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Shortcuts Allow You to Quickly Search for VS Objects Within Your Solution

Sara Ford — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:16:10 GMT

Sara Ford writes, "Another good keyboard shortcut many don’t know about. I only say that because I forgot all about this one until now…There is a command called View.ClassViewGoToSearchCombo" more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:16:10 GMT

8 Steps Creating a Silverlight Mesh Enabled Web Application

Katrien DeGraeve — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:36:37 GMT

Katrien DeGraeve writes, "...I’m talking about the developer Live Framework CTP which at this stage in on limited access...In order to create your first Mesh-enabled project you need to install the Live Framework Tools CTP. You will be able to download this once you get your token...I started by creating a new project of type..." more

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:36:37 GMT

How to Open a File in an Existing Visual Studio Instance

Sara Ford — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:04:27 GMT

Sara Ford writes, "...Visual Studio has a command line argument you can specify to open a file in an existing instance of VS...You could also create a VSEdit command if you find yourself using this feature a lot. Just create a file called "VSEdit.cmd"..." more

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:04:27 GMT

Why Routers Should Route and Switches Should Switch

Lori MacVittie — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:40:29 GMT

Lori MacVittie writes, "Application acceleration in a router or switch would require that the router or switch become layer 7 aware, and flow-based. If they were to attempt to apply application acceleration to XML-based data, they would have to go one step further and become a full proxy. They would have to become an application switch rather than an L2/3 device. This is a bad idea for several reasons..." more

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:40:29 GMT

How to Specify Where to Install a Snippet in the VS Content Installer

Sara Ford — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:58:29 GMT

Sara Ford writes, "whenever you install a code snippet, the content installer will present you with a page (per snippet language) asking you where do you want to install the code snippet." more

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:58:29 GMT

WPF RSS Feed Aggregator on CodePlex

Beth Massi — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:40:20 GMT

Beth Massi writes, "Visual Basic MVP, has been busy on CodePlex writing a neat WPF learning application that aggregates RSS feeds. In his words: It's developed in Visual Basic 2008 and uses LINQ-to-Xml and XML Literals to read feeds and persist XML data. You'll learn a lot of things like:" more

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:40:20 GMT

Service Oriented Clouds vs Local Data Center

Lori MacVittie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:22:32 GMT

Lori MacVittie writes, "... Trying to recreate an issues for troubleshooting has always required replicating the environment as closely as possible...Further complicating the potential deployment of databases...Given our dependency on data and its availability, it's unlikely we'll see fully service-oriented clouds in the ether anytime soon. Not until we have the same guarantees of availability and access and ultimately, control..." more

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:22:32 GMT

Entity Framework and Read Stored Procedures a New Perspective

Julie Lerman — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:33:56 GMT

Julie Lerman writes, "...Rather than being tied to the function (stored procedures) and their parameter(s), you can query against the view any way you want providing any additional filters or other operators that you like, which will be part of the store command and be executed on the server. Additionally, you can use LINQ to Entities or ObjectQueries..." more

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:33:56 GMT

How to Drag and Drop Objects from the VS Class View

Sara Ford — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:18:38 GMT

Sara Ford writes, "This also works in the Object Browser...Suppose you want to call a particular method, but don’t feel like typing everything out. You can drag and drop the method into your code, as follows..." more

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:18:38 GMT

Infrastructure 2.0 Aligning the Network with the Business

Lori MacVittie — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:08:21 GMT

Lori MacVittie writes, "...In order to truly align the network with the business - and the other half of IT - it becomes necessary to dig deeper into the network stack and really take a look at how you're delivering those agile applications and services. It's important to consider the ramifications of a static, brittle delivery infrastructure..." more

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:08:21 GMT

Changing the Command Prompt Properties When Debugging a Console App

Kate Gregory — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:19:21 GMT

Kate Gregory writes, "...when debugging a console application I couldn't get the Properties of the command prompt to come up when stopped at a breakpoint...and of course the command prompt disappears as soon as the program finishes running. I could change the properties in the command prompt you get for "start without debugging" but they had no effect on the debug one. The font was too tiny to use...Here's what I did" more

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:19:21 GMT

Viewing the Class Diagram for a Class From the Class View

Sara Ford — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:32:02 GMT

Sara Ford writes, "Within the Class View, there’s the icon for viewing a class in the Class Diagram. This will add the Class1 shape to the Class Diagram or will create the Class Diagram if you don’t have one created yet. To make this a super-tip, you can bind this command to a keyboard shortcut...." more

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:32:02 GMT

The Soft Risks of Social Networking

Lori MacVittie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:27:07 GMT

Lori MacVittie writes, "...It's not just the potential slip of the tongue that reveals upcoming product plans or launches, or that gives away potentially sensitive corporate information. Most employees understand the potential harm to the organization such actions can cause and are careful to ensure they don't cross the lines they know exist. But they aren't so careful about expressing themselves on other subjects..." more

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:27:07 GMT

Windows 7 Means You Can Start Migrating to Vista

Georgina Mitcham — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:28:40 GMT

Georgina Mitcham writes, "He makes a balanced argument, calling out the above, but also referencing that Microsoft doesn’t have a good record of releasing operating systems on time. The key points he makes about why Vista and not skipping to Windows 7: Positive reasons:The big kernel changes happened between XP and Vista. Vista and Windows 7 will share the same core elements..." more

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:28:40 GMT

Network-Side Scripting Sample and Code

Lori MacVittie — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:26:23 GMT

Lori MacVittie writes, "Here's an example of Cookie encryption that uses network-side scripting. The entire script runs in the network (on the proxy) but we've split the code into "client" and "server" side to show how network-side scripting can deal with both sides of the equation. There is additional script that executes when the rule is first initialized..." more

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:26:23 GMT

Code to Truncate Log While Maintaining the SQL 2008 Database Recovery Model

Desiree Harris — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:21:56 GMT

Desiree Harris writes, "Here is a script that will truncate the database log while maintaining the database recovery model...Be sure to update the variable @sDbName to the --correct database name..." more

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:21:56 GMT

Infrastructure 2.0: The Feedback Loop Must Include Applications

Lori MacVittie — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:21:03 GMT

Lori MacVittie writes, "The network and the application are inexorably linked now, thanks to cloud computing and the Internet in general. Managing thousands of instances of an application will be as painful as managing thousands of IP addresses...The same diseconomies of scale that affect TCP/IP are going to affect application management. We should be more proactive..." more

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:21:03 GMT

How to Launch VS Without the Splash Screen

Sara Ford — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:07:44 GMT

Sara Ford writes, "this tip should save you some time using Visual Studio 2005. I’ve asked around and I think it loads Visual Studio 2008 slightly faster because there’s no pause for you to read the splash screen." more

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:07:44 GMT

Using the Resetting Switch for Single and Double Monitor Displays

Sara Ford — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:33:24 GMT

Sara Ford writes, "a customer had asked me about what to do when at home he’s got a single monitor display, but at work has a multiple monitor display....First thing you can do is create two different settings files. Setup the window layouts how you want them in the single monitor mode..." more

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:33:24 GMT

5 Top IT Pro Licensing FAQs

Georgina Mitcham — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:20:37 GMT

Georgina Mitcham writes, "How do I downgrade?...Can I reimage a PC using Volume Licensing media instead of the pre-installed Microsoft Windows desktop operating system media?..." more

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:20:37 GMT