Contents tagged with Tips - Tricks
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My ASP.NET news sources
I just posted about the ASP.NET Daily Community Spotlight. I was going to list a bunch of my news sources at the end, but figured this deserves a separate post. I've been following a lot of development blogs for a long time - for a while I subscribed to over 1500 feeds and read them all. That doesn't scale very well, though, and it's really time consuming. Since the community spotlight requires an interesting ASP.NET post every day of the year, I've come up with a few sources of ASP.NET news.
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Tips for avoiding e-mail disasters
There's something about hitting the send button on an e-mail that remind me of some important detail, such as:
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Better ways to watch the MIX11 videos, Part 1: VLC
I'm still catching up on all the great content at MIX 11. There is a ton of great content - 116 videos when I last looked. Scott Hanselman already posted a great summary of ways to get and watch them. With this many videos to watch, though, you might want to bring out some big guns, and that's what this post is all about.
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Web Platform Installer bundles for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 - and how you can build your own WebPI bundles
Visual Studio SP1 is now available via the Web Platform Installer, which means you've got three options:
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Using CDN Hosted jQuery with a Local Fall-back Copy
Update: See Scott Hanselman's post for more info: CDNs fail, but your scripts don't have to - fallback from CDN to local jQuery
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Tip: File / Open / URL
As web developers, we’re constantly having to work with files that are provided via URL. The simplest case is a web page source HTML, but there’s also XML config files, images, documents (PDF, PSD, DOCX, etc.). Usually we don’t think about it, because they’re linked in a web page, so we we do the right-click/save file, then open our editor and do the file/open/browse… where did I save it again… dance. If we remember to shift-right-click/copy as path trick, we think we’ve cheated the system just a bit.
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My Boot-to-VHD experiment: found some tips, like it, but still haven’t found VM nirvana
I’ve recently been running some early releases developer tools which came with the “install on VM’s if you don’t want your computer to catch fire” warning. That seemed like a good time to back off on my “VM’s are for sissies” stance and get my VHD on. After verifying that there wasn’t already a suitable VHD available for download, I decided to follow Scott Hanselman’s directions to set up a Boot To VHD instance.
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MSDN Low Bandwidth Bookmarklet
There’s a semi-hidden feature in the MSDN Library website: Low Bandwidth view. We’ll talk about how to use it, why I like it, and some tips for switching it on and off. We’ll end up with an MSDN Low Band bookmarklet I whipped up to make it even easier.
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Using <body> Classes To Fight CSS Class Explosion
I previously wrote about taking CSS beyond a simple style library by writing HTML that’s easy to style. I’d like to go into one point in a bit more detail – avoiding class explosion by leveraging descendant selectors:
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Using Vista Previous Versions to Restore Files You Thought You'd Lost
I'm a big fan of being productive by not losing work. I don't care how optimized your system and development tools are; if you have to do work to get back to where you were at a half hour ago, you're going backwards. I've previously written about using TimeSnapper as screen recorder so I can retrace my steps to anything that's happened on my screen in the past month. TimeSnapper continues to be one of the first tools I install on a new system.
