If there's something that I detest while working on my computer is having to switch between mouse and keyboard. Depending on what I'm doing, I'll typically have a keyboard-centric or mouse-centric approach. For example, coding is very much a keyboard...

Yesterday the availability announcement went up on the team blog, so why wait? Get yourself some updated bits and start data binding, blob'ing, paging, projecting, and counting entities, all from within the comfort of your programming chair! If you...

In case you're like me and you're anxiously hoping that your Christmas orders arrive in time, here's a quick tip. To find the tracking page for your package, just enter the tracking number in the Bing search page and hit Enter. That should bring up...

Just a gentle reminder to readers, that different languages will capture outer variable with their own nuances, and sometimes these will make a difference. So, for example, C# will capture only what's needed in the inner function. See this post from...

If the error HTTP 403.9 may comes up when making multiple requests to an ADO.NET Data Service, the first thing to check is the operating system the server is running on. Windows XP and other client operating systems have a limit on the number of simultaneous...

More location bar silliness , this time showing you all the members defined on the window object. This will probably wrap quite badly, so I'm colorizing it a bit for readability, but it will allow you to just copy and paste. javascript: (function(...

If you're visually oriented, you need to check out this video , with escalation engineer Tess Fernandez showing off some very nifty debugging features, including the ability to work with managed-code dump files and the "thread aggregating" stack views...

The ASP.NET AJAX library is one very cool, performant work of engineering that has smoothed the programming experience for web developers, and now they're taking it to the next level. Dino Esposito writes about Live Data Binding in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0...

If you build web sites and applications, you owe it to yourself to check out the resources at http://www.microsoft.com/web/ and to subscribe to the feed of the team blog to keep up to date with tools and capabilities. No reason to pass up on free software...

So, you know how you can go to your browser's location bar and type a bit of JScript code to have it execute? Go ahead, try it now, just type this and hit Enter: javascript:alert('hi there') This evaluates a bit of code, but you can also use this...

When loading / compiling an XSLT document into an XslCompiledTransform instance, we've seen some customers hit an interesting gotcha. In this case, a particular stylesheet had grown over time, through a series of, erm, clipboard operations, to about...