Contents tagged with Visual Studio
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CSS3 box-shadow and Visual Studio Features
A few years ago, while creating an ASP.NET web site, I decided to add a gradient border to "sex up" the look of the site. Using a sophisticated image editing program, I created a small gradient image. I made sure the ending color of the gradient matched the color of the body in the target page. Here it is:
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Automatically Generate Stored Procedures with Visual Studio
This is one of those tucked-away features in Visual Studio that, once you find it, can make you slap your forehead so hard that it hurts. Warning: You may need an aspirin after reading this.
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Debugging XML Transforms (XSLT) with Visual Studio
XSLT stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations.
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Speed Up the Visual Studio Toolbox
There are plenty of tips out on the web that I see no need to repeat here. But this one made such a remarkable difference on my box that I had to post it….
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Anonymous Macros…Awesome Power!
Once upon a time, in the chilly windowless basement of a Fortune 100 company, a young programmer joined our small development team. He brought with him a programmers editor called Brief. Within weeks every developer in the entire company was using this powerful editor. The three compelling features were the ability to select copy and paste columns of text, multiple windows with cut and paste between them and…drum roll please…macros. With macros, enormously tedious tasks can be performed easily in seconds.
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Free Tools that I Use
Here are tools I use on a regular basis. They have attributes I find essential: