Posted by Miguel Moreno on 10th February, 2008
Visual Studio 2008 had several issues in its first release of slowing down or even freezing temporarily when developing web applications, especially large ones. This hotfix addresses some of these issues. A readme file included in the download details every issue covered in this hotfix. For more details check out Scott Guthrie’s post on this release. [button link=”https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=10826&wa=wsignin1.0″ color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 13th November, 2007
I noticed this section recently in MSDN on how to accomplish certain tasks shown in brief 2 – 15 minute videos. There are many categories that range from ASP.NET to SilverLight to Visual Studio, etc. and each category contains a many topics. This is a link I will definitively store in my favororites. Especially useful for those of us sometimes too lazy to read… [button link=”http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/bb629407.aspx” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 9th November, 2007
Visual Studio 2005 is probably one of the most complex pieces of software ever developed. It has so many features, so many tools to (try to) satisfy every developer that is trying to accomplish such a wide variety of tasks, that it is easy to see how a product like that could become very bloated and sluggish. So, how do I speed it up? Here are some tips I have collected over time: Disable the Splash Screen Add the following parameter to your VS2005 shortcut: “C:Program Files…devenv.exe” -nosplash Note: the same trick applies to Business Intellgience Managment Studio and SQL Management Studio…. Install Visual Studio Service Pack 1 get...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 18th October, 2007
“So we all know how planes fly, right? The top of the wing is rounded and the bottom of the wing is straighter. Air takes longer to travel over the top of the wing, which means there’s less air pressure there relative to the bottom of the wing. That means there’s more air pressure on the bottom — hence the lift. Right? Right?” Nope… apparently not. [button link=”http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/why-planes-fly-what-they-taught-you-in-school-was-wrong”” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 3rd October, 2007
I have worked with SharePoint for a while now, mostly mostly writing code for integration scenarios, where data needs to be “pulled” or “pushed” into SharePoint involving other enterprise software applications. SharePoint 2007 Features are basically a mechanism to extend SharePoint in any way you need. Mike Ammerlaan wrote a brief and concise technical article describing features: I will try to describe how to develop a SharePoint 2007 Feature from zero. In this case our feature will handle the event that SharePoint usually handles when a file gets added to a Document Library. When a user uploads a new document to a Document Library, we want to run some custom code....
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 24th September, 2007
I just posted about this yesterday but found a new site that has a concept I think is worth mentioning. I have just registered and have yet to play with it some more but it seems it has quite a bit of content. There are hours of free courseware for several languages as well, but mainly it focuses on allowing you to social network with people who speak the native language that you are trying to learn and vice versa. [button link=”http://www.livemocha.com” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 21st September, 2007
I think I have posted about learning a new language before and it not easy to find an application or software that is easy to use and free. Well, I came across this web based language application that, so far, is free and easy to use….really. They have several languages and it starts out really easy, assuming you have absolutely no experience whatsoever. [button link=”http://www.trymango.com/” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 17th September, 2007
“Do you like the annoying message that keeps asking you to restart your computer after installing windows updates every 10 minutes? If you choose ‘Restart Later’, this question will appear again every 10 minutes.” Here is a way to eliminate this behaviour… [button link=”http://www.techdo.com/?p=86″ color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 6th September, 2007
I had to do some simple form validation the other day and thought to myself that, in our current Web 2.0 world, I should do it with AJAX since it is really everywhere and it didn’t even cross my mind todo it the old fashioned way with plain Javascript, which might do the job just a good. So, I stumbled upon Live Validation which offers a lightweight, open source javascript library to do just that: real time form validation with some very useful features. They have some excellent examples here and the code is decently commented. Definitively a must have in my toolbox! [button link=”http://www.livevalidation.com” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
