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Visual Studio Snippet Designer

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:16:23 GMT

Matthew Manela, an engineer on our Online Tools team, has created and released a free, community-based tool called the Snippet Designer. His tool is a Visual Studio add-in that allows you to create and edit snippets from inside the IDE.

13 reasons for UML's descent into darkness

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:01:03 GMT

UML lost the programmers. There is no doubt about it. in my mind. And when a software design technology loses the programmers it fades away no matter what the academia thinks. This happened because UML was pushed in a direction that most code writers don't like: it started to look a lot like bureaucratic paper work.

New C# and .NET oriented search engine

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:46:02 GMT

A new search engine is available. Created with the Google Custom Search you can: - Search in MSDN forums - Search in Microsoft newsgroup - Search in .NET related sites (including dotnetkicks.com) - Search in everywhere with the standard Google search - Find any .NET tools or components

Overview about Adobe Air vs Silverlight

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:43:18 GMT

Nikola Malovic attended presentation "Adobe Air 2008" organized in Prague with purpose to get information about what Silverlight competitor "Adobe Air" offers to developers. I am recommending this blog post to people who would like to have a picture about how upcoming Adobe Air product compares to Silverlight.

No, OOP hasn't Fail Us

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:01:05 GMT

If freshes can't write OOP it's school's fault, not OOP. A response to OOP has Failed Us.

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 To be released this week!

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:46:10 GMT

Finally!!! This should include a go-live license, increased support for WCF bindings (other than basic), control gallery updates, performance/bug fixes. Beta 2 is probably going to be a "feature complete" or close to the 2.0 release this summer. So, this is an exciting time to be a RIA developer :)

Why Should You Wrap Your ASP.NET Session Object

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:16:03 GMT

ASP.NET provides mechanisms for storing information for a single user session or across multiple sessions. This is done using the HttpSessionState and HttpApplicationState classes. The Page class has Application and Session attributes to provide access to current objects. The simple way to access them is as following:

11 More Visual Studio Shortcuts You Should Know

Tue, 06 May 2008 21:16:02 GMT

Following our First Visual Studio Shortcuts post here is another batch of shortcuts.

Style the scrollbar

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:06:25 GMT

Very detailed and illustrative example and explanation how to style a scrollbar in SilverLight/WPF. A must read for anybody disappointed with the standard scrollbar layout.

Combing Silverlight2 and JavaScript

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:10:12 GMT

Silverlight 2 allows you to combine a webpages JavaScript code with Silverlight .NET Code. For example you can call a C# method from JavaScript and call a JavaScript function from C#. This posts shows how this is done and demonstrates it with a nifty little web page.

Scott Guthrie's April 11th Links

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:01:10 GMT

Some links from Scott Guthrie about ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, and Silverlight.