Monday, January 07, 2008
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If you have ever presented or written an article you probably have ran across a situation where the code you have written contains lines that are to long and you need to modify them to fit on the screen or page. This can be a real pain especially when you write code using a wide screen monitor with a high resolution. Well for the past few years I have just lived with this issue until I ran across this really cool blog entry Guidelines - A hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor by Sara Ford that details how to modify your registry setting to get guidelines in the Visual Studio editor. Once I modified my registry setting, lines showed up in the editor giving me a visual clue of how long my code lines were. At last no more code hacking! For those of you who don’t know who Sara Ford is she is a prolific blogger of all things Visual Studio related and a great source for all kinds of little trinkets on the subject.
Over the last year Joel Rumerman and I have been working on a book for Addison-Wesley that is part of the Microsoft’s .NET Development Series that Addison-Wesley publishes. It has been a long haul but the fruits of our labor are starting to take hold. The book is entitled Essential ASP.NET Ajax Controls and covers both the JavaScript and .NET side of creating controls in ASP.NET Ajax and the Ajax Control Toolkit. The book has been a blast to write and we hope you will enjoy it. The topic is something Joel and I have been involved with since the early Alpha as part of the ATLAS First Access program that began in early 2006.
