Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

published 8 days, 17 hours ago, submitted by johnrummell 8 days, 18 hours ago

microsoft.com — It's finally here! I haven't seen an official announcement yet, but I did a search for "Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1" on Microsoft's Download Center and found the following downloads added today: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fbee1648-7106-44a7-9649-6d9f6d58056e&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=27673c47-b3b5-4c67-bd99-84e525b5ce61&DisplayLang=en read more...

6 comments | category: Visual Studio | Views: 703

Visual Studio Theme Generator

published 12 days, 20 hours ago, submitted by dengar007 12 days, 20 hours ago

frickinsweet.com — A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think. read more...

2 comments | category: Other | Views: 365

Enhance your input fields with simple CSS tricks

published 22 days, 11 hours ago, submitted by janko 23 days, 11 hours ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — We're all trying to build an effective and good looking web forms. But there are always a new challenges. If you read my previous articles on how to build a better web forms, you could have noticed there are so many details about it. This article will show you how you can make a usual, boring web forms more effective and exciting with just a few simple CSS tricks. read more...

add a comment | category: Other | Views: 615

Free Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in

mindscape.co.nz — The Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in (sexy name we know, but hey, it’s self documenting) is a free Tool Window add-in for VS 2008 that provides a Windows Explorer style file system view. It’s particularly useful for performing routine file system tasks without the need to “context switch” away from Visual Studio, which can be time-consuming over the course of days and weeks. It is shell-enabled so extensions like TortoiseSVN work too. read more...

add a comment | category: Visual Studio | Views: 509

ASP.NET Browsers Filter!!

weblogs.asp.net — Yesterday .NET SP1 released and many new features for ASP.NET where added. But yesterday i also discovered a feature that ASP.NET has from version 2.0 Let's say we have a button. We can decide what value will the properties have for different browsers!!! And we can do that with this way... read more...

1 comment | category: ASP.NET | Views: 333

jQuery for ASP.NET MVC unleashed!

published 25 days, 15 hours ago, submitted by GOEran 25 days, 18 hours ago

blog.goeran.no — jQuery plugins for the ASP.NET MVC framework read more...

1 comment | category: AJAX | Views: 484

36 steps to success as technical lead

littletutorials.com — The “tech lead” role can be treacherous at times. While the name implies “leadership“, most of the times it doesn’t come with implied authority like a manager role for example. It often happens that this role is in a no-man’s-land where it brings a lot of responsibility but not enough formal authority. In order to successfully help a project from this position one has to navigate through narrow and convoluted straits. read more...

6 comments | category: Other | Views: 511

13 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness

littletutorials.com — 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. read more...

add a comment | category: Other | Views: 600