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Rumors began surfacing over the weekend that price cuts for the Kin phones were in the offing, and now it’s official. Originally listed for $49 with a two-year contract, the smaller Kin One is now on sale at Verizon for just $29 with service, or a little more than 40 percent off. The Kin Two […]

.NET developers have been getting ‘insufficient memory’ notifications when doing small cut or copy operations in Visual Studio 2010 RTM. Microsoft has released a patch for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 intended to address insufficient memory messages developers are getting when doing small cut or copy operations. “Attempting to cut or copy small to moderate amounts […]

Introduction Shell links provide the ability to access objects within the Windows shell such as files, folders, printers and applications. An end-user of Windows can create a shell link through the New | Shortcut menu item in Windows Explorer, and applications can achieve the same effects through the COM interfaces IShellLink to create a link […]

Introduction “A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.” –Bil Keane I presented at IndyTechFest–a regional day of learning–last Saturday in Indianapolis. My topic was VB Tips and Tricks for VB 2010. As always I never leave such things to chance, so as I was heading to my session room […]

Introduction In this article let us learn about web.config transformation and how it comes in so handy while performing the deployment of an ASP.NET web application. As a note Web configuration file transformation is a nice feature introduced in the ASP.NET framework 4.0. What is Web.Config Transformation? If you ask the .NET developers about the […]

1. Introduction In the first article, Writing a Debugger Visualizer in WPF: Part 1, we discussed how to create a basic debugger visualizer in WPF. Our visualizer was read-only and supported only one data type. Now let’s extend this concept and try to improve it. 2. Editable Visualizer In the previous discussion one visualizer was […]

Introduction Microsoft’s ASP.NET is a language and platform-neutral technology, arguably, one of the most successful web technologies ever. You can use it to design and develop web applications that can run on top of the managed environment of .NET Framework and inside the context of the IIS web server. Microsoft’s MVC Framework is based on […]

1. Introduction There are a lot of good examples of how to create a debugger visualizer for Visual Studio. One thing that is common among all of them, is that they are all written using Windows form. I got a question on the Microsoft forum asking whether it is possible to make debugger visualizer in […]

XML is an increasingly popular way to encode documents, data, and electronic messages. Over the years Microsoft has offered a variety of libraries to facilitate creating, modifying, querying, and searching XML documents. LINQ to XML is a relatively new set of XML-related classes in the .NET Framework (found in the System.Xml.Linq namespace), which enable developers […]

Introduction Despite the considerable time and resources Microsoft and the .NET community have invested in open source initiatives in recent years, it’s surprising how often the two camps are treated as antithetical to one another. Yet the reality is that reliance upon open source development tools within the Microsoft community is significant and growing. In […]

Introduction Many of the new features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 are related to developer productivity. And when it comes to the code editor, almost no other window in Visual Studio puts equal hours into the clock. Thus, Microsoft needs to make sure developers are productive, and stay so from version to version. In Microsoft […]

Introduction PageGetter is one helpful feature that most corporate professionals would like to have. At times when certain Websites are blocked, or in the case of no internet connectivity, page getters serve a mammoth boon. Well, this article does not compare itself to PageGetter’s available in the market, this just overviews the use of the […]