Today I was playing around with my windows in Visual Studio to get them in place exactly how want it,, but how do I save my window layout settings? I found it on Sara Ford's weblog, simply close Visual Studio and the window layout will be saved. When you mess-up your windows your can reset them by pressing "Window" -> "Reset Window Layout" ......

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jQuery a fast and concise JavaScript Library has release a version with autocomplete documentation for Visual Studio. You can find it here next to al other versions. Please don't use the Visual Studio version on production machines, it's way bigger than the other versions of jQuery ......

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In a new article on CIO.com Anders Hejlsberg tells next to a lot of other things how C# get's his name. Below a quote of the article: [CIO] Why was the language originally named Cool, and what promoted the change to C#? [AH] The code name was Cool, which stood for 'C like Object Oriented Language'. We kind of liked that name: all of our files were called ......

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Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 has been released with some improvements and fixes. What's new Unity interception mechanism and integration of the Policy Injection Application Block with the Unity Application Block Added support for generics in the Unity Application Block Added support for arrays in the Unity Application Block Performance improvements ......

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The CTP for Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 is now available! Is available as a virtual image. More info you can find at the links below: Using a download manager to get the VPC: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian... Dealing with Activation messages ......

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After 8 years it was time to change the .NET logo. The new logo stand for consistency, robustness and great user experiences. The design look like a "wave" with a suggestion of the letter 'N' that will become recognizable over time as shorthand for the .NET brand name. From: http://blogs.msdn.com/msmos... ......

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Recently my intellisense on Visual Studio 2008 stops working, after some search I found a solution at http://blogs.blackmarble.co... I had a poke about in Tools|Option and found that on the Text Editor|All Languages that the three checkboxes for Statement Completion ......

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Micrsoft's ASP.NET MVC is in BETA phase now. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/do... New features: MvcFutures.dll is not included in the beta (as it wouldn't be included in the final release) The Beta installer installs the ASP.NET MVC assemblies (System.Web.Mvc.dll, ......

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(Sorry A blog post in Dutch about day 2 of a software conference in the Netherlands) Vandaag (7 okt) was het dag #2 van de SDN Conference. Zelfde opzet als dag #1 alleen 1 sessie ronde minder, maar daardoor niet minder interessant. De volgende sessies had ik op mn lijstje staan voor vandaag: DB.04 Rock Star Common Table Expressions door Stephen Forte ......

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(Sorry A blog post in Dutch about a software conference in the Netherlands) Vandaag (Maandag 6 okt) waren we met z'n 3 afgereisd naar het pittoreske Noordwijkerhout waar de SDN Conference werd gehouden, oftewel SDC. Op de SDC waren sessies over bijv .NET, Information worker, DotNetNuke, Delphi, Database, Architecture en User eXperience. De sessie waar ......

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On an other blog I found some interesting analysers like: SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer The SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) gathers data from Microsoft Windows and SQL Server configuration settings. BPA uses a predefined list of SQL Server 2005 recommendations and best practices to determine if there are potential issues in the ......

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Recently Sara Ford passed the 300+ mark for her Visual Studio Tips & Tricks section. See gives some usefull tips to work better and faster with Visual Studio 2005/2008. You can find them here: Visual Studio 2005 Tip of the Day Visual Studio 2008 Tip of the Day From: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbtea... ......

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A few days ago I posted a comparison of C# vs Ruby. So I thought what about adding some more populair programming languages to the graph. And what to we see below: c# 2.05 ruby 1.00 php 3.65 perl 0.75 java 7.65 The other languages (php, perl, java) has the same drops during the weekends as C#. Ruby on the other hand stays stable during the whole week. ......

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Network Monitor 3.2 is a protocol analyzer. It allows you to capture network traffic, view and analyze it. One of the nice features of the Network Monitor, is that the packets are group per process. Network Monitor 3.2 is available on Microsoft.com. The link is: http://www.microsoft.com/do... ......

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A product of Google labs called "trends" is usefull to investigate search trends. What happes if we compare the search terms "C#" and "Ruby"? c# 2.02 ruby 1.00 What do we see in the graph, the Ruby line (red) stays pretty constant during the whole week, but the C# line (blue) drops during the weekend. Interesting isn't it? What conclusion can we make ......

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