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Search and Navigation Tips/Tricks with Visual Studio
This is the twenty-seventh in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post continues on from the Debugging Tips post I did last week, and covers some useful searching and navigation tips/tricks you can take advantage Read More...
Debugging Tips with Visual Studio 2010
This is the twenty-sixth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post covers some useful debugging tips that you can use with Visual Studio.  My friend Scott Cate (who has blogged dozens of great VS tips Read More...
The Windows Phone 7 Emulator and Multi-Touch
At the Orlando Visual Studio 2010 Launch event, I did the session on Windows Phone 7, and one of the questions that came up was whether the emulator supported multi-touch. At the time, I answered that it only supported a single touch, but that is incorrect. Read More...
Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension
Search engine optimization (SEO) is important for any publically facing web-site.  A large % of traffic to sites now comes directly from search engines, and improving your site’s search relevancy will lead to more users visiting your site from search Read More...
Quick bit.ly API tip – Usernames are Case-Sensitive
I was playing around with some updates I was making to Community Megaphone to add some simple features like a link to share each event via twitter, and one of the things I was trying out was dynamically turning the full URL for a given event’s details Read More...
devhammer’s Adventures in SSD
The Machine In preparation for some upcoming events, I recently got a new laptop, and had decided on a fairly heavy-duty machine, an HP 8530w, with a large screen, and plenty of RAM (8GB). It’s a very nice machine, but I was a bit disappointed that even Read More...
View Zune Content By Content Type
If you’re a Zune user, by now you’ve probably installed the Zune 4.2.x client software. There are a lot of cool new features in this release, including the Smart DJ feature, which I use fairly often. But there’s a lesser-known feature that I ran across Read More...
Visual Studio 2010 Tip: Scroll to Zoom
Just accidentally discovered a nifty shortcut to quickly increase the text size in the Visual Studio 2010 code editor…just hold down Ctrl, and use the mouse scroll wheel to quickly increase or decrease the size of the text. I’m definitely gonna use this Read More...
ASP.NET MVC, Strongly-Typed Views, LINQ to SQL, and IDENTITY_INSERT
Given some of the recent discussions and debates over the value of ASP.NET Web Forms (with which I have deep experience) and ASP.NET MVC , I thought I would immerse myself more deeply into MVC. To that end, I’m doing some prototyping with the ASP.NET Read More...
My Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is Crashing…Help!
I’ve run into this, and just helped a fellow Microsoftie with the same issue…apparently there’s an issue with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 that can cause it to crash on startup if a particular setting is in place from your last session…I’ll dig deeper to Read More...
Rescuing a Window that’s Stuck Off-Screen
Last week, during the MSDN Roadshow stop in Reston, VA, I helped my fellow presenter Dani Diaz get a wayward Fiddler window back on-screen, after it appeared off-screen when he opened the app during a demo. Folks on hand wanted to know what keyboard shortcut Read More...
Solving Confusing Browser Security Prompts with Protocol-Relative Hyperlinks
If you’ve ever been in the situation where you’re visiting a site where some of the content is delivered via http, and some via https, you may have seen the following security dialog (this is the IE version, but Firefox has a similar dialog): It’s not Read More...
Tip/Trick: Increase your VS screen real estate by disabling HTML Navigation Bar
Below is a tip/trick I twittered via my Twitter account earlier today.  A number of people seemed interested in – so I thought i'd blog it here too. HTML Navigation Bar in VS 2008 By default, when you are in HTML source-editing mode with VS 2008 Read More...
Technology Related Links for May 13th
If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the Hot Links tag. Series Post #12 Read More...
Technology Related Links for May 11th
If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the Hot Links tag. Series Post #10 Read More...
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