MSDN Magazine

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: This screencasts covers the new Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks debugging windows in Visual Studio 2010.It demonstrates the sample code from the MSDN Magazine on this topic which you can read here:Debugging Task-Based Parallel Applications in…

So I got to thinking. It is hard to create ScrewTurn Wiki Themes. It is dead easy to create jQuery UI Themes. Could jQuery UI Themes be adapted to theme ScrewTurn Wiki? I decided to find out and it turned out to be a lot easier than I ever expected. jQuery UI Themes are designed to style…

Integrating jQuery UI into ScrewTurn Wiki You’ve probably already guessed that ScrewTurn Wiki has an ugly confirmation dialog somewhere. The place to find it is in Edit.aspx. Simply log in as the admin (the default username/password is admin/password) and click the “Edit this Page” link. Click…

Take a look at the final result, shown below, of switching the selected theme to UI Lightness and UI Darkness, which are the unmodified jQuery UI Themes added to ScrewTurn Wiki’s /Themes folder. The layout could use a little tweaking here and there and I haven’t updated all the pages to use…

Re-Theming ScrewTurn Wiki ScrewTurn Wiki ships with two themes – Default and Elegant, as shown above. The themes reside in the Theme folder and consist of a set of Cascading Style Sheets and images. As we saw in Part 3 , the CSS for a theme is quite long and involved. The two…

Improving User Interaction Imagine the following scenario: With the assistance of the CSS Refactoring Helper, we have created an aesthetically pleasing XHTML/CSS-based site. We have spent days—nay, weeks—toiling away to get the site layout and images just right. We’re working on an edit page…

I don’t have to remind everyone that we’re in the middle of a world-wide economic downturn. When the economy is good, it is hard enough to convince your client to re-build an application from scratch. When the economy is bad, it is close to impossible. As developers, we’re going to see more push…

Version Control All software development projects should use a version control system (VCS) for tracking and coordinating changes to code files and other project artifacts. The size of the project team doesn't matter as even a single developer benefits from using version control. If you are…

Let me give you a very brief introduction to MSBuild. In MSBuild terminology, build steps are called "targets." We will define three common targets initially: Clean, Init, and Compile. You can create other targets to automate other common tasks such as running tests, creating installer…

Creating an Automated Build Script In creating a build script, we want to automate common tasks for building the project source code as much as possible. Whether you know it or not, you are already using build scripts. When you create a new project, Visual Studio creates a build script for  that…