Gabriel Mongeon

After 4 weeks of vacation, I am now back home. It must be said that it is not necessarily a restful vacation to go to the other side of the world and reach the foot of the highest peak in the world!

4 weeks without contact with a computer (ok ok, 2 minutes to say that we were still alive), it feels rather strange! And did you know that all along the climb to the Everest base camp they have installed cell towers? So it’s not surprising to come across a Sherpa in full conversation with his mobile phone!

While reading the MSDN article on converting VBA applications to C# 4.0, I remembered the famous ALT+[Selection] function that allows you to insert the same text/code on multiple lines at once. So, here is the English version of that part of the article:

Press ALT and select where you want to insert your code (selection in light blue in the image below):

Type your code and boom! All the selected lines have been filled with your code:

As I previously highlighted, an ASP.Net vulnerability can be exploited by malicious individuals. Here is a demo exploiting it on the DotNetNuke platform.

I just came across an article from Tech Radar offering 48 free applications from Microsoft that are often little known. Such as Expression Encoder and Windows Steady State!

For all those who have ASP.Net sites, all versions included, please pay special attention to this security issue: details on this entry from ScottGu.

Thanks to Éric for publishing the news. A free book of over 300 pages, it’s not every day you get that!

Go directly to the eBook

The tools for developing for Windows Phone 7 are now available in the final version. You can download them here. For more information, read Scott’s excellent article.

The WPF team recently released a new Ribbon completely in WPF (no wrapper around native code). So you can play with your XAML to give it the look and contextual menus you want!

Download the Ribbon

See Pete Brown’s article
WPF Team Blog: Introducing the Microsoft Ribbon for WPF

I previously talked to you about LightSwitch, now you can download the Beta 1 version.

Go ahead, have fun!

Here is a small script that allows loading images only when they are displayed on a BlogEngine.Net site, commonly known as Lazy Loading.