Today’s tip is just a collection of some tweaks you can make to your search results. Although 16 months ago, I would have said each one of these tweaks is its own tip. But these days I’m all about quality over quantity , since you readers keep me honest when I start to slack. =D Tip 376.A You ca...

I added the exclamation point, because I never knew this. It is amazing that I’m still finding out about IDE features! When does the madness end? But in all fairness, this is a specific C# IDE feature, as it relates to the Go To Definition Window. (Sorry VB folks to do this to you yet again. And t...

Den 25-27 november är det dags för nästa omgång av MSDN Live. Den här gången kommer vi fokusera på helt på webbteknik i form av nyheter i ASP.NET och Internet Explorer 8. MSDN Live gästas den här gången av en riktig expert inom området: Pelle Johansson, MVP inom ASP.NET och grundare av P...

In this post, I will show how to use the Windows Workflow Foundation rules engine to provide business logic for a Dynamic Data Entites Web Application.  We will show how to change business rules without modifying code, drive the application based on a logical entity model, and map the entity mo...

Iata ca traditia ne poarta spre un nou an universitar in care Microsoft, prin Microsoft Student Partners ofera studentilor din Facultatea de Matematica si Informatica din cadrul Universitatii Babes-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca, software Microsoft licentiat si absolut gratuit. Ce inseamna asta? Ei bine, da...

Wow, two great speakers in less than a month. Last month, we had Kalen Delaney speaking at Boise's inaugural SQL Server User Group and tonight at the Idaho .NET User Group, Kathleen Dollard an INETA speaker is sharing her "Twelve Gems and Eight Dragons talk." Here are the Twelve Gems System.AddIn - ...

WPF is an awesome technology - but it has the odd "beauty spot". One example is the absence of a DataGrid control. WPF 3.0 shipped in Nov 2006 without a DataGrid WPF 3.5 shipped in Nov 2007, alas again without a DataGrid WPF 3.5 SP1 will ship later this year, alas again without a DataGrid ...

At the end of June I run workshops with 2 ISVs both looking to completely re-develop their applications. One is entirely VB6, the other a combination of VB6 with C++. The beauty of "starting from scratch" with a one to two year development plan is you can take a hard look at the latest tec...

Question: I am attempting to automate the installation of the Visual Studio 2008 SDK, but have not been able to figure out how to do so.  Running vssdk_sfx.exe /? just displays the normal setup UI and not a usage dialog, and I haven't been able to find any deployment documentation for this prod...

This was tip #17 in my TechEd VS 2008 IDE Tips and Tricks Talk In C#, there’s the option to remove any of your unused using statements.  This is especially helpful if you’re reusing some sort of template over and over again.  Instead of having to comment out each line, compile, see whe...