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Windows 7 Tricks and Keyboard Shortcuts

Mon, 18 May 2009 13:01:03 GMT

A summary of Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts and tips.

jQuery $document.ready() and ASP.NET Ajax asynchronous postback

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:31:03 GMT

Combine ASP.NET Ajax and jQuery and make $document.ready execute even after an asynchronous postback took place.

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:

Microsoft Certification Exam - Discount Code - Free Second Chance

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:46:08 GMT

Please note down this important code or share with your colleagues who are keen to take Microsoft Certification Exam. This unique code is only available through Microsoft MVP's and only published here to help community and no other intention. Share and Book mark this post. Complete your community responsibility.

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. "

Is F# faster than C#

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:16:11 GMT

I had a bet with a co-worker that C# would out perform F# for a simple counting exercise. This turned out to be quite a surprise for many reasons. In this blog post I will try to explain why.

Pimp My Debugger - DebuggerDisplay Attribute

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:46:10 GMT

The other day I was reading some friends code, and I saw that he used a DebuggerDisplay attribute. It allows you to create a custom view of your objects in the Visual studio debugger. This attribute is very straight forward, but very powerful in the amount of time it can save you when debugging your application. I'll show you a cookie cutter example, but you can use your imagination as to how to use this particular attribute.

Visual Studio 2008 Tips & Tricks for Developers

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:16:18 GMT

This article shows most common tips and tricks every .net developer should know,these tricks will help you in increasing your productivity while developing.I will make it a point to regularly update this post feel free to add few more tips,give me a comment if i find your trick worthy i will include it on this post.

4 Steps To Ensure You're The Worst Developer Ever!

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:46:05 GMT

There are lots of articles about improving your skills as a developer. Everyone likes to talk about how to strengthen their skills and produce really good software. But, what if you want to be the worst developer ever? Nobody seems to want to share those secrets.

jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 - ScottGu's Blog

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:31:20 GMT

Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery. Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free). This is now available to download and use.

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.

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 1

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:16:04 GMT

a quick look at building an application using the new ASP.Net MVC Beta, part one will handle the database

PDC 2008: New .NET Logo

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:51:50 GMT

It's official. There's a new .NET logo. It's 'the wave' and it's a nice refresh of the now 8-year old original .NET logo.

JQuery Primer - Part 2

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:26:46 GMT

Another jQuery tutorial

C# 4.0 New Features Part 2.1 - default parameter intrigue

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:46:02 GMT

Do default parameters work the way you think they do? Probably Not!

C# 4.0 New Features Part 2 - default and named parameters

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:16:03 GMT

New feature in C# 4.0 number 2, default and named parameters! Look at what they are, and how they are used in C# 4.0.

Generic Variance in C# 4.0

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:46:12 GMT

A simple description of the new variance support for generics in the yet-to-be-released C# 4.0.

Essential Visual Studio Tips & Tricks that Every Developer Should Know

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:01:02 GMT

In this blog entry, Stephen Walther lists the essential tips and tricks that every developer who uses Visual Studio 2008 should know. The list is kept brief. The list focuses on only those tips and tricks that can be used on a daily basis. Almost all of these tips and tricks are just as useful regardless of whether you are building an ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET MVC application.

Silverlight 2 Released

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:16:25 GMT

Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2. You can download Silverlight 2, as well the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 tool support to target it,

JQuery, the very very basics - Lesson 5

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:16:02 GMT

On with our journey of learning JQuery. Thanks to all of you who has stayed and cheered and made me go on, against my own lazy nature. So far, we have slowly walked through the bunch of commands by which we select, dress up, manipulate chains of elements and make them action bound. Now, let's look at the tiny set of commands for special-effects: show / hide with a speed, slide up / slide down, fade in and out. After all, we are human, insatiable for animations and wow factors.

Using jQuery to display a modal UpdatePanel confirmation

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:46:04 GMT

An example of using jQuery's BlockUI plugin to display the result of an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel's partial postback as a modal confirmation dialog.

Latest ASp.Net AJAX and jQuery links from Scott Gu

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:01:02 GMT

Latest ASp.Net AJAX and jQuery links from Scott Guthrie

Measure String Size In Pixels (C#)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:16:03 GMT

Sometimes we need to know the width of a given string in pixels, do you know how to compute it? Before writing some long code, please notice that the .NET framework class library provides such a method...

Functional C# Recap

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:01:14 GMT

"Here are some resources that will be helpful in covering functional programming aspects as well as other topics covered." (Link collection)

Mono 2.0 Released

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:01:15 GMT

The Mono Project has released version 2.0 of Mono, enabling developers to run their .Net 2.0 applications on Linux and OSX.