Using week numbers

VSLive is coming the first week of August, 2010, and I’ll be speaking at the event, talking about Visual studio. Use and abuse it to the best of your ability. My talks over the last few years have been around productivity, and this one follows suit. Plain and simple: Use Visual Studio better. That’s my…

From the February AZGroups Calendar … Enterprise Library is a framework and collection of reusable components that allows developers to focus on delivering applications and less on building the plumbing. Enterprise Library was initially developed by Avanade and licensed to Microsoft and while it has evolved over the years, the core components and blocks remain…

In WPF which is better, to Screen Stack, or Load on Demand. By ScreenStack, I mean to load all the screen dynamically onto a stack, and then set the visible property of all to false, except the one you want displayed. Like a stack of pancakes, popping the current screen to the top when you…

Organization is the name of the game, when keeping track of files/folders on your computer. Any computer, Any operating system, it doesn’t matter, if you have tens of thousands of files, they need to be organized. Typically these are organized is some sort of nested fashion. If you don’t use folders, then you end up…

A friend asked me today on twitter about this, and after I explained it in 140 char’s or less (probably very badly) he asked for a screen cast. The core question was – How can I use Google Maps to create point-to-point directions, without having to type anything, only using the mouse. Here you go…