Monthly Archives: June 2009

visual studio team system very slow right click…

if your having performance problems in VS2008 with Team Explorer on with large projects where you right click on the solution explorer and it takes a long fixed amount of time to load up each context menu then this could be for you.

it drove me crazy for a while until i found this patch that sorted it out..

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB947751/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1022

starting a new website – use a css framework

i’ve been doing web development for a number of years, although most of those were asp.net, i did some jsp and have also recently built a site using ruby on rails, it was during the development of that site that i came across the blueprint css framework.

my conclusion, unless your a real css freak/hacker then save yourself alot of time and either use this or something similar such as yahoo grids – developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids ,   or 960 grids – http://960.gs

you’ll find a good example here:

http://wiki.github.com/joshuaclayton/blueprint-css/quick-start-tutorial

2 winners for typemock….

the guys behind typemock recently ran a little competition with bloggers as part of the launch…

i blogged about it here…  http://blog.mickdelaney.com/2009/05/20/typemock-launch-a-new-asp-net-bundle/

luckily i was a winner of 2 licences to give away, so fellow blogger and colleague ian chamberlain from sysfutures http://systemfutures.com/IansBlog.aspx wins 1.. i know he’s a typemock fan… and my mate dean ward…  http://www.bakedbean.org.uk/  gets the other!!!

enjoy guys… :-)