Some .NET tool publishers have started running special offers on SharpToolbox . Look for the "special offer" sticker on the home page . The first offer will allow you to save 10% on Dali, an object-relational mapper. More offers to come...

I've just downloaded Visual Studio 2006 err.. Visual Studio 2005's first service pack . Well, it's a 431MB download... Not bad for a patch. Several issues have been fixed, of course, but new features also have been integrated such as the support for Web Application projects . The service pack is available in multiple editions, ...

I had found out about SSW's Code Auditor product through one of those ubiquitous Top 10 .NET Developer Tool lists recently, and as I'm at the start of a new project, felt that I should run it through an auditor to nip common code errors in the bud as early as possible. This tool retails for about $305US, and can embed itself right into ...

As you certainly know I you sometimes read my blog I am absolutely addicted to that tool and can't work without it anymore in Visual Studio 2005. So I am happy to announce that Jetbrains finally released ReSharper 2.5. This version is for Visual Studio 2005 only. So what's new on this new version? Main focus was on the improvement of performance; ...

BT SDK is a new API released by BT (British Telecom) as part of the Web21 C initiative. In this tutorial, I’ll write a Hello world SMS application demonstrating the power of this SDK. Currently, the SDK is in beta stage therefore the pricing and exact release date is not announced yet. The sneak peek version of the SDK is released in this ...

For anyone who started distributing Office 2007 documents and ran into the problem of enabling non Office 2007 users to open his documents this compatibility pack is a must. Using the Office Compatibility Pack users of Office XP and 2003 can Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office ...

The Microsoft's MVPs Week classes are getting filled with pepole... Only few seats left ! If you havent already registered hurry up as we are starting the courses on Sunday 9:00 ! Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Week

The Microsoft's MVPs Week 10.12.2006 - 14.12.2006 registration is starting today ! Eyal Vardi Justin-Josef Angel Ohad Israeli Avi Kcholi Leon Langleyben Steven Teiger Daniel Petri Guy Teverovsy Helio Diamant During this week you'll be able to see Me, Eyal Vardi, Justing Angel, Avi Kcholi, Leon Langleyben, Steven Teiger, Daniel Petrim Guy Teverovsy ...

I was looking earlier today for some sort of code implementation as I was just too lazy to code it myself... then I remembered about google code search ... After 20 seconds I had some kind of implementation in my hand and yep I also looked at the license to see that its royalty free :-) P.S. small tip... use the advance search to limit to search ...

I saw a request on the Notepad++ forums today to add PowerShell syntax support. Notepad++ has a pretty good extension system for adding user defined languages, so I went ahead and put on together. You can download it from tools.veloc-it.com . Installation information is in the included readme file - you extract the zip, rename a file, and drop it ...

I just posted about adding PowerShell syntax support to Notepad++ by adding a User Defined Language definition. It's pretty simple; here's how I did it. Like most of these editors, Notepad++ saves language definitions in an XML file, but Notepad++ includes front end (the User Defined Language editor ), which makes it a lot easier to set it up. You ...

We just released Data Dictionary Creator version 1.2 to CodePlex . Version 1.2 adds a lot of great features: Added documentation of tables as well as columns Changed Excel export from HTML based to XMLSpreadsheet to support separate worksheets for Table and Column documentation Improved error handling - detection of non-DBO logins, etc. (UI) - tab ...

The integration of the Sysinternals tools and site by Microsoft is complete. Winternals and Sysinternals (originally NTInternals) were founded by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell in 1996. They provided a host of very useful utilities for troubleshooting and management of Windows systems and applications. Microsoft acquired Winternals Software ...

WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN? Cropper is a great free screen capture program. It has a cool plugin system which lets you send the screenshots anywhere you can write code to send it. I wrote a plugin to save a portion of the screen to an Animated GIF . I originally wrote it for use in a weblog post, but got so caught up in the ins and outs of image ...

Ok, I really tried, but after working with Firefox 2.0 for a few days I still don’t like the Close buttons on the tabs (I know IE7 has them, too, but that doesn’t make things more usable for me personally). Fortunately it’s simple to go back to 1.5 style: Enter about:config in the address bar Set browser.tabs.closeButton to 3 ...

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I have a nx8220 notebook from HP. I was facing issues with the display drivers slowing down the whole machine. I still have some issues for example when I get the notebook off or put it on the docking station. The screen can't switch resolution from external to notebook screen. I checked HP drivers and I already have the up-to-date display ...

I just ran across this over on parallels site: http://parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/2006/11/installing-windows-on-mac-is-now.html This sounds like a great feature for their virtualization product. Parallels for OSX is a top notch virtualization product and they just keep on adding features.

Are you finding all the “special folders” in Windows Vista a bit overwhelming? Which are real folders and which are virtualized? Which are profile-specific and which are common to all users? Which are rooted and which are relative? I did too at first. Previous versions of Windows included the concept of “special folders”. ...

I've started using Windows Live Writer as my primary blogging tool. So far I like it. However, it was missing an easy way to insert highlighted code into posts. I know there are a few other plugins that can insert highlighted code, but since I'm the author of a syntax highlighting tool named CodeHTMLer I figured I needed to write my own plugin . ...