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Rooler good for QA and UI Designing

Found this small application developed by Blend teammate. It can use to measure almost everything on your screen. Thot its good for QA, UI Designing etc.

Rooler

More on this can be found on;
MSDN Blogs > Expression Blend and Design > Check out Rooler – A free Screen Measurement Utility!

You can download this tool from the official site;
Rooler > Download

jQuery with Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio 2008, still the #1 developer tool for .net (apart from the price you have to pay). However, Microsoft still keeps adding features and trying to enhance the IDE, making our life ez’err!

jQuery is one of the most popular scripting languages these days. But without IntelliSense and Documentation for the libraries, the language or the IDE will not get popular within communities.

I found few articles on how you make your Visual Studio 2008 IntelliSense supportive for jQuery both external scripting files (.js) and .aspx pages. More info in these links;

Setting up Visual Studio IntelliSense for jQuery
KB958502 - JScript Editor support for “-vsdoc.js” IntelliSense doc. files

I tried this and it works for me!

Using tag cloud control

 

I was looking for some cloud control samples, tutorials etc. and followings are the resources I found;

Creating a Tag Cloud in ASP.NET By Scott Mitchell

Building a Photo Tagging Site using ASP.NET 2.0, LINQ, and Atlas By ScottGu

Cloud Control for ASP.NET By Rama Krishna Vavilala

jQuery walkthru

The speaker Dmitri Gaskin was just 12 years old when he was presenting jQuery at Google Tech Talks. Mind the length, one of the the lengthiest videos you can find in YouTube (never thot they exists). The video is worth watching, hence Dmitri talks about wot you can do with jQuery.

You can find more references about jQuery in;

jQuery official site – The official jQuery website, where you can find almost everything that relates to jQuery…

jQuery documentation – The official jQuery documentation site, something like, jQuery for Dummies…

jQuery Plugins – Open source libraries you can plug-in to your websites. There are more than 1000 plugins here related to Ajax, Anims & Effects, DnD, DOM, Browser tweaks and so many more…

jQuery UI – Interactions, widgets, effects, and powerful themes…

jQuery UI Demos – Demos on how you can use all these widgets and themes…