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  VBCity will be looking very different soon, as we change to the new Community Server based model.   In advance of that change, our blogs are moving to a new area.  From now on, you can view my latest blogs both here and at the new site here .  Once the new site is fully up and running, all new blog items will be posted on the new area only.  All previous blogs from VBCity Bloggers will still be available and hopefully will continue to rank ... [ read more ]
"Visual Basic Tips & Tricks" is an Italian online community that was started 10 years ago today. To be exact, the first tips were actually published in 1996 on a personal web page of the founder and leader, Gianluca Cannalire. However, the group recognizes the first day of the "real community" as December 8th 1998, when a web portal was created with articles, forums, mailing lists, downloads, and tips. "Visual Basic Tips & Tricks" currently hosts 36,300 subscribers, and is the secon ... [ read more ]
Over the last week I’ve got a sudden influx of emails about the Snippet Editor.  I’m figuring this is stemming from Lisa’s recent blog entry and her tips and trips for VS 2008 presentation :)  Some of the emails have been really nice praise, folks wanting to add some features, a bug on XP 64 (which unfortunately is about the only OS I don’t have in my testing suite), and some general questions around snippets.  So I gave this lots of thought and decided to put up a si ... [ read more ]
    For several years, when I've needed to include code snippets in my blogs and articles, I've used a neat little application that VBCity member HotDog wrote. This has stood me in good stead until the day that XAML arrived on the scene. Unfortunately, XAML kinda confuses HotDog's AutoFormatter tool and I end up with missing angle brackets.   A bit of searching led me to a tool called CopySourceAsHTML. Although I had seen this used with Visual Stu ... [ read more ]
     One of the things that often pulls me up in mid flow when I'm putting WPF UIs together in a Window is that some of the core properties seem to have disappeared. Now, some of these are so fundamental that I know they have to be there, but obviously hiding under a different name.   Just recently, this happened to me twice in a row and I ended up scrolling through the Properties in the Object Browser, getting dizzy with the whizzing list of choices un ... [ read more ]


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