Now works with Visual Studo 2010 Express!

Other changes:

• Ribbon Split Button is only half-highlighted when users mouse over the button
• Ribbon Title is bottom-aligned, should be centered
• Ribbon Quick Access Toolbar icons are clipped and top-aligned
• Ribbon Contextual Tab header text is getting truncated if too long
• Ribbon Gallery  Item does not stretch to fit its Parent Panel
• Initial enabled state of Ribbon Split Menu Items can be incorrect if they have children
• Ribbon Split Menu Item with sub-items is disabled if CanExecute=false
• WPF Ribbon Dropdown does not close when CanAddToQuickAccessToolBarDirectly="False" was set at various level within the Ribbon
• InvalidOperationException may occur when switching themes and the WPF Ribbon is Minimized
• Ribbon Tab Header content may not appear when Ribbon starts out collapsed
• RibbonTab.TabHeaderLeft & RibbonTab.TabHeaderRight are incorrect when Ribbon starts out hosted in a Collapsed control
• Ribbon Tool Tip: Title and Footer Title gets clipped if the stringis too long
• Vertical and horizontal alignments for the standard Ribbon controls should be centered, they were not.
• After removing all items from the Quick Access Toolbar, phantom items remain visible
• Right clicking on the System icon will not place the Context Menu properly
• System Icon, Title and Quick Access Toolbar are not displayed correctly when Ribbon Windows is maximized
• A minimized Ribbon will render on top of the window when a Popup is opened.
• RibbonWindow.Icon does not pick appropriate small size icon from *.ico  Icon file.
• IndexOutofRange Exception would pop when removing a Tab from an Observable Collection.
• WPF Ribbon can use ClearType when targeting .NET Framework 4.0 control.

Click here to download.

And it will be April 12, 2010.

BTW: April 12 is Space Day in Russia: 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became first man on Earth orbit.

Recently taken from here.

Do you want to keep all Windows 7 settings in one simple place? Then create an empty folder on your desktop and rename it to GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}. Amazing!

If you are lucky MSDN Subscriber, you can download VS2010 as well as TFS2010 right now! I already did.
BTW: TFS2010 has "go live" license which means you can use it in your daily work instead of just testing purposes. Here are more details: Brian Keller's blog.
If you don't have the subscription, you just need little wait - it will be available for everyone in October 22nd.

I’m a happy MSDN subscriber so have Windows 7 installed for few months by now and got some useful shortcuts to share.

• Multi monitor system? Use Win+Shift+Left to move to the left monitor or Win+Shift+Right – to the right
• Win+P – switches between monitor options (multi monitor/projector settings)
• One monitor? Then Win+Left is snapping current window to the left side and Win+Right – to the right
• Win+Space – peeks at the Desktop
• Win+X – calls Mobility Center
• Win+T – first Taskbar entry
• Win+G – brings desktop gadgets to the top

Enjoy!

Check your system configuration: active services, what items run at startup ect. All of those are in one place: MSCONFIG.

Three new controls have been added:

1. HTMLEditor - The HTMLEditor control allows you to easily create and edit HTML content. You can edit in design mode, as a rich text editor, or in source view to edit the HTML markup directly.
2. ComboBox - The ComboBox control provides a DropDownList of items, combined with TextBox. Different modes determine the interplay between the text entry and the list of items.
3. ColorPicker - The ColorPicker Control Extender can be attached to any ASP.NET TextBox control. It provides client-side color-picking functionality with UI in a popup control.

Download from here.

Long time ago I have found useful to add some custom shortcuts to “Send To” folder in Windows. Most useful for me is shortcut to Notepad: if you have this shortcut in “Send To”, when you need to open any text file (or HTML, or XML – you name it) you just need to select that file in Windows Explorer, right click on it and under “Send To” select the Notepad shortcut. Simply, isn’t it?

It is not always easy to locate this folder. Because Windows 7 is coming and I already switched to Win7 RC, this tip applies to Win7. Here is the path: C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

Note: folder “AppData” is system and hidden by default, thus if you hate to type the entire path manually, open C:\Users\<user name>\ location then type “AppData” in address bar and then you can use your mouse to navigate to “SendTo”.

If you are developing database driven Applications, then you definitely need to add this resource to your Internet Favorites: http://www.connectionstrings.com
This is the most complete resource I ever seen that contains connection strings to probably any database system around.
Great job! Thank you, guys!

Final version of Silverlight 2 will be available in 14 October. Read official press release here. Full set of tools for Software Developers could be downloaded from here. Good luck!