conference. ReMIX 07 in Budapest, Hungary on June 11tht : I'll be doing the keynote at the ReMIX conference as well as presenting Silverlight breakout talks. Click here for more details about the conference. ReMIX 07 and DevDays 07 in Amsterdam, Netherlands on June 13th and 14th : I'll be doing the keynote at the ReMIX and DevDays conferences as well as presenting ASP.NET "Orcas" and Silverlight breakout talks. Click here and here for...
Check out your referral logs.. notice a pattern? If your logs are like mine, a HUGE percentage of your hits are coming through a search engine (Google, Yahoo, MSN)... Here is 3 minutes worth of referral logs from my blog... In a world where a good percentage of your content is dynamically created and displayed in Ajax or Silverlight, how can you enable search engines to find your data? Well, a bunch of folks across the web have been doing some thinking on this. Jonathan Hawkins recently did a session at mix on the topic and posted some thoughts. Nikhil also discussed the issue in his talk at mix and posted some interesting techniques as well. ASP.NET Futures CTP has features to enable you to have multiple code driven dynamic sitemaps. This can...
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