Langleyben Leon

Atlas Controls Toolkit Next Drop on Its Way

Next version of Atlas Controls Toolkit will be out (probably) during next week. It will include Safari support, existing controls improvement and new extenders. Thanks Shawn for update (teaser :)).

Cross-Posted from here

Visual Studio Express Editions will Stay Free

If you missed it here, it is a great news. Originally Express edition were announced as free for on year. After 5 million downloads, Microsoft decide to make those editions permanently free. You can consult this comparison table to decide if Express edition is good enough for you.

Cross-Posted from here

Team System Licensing

Atlas Talk at Tech-Ed Israel

I am going to speak at Tech-Ed Israel about Atlas. It is planned to be the only lecture at Tech-Ed related to ASP.NET. Anybody, who would like to attend (or just planning to download presentation and demos later), the time for suggestions is now.

What would you like to hear? What do you think is wrong with ASP.NET today?  What feature you missing most?

Microsoft Going Open-Source with Atlas Control Toolkit

Finally first drop of Atlas Control Toolkit is out. If you are interested to play with it, you can get it here. It contains bunch of controls together with set of VSI templates for new controls development. It not even beta, just little preview of direction, but is worth trying. There are many more controls planed.

More interesting is that MS guys are planning to setup open-source environment for toolkit development. Way to go! There is so much to do (starting with decent design time support, for example), and we are REALLY like to help!

Finally Moving

My Blog located at dotnetjunkies for about a year already. It is a place for my findings about .NET dark places, technology news, web development etc. It is time to move now. From now on you will find me at here.
Please come to visit, bring your thoughts and comments.

PS. I'll cross post for a wile to both places.

WinForm TextBox.AppendText

Apparently this point is commonly overlooked:

Avoid using TextBox.Text += ... construct to build long content.
Use TextBox.AppendText instead. AppendText internally set selection after last character in Textbox and then replace selection with supplied text using SendMessage API. This method is more effective by order of multitude. Note that after AppendText invocation textbox scrolled down to the last line. This is making difference in textboxes with long content (and scrollbar).