I just saw email from one of our company's VPs about IE8 is shipped today, and can be downloaded from here .

Look for the answers for your Windows Vista problems from Microsoft Answers site.

This is very cool, check this out.

Soon we'll start seeing Silverlight application running on the Linux platform. More info on the project Moonlight and the plugin download can be found here

In Silverlight, we usually define several shared resources (i.e. definition of Color, Brush, Style, etc) in an individual xaml file (i.e. inside <UserControl.Resources></UserControl.Resources>, which scope is local to that file only) or in...

This tool Silverlight Spy is pretty neat for seeing what inside Silverlight app.

I was working on my old machine running Windows XP to connect to internet (it hasn't connected to internet for years), and when installing Windows Update, the disk space on C:\ drive seems almost full. Then I noticed there's file called hiberfil.sys ...

Recently I wrote following Silverlight code and got stuck with the runtime error (as being commented below). ScriptObjectCollection soc = HtmlPage .Document.GetElementsByTagName( "Title" ); if (soc != null && soc.Count > 0) { HtmlElement...

As we do event-based programming or implement publish-subscribe pattern, we use the delegate feature from .NET heavily. The sample code below demonstrates simple usage of the feature. public delegate void DataChangedDelegate ( int oldValue, int newValue...

I just read this pretty good book The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From and How to Have Better Ones , and at the last chapter it suggests us to discuss these three important words to help us find our conceptual creativity. Innovation : Don't innovate,...

My laptop informed me about new windows update, which then I installed it. After the installation was done, I was curious what's the update. I viewed the update history and surprised to find that the update's date installed is 1/22/2081 instead of today...

The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle (Silverlight 2 was released about two weeks ago). The binaries, source code, documentation and samples...

This week Microsoft will host a big event in LA, check here .

Today I just learned ASP.NET enables us to build Model View Controller (MVC) applications. I need to explore further later, and this ASP.NET site has some useful information about it. The Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Beta was released last week and can be downloaded...

The official news can be read here , but the runtime will be available for download on Tuesday, Oct 14th 2008 at this official Silverlight site . Kudo to the Silverlight folks!

When I type a URL on IE, the browser will display the web page and also will show an icon (most likely different from default IE icon) next to the URL name. For example, go to this MSDN site and you'll see a small msdn icon on the browser's address bar...

Recently I ran into an issue with my Silverlight application after I migrating it from Silverlight 2 Beta2 to RC0 version. Here is the sample code for sake of simple example purpose: < Grid x : Name ="LayoutRoot" Background ="White"> <...

Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Zero (RC0) is available this week, check this official Microsoft Silverlight site for more info. It will be the last public release before Release To Web (RTW) release which would be available some time next month.

Here are the ten rules from Frank Luntz 's book "Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear" I read recently: Simplicity: Use Small Words Brevity: Use Short Sentences Credibility is as Important as Philosophy Consistency...

Continuing my previous post on using type proxy for extending the debugger feature in Visual Studio, I want to provide another example using two useful debugger-related attributes: DebuggerDisplay and DebuggerBrowsable . Let's review the last output on...

Visual Studio provides some nice features to allow us extending the debugging capability. This time I want to review about type proxy feature. Type proxy acts as a converter that takes a class type as input and produces a new class type as its output...

The SCAMPER system was developed by Bob Eberle which we can use to brainstorm new ideas and being creative. It's acronym of seven letters described below with examples on house improvement. Technique Example of questions to use...

Microsoft Research recently released a simple software app (called AutoCollage 2008 ) that allows us to assemble multiple photos into a collage. The tool is available for free 30-day trial which can be downloaded from here .

Here are the four values which customers typically are looking for, and willing to pay higher price for a product/service being offered. 1. Convenience (i.e. easy to shop, store location is close) 2. Availability (i.e. enough supply/stock) 3...

I've just learned about another variation we can use in C# to instantiate a class and set its member fields or properties. It's good to know in case you haven't known about it yet. For example, let's say we have a class Foo with following code: ...