Monthly Archives: July 2008

8 days left to the Olympics

After months and months the Olympics are almost here.  This will be a big day/week(s) for internet broadcasting and for Silverlight.  I can’t wait!!!
It looks like Microsoft has a page promoting the site http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/NBCOlympicsonMSN/getsilverlight.html

Silverlight and the NBA

Today when I was looking Silverlight.net I noticed the headlining application was the NBA Website.  I HAD to click it.  All in all it was disappointing.  Granted, this is probably a preview application of things to come for the upcoming season, still, I was expecting more. 
A few thoughts:
1.) Why fullscreen?  It is a mistake [...]

General Silverlight 2 concerns

As I continue working on Silverlight projects, a concern keeps creeping up…What happens after the first wave of really cool Silverlight applications?  A number of applications being released are done with large teams and are rooted in usability and have design teams working in Blend.  My biggest fear is after the RTM release we are [...]

Favorite Visual Studio 2008 keyboard shortcuts

Here are a few indispensable keyboard shortcuts I use on a daily basis:

Ctrl+K,Ctrl+C - Comment selected block of code
Ctrl+K,Ctrl+U - UnComment selected block of code
Ctrl+K,Ctrl+F - Format selected block of code
Ctrl+Shift+B -Build solution

After doing some searching for a full list of keyboard shortcuts in VS2008, I found the below PDF. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e5f902a8-5bb5-4cc6-907e-472809749973&displaylang=en
Enjoy.