Scott Gu has just blogged about improvements made to the add reference dialog in VS 2010. This has always been really slow and a major pain. It seems the VS 2010 team have listened to everyone’s gripes and now by default the dialog opens on the “Projects Tab” and when using the &ld... [More]

Smashing Magazine has posted a great article on CSS support between the different versions of IE. The article is very in depth (I learned some new CSS Properties) and well worth a read. The only noticeable ommission I found was the IE6 double margin bug which catches me out on a regular basi... [More]

I just wanted to run an assembly from a network drive and this assembly was failing because network drives are untrusted because of CAS (Code Access Security). If you are in a similar permission and want to give a network drive full trust you can use the caspol.exe tool located in the .NET F... [More]

I'm commonly searching on the internet for the solution to the IE 6 double margin bug so I thought I would finally get round to committing it to the blog. In IE 6 When you are floating a div you may get double the margin you expect. The solution to this is to use: display: inline; o... [More]

It is common knowledge amond .NET developers that the control class has a handy method called ResolveUrl() which resolves a path containing the tilde (~) charachter to an application specific absolute path. I often want to use this facility when I am working in code not in a class that inher... [More]

I have just read about another great new feature coming in Visual Studio 2010 on Scott Guthrie's blog. Over time the web.config files associated with .NET web projects have got larger and larger this is because version 3.0 and 3.5 of the .NET framework share the same machine.config file meani... [More]

Scott Guthrie has recently been creating a few blog posts about Visual Studio 2010. This post on multiple monitor support really caught my attention. I simply can't wait for this feature. Something tells me that this is going to be something once you have used once you simply won't be able... [More]

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I have just started looking at ASP.NET MVC once again  One of the first things that I noticed when trying to create a real project using ASP.Net MVC is that the very clear seperation of concearns that helps to make testing easier also makes it difficult to compose feature rich pages made wher... [More]

I just came accross this great concise list of CSS 3 Elements. Its well worth checking out to see what is possible with CSS3. Personally I can't wait to stop supporting the old IE browsers that are not very standards compliant and am looking forward to a point in time when all browsers will... [More]