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July 2004 - Posts

What's in a name [of css color]?

While editing my site I found that there is a bit of conflict in color naming between CSS standard and the actual use of color names on the Web. Only 16 colors names are listed in official CSS specs, but actually more names are in use. Which brings a

Editing ASP.NET 1.1 site with Whidbey

So you like new Whidbey features like intellisense enverywhere but you only have ASP.NET 1.1 hosting? Have an existing ASP.NET 1.1 site to take care of? Sounds like me ;-) Last week I have spent some time redoing my formerly static, *nix hosted Web site

Did you see any of those languages on the Web?

In Visual Studio 2005 HTML validation schemas directory (Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Packages\Schemas\HTML you can find file i18Languages.xsd that contains list of languages that VS intellisense shows for the lang attribute value.

Compiler nanny

This post reminded me on the case when C++ compiler warnings caused me more grief than benefits. I spent some time yesterday making some [previously external] component to use asserts defined in VS headers instead of its own internal ones. Most of the

What do we do with your feedback

We have been getting feedback from MSDN Web site for a fews weeks now. So what are we doing with it? Code defects and suggestions get automatically filed in our bug tracking database as bugs and suggestions respectively. We are looking at new issues as

First Beta 1 feedback received

We are really happy we are now getting feedback directly from users . Today we reviewed first 10 suggestions and bugs filed by customers on MSDN Feedback site against Visual Web Developer. Out of 10 three were filed as bugs and seven as suggestions. Out
 
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