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Over the last little while Visual Studio 2005 has been crashing seemingly “randomly”. Sometimes it would happen when just trying to open a source file, other times when trying to debug a web app. A few co-workers asked if I wanted to try ReSharper, so I installed that. After installation crashing seemed much more frequent, [...]

The IE Team have just announced the availability of Beta 1 of IE8 for developers. You can read more about that on their blog.
Obviously as a web developer, the mind immediately turns to “so, what’s in it for me?”.
Picked up the following points from an MSDN Doc on what’s new for IE8:

Accessibility

No more “alt” for image [...]

Okay, I just need to unload a whole bunch of links that have been open in various tabs in IE7.
Improve your wireless network in ten different ways via LifeHacker.com
Managing The Madness: What you need to know about covering the NCAA Tournament via Strobist.
Ace your next phone interview via LifeHacker.com
How to find free eBooks for your [...]

Looks like you can now download the new SDK for Windows Mobile 6 Standard (Smartphone) as well as for Windows Mobile 6 Professional (PPC Mobile). I reckon the new names are far too long. Looks like they were prematurely uploaded.
But from what I’ve read, the next version of Windows Mobile will combine the features of both the Smartphone [...]

Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Edition today screen customisations:
- Guide to creating Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC themes via Xda-Developers.com.
Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition homescreen customisations:
- Homescreen Guide for Beginners via MoDaCo.
- Customizing the Microsoft Smartphone 2002 homescreen via MSDN.
Although the second link refers to the Smartphone 2002 version, many things seem to be quite [...]

I got an email the other day from my the company (StatCounter) that provides the hits stats to this blog that they’re now using Google maps to show us where our visitors are from!

Pretty cool, you just click on one of those red “pins” and it’ll give you expanded information on that particular visitor [...]

Just noticed that there’s a Compact Framework version of the Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit called the Mobile Client Software Factory available now.
Francis K. Cheung has a series of posts on his blog about issues relating to porting to the Compact Framework.
On a side note, is anyone else heading to MEDC 2006 in Melbourne?
Edit: Looks [...]

I’m one of many web developers out there that run Windows and have downloaded and installed the Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 build (as well as the other CTP builds).
Honestly, I don’t use a lot of the new features that have been included in IE7. But there is one feature that I’m loving, and using [...]

Awesome, looks like there’s going to be even more Windows Mobile based devices hitting the market.
See this post at MyPDACafe (via Jason Langridge’s blog) about new devices being manufactured by Chinese device manufacturer, Tech Faith Wireless (TFW), which looks like it will be going head to head with another Original Device Manufacturer (ODM) that is [...]

When developing a Windows Mobile based application, you’re often presented with the “I want everything synchronised between my device and my PC” scenario.
While yes, it’d be great to have everything synchronised when you’re on the go (via GPRS, etc), and having little changes filtered through to the device.
The little changes is fine, but what [...]