Out of the box, Visual Studio uses the Courier New font for displaying code. While that’s an acceptable font for programming, it’s hardly modern or easy on the eye. Did you know that Microsoft supply a much more readable alternative, for free?
Recently I needed to display rotated graphics within a web-page. Since there’s no way to do that cross-browser using CSS, I needed to auto-generate a collection of pre-rotated images that could be displayed as CSS sprites. I’ve found that WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is great for generating batches of images suitable for use in web [...]
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) has now been released to the public, and while it’s not enough to shift me from Firefox, I’m happy that it offers standards-compliant rendering and a useful “compatibility view”, meaning that web developers can essentially test on IE7 and IE8 without needing virtual machines. Unfortunately, when installed on 64-bit Vista (x64), [...]
