I have this device in my office: Quite a few visitors get baffled what is it. Most are able to quickly figure out that it is some sort of clock since it is 'ticking' (light pattern changes and left side changes slower than the right). However, some couldn...

A few people asked me if Whidbey validation and intellisense schemas are compatible with VS 2003. Well, yes and no. You do can place Whidbey XHTML schemas (along with referenced W3C DOM type libraries for the client script intellisense) in VS 2003\Common7...

Paschal L already mentioned article that describes how to add CSS2 intellisense support to VS 2003. As you might know, Whidbey introduces CSS-IE6, CSS1, CSS2 and CSS2.1 intellisense schemas. Original VS 2003 CSS schema is mostly about IE5. If you wish...

We have recently found that HTML Accessibilty checker may be broken in Whidbey May 2004 Preview. Create new HTML page or a Web form. Click Tools | Check Accessibility and click OK. If all you see in the Output window is “Checking accessibility....

Those of you at TechEd as well as any other who already received May 2004 Community Preview of Whidbey may have noticed that Code view is gone from the Web Form editor. What happened? Well, we encontered quite a few problems implementing Code view. If...

Why most Web pages are formatted in portrait orientation? Last time I checked most PC monitors were 4:3 wide. Browsing gets even worse with new 16:9 displays. Some sites do resize with the browser window, but good chunk of them doesn't. I guess one might...

Whidbey Web Forms Editor team has beaten Whidbey Beta 1 performance goals! Test Machine: PIII600/128MB, W2K Pro FAT32 Scenario (Unit) 40512 Beta1 Goal Diff Beta1 Bound By Designer -> WebForm -> VB -> PortalSDK_Add] (Unit...

As you might have noticed, we are now shipping intellisense/validation schemas for XHTML and HTML 4.0. It is easy to obtain information for standard schemas from the W3C Web site. However, with specific browsers it is more difficult. What is your favorite...

I have been looking for a place to buy digital music which will be either uncompressed (lossless compression is fine) or compressed at very hign bit rate (256KBps WMA minimum). Let me know if you know one. I honestly don't understand why I should be paying...

Why VS 2003 keeps changing my HTML when I switch beween Design and HTML views? Is it a bug? Can it be fixed in a Service Pack? We get bugs opened by PSS folks on customer complaints pretty much every other week. What's the problem? Here is a bit of...

I have been looking for a WMA players (both portable and stationary) that are able to display non-English (non-Western European, to be exact) titles. The only portable player that I know of that is able to display Russian is iPod. However, it does not...

As you might guess from my name I am Russian (born in Moscow). My education is applied mathematics (specifically numerical methods and spectral analysis). In 1990 or so with a few other folks I co-founded imaging company ( http://www.csoft.com/ ). We...

In VS Whidbey HTML Editor Target browser schemas are static. Same, btw, about page directive schemas and schemas that describe limited markup in such files as Global.asax. Yes, you can create your own schemas if you wish. However, a few things are important...

Whidbey HTML Editor continues to use XML schemas to describe target browsers, page directives as well as user and custom controls. However, it is now able to pick up user and custom controls listed in register directives and automatically generates XML...

So here comes yet another Microsoft blogger J My name is Mikhail Arkhipov and I am development lead in the Web.NET tools team. My team owns Source view functionality of the Visual Studio HTML Editor and base editing in Design view. This includes colorization...