Dave Britton of Vertigo was at Silicon Valley Codecamp 2008 and gave a presentation on Silverlight 2.0. Dave highlighted that there is a tight integration between ASP.NET and Silverlight. Silverlight also has rich tooling support with Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend. Dave also recommended Silverlight Spy, you need to be using Silverlight Spy if [...]
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Even thought I am a Windows user, I am no where near a Microsoft lackey but recently I learned that Microsoft is giving away a ton of professional grade software to students. Through the Microsoft DreamSpark program, students can get access to Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft Expression Studio, XNA [...]
Here is an extensive list of top programming books available for preview on Google Books. Google Books provides scans of thousands of textbooks. The scans are not the best, most books have visible scan defects in them. Even though the scans are not the best, there are some features that just work well. Just like [...]
In no particular order here is the list of of technology related podcasts that I frequently listen to. Cranky Geeks – Not cranky enough, but John C. Dvorak and guest rant on latest technology news. Diggnation – A weekly tech/web culture show based on the top stories on Digg. Drunk and Retired – They are [...]
Here is some Visual Basic script code which allows you to terminate a process given a process id number. ‘ Kills a program given its process id. Function ProgKill(strProcessId) ‘ Declare used variables Dim strWQL Dim objProcess Dim objResult Dim intReturnCode Dim wmi Set wmi = GetObject("winmgmts:") ‘ Get Process by WMI strWQL = _ [...]
I’ve might have mentioned before that I am not well versed in Visual Basic. Here is a small Visual Basic script snippet that took me an afternoon to figure out. You can use this code to print an HTML file using Internet Explorer. After the HTML file has been printed Internet Explorer will close. Sub [...]