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December 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:41 PM

Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available

Pretty cool idea for a messenger translation bot
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Monday, December 15, 2008 7:34 PM

Introducing the Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit Beta & Reader Beta SDK!

This looks pretty cool – We are very excited to take the wraps off of our newest addition to .Net client development – a Starter Kit designed to make it easy to create rich, syndicated multimedia and content experiences which engage the user, from documents
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Monday, December 08, 2008 11:54 PM

A Quick Look at XML Literals

XML literals are new to Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic. Simply put they enable the incorporation of XML directly into application code. Essentially this allows a quick way to create XML objects. At their core XML literals represent a LINQ to XML
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:04 PM

Tabbing within Visual Studio

Tabs are everywhere within Visual Studio. By default each time a new window is opened a new tab is creates. Many times a lot of tabs can make moving around quickly seem a bit difficult. Within Visual Studio the <CTRL> + <TAB> key open a dialog
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Monday, December 01, 2008 9:18 PM

Selecting a Block of text

Regardless of the new framework features – copy and paste is still one of my favorites. One of my favorite tricks is selecting a block of text. By default normal text selection is line by line. For example it’s not possible to select just the items to
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