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Friday, September 26, 2008 9:38 PM

Silverlight 2 RC0 is available now

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.
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Saturday, September 20, 2008 11:17 AM

The 10 Rules of Successful Communication

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 Matters Novelty:
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Monday, September 15, 2008 9:12 PM

Debugger extension in Visual Studio - Part 2

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
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Sunday, September 14, 2008 4:39 PM

Debugger extension in Visual Studio

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
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:15 PM

Generate new ideas using SCAMPER techniques

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 Example for house improvement
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Monday, September 08, 2008 8:55 AM

AutoCollage 2008 from MS Research

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 .
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Sunday, September 07, 2008 6:14 PM

Four customer values

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. Functional
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Friday, September 05, 2008 10:27 PM

Another variation of using new operator in C#

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: class
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:20 PM

All you want to know about Live Meeting

The Live Meeting team has put some materials/resources on the Technet site. Check it out here out to learn more about the product/service and sign up for trial.
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