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Monthly Archive for January, 2008

Quick Tip: Expression Blend – Zoom the Artboard

Posted in Blend on Jan 31st, 2008

To quickly zoom in or out of the Expression Blend artboard (work window). Hold the Ctrl-Key and scroll the mouse wheel.

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Win a Trip to NY Writing a WPF Application

Posted in Conferences, WPF on Jan 31st, 2008

It must be contest season in the WPF/Silverlight world.  I wrote earlier about a MIX08 contest.  Just prove your CSS ninja skills and win a MIX08 pass. WPF in Finance Contest Here’s another chance for fame and free travel for the WPF programmer. WPF has enormous potential in finance, to affect the way we visualize [...]

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Win a trip to MIX08

Posted in Conferences, MIX on Jan 30th, 2008

Think you’re the best CSS wrangler out there?  Do customers weep over the beauty of your web sites?  You say you can create a three column layout, using only CSS and div tags, before your next coffee break?  Do you want to spend a week in Las Vegas with several thousand new found UI friends? [...]

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Divining the Mix08 Product Announcements

Posted in MIX, Presentations, Silverlight, WPF on Jan 29th, 2008

The Microsoft Mix conference is really a fun event.  There’s something going on every minute, day or night, and it’s all related to UI.  The conference theme is ‘The Next Web Now’ and the 2008 show promises to be jam packed with Silverlight content.  You can bet there will be a ton of Silverlight 2.0 [...]

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Disable Visual Studio Add-ins on Startup

Posted in Visual Studio on Jan 18th, 2008

Sometimes you just don’t want the add-in to run in Visual Studio.  This tip, and dozens more, are available via Sara Ford.   Disable Add-ins on Start-Up by holding the Left-Shift key down If you ever want to disable add-ins from starting on launch, you can hold down the Left-Shift key while VS is loading.  [...]

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