December 2007 - Posts
Bug fixes: <param>Text</param> was not handled correctly. Comments in <% %> blocks were not included in spell checking. Spell checking terminated prematurely under certain conditions after encountering <% %> block. REM VB comments were not always handled correctly. Vista setup issues fixed (hopefully) New features: It is now possible to add word to "ignore" list. The list is global and is stored as a text file. You can also add words to the Office active custom dictionary. More details here Visual Studio 2005 Add-in download Visual Studio 2008 Add-in download Read More...
Happy New Year! Not too long ago, I was asked for my predictions for the IT-Technology in 2008... You can find the full article here, but I thought I'd include my thoughts on my blog. Where's i-Technology Headed in 2008? I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments 1. User Experience Reaches the Enterprise. In 2008 we will see several major enterprises start efforts to build UX centric applications that increase worker productivity, reduced transaction costs and increase pull through as the UX meme of the consumer facing world leaks into the enterprise. The days of the battleship gray, forms of data application as the king of the enterprise are numbered because of an imperative towards richer visualization of complex and interconnected data....
With .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008 shipping just over a month ago , I was very excited to see a number of hosters have already deployed .NET Framework 3.5 on their servers… The great thing about .NET Framework 3.5 is that it is completely compatible with .NET Framework 2.0, so you can easily move over to it and incrementally take advantage of the cool new features. If you are looking to take advantage of some of the great things in 3.5 such as LINQ and AJAX support then I encourage you to check out these folks… Oh, and I am sure I missed some folks… so if you know of anyone offering ASP.NET 3.5 hosting, please let add a comment here. Thanks! http://www.crystaltech.com/dotnet.aspx http://www.discountasp.net/sp_netframework.aspx http://www.hostbasket...
I've been on a Windows Home Server kick for a while. I originally set it up on an old laptop I got - which wasn't doing what I wanted so I started from scratch and ordered a dual-core Dell notebook (Vostro 1400) it showed up last week. This kind of turned into a saga, hopefully I've documented some of the issues here. Originally I bought a low-end Toshiba from BestBuy to do this. Bad move - it actually wouldn't run XP or WHS. Back it went. Here's what I want a single machine to do in my house: 1) Be on all the time 2) Back up all the other machines when they're on (I want them sleeping most of the time) 3) Host a Internet-facing web site 4) Host a bunch of shares for my photos, music, data, etc. 5) Be a print server...
Martin saw my keynote at ReMix Boston and wanted to try the demo himself to find out if it was all just demo-magic or not ;-). Well, I am relieved happy to say he was successful! His detailed step-by-step instructions are the best I have seen for setting this up. Windows Vista / Mac debugging a Silverlight app using Visual Studio 2008 Maybe we can talk Martin into doing the Linux part of the demo over the new year holiday ;-) Read More...
If you have more than one project in your solution you can use following options of solution properties to set your start up actions... You can get the below dialog by right clicking your solution and going to its properties: If you have more than one Web project (either Web Site, WAPs or both) in your solution and choose to start only one of it, you can do so by setting "Single startup project" above (or also via Project context menu "Set as StartUp Project" in solution explorer)... Although, even after doing so when you start debugging your application using ASP.Net Development Server you will see multiple instances of ASP.Net Development Servers in your system tray as shown below: There is an important...
Following the more open-sourcey informal study that was recently advertised on Ajaxian , Simone Chiaretta publishes and analyses the results of his own study that he recently made and that is aimed exclusively at .NET developers. While Richard Monson-Haefel's study is being made for the third consecutive year, which makes for some interesting trend information, Simone's analysis is more directly interesting to us. The differences between the results of both studies for .NET developers also goes a long way showing how such data crucially depends on who you're asking. Case in point, it's pretty clear that the intersection of Ajaxian readers and .NET developers is much more open-source-oriented ( not that there's anything wrong with that ) than...
Simone Chiaretta recently posted the results to his Ajax usage survey . Check out the: .NET Ajax Survey results Simone has a great write up, including the raw data, I encourage you to check it out ... But A couple of things that popped out to me: 1. Simone concludes that 84% of ASP.NET developers are using ASP.NET AJAX ... That is an amazingly high percentage... I am excited that we could help that large a percentage of developers! 2. I am a bit surprised that only about ~50% of developers are using the AJAX Control Toolkit. I'd love to hear your thoughts on using the toolkit? Do you think it is a naming thing (people don't get the difference between ASP.NET AJAX and the AJAX toolkit?) or maybe it has to do with the heavy update panel usage...
A quick post announcing version 0.4.5.0 of script# which is now available for download - adding support for VS 2008, along with a number of fixes and some enhancements. Read More...
Too funny: http://nldd.lordabdul.net//12.html Read More...
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