Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

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To make the code editor the default editor, right click on the file in Solution Explorer, select "Open With", specify the editor & then choose "Set As Default".

The keyboard shortcut CTRL + ALT + U [Debug.Modules] displays the Modules window, which allows you to view the .dll or .exe files used by the program in VS.NET 2003. It also shows the path of the DLL & version number. In multiprocess debugging, you can right-click and select Show Modules for all Programs. Invaluable!

To view all comments with TODO token in a page in VS.NET 2003, invoke Tasklist [ Ctrl + Alt + K ]. Right click anywhere on the Tasklist & in the context sensitive menu choose Show Tasks > Comment

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WaSP DOM Scripting Task Force definitions - AJAX - A scripting technique for silently loading new data from the server. Although AJAX scripts commonly use the soon to be standardized XMLHttpRequest object, they could also use a hidden iframe or frame. An AJAX script is useless by itself. It also requires a DOM Scripting component to embed the received data in the document. Unobtrusive scripting - A scripting technique that separates behaviour and structure and makes sure the user agent is capable of supporting the script before it is applied. Web pages using unobtrusive scripting are usable without JavaScript, but offer a richer user experience when JavaScript is supported. Web Standards Project (WaSP) is collaborating with Microsoft to promote Web standards and help developers build standards conformant Web applications

Preface of C# Code Style Guide 80% of the lifetime cost of a piece of software goes to maintenance. Hardly any software is maintained for its whole life by the original author. Code conventions improve the readability of the software, allowing engineers to understand new code more quickly and thoroughly. Your source code is a product; you need to make sure it is as well-packaged and clean.

Have you have faced this situation? "We have deployed a project developed with ASP.NET/Visual Studio to the data centre. After going live, we have done a small bug-fix in one of the .vb file, now we don't want to recompile the whole-project in VS.NET to get a new DLL for deployment" MS Regional Director Venkatarangan has a solution

including AJAXSLT , an implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript are available at SF.Net

George Shepherd maintains an incisive list of FAQs on Windows Forms and ASP.NET

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From the Firefox menu choose, Bookmarks | Manage Bookmarks . Bookmarks Manager opens... Select File | New Live Bookmark and fill entry in the dialog box that opens up. Add the Live bookmarks to the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder to view RSS feed with a single click