Microsoft are now giving away the eBook Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold. For detail information of this ebook, view http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2010/10/28/free-ebook-programming-windows-phone-7-by-charles-petzold.aspx
You can download a PDF here (38.6 MB).
And you can download the ebook’s sample code here (5.03 MB).
The Microsoft Training Kit is free download that contains useful training resources. Here is a list of some latest useful training kits, the training content includes demo, videos, presentations, hands on lab and some code samples. Enjoy it
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I just came cross this site http://studiostyles.info/ which provides Visual Studio color schemes for free download. All color schemas work for both Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Every schema has screenshots so you can see how it looks like before downloading it.
You can follow following steps to import the color schema into Visual Studio.
Note: if you save the file to My Documents > Visual Studio 2010 > Settings, you’ll have quick access to choose the settings file in step 3 above.
Earlier I have introduced this excellent comment auto generation tool – GhostDoc. Now you can follow this instructions to get GhostDoc working in just 5 minutes.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msi/setup/windows_installer_guide.asp
Dead code means block of code that is not reachable in application. They can cause noisy in code debugging and confuse developers. Sometimes I might spend a few hours to figure out why a breakpoint never hit.
Most of code defect is result of old function no longer used and referenced. Remove them will prevent developers from wasting time investigating wrong code. Thanks to FxCop in visual studio, now finding dead code is pretty straight forward. (more…)
From http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/readiness/testing-tools.aspx
Here is a list of convenient development and test tools to help test and modify applications to run on Internet Explorer 8:
Debugging User Agent String Changes
This program produces a report on Internet Explorer’s current User Agent String, along with scripts to simulate User-Agent Strings for other Internet Explorer versions and links to MSDN User-Agent String articles.
Internet Explorer Developer Tools
Internet Explorer 8 includes tools needed by web developers to efficiently debug and profile their sites directly in the browser.
Fiddler
This is an HTTP Debugging Proxy that logs all HTTP traffic between a computer and the Internet.
Process Monitor
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, registry and process/thread activity.
Process Explorer
This program displays information about which handles and DLL processes have opened or loaded (Vista and Windows XP SP2).
W3C Validator HTML/XHTML
This is a W3C service to check the syntax of HTML and XHTML.
W3C Validator CSS
This is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) service to check the syntax of CSS.
RSS Feeds Validator
This is a W3C service to check the syntax of RSS feeds.
Windows Internet Explorer Testing Center
Test pages that we developed in conjunction with World Wide Web Consortium working groups.
IE Compat Test Tool
The Internet Explorer Compatibility Test Tool (IECTT), part of the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT), helps identify application and website compatibility issues on Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 7. The IECTT identifies your web-based issues, uploads the data to the ACT Log Processing Service, and shows your results in real time. These tools help customers lower their costs for application compatibility testing, prioritize their applications, and deploy Internet Explorer more quickly.
SuperPreview
Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer is a visual debugging tool that makes it easier to migrate your websites from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 7 or 8.
Expression Web
Microsoft Expression Web is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites that deliver superior quality on the web.
Visual Web Developer Express
Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition is a free, easy to use, and easy to learn program that allows everyone—from the novice to the professional developer—to create ASP.NET websites.
Are your tired of documenting you code using C# /// XmlDoc syntax for each and every method?
It is time for you to meet SubMain’s GhostDoc. SubMain’s GhostDoc is a Visual Studio plug-in the was design just for you. It will parse your method/property/parameters names and will create a great documentation just for you with simple Ctrl+Shift+D.
Download it Free at: http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx. (more…)
WordPress is one of most popular blog applications. This application is very easy to use however setup a local environment for theme or plugin development on windows system is not that easy for bloggers. In this post, I will walk thru you how to setup local WordPress environment using Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 with just a few clicks. (I am using 64bit Windows 7 in this tutorial but same steps work windows server 2008 as well)