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Design request for the next Visual Studio
When you work in Design mode in Visual Studio, and you want to do some images placement in a user control (.ASCX file), you can't see your images at all if they refer to a path like /images/myimage.gif.
This sound logical but it's really annoying. The not-so-good solution will be to have absolute links, but no I want to keep my relative links.
This unfortunatly make the Design mode useless for me. Most of the time, I prefer the HTML view, but at the end of a project, it's possible that I have to tidy up some graphic details.
Of course it's not a bug, the main page will render correctly the control, but I would like to know if something is planned in the next VS version to solve this. -
Fuzzy Logic
Basic but interesting idea. Surely I could ind an application in business logic.
But not fuzzy enough. At the end who decide about the fuzziness of the fuzzy code ;-) -
Using XML to Share Constants Across Projects
Rachael Schoenbaum in this article show how to use an XML file to store your constants instead of a config file.
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Avoiding 'deep linking'
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Homepod
I couldn't resist I ordered this gizmo for my MP3 collection ;-)
Exactly what I was looking for (wireless, compact, and transportable).
It's realatively cheap so I didn't have to burn too much my Visa card ! -
What about other .Net languages ?
We are all gathering around C# and Vb.Net in this community, but what about other languages ?
I would like to know more from developers who embrace Cobol.Net, Fortran.Net, Forth.Net, Eiffel.Net.
Interesting to know which application they can develop and also their experience on .Net. Maybe it's a marketing stunt from Microsoft but I don't really believe it. -
Finally Europe(well UK !) is existing for Redmond
Yahooo ! Someone from MSFT UK must read my thoughts. Now Microsoft start to bring here the US offers.
Cool ! First to start the good old offer for a Free Viewsonic. -
No monthly patches for December
It seems that we are not going to see a monthly security patch for December.
It has to be confirmed, but maybe the folks there are to busy with... Santa ;-) -
Microsoft patent HTML applications
Can this new patent be an answer to some requests ? I'd like the idea to have some small applications running locally from the user's machine. I imagine the kind of applet I can run using .hta files.
It sounds like an answer to the infamous Java applet ?
The downside is surely the security loopholes.
UPDATE: Scott Galloway comment that this has been there since a while and give a couple of example -
Excellent tip to parse some controls in a Datagrid
I think this is an excellent tip from Scott Hanselman so I just pass on ! This just works too with some other controls.
Recently I needed to have a DataGrid that had multiple checkboxes to activate and deactivate something. So, you could check a whole slew of checkboxes in a big grid, and depending on the NEW state of the checkbox (checked or not), cause an operation on a theorectical back end.