This is a little-known trick that allows you to generate a specified number of paragraphs of text, without typing it manually.

Here's an example of accessing a Static Resource, in the context of setting a style for a new TextBlock.

In Outlook 2010 the email headers are hidden behind a few menus. Here's how to view them.

To suppress blank lines around selected text for Region template:

1. add DWORD registry value PadRegions

   • VS 2008:

     HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\DPack\SurroundWith

   • VS 2010:

     HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\DPack\SurroundWith

2. Set value to 0

This will only work if you haven't deleted the contents of your old drive, of course.

How do you transfer your old Skype logs?

It took a while to find this information the first time, so when I couldn't find it again the second time, I decided to blog it.

Infragsitics offer a free version of NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch, called "NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch Light".  With LightSwitch Light, you will get our Numeric Editor, Mask Editor, Office 2010 Theme and Metro Theme.



The Office 2010 theme looks fantastic!



Click on Read More to see a sample.

This post is based on Sheel Shah's article, called "Creating a Custom Add or Edit Dialog", to which I've added some "improvements".