If you happen to use CodePlex as I do, I hope you found Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2005 to be a huge productivity boost. With Visual Studio 2008 it wasn’t entirely obvious to me how to replicate this setup. It turns out that Team Explorer can be installed individually from the Visual Studio Team [...]
Archive for August, 2007
There are a lot of sites out there with great vector resources provided in Adobe Illustrator files. A few have taken a stab at creating exporters or converts, including Mike Swanson and a CodePlex.com project called XamlXporter. I tried out Mike’s XamlExport plugin and it worked fairly well, but he has some well documented items that [...]
There is a pretty cool, but curiously quiet, CodePlex project called XamlXporter that allows you to export Adobe Illustrator files/resources to WPF files. This is a great thing since WPF is young and there are a lot of free resources and tutorials for Adobe Illustrator out there, as well as, you will probably find that design firms are [...]
The other day I happened upon the Firefox Add-On page and decided to give the recommended Add-On a try. I’ve been infatuated ever since. Though there’s an inordinate number of buttons on the default toolbar layout, StumbleUpon is pretty simple: You/others browse the web and when you find something you like you give it a thumbs-up or a [...]
I’m a big fan of the Vista Problem Reports and Solutions feature. I’d say it’s had a satisfactory solution to real problems +50% of the time, which is better than I can say for any Support FAQ or Help file I can recall. Today, though, I’ve been let down. Here’s what I’ve got – see [...]