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Velocity Administration Console

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:07:38 GMT

Lately I've been working on a small administration console project for Microsoft project code named Velocity. If you don't know, Velocity's administration is being done with PowerShell. I decided to build a console that will do the same thing but in Windows Forms.

Generate custom LINQ-to-SQL Classes yourself with help of T4 Templates

Wed, 06 May 2009 07:01:02 GMT

This video shows how to generate custom LINQ-To-SQL Classes with help of the Open-Source Project T4 Toolbox and the new T4 Editor developed by tangible-engineering. Generating Custom LINQ-To-SQL Classes allows you to fully customize the code e.g. in order to add spezial serialisation or IUpdatebale support.

Installation and Configuration of Microsoft Velocity

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:01:18 GMT

David walks us through how to install and configure Microsoft Velocity.

A lap around MIX09 keynote announcements

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:31:09 GMT

Simone collects all the big announcements from MIX09 and provides links to get deeper into the new stuff

How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:46:04 GMT

A very deep dive into the source code for how .NET Regular Expressions really work

Web Service Optimization

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:16:04 GMT

This article gives you 10 tips to optimize web services.

Exponentially Improve Performance to Start ASP.net 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Debug

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:46:05 GMT

Stop the waiting when debugging your ASP.Net Web Applications! Here's a complete RAM Disk solution to save your sanity.

A New Look for Visual Studio 2010!

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:46:02 GMT

At the PDC and TechEd EMEA last year we described our new editor support built on the WPF technology in .NET Framework 4.0. Today I'm happy to reveal the new UI for Visual Studio, also built on WPF:

How to only display "This Week" items in a SharePoint List

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:08:23 GMT

I have a SharePoint list and would like to create a view that shows me all the items that are modified in this week. SharePoint views can be filtered, so I thought this wouldn't be a big deal. Unfortunatly.

Windows SharePoint Services - first setup

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:12:09 GMT

A simple guide on how to setup Windows SharePoint Services for the first time

A cool puzzle game for programmers, written in Silverlight

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:31:13 GMT

The goal of the game is to program a robot to pick up stars. The puzzles are submitted by other users, and ranked by difficulty based on votes.

Fun with Empty string.

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:16:27 GMT

Which is the fastest / most readable way to compare to an Empty string?

JQuery Visual studio documentation

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:31:14 GMT

JQuery version 1.3.2 Visual Studio documentation is available for download

Fun with Silverlight toolkit charts

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:46:08 GMT

2 detailed articles on how to customize and extend the standard silverlight toolkit chart controls

Multi/Dual Monitor Visual Studio Settings

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:01:02 GMT

Following up to personalising Visual Studio (I covered theming the VS IDE with the Visual Studio Desert Nights Theme not too long back), I'd like to offer the settings I run on a dual monitor setup for Visual Studio to, I believe enhance productivity and gives you easier access to common tasks.

VsDoc for jQuery 1.3.1 now available

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:16:02 GMT

John Resig tells us he just uploaded the VsDoc file for jQuery 1.3.1 to jquery.com. This enables IntelliSense for the latest available jQuery.

All Microsoft SDKs in one place!

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:16:02 GMT

Here's an almost complete list of all Microsoft SDKs for Azure Services Platform, Windows Desktop, Server Technologies, etc. along with their links in one place.

jQuery 1.3 Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:31:02 GMT

"The jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone in to this release and we're really quite proud of it. "

Web Developer Helper by Nikhil

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:38:35 GMT

A must have tool for Web developers.

Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:01:14 GMT

jQuery is awesome. I've been using it for about a year now and although I was impressed to begin with I'm liking it more and more the longer I use it and the more I find out about it's inner workings. I'd call myself an "intermediate" jQuery user and I thought some others out there could benefit from all the little tips, tricks and techniques I've learned over the past year. The article also ended up being a lot longer than I thought it was going to be so I'll start with a table of contents so you can skip to the bits you're interested in.

What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:31:12 GMT

In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code generation engine from Microsoft that underpins the Domain Specific Languages and Software Factory toolkits.

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:16:21 GMT

ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year

How to Use Visual Studio jQuery IntelliSense Supported Through Hotfix

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:46:02 GMT

Jeff King, Program Manager for Visual Studio Web Tools blogged VS2008 SP1 Hotfix to Support "-vsdoc.js" IntelliSense Doc Files on Friday. The HotFix (VS2008 SP1 only) allows Visual Studio to find "-vsdoc.js" files that have commenting for IntelliSense in the same folder as a script file linked to from your document. In this post I am going to show you how to get IntelliSense working once the HotFix is installed in both a normal aspx page as well as ASP.NET MasterPage.

Silverlight Toolkit Released on CodePlex!

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:46:07 GMT

The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. This first release includes full source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for 12 new controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input.

jQuery IntelliSense documentation file available

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:31:12 GMT

IntelliSense documentation files for jQuery just got published on jquery.com. This enables great IntelliSense at design-time for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008.