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Visual studio Tip #5: “Surround with…” in ASP.NET 4.0
As an ASP.NET developer, you certainly found yourself in the following situation. You have a number of mark-up elements in your page which should be hidden/updated/… all at once. The solution is to put them in a panel or updatepanel. In previous versions of Visual Studio you had to manually type the tags to surround [...]
Visual studio tip #4: Generate method stub in VB.NET 2010
I am not a big fan of VB.NET, but for some reasons I will not explain in this post, I have to code in it (lucky me ). Microsoft is always claiming that C# and VB.NET are equally evolving, but some changes only appear in VB.NET one or more releases after they have been implemented [...]
Office 2010: choose your default open standard
Where Office 2007 introduced Microsoft’s new Open XML format, Office 2010 (which RTM’d last week) goes even further in its support for open standards. When you first open an application from the Office 2010 suite: the following window appears: Microsoft definitely adds more flexibility with this feature, enabling Open Office users to open their ODF [...]
No Business Intelligence Development Studio in Visual Studio 2010 (yet?)
As a developer I am pleased with the new Visual Studio 2010 release. Lots of features were added and the editor looks more tight and solid than its predecessors. BI people still have to wait to taste the Visual Studio 2010 candy. SQL Server 2008 only ships the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) for Visual [...]
Visual Studio tip #3: hide splash screen
Splash screens are beautiful, at least that’s wat Microsoft thinks about it. I must say, splash screens are just annoying and they slow down the startup of Visual Studio and other programs. But, there is a way to skip the splash screen part in Visual Studio. Most of the Visual Studio developers launch their favorite [...]
Still no official date for HTC Hero Android 2.1 update in Benelux
Despite the rumors, HTC doesn’t provide us with the official release date of the Android 2.1 update for the HTC Hero in Benelux. We are waiting for months now for this update, but I think HTC is just postponing the release until the new HTC Desire will show up in Benelux, which should be there [...]
Need a .NET Excel library?
As a developer, you definitely need to read or manipulate Excel files at some point. There are a lot of ways to do this: The best known method is to make use of the Excel Interop library. This method has some big disadvantages if you want to use it in a web development environment: Excel [...]
Visual studio tip #2: Go to line
Another useful shortcut for the Visual Studio editor is CTRL + G. This key combination enables you to quickly navigate to a specific line in your code file. So there is no need to keep on scrolling until you reach the correct line!
Visual studio tip #1: format document
It has been a while since my last post on this blog, but now I’m back. I will try to share some small Visual Studio tips on a regular basis, starting from now on. A useful feature in Visual Studio is the format document option, which you will find in the menu Edit -> Advanced [...]
Top 5: best Android applications
I’ve been using my HTC Hero Android phone for about 2 months now, so it is time to make a round-up of my best Android applications so far. Android Market contains about 18000 applications now. Barcode Scanner This application is just a simple barcode scanner, it scans a lot of barcode types, including QR-codes (which [...]
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