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Absolute Positioning inside of a Relative Element with CSS(west-wind.com)

submitted by rstrahlrstrahl(7226) 4 years, 1 month ago

Getting elements positioned absolutely inside of a container is not terribly obvious and not very discoverable using CSS. But it can make for a cool effect and is a useful feature for many overlay type operations in Html markup. Here's an example of a hover over delete button that pops up on focus of an element. read more...

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First Look At Silverlight 2 (weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by rsrobbinsrsrobbins(490) 4 years, 3 months ago

Scott Gu annouces Silverlight 2 and describes a sample application that should be of interest to anyone developing web applications to consume data from public APIs. read more...

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HttpHandlers(codebetter.com)

submitted by TigraineTigraine(145) 4 years, 5 months ago

A pretty useable article on how to use HTTP Handlers and why not. read more...

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VS2008 / .NET 3.5 Training Kit(microsoft.com)

submitted by johnmanjohnman(1280) 4 years, 6 months ago

Microsoft have just released a training kit for VS2008 and .Net 3.5 to get everyone up to speed. It includes powerpoint presentations, hands-on labs etc. read more...

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Refactoring: Replacing Enums with the Strategy Pattern(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrelljeremyjarrell(2685) 4 years, 6 months ago

Here's a simple way to remove all of those ugly switch statements and enums and to buy yourself a little more flexibility and testability as an added bonus! read more...

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.NET Framework 3.0 Is Out the Door!(ekampf.com)

submitted by ekampfekampf(3195) 5 years, 6 months ago

Microsoft officially released .NET 3.0 read more...

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Why You Should NOT Use Microsoft Unit Testing Framework(vaultofthoughts.net)

submitted by mikeonmikeon(5200) 5 years, 8 months ago

Description of a major flaw in the Microsoft's unit testing framework that makes it useless for anything but smallest projects. Read it or you will be sorry! read more...

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Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List(hanselman.com)

submitted by dalzieldalziel(6230) 5 years, 8 months ago

Hanselman lists his top 10 indispensable tools & products for development, plus 5 from his list last year that got knocked out. read more...

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Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows(hanselman.com)

submitted by HaackedHaacked(5105) 5 years, 8 months ago

Scott Hanselman, that uber technologist, updates his must have list of power tools for developers. read more...

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WATIR for .NET(hanselman.com)

submitted by gaechgaech(1240) 5 years, 9 months ago

WatiN stands for Web Application Testing in dotNet. Inspired by Watir, WatiN enables web application testing, through Internet Explorer on a Windows platform, expressed in any .Net language. read more...

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Why not on by default!? Turn on auto HTML attribute quotes in 2005(geekzilla.co.uk)

submitted by phaymanphayman(3550) 5 years, 9 months ago

Holy cow! Why wasn't this on by default??? How annoying is it that when typing in the HTML Source editor window Visual Studio doesn't add the "" for you automatically... well guess what? It's a setting. read more...

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Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1 Released(microsoft.com)

submitted by canofunkcanofunk(180) 5 years, 9 months ago

From the better late than never department, Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1. Oh well, I guess it's the next best thing to 2005 SP1... read more...

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Source Control: Anything But SourceSafe(codinghorror.com)

submitted by dalzieldalziel(6230) 5 years, 9 months ago

VSoft, the makers of FinalBuilder, just published the results of their annual customer survey. One of the questions is which version control systems do you currently use, or plan to use, in the next 12 months? The top 9 responses are reprinted here. I'm disheartened to see that Visual SourceSafe is still at the top of the list. If you are serious about the practice of software development, you should avoid SourceSafe. read more...

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