Friday, 11 April 2008

Interesting Screenshot of VS2008 Beta2 Installer

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Visual Studio 2008 has been designed for unprecedented reliability.

It will never do any of the following:

  • Give you up
  • Let you down
  • Run around and desert you
  • make you cry
  • Say goodbye
  • Tell a lie and hurt you

Thursday, 10 April 2008

Hide Blogger's navbar (2)

http://dev-for-fun.blogspot.com/2007/08/hide-bloggers-navbar.html

Another simpler method, add CSS class!

#navbar-iframe {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none;
}

Wednesday, 9 April 2008

Gotcha: Why position:fixed header scroll?

Look at http://mix08.com and you can see the header was not scrolling because it has position:fixed in its CSS class. We tried to do something similar but the header keep scrolling. The html is very simple, too simple to have anything wrong, so we couldn't tell what's the problem with it.

All we were missing, was this - the DOCTYPE:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

After we discovered it of course I did say "Of course!" (not "Eureka!"). But when we were writing HTML in notepad, the simplest thing is always what we would have forgotten.


I tell you, life is full of small annoying stupid problems like this one.

Tuesday, 8 April 2008

Feature Silverlight Example of the Day: Along the River During the Ch'ing-ming Festival

http://learnet.npm.gov.tw/silverlight/

This is really impressive, from both a Chinese and a Developer point of view. A Must-See.

.NET User Group 6 - MIX08: A Developer's Perspective

Presented by Nigel Parker from Microsoft

Date: Tuesday 15 April 2008
Gather at 5:45pm, starting at 6:00pm
Catering: Pizza & Drinks (we will have chicken pizzas this time!)
Door Charge: Free!
Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland (find a map here)
Parking: Free, just park in Olympic Software’s car park
Register here: Ellerslie DNUG or Dot Net NZ (please register)

Now in its third year, MIX08 took place in Las Vegas from March 5-7 2008. MIX is an intimate opportunity for cutting-edge technical, creative and business strategists to engage Microsoft in a conversation about the future of the web.

Nigel travelled to MIX and brought back with him a wealth of information and resources. Join Nigel as he showcases technical aspects of Microsoft's latest web technologies including Silverlight 2, .NET 3.5 and Live Services.