Visual Studio: Download Service Pack 6

Visual Studio: Download Service Pack 6

The Tao Of Programming

I read The Tao Of Programming once a long time ago. (In the pre-blogging era.) It just came up in a discussion at work so I figured I'd track it down and post it since its both funny and true.

This Microsoft support article had a solution to my problem of "Open in New Window" no longer working in IE.
281679 - You Cannot Open New Internet Explorer Window or Nothing Happens After You Click a Link
I got to it from this answer on the MVPS.org Internet Explorer site.

Skinnable MSN Messenger-like Popup

TaskbarNotifier: "a skinnable MSN Messenger-like popup in C#"

A Gathering of Planets

Starting March 22nd the 5 brightest planets should be visible in the evening sky at the same time.
A Gathering of Planets

Avatar Creator

The dookyweb site has a Flash avatar creator.

The Tragedy of Marioland

I saw this on boingboing.net

Tragic, hilarious Marioland 8-bit Flash movies: "The tragedy of Marioland: a three-part Flash animation using pixel-cool graphics from 8-bit Mario games as characters in a screamingly funny movie about the tragic invasion of Marioland. The use of Marioland mood music is a masterstroke. Part 1 Link, Part 2 Link, Part 3 (via MeFi) "

Firefox Help: Keyboard Shortcuts

Firefox Help: Keyboard Shortcuts with the equivalent IE shortcuts as well.

Fesersoft - .Net

Fesersoft - .Net has got some useful .NET XSLT stuff, including a schema that enables Intellisense in Visual Sudio.NET for XSLT documents and examples of the different ways to do XSLT in .NET.

Debug JavaScript in ASP.NET Apps

Infragistics has got an article on using Visual Studio.NET to debug javascript apps.

Debug JavaScript in ASP.NET Apps

shadowbox

You can use CSS to put a shadow or any other image inside a textbox.

.shadowbox
{
background-image: url(../images/shadow.gif);
border: Solid 1px Black
}

OneClick Button

This site, MetaBuilders - Stuff I Did, has some interesting ASP.NET controls including a OneClick button that solves the common "user clicked the submit button more than once" problem.

Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science | Online

Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science | Online

sensitive light

This site - sensitive light - has a lot of interesting pictures.

Hyperlinked ECMA C# Language Specification

Hyperlinked ECMA C# Language Specification

What Video Game Character Am I?

What Video Game Character Am I?: "

I am Mario. I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren't for my friends always getting into trouble. I love to help out, even when it puts me at risk. I seem to make friends with people who just can't stay out of trouble. What Video Game Character Are You?

"

States I've Visited

When their server is up the image below shows the states I've visited in red.



create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide

Asynchronous HttpWebRequest

Example of using threads and HttpWebRequest to asynchronously scan a collection of URLs. Asynchronous HttpWebRequest

And here's the author's correction to the original article:
Abort Worker Thread When App Exits

Managing Terminal Services Sessions Remotely

Managing Terminal Services Sessions Remotely Windows 2000 and up has two command-line tools called qwinsta and rwinsta that can query and reset remote sessions.

SnippetCompiler

SnippetCompiler lets you test small blocks of .NET code.