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Scrolling Menu patch for Visual Studio 2010 22 Oct 2010 | 02:49 pm
Don’t you hate it when the context menu has a scroll bar even though the screen is big enough to see all items? Well apparently someone at Microsoft hated it too! Here’s the fix!
Navigation in Windows Phone 7 Application 13 Aug 2010 | 05:27 am
I’ve recently started playing with Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools and one of the first thing I asked myself is “How To Link Between Views?!”. I researched the web and found 3 ways to handle navigatio...
Visual Studio 2010 “Insufficient Memory” on Copy/Paste 11 Jun 2010 | 02:56 pm
I’ve been getting the following message a lot “Insufficient available memory to meet the expected demands of an operation at this time, possibly due to virtual address space fragmentation. Please try...
ASP.NET MVC 2 – Linking between Areas 11 Jun 2010 | 03:02 am
If you’ve been playing with MVC 2 you might be wondering how to make ActionLinks between areas. I know it took me a good half hour to figure out! Here it is: I hope it helps someone!
ASP.NET MVC 2 Model Validation With Localization 18 Feb 2010 | 06:35 am
So yesterday I posted about MVC 2 Model Validation. And today I’m going to do the same thing, but I’m going to Localize those ErrorMessage. In this post I’ll not be using the SetCulture Attribute fro...
ASP.NET MVC 2 Model Validation 16 Feb 2010 | 05:40 am
In projects I usually work on, we always use a data validation framework. But now in ASP.NET MVC 2 you can do it just as you would using a framework. You need to write your model with the proper vali...
HOW TO: Turn Off Google Buzz 15 Feb 2010 | 05:28 pm
If you’re like me and you don’t really like Google Buzz, know that you can easily turn it off by scrolling at the bottom of any page inside GMAIL. Yeah, it’s that easy…
“Edit WCF Configuration” is missing from Visual Studio 2008 context menu 5 Feb 2010 | 06:11 am
So this morning I format a laptop and install a fresh copy of Visual Studio 2008. I then try to edit the Web.Config using Edit WCF Configuration, but wait it’s missing! What the hell? So I look aroun...
How To: Remove Workspaces from Visual Studio 26 Jan 2010 | 05:09 am
I usually work using Team Foundation Systems over VPN. And sometimes my VPN access is revoked because I no longer work for a particular client, when this happens my Visual Studio Workspaces is stock t...
ASP.Net MVC RSS Feed Action Result 23 Sep 2009 | 10:17 am
ASP.NET MVC ships with a few ActionResult but lacks an RSS Feed ActionResult. I required one for a small project at work, so I started looking on the web if there was something interesting before codi...