Fortunately, Internet Explorer 7 supports border-color: transparent, but still, there are hardcore IE6 users and it seems that they will never update their browsers. This post is targeted to the developers that care and dare to make their websites crossbrowser. Thanks to a less known Internet Explorer CSS filter, the transparent border in Internet Explorer 6 can be easily achieved. Consider the following lines of CSS code: .testDiv { width: 200px; height: 200px; border: solid 10px transparent; } It works correctly under Internet Explorer 7, FireFox, Opera and Safari, while Internet Explorer displays a solid black border around .testDiv. To put it to work with IE6, we will create another rule, that is visible only in version...

If you are passionate about technology like I am, especially from Microsoft you will most probably find it interesting that MS revealed the new versions of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework will be 2010 and 4.0 respectively. A screenshot of Visual Studio 2010 is also available:   It seems that Microsoft is looking to help developers produce high quality software in a more agile manner by introducing tools like the Microsoft Test Runner and the new Test Impact View window in this release of Visual Studio.   You can find the official announcement here and more details on MSDN here. I am sure that you have many questions...

Rad Controls For Silverlight update is coming too.   Today Scott Guthrie announced the availability of the Release Candidate 0 of Microsoft Silverlight2 plugin. Read His post here.   A full coverage of what has been changed since the beta2 release is available on the Ashish Shetty blog.   For me one of the biggest changes is the availability of the SnapsToDevicePixels property . Now our Silverlight applications will not look blurry anymore. Awesome!   The other important update for us are the improvements on the Accessibility and UI automation. We know how important the accessibility is for you - so, the news here is that all our controls will implement the...

This Monday and Tuesday I'll be in Minneapolis at the Heartland Developer's Conference. There are 30 sessions planned over two days, and it is sure to be a huge success. If you haven't already signed up, you may be out of luck as it is a sold out show. For those of you coming, I invite you to visit one of my two talks. On Monday I'll be giving an introductory talk to Silverlight 2.0, where you'll hear about all the things you can expect from this new release. With Microsoft announcing a release candidate yesterday, you can bet the official release...

Yesterday I saw this and I really liked the script. The idea is to animate backgroundPosition CSS property for desired HTML element and I have created small example how to do the same for RadGrid column headers: Enjoy! [Download]...