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Telerik's Scheduler Recurrence Capabilities
For those using Telerik's RadScheduler control, I explained about the options that the scheduler uses to recur by: http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/Understanding-Teleriks-Scheduler-Recurrence.aspx I don't know if the latest release has...
Some Excellent FireFox/Firebug Tools/Addons
I'll probably come back and update this post, but I wanted to post some excellent addons or tools that can be used with Firefox/Firebug, available here: 10 Firefox Add-Ons for Web Designers: http://www.10voltmedia.com/blog/2009/05/10-firefox-add-ons...
YUI Compressor in Visual Studio
I needed to be able to compress my JavaScript files, and I like to use the YUI compressor to do this. Found an even easier way to do this using Visual Studio, by creating an external tool as mentioned in this blog: http://blog.lavablast.com/post/2009...
SlickEdit Backup Diff
SlickEdit has a nice backup tool that captures backups of files on a regular basis. Whenever you need to restore a backup of a file, simply go to the backup explorer tool window (on the same side as the solution explorer) and select one of the backups...
Resharper's Feedback
Attached to this blog post is an image of the product Resharper, a refactoring tool for the .NET 3.5 framework and Visual Studio 2008 (not including the backward compatibility). The image labels three sections that illustrate some of the highlighting...
Accessing a PageView on the client
I didn't find any documentation on this, so I thought I'd throw something out there. When using the Telerik RadMultiPage, each page view can be accessed on teh client like so: var multiPage = $find("<%= mp.ClientID %>"); var views...
VSS 6 and VSS 2005 Side-by-Side Compatibility
It was stated by someone that I know that VSS 6 and VSS 2005 aren't compatible on the same machine, and I'd like to refute that. Actually, these two software products are compatible; I've been running both on my machine (not simultaneously...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9 2009 13:38 by bmains | with no comments
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Free .NET Charting Controls from Microsoft
A free .NET charting control for .NET 3.5. This blog post by Scott Guthrie gives you links to where to download it. Check it out: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/24/new-asp-net-charting-control-lt-asp-chart-runat-quot-server-quot-gt.aspx
Posted: Tue, Jan 27 2009 15:43 by bmains | with no comments
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Resharper's Validation Features
The tool Resharper has some nice validation features I wanted to talk about. Like Visual Studio, Resharper monitors your keystrokes, looking for errors as you type. One of the nice features I like about Resharper is its ability to identify errors in code...
CodeSmith Videos
CodeSmith released a series of videos to help understand the features available in CodeSmith 5.0. You can view those videos in the following links: CodeSmith Projects: http://codesmithtools.com/video/codesmith-projects.html Schema Explorer: http://codesmithtools...
TestMatrix Test Running
When creating a unit test project, I normally setup NUnit as the executing program for the unit testing framework by doing this in the project properties, in the debug settings. This makes it easy to debug, by providing the name of the DLL as a command...
TestMatrix Inline Test Running
TestMatrix has a great feature that allows a user to run a test while in the Visual Studio environment. By right-clicking in a file, on the file, a folder, or using the Test Explorer tool window, a developer can run a unit test and see the color-coded...
Posted: Mon, Aug 27 2007 21:09 by bmains | with 1 comment(s)
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TestMatrix's Tear Off Editor
There is a very useful feature in the TestMatrix product, created by Exact Magic. It is the Tear Off Editor feature, which can be invoked by Studio Tools > Tear Off Editor. This feature tears off the window, which can be docked like the properties...
Posted: Fri, Aug 17 2007 21:15 by bmains | with no comments
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