Recently I was writing an Add-In for Visual Studio 2008 and I came across requirement for saving a file as an Excel file. No big deal as it looked to me!! I happily wrote the helper function, but to surprise, it didn’t work on Vista SP1 while it was...

Our beloved .NET Reflector is now acquired by Red-Gate Software... An agreement between Red Gate and Lutz Roeder will place future development of .NET Reflector, the popular class browser for .NET developers, in the hands of Red Gate. Red Gate is maintaining...

Today Microsoft released Beta2 of Internet Explorer 8. T he browser is available in English, German, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, and will follow with another 21 languages in mid-September. You can download IE8 Beta 2 now at http://ww.microsoft.com...

On Aug 11 th , Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. The two service packs make it even easier to develop applications for the latest platforms, with new features such as the ...

Finally ASP.NET Virtual Earth Control is out. You can get the CTP version from http://dev.live.com/tools If you want a quick starter, have a look at http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Mark+Brown/Virtual-Earth-ASPNET-Control-CTP-Release/

So you want include functionality similar to live Search map in a webpart. The process is very simple since webpart can easily act as a container for any control and at the end of day VE Map Search page also contains bunch of VE and other controls. ...