We are celebrating Visual Studio Myth Week from June 2-6.  Are you curious to find out what it is all about? Please stop by during/after the week at http://www.mythweek.com to learn more.  We hope you can join us. -Nandita

I just came upon a great little add-on for Visual Studio 2005/2008 by Mikhail Arkhipov.  It's a spell checker for ASP.NET and HTML pages, meaning that it's smart enough to ignore the script and focus on the text for spell checking.  I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but I thought that I would share the find with you all.   ...

Offer good while supplies last, so don't dawdle.  This is a great resource that explains the design philosophy behind VSTS.    http://www.microsoft.com/click/usapo/usdev/meet-milestones/default.mspx The link to the book offer is at the end of the second paragraph.  This is a must read book.  Take advantage of this ...

Code Snippets was one of my favorite "new features" in Visual Studio 2005 and has continued to be in Visual Studio 2008.  If you've never used them, what they are (simple explanation) is a macro-capability built into the Visual Studio IDE.  They allow you to type single/multiple key strokes to define blocks of code.  So ...

If you are like me, you have subscriptions to all kinds of RSS/Email Feeds, including (hopefully) the feed to this blog.  Some of the feeds are more useful than others, but rarely do I find one that will give me something useful everyday.  Then I found this little dandy of a feed: The Visual Studio "Tip of the day" RSS ...

Where: Microsoft Corporation 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Suite 500 Washington, DC  20015 When: November 28, 2007 (09:30 – 15:00 ) Registration Link: Click here Exclusive Invitation – Space is Limited – Register Now! Microsoft and Adventos invite you to join us for a day of technical sessions, featuring ...

I've recently moved the SharePoint Document Workflow ''How To'' Workshop.  Here's the new location of the downloads.  The good news is that they are still free! :) You can download the workshop documents and sample code here: Part 1: Creating a basic SharePoint document workflow with Visual Studio 2008 Description of Part 1: Blog ...

I found this great article by Rachel Wireman and how-to documentation on building Outlook integration functionality with C#, and it has downloadable source code. She covers, General Outlook integration issues Creating an Outlook Contact with C# Programmatically sending emails to your Outlook contacts It's short and the code samples are easy to ...

The fourth and most likely final (they take a lot of time to write) part of this workshop series tackles one of the most common questions that I run into with SharePoint developers.  The question revolves around creating, sending (via email), and handling tasks within SharePoint.  In this workshop, I build on the ''How-to'' knowledge ...

In Part 1 of the Workshop series, I focused on how to get your Development Environment configured and how to build a basic document workflow for SharePoint using Visual Studio.  In Part 2, I am expanding on the subject by tackling the subject of ''getting information into the workflow.'' This workshop covers a type of Workflow form called an ...