Via Devhawk comes a macro to set the editor fonts to and from a preset demo mode size and font combo. Private Sub SetEditorFonts( ByVal size As Integer , ByVal family As String , ByVal bold As Boolean ) Dim Props As Properties Props = DTE.Properties(...

To use the macro code you find here you'll want to copy it to the clipboard and follow these steps. Getting the macro into Visual Studio .Net Open Visual Studio .Net Use the menu to view Tools->Macros->Macro Explorer or Alt-F8 with most...

From memefirst , we see the power of one of the most powerful substances in the world, the cocoa bean. According to this article, it's strong enough to either make you divulge your password or lie to a researcher. As a chocoholic who needs at least a...

I'm back from VS Connections , the demos for my talk went off pretty smoothly and I got to meet lot's of great people. The people I talked to were really excited about C# 2005, and I got to show off some of the cool, new features that came online in the...

John Topley has an excellent post on his blob regarding the pathology of Microsoft bashing.

I recently asked Chris to weigh in on the topic of NNTP, web forums, RSS, listserves, etc. In short; he wants them all wrapped up into a neat little package. But here are some choice quotes from hist post: http://www.sellsbrothers.com/spout/#PostReplyAlphabetSoup...

The Exchange team blogs about how Windows Mobile 2003 devices are able to have information that is always up to date. [Author: Robert Levy]

I originally wrote this sample for the wizards chapter of our book , but it really did not fit into the flow of the rest of the chapter. It was a tough cut, but it had to be done. I forgot about it until recently while doing some hard disk clean-up. ...

Refresher Course Before you read this, you might want to take a quick refresher on my original posting on the script engine threading model. That was a somewhat simplified (!) description of the actual script engine contract. Let me just sum...

FOAF Spam - Unsolicited "junk" e-mail sent to large numbers of people by way of social networking services to promote products or services. (All the junk messages I get on Orkut just by being "friends" with Scoble ) Of course, the lamest part of...

We launched this blog about a month ago with a small group of contributors just to test the water. So far it's been awesome and I want to start getting more of the team to contribute directly. To do that, I'm working on a doc to share with the rest of...

This post of mine on the SelectSingleNode method (from Nov-2003) has been producing over 100 hits a day from Google (today it was over 200). And here is why: it is result #5 for when googling for SelectSingleNode! Just after MSDN which comes in 3rd...