I have many colleagues who have touted the merits of dark backgrounds in Visual Studio and I have tried several variations, yet I always end up back on white. It is not so much that the background needs to be white, rather it is more that I have never found a good mixture of foreground colors that w

Someone asked me yesterday what tools I use while writing a book. Organization is absolutely critical to me when writing. I have so many thoughts flying around that its really difficult to keep them all straight. That is why its imperative to have some tools to help organize the book writing process

I started a "wish list" post in the ADO.NET Entity Framework forums [http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=3391412&siteid=1&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=0] last week. I fed it with a few items to get things going and it has taken off with gre

Brian Peek [http://www.brianpeek.com/blog/], one of the authors of the MSDN Coding4Fun [http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/] web site, announced that his book is now for sale at Amazon [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596520743?tag=brianpcom-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creati

I'm working with the very talented Corrina Barber [http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/default.aspx] who has created several sets of skins for Silverlight controls. The skins are elegant, but not over the top, styles that can be applied to Silverlight controls. Corrina has been gracious enough to hel