Guy Barrette

DevExpress has updated its free CodeRush Xpress extension tool for Visual Studio.  It include:

Everyone who’s work involve computers is cursed being the tech support for the family.  Here’s a tech support cheat sheet that you can give them thanks to http://xkcd.com/

At the last MVP Summit, I was looking for some Expression books and I found Expression Design Step by Step at the Microsoft Store.  I bought it because it was dirt cheap and it sat in my bookshelf since then.  In my quest to learn Expression Blend, I looked back at that book because Design and Blend share many features.

If you want to change the structure of a table, by default SQL Management Studio prevents you from doing this if it require that the table be dropped and recreated.

In learning Silverlight, I think that the major hurdle for a .NET developer is to learn and familiarized himself with Expression Blend. In my quest to learn Blend, I recently bought Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight by Victor Gaudioso and published by friends of ED.

Students can get Expression Studio 3 for free by registering with the Microsoft DreamSpark program.  On top of that, they can get Visual Studio 2008 Pro, SQL Server 2008 Developer and Windows Server 2008 Standard, all for free.