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It happens to all of us, unfortunately the reason you are reading this is probably because it is happening to you now.
Let's say that your boss comes in one morning and asks you to work in a project, then he mentions you need to get it from Visual SourceSafe (VSS)... you think is a joke until you noticed that your boss has that "serious" look in his face. F*ck. Or maybe you receive the project in a compressed file and when you try to open it, you realize this project was under Visual Source...
This might be something you already know, however I just found out about it and I am writing it down to share it with you and to help myself find it in case I forget about it which will probably happen.
In the past, when working with Visual Studio projects downloaded from the web, or projects that are shared with other developers, every once in a while I ran into the issue of not being able to load the project in Visual Studio because either the path is wrong, or if it is a web project, maybe the project is setup...
Yes, it has been released, this is the new, improved, cool, updated and so much waited for version of asp.net MVC.
asp.net MVC 2 is out which was officially confirmed by Scott Gu yesterday on his blog.
I wrote a post about some of the features included in the release candidate 2 (RC2) just a few weeks ago. This new and final asp.net MVC 2 has some cool new features such as:
What's New
Templated Helpers that allow you to specify extra View Data. Basically, this release now includes new overloads for the EditorFor and DisplayFor methods, the overloads contain...
Last Tuesday, Scott Guthrie announced in his blog the new Microsoft AJAX content delivery network (CDN), this is great news to all of us using AJAX in our commercial and non-commercial applications.
What is it?
First of all, a CDN is a Content Delivery Network which is composed of multiple servers strategically placed across the globe. In the case of the Microsoft AJAX CDN servers, the jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX libraries are cached across multiple web-sites around the world and they are available to you now. If your website loads these AJAX libraries from the Microsoft AJAX CDN servers, your AJAX enabled...
I want to share the following with you; I try to attend the .Net user group meetings as much as I can. I find these free get-togethers really useful for developers of all levels… and I love the free pizza too!
I live in Austin, TX so the one I attend to is the Austin .Net user's group (adnug.org). I guess I am a lucky guy, since 2008 I have won twice a free subscription/license to Infragistic's NetAdvantage suite valued at about $1,500.00. Needless to say, I have enjoyed these "free" controls and I am very happy with it.
Now,...
Looking at Visual Studio 10 improvements, I found one that I really like and I am sure a lot of you will find this very cool as well. Visual Studio 10 now supports multiple monitor setups, yes! Now you can actually move the designer, editor, tools, etc to any monitor in your system. Many of us are already familiar with multi-monitor systems, however, this is different. You can now have your code in one of the monitors and then the designer in a different monitor… the use of screen real-estate can be highly improved with this feature, and hopefully our...
I am working in a couple of websites and I needed a new mockup tool, usually I do my mockups in Visio but I really wanted to find something simpler to work with, a software that would allow me to create my mockups in less time without compromising quality. I did a Google search and found out about this great software called Balsamiq Mockups. Balsamiq is pretty easy to use, the interface is great and it comes with 75 pre-built controls which help you design anything from a simple interface to a complex website or Rich Internet Application. If...
The Microsoft Web Platform helps you design, develop, and deliver Web solutions for your business. All the
tools, technologies and server solutions necessary to create satisfying
Web experiences are included in this platform.
It is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform,
including IIS 6 and 7, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server
2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Also, you can choose to install either specific
products or the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto your computer and the best part is that it is compatible with Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
To start using this web platform you...