I bet you never thought about this feature! Me either… It’s good that there is a marvelous blog about all goodies in VS maintained by a nice lady. I will be monitoring and making comments on the topics there that have excited me most. So what is on today’s menu? As you’ve probably figured it out already, I will comment on a fine (but unknown to me) feature of dragging and pasting code artifacts straight to the VS toolbox. At first I was a little bit skeptic, but it really worked out, let me show you how: 1. Mark a code segment...

If I had to summarize what the RadFormDecorator control is about in a single sentence, it would be: The RadFormDecorator aims to unload yet another task from the "regular Joe" developer by reducing the need for styling elements on the page. Enter RadControls Telerik RadControls provide a great deal of rich UI controls allowing a developer to build web-based applications that resemble the richness of a desktop application. The majority of controls provided in the suite do not have direct analogs provided by the browser - e.g. RadEditor, RadGrid, etc. There are also a number of controls that can be used to replace somewhat similar browser counterparts.  For...

I recently blogged about using code snippets as a shortcut to writing more code in less time. In this post, I'm going to walk you through the steps to create custom snippets that you can install into Visual Studio for use in your own projects To get started, let's take a look at the anatomy of a snippet. A snippet is nothing more than an XML file, with a .snippet extension, containing configuration settings. If you open up the file foreach.snippet (located in "<Visual Studio installation directory>\VC#\Snippets\1033\Visual C#") you'll find the following XML, which defines the foreach snippet: As you can see, the XML used to...

We prepared a new build of RadScheduler for WPF that is fully compatible with the Q2 2008 SP1 release of RadControls for WPF. The ZIP file is attached to the following forum thread: RadScheduler new build for Q2 2008 SP1   You can download it and give it a go. We also featured in the ZIP file the updated examples about RadScheduler. Below, you can find a full list of all the changes that have been included in the latest RadScheduler build: New Features: SchedulerView changes   - The derived classes for each View (Day, Week and Month) have been removed   -...

Well folks that's right - MS Windows for Workgroups 3.11 is pretty much still alive and kicking. First when I found out that this 15+ years old OS was still popular in the embedded segment (please forgive my ignorance as embedded systems are not my core competency) I couldn't believe my eyes. According to John Coyne this fact changes starting October 1st, 2008 - from this date on OEM's will no longer be able to license Windows for Workgroups 3.11. The comments and the flame that started at ArsTechnica are very interesting though. It looks like the guys that...