Microsoft just released Silverlight 3!

You might download Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 from this page.

I am always loosing time searching for that information when we get an update of office templates, so I decided to make a ‘note to self’ so that I will not loose anymore time with that.

Start Word 2007 and go on Word Options, then click Advanced, File Locations:

I had the pleasure to read ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly from another ASP.NET MVP and blogger, Maarten Balliauw published by Packt Publishing.

The book is a quick overview of 191 pages covering all the different aspects of ASP.NET MVC 1.0. It ends with three appendix, a sample application CarTrackr, ASP.NET MVC Mock Helpers and Useful links and Open Source Projects, for a total of 231 pages.

Telerik, a leading vendor of .NET UI components and tools, has a special offer for all active MSDN subscribers !!

I tend to use a lot the Live Template of ReSharper, for example working for some time now with the WPF MVVM pattern I created a ViewModel template of such a class and use it extensively.

Today I updated the File Template I use to write my NUnit tests like this:

I am working for a couple of months now with WPF and MVVM on an a business application using .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Lately I faced a memory leak. Not the easy kind of memory leak with events handlers which keeps objects and its element tree alive, as explained here.

No it was something else ! I searched in our code for quite some time without finding anything.

I am for quite some time now working on the Agile subject and tonight I read two very interesting posts that I wanted to share and keep track of.

The first one was posted by Mike Bria on InfoQ and is called Five Ways To Build Team Trust, in which advises are given to help trust form within teams.

Next month I will attend with my colleague Robert the “WPF FOR LOB” training Tour in London (5/15 -5/16). Our flights and hotel rooms are already booked. We fly from Zurich to London Heathrow on Thursday 14 Mai arriving at 20:15 in London and I fly back to Mulhouse on Saturday evening.

We will be at the conference hotel Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel, where the training take place.

As you might have realized following my blog, I am big fan of JetBrains ReSharper for quite some years! This tool really boost my productivity. Today they just realized ReSharper 4.5 which brings some new functionalities but also a huge improvement in performance.

What’s New in ReSharper 4.5

From quite some time I had a crash when running the ATI Catalyst installer and I finally found what was the issue.

Follow the steps in the Knowledge Base (KB) article to solve the problem with the Microsoft Visual Studio mfc80u.dll or mfc80.dll module