Microsoft is Thinking About Monetizing Developer Products!- July 14, 2008 Scott Dorman writes Absolutely not! While I understand the desire to monetize every "product" coming out of Microsoft, it sometimes ends up hurting the community as a whole...The other problem is that you then start sending mixed signals to the community. On one hand you say that running static code analysis is a best practice but you then restrict that capability to companiesdevelopers willing to spend $10K+ on a Team System SKU. This makes it hard for the community to recognize the real value.http://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/23209.item Have You Been Looking for Activity Monitor- July 11, 2008 Dan Jones writes Yes, we did kill off Activity Monitor. No, it's not totally gone. Well, the old one is totally gone. But the totally new one is there but we moved the launch point. It's now launched from the toolbar and the context menu off of the server. See the screen shots...I'll let you in on two cool things... more Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:15:05 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/23178.item Workaround for Using ScriptManager with other Frameworks- July 8, 2008 Bertrand LeRoy writes...ScriptManager isn't really usable without Microsoft Ajax because it includes the Microsoft library... The workaround is a simple control derived from ScriptManager and that enables the replacement of the MicrosoftAjax.js reference with a script of your choice:..This should broaden developer choice in terms of client framework while keeping the great benefits of ScriptManager. Hope that helps. more Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:40:20 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/23140.item Creating Event Handlers in C using VS- July 8, 2008 Keith Elder writes Here is how you create an event handler in C using Visual Studio. Here is a form I built in a matter of seconds....How many key strokes was that Let's see. I had to type in my form the characters: this.Lo += TAB TAB. Easy quick and simple. more Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:39:14 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/23124.item What is the Benefit to Using IsNullOrEmpty- July 4, 2008 Scott Dorman writes ...I know that every time I need to perform this test it is executing the exact same code in the same order. I dont have to worry about someone accidentally testing Length == 0 before the != null and causing a NullReferenceExcpetion... Here is a more complete NullObjectExtensions class: more Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:00:01 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/23100.item Adding references - WebSite versus WebApplication- July 3, 2008 Geert Verhoeven writes When adding a reference to dll A using the WebSite template, Visual Studio automatically adds a reference to all dlls that dll A references. This is done to ease the deployment but it can give some unwanted side effects. To make this clearer, Ive created a simple solution structure that shows this issue... more Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:17:02 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/23094.item Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight aka VIEWS refined and ready- July 1, 2008 Marc Schweigert writes The idea of being able to use managed code instead of JavaScript to build your Virtual Earth applications is very appealing to many...There is an interim solution for those of you dying to write some managed code in the browser instead of JavaScript...Hop on over to...get your hands on VIEWS more Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:25:31 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/23065.item |