We’ve been talking about this for a while, and today is the magical day. EasySearchASP.net will no longer be a product sold by myKB.com, Inc. While the product still has a support life, and there are still (minute) sales, it is no longer financially prudent to keep the product on the market. We’re not investing any more dev resources into the product, and every day the product is more and more dated.

There are several competing options that are nice, and even public free options with Bing and Google that can do most of the tricks EasySearchASP.net had to offer. To be clear, we’re still supporting EasySearch – just no longer selling it.

If you already have a license, please sleep well at night knowing that bug fixes, and support are still available.

Please contact me directly, if you have questions about EasySearchASP.net.

11 May 2010
— sc

Once every couple of years I remember FreeBusinessCards.com and order business cards. They print a VistaPrint.com advertisement on the back, but that is fine with me. I’m using the service, to print business cards for http://AZGroups.org. Expect to pay around $5 for shipping, and wait 2 or 3 weeks for your order, but hey, it can’t get any cheaper than that!

Oh, and FreeBusinessCards.com is the king of trying to upsell, so expect to say “No Thank You” about a dozen times before you can finally submit your order.

Here is the card that I just ordered.

Here are my talking points for the Visual Studio Launch event today. I’m covering the “What’s New” talk. When I put this together, I didn’t want to just show a bunch of fancy new features that you may use someday. I really wanted to show Studio features that will make you more productive. Period. You should be able to leave the talk (or read this post) and start saving time instantly with your time in Visual Studio.

If you’re like me, you spend most of your time in Studio so every second counts. Each little tip/trick that you add to your bag of tricks is helpful, so in addition to just talking about some new keys/points/features of Studio 2010, I’ll also be throwing in several mini-production tips around keyboard shortcuts, debugging, and navigation.

As you know, the time on stage is limited and the key to being a good speaker is being able to roll with what’s happening with the audience. Agile Speaking 🙂 So I may or may not be able to go over all of these, and there may be additional topics that come up that aren’t listed, but … it’s my goal to stick as close as possible to this outline.

1. Multiple Monitor Support
2. Incremental Search, CTRL+i
3. Box Select, Multi Line Select, ALT+MouseSelect
4. Smart Tag from Keyboard, CTRL+.
5. New VS2010 Navigation, CTRL+,
6. Reference Highlights (Visual only)
7. Temporary Projects (Tools|Options|Projects|Save New)
8. Parallel Coding (Examples for .For and .ForEach)
9. Debugging (Conditional, Trace Points)
10. Intellitrace (Go back in time with the debugger)
11. Generate Usage (Class, Methods, Props, Fields, Types)
12. Find Usages, References, (F8)
13. Call Hierarchy
14. Sequence Diagrams
15. Assembly Dependency Diagram
16. Layer validation Diagram (Compiler v. Business Layers)

Based on time, I probably won’t get to do the last of these tips tricks, but I have them in my bag of tricks as filers. The idea here is to always make sure I have enough content prepared, but make sure the core concepts above are covered. So these additional tip/tricks may or may not make it into the 60 minutes.

1. Custom Search Results (Registry Hack, HKCU/Soft/MS/VS/10/Find )
2. Find Sibling Bracket/Parenthesis, CTRL+}
3. Navigation Forward and backward, CTRL+-
4. Clipboard Ring, CTRL+SHIFT+V
5. Find Box in Command Mode
6. Right Click or Context Menu Changes
7. Zoom The Editor from the CTRL+SHIFT+< and CTRL+SHIFT+>
8. Edit SLN and PROJ files inside Studio