At SubMain we are collecting email addresses of the users who download trial version of our CodeIt.Right product as well as our free products - GhostDoc and .NET Coding Guidelines. We do that for two main reasons - we track download statistics and keep a point of contact with the users to provide t... [More]

I’ve done quite a bit of MDB upsizing to SQL Server in the past. And it works just like a snap - you go to Tools -> Database Utilities -> Upsizing Wizard, choose your destination server, couple of clicks, bang - you are done! So, when I needed to import a MS Access 2007 database into SQL 2008... [More]

Silverlight Toolkit was updated in the March 2009 release with Visual Basic examples added. My compliments to Silverlight Team! Here is what Microsoft says: The Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release is enhanced with Visual Basic source code for both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3. The Toolk... [More]

Microsoft Patterns & Practices' Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (formerly code-named Prism) which initially was released only for C# is now made available by Microsoft in VB.NET as well! The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight is designed to help you ... [More]

  Couldn't we just use ASP.MVC for ASP.NET MVC? Seriously, it’s based on .NET Framework but got no WebForms nor Controls of ASP.NET; no ugly PostBack and ViewState either; only nice clean markup and Model-View-Controller pattern. A 21st century hack to 20th century go... [More]

When generating parts of the page dynamically using JavaScript it is handy to see the HTML code that your script is actually generating. IE8 comes with View Generated Source context menu but it is a bit wonky. I had very little luck using it - it would show up in the but not on the pages that I w... [More]

There are times you need to resolver relative URL like "~/my/link.aspx" into absolute and you don't want to use the Page context or can't easily access it. Rick Strahl posted a great blog entry on ResolveUrl() without Page where he implements his own static ResolveUrl() method. I fo... [More]

While installing VS2008 SP1 on a 8GB VMWare machine today I encountered the need to increase the virtual hard drive size - didn't have enough space for the SP1 setup to run. Luckily, VMWare has vmware-vdiskmanager utility which I used and very much followed the Increase your Virtual m... [More]

While looking for line-wrapping solution for syntax highlighted code blocks on the new vbCity community web site and had (once again) to search for the right <pre> tag CSS attributes that'd wrap code in all browsers. So, I ran at this great post that summarizes it all nicely and in on... [More]

If you get depressed after looking at the standard Visual Studio coloring theme for years, try changing it. Scott Hanselman posted a gallery of ready to use themes to any taste - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx  I like Jeff Atwood's (CodingH... [More]