I was completely annoyed by IE8’s accelerators until just a few moments ago.  I like this, very much: So long merriam-webster.com search provider (which is so unusable that I’m not even going to make that a link). [Read More]

With the Silverlight 3 Beta SDK and .NET RIA Services, a lot of people are starting to utilize the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations library to add validation metadata to their entities.  Something that has tripped up some people is the use of exceptions for validation errors, where Visual Studio breaks with a user... [Read More]

Phil Haack was at my desk today and saw something that I’ve set up in Visual Studio 2008 for quickly changing my profile.  It’s a trick that Sara Ford taught us in her infamous Visual Studio Tip of the Day series.  I use toolbar buttons to quickly change profiles in... [Read More]

.NET RIA Services allows you to write code on the server in an ASP.NET project, and have it available within a Silverlight application hosted by that web project.  Using build-time code generation, your entity types in the server project become available within the client project.  You can get .NET RIA... [Read More]

Something that has always nettled me is watching someone go into a properties dialog, make their changes, click Apply, and then OK.  You do realize that you can just click OK, right?  OK will apply your changes and close the window.  Why did you hit Apply and then OK? I... [Read More]