If you’re looking to “re-imagine” your apps on the Windows 8 platform in Metro style you can start with the Grid Application template that’s provided in the Visual Studio 2011 preview. From Visual Studio choose New Project and select Grid Application under Windows Metro Style in the template tree: When you start you’ll get a [...]
The Windows 8 preview is out and some people might be wanting to try building apps. If you download the developer ISO image you’ll be fine as it contains all the bits and developer tools all ready to go. However if you’re looking to burn this image onto a DVD drive you’ll find you need [...]
While all of you Build attendees are making me feel bad because you have a fancy Tablet and I don't (sell me yours!) the folks over here in the "Angle Brackets Team" (I'm trying out some new names. One will stick.) have been busy. Here is a summary of all the items from our team [...]
There are many things that Visual Studio does so well out-of-the-box, and then there is merging conflicts. The built-in merge tool is about as helpful as high beams on your car on a foggy night. The screen is full of information you just can’t tell what it means. Other merge tools, such as WinMerge will [...]
I’m playing with ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview. There is new default application template available for ASP.NET MVC 4 web applications. New template is modern, has better look than current one and has better support for different screen sizes. In this posting I will show you how new template looks like. When you create new [...]
A few years ago I have blogged about Singletonitis. Another place, different people, yet the same problem appears again – singletonitis. The issues I have outlined back then where 1. Testing 2. Difficulty to replace implementation 3. Requirement to track all the location where Singleton is utilized once we need to replace it. I’d like [...]
Tomasz Janczuk and Steve Sanderson are having entirely too much fun. I posted just two weeks ago on Installing and Running node.js applications within IIS on Windows – Are you mad? when Tomasz and the team got node.js running rather nicely under IIS. Now they've got a nice little development environment in WebMatrix. Cats and [...]
No próximo dia 8 de Outubro irei dar um pequeno workshop, de 3 horas, nas instalações da Flag, em Coimbra: Se tiverem curiosidade, apareçam!
