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Developing for IE8 (Accelerators and Web Slices)
Lately I wrote an article for MSDN to introduce Accelerators and Web Slices in IE8 and show how to build them. Here is an overview: Web Slices bring the user’s favorite data (sports scores, weather reports, stock quotes, etc.) directly into the Favorites...
You shape it – a new Microsoft tech portal
Microsoft has a new web site to start the excitement on his new dev technologies: IE8, WPF, Silverlight and Windows Mobile. It is called {You shape} it and focus on Design, Development and IT Management in a nice claymotion Silverlight UI. http://www...
ASP.NET Dynamic Data Web projects templates
Since Visual Studio 2008 SP1 you may have noticed 2 projects template for dynamic data: So what is the difference ? Dynamic Data Web Site / Dynamic Data Web Application: Uses a LINQ to SQL model and LinqDataSource controls. Dynamic Data Entities Web Site...
Youtube Search Provider for IE8
I made a Search Provider for IE8 to search videos on Youtube : Youtube Search for IE8 What are Search Providers ? In IE8 you can use search providers like Live Search, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Amazon, and more to deliver direct results and images that provide...
My IE8 Accelerators to download
For those of you who are already running IE8 (since IE8 beta 2 is available ), I made some accelerators ready to use: Search Images with Live Search “Use this accelerator to find related images with Live Search based on selected text.” Search with Google...
VPC for IE testing refreshed with beta 2
Microsoft has updated the VPCs to test your web apps with different versions of Internet Explorer. You can now download these VPC: IE6/XP SP3 IE7/XP SP2 IE7/Vista IE8 beta 2/XP SP3 >> Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image These new...
RunAtServer website new version
As you may know I am the co-founder of RunAtServer Consulting , a company based in Montreal, we are specialized in web development with Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight. We have launched our new website! www.runatserver.com...
[Cool Tool] Vector Magic
Vector Magic is an online tool that converts bitmaps into vector images . It provides a wizard that helps you through the process, so you can easily generate your vector graphics from bitmaps, then import into Microsoft Expression Designer or Blend. I...
My Silverlight talk at Microsoft Innovation Briefing
This morning I did a Silverlight 2 talk at Microsoft Montreal, during a half-day briefing called Building Compelling Websites on the Microsoft Platform . That was a 1 hour talk to present Silverlight 2, DeepZoom, Expression Blend and create from scratch...
[Cool Tool] FTP Live
This is not a "must have" but a "good to know", as it can be pretty useful. Have you ever been is a situation where you have to upload files to an FTP server but have no access because FTP ports are disable (at work for example) ?...
[Cool Tool] Meta Tag Analyzer
Meta Tag Analyzer is a free online tool by SubmitExpress that analyze your web site and tells you how good/relevant your title and description are in relation to your content and chosen keywords. Try Meta Tag Analyzer: http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer...
Save A Developer. Upgrade Your Browser.
A new campaign has raised on the web to invite IE6 users to upgrade to a high level browser (IE7, Firefox, Opera or Safari) in order to make everyone happier (users + developers). "Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their...
Testing web apps on IE6, IE7 and IE8
As web developers we have to test our websites on IE6, then IE7, and now IE8. You can find tips and tricks to install several versions of IE on the same machine, but it may be easier and cleaner to use VPC instead. Microsoft provides a link to download...
VS2008 and IE8 auto Js debugging mode
Here is a nice feature of IE8: Remember both "Disable script debugging" options you had to uncheck in IE to enable JavaScript debugging ? You no longer have to! You can now stay on default "script debugging off" mode in IE and when...
[Cool Tool] Browsershots
Browsershots is a free online tool that makes screenshots of your web site in different browsers/versions on multiple platforms (Win, Mac, Linux). Use it to test the look of your web sites : http://browsershots.org/ Set your choices then come back later...
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