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Fix for Infragistics Web Grid Row Multi-Select on a Mac

2010-04-19T15:30:00.004-04:00

Well a while ago I posted a thread on the Infragistics forums and didn't even get a peep from any Infragistics people. So I took it upon myself to fix the issue. I tracked down the suspect client-side code and modified it so that the Apple key could be used for multi-selecting rows in an UltraWebGrid.

Here's the fix. I use jQuery's $(document).ready to apply the fix, but use your own favorite client-side framework to apply the fix. I didn't bother trying to recompile the Infragistics assemblies with the updated client-side embedded resource. This just seemed easier.

Awesome Video

2010-03-03T09:06:00.002-05:00

Check out this awesome video from OK Go. Thanks to the CodeProject newsletter for sending this out in their newsletter this morning.

Internet Explorer's Infamous Operation Aborted Error

2010-01-18T10:07:00.004-05:00

This has been written about a lot, but people seem to still post questions about it, so I thought I'd add my little experience about it as well in the hope that people find the answer to this issue quicker when Googling.

The infamous Operation Aborted error is Internet Explorer's (and only Internet Explorer) way of dying very ungracefully when loading a web page. Googling it will result in all kinds of solutions, but the plain and simple facts are this. This error only occurs if you try to manipulate a DOM element via JavaScript before the element you are trying to manipulate is loaded. Below are two sample HTML examples illustrating this point. Open each of these files in Internet Explorer (IE) 6 or 7 to see the differences.

This is no longer an issue in IE8... well it's still an issue, but a little quieter about it and it actually renders pages now instaed of showing you the page for a split second than giving you the error (IE7 and <). See this article, What Happened to Operation Aborted?, http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/04/23/what-happened-to-operation-aborted.aspx).

This issue can also occur because of a race condition that occurs due to an Internet Explorer/ASP.Net AJAX bug. The probability of encountering this issue increases when the application has a significant number of ASP.Net AJAX enabled server controls on the web page. The issue is explained here, http://seejoelprogram.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/fixing-sysapplicationinitialize-again . I added this fix to my project and all is good now. This fix from what I can tell is still required if using ASP.NET 3.5 SP1. If you're interested, I raised the question about the AJAX issue here on Stack Overflow, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/757758/internet-explorers-operation-aborted-and-latency-issue .

Enjoy.

Google Chrome... I Love It!

2009-12-10T20:10:00.009-05:00

Well I've had Google Chrome installed pretty much since it was first released. I initially installed it just out of curiosity and to see if sites I was developing looked good in that browser too. Until this week, I've been using it just as a browser for cross-browser testing.

My wife's computer is super old, so I recommended she install it because it claims to be the fastest browser due to it's super speedy JavaScript engine, V8 JavaScript Engine . On a five year old laptop with 768MB of RAM and a Pentium processor it runs pretty well. After she installed it, I started using it to surf and it indeed was a lot faster. I kind of already knew this, but the big reason why I fell in love with Chrome this week was not just for it's speed, but for it's extensions . NOTE: To use extensions in Chrome you need to install the dev channel of the browser.

I've been a big fan of FireFox for quite some time now because it's faster than Internet Explorer (from what I've seen, no official benchmarks by me) and it has a huge repository of extensions .

Having said, I'm not abandoning FireFox entirely. I still like it and it's my main browser for development at work (thank you IE Tab which is also available in Chrome) and it still has more extensions than Chrome, but I foresee Chrome extension development exploding very soon.

One other extension available for Chrome is FireBug Lite. I installed it, but don't know if it's really necessary considering the fact that Chrome has it's own client-side development tools. A full fledged FireBug would be neat to have in Chrome or any browser for that matter.

Outside of work, Chrome is my new browser of choice. I still can't believe how fast it is and the slim downed UI is nice too (no toolbars). At first I was a bit annoyed with it, because the only way I could access my bookmarks was via the Bookmark Manager in the tools menu. I quickly discovered CTRL + B shows or hides the bookmarks toolbar and with an Xmarks extension now available for Chrome, I'm in heaven.

The only thing I don't like is I can't use LogMeIn in Chrome in full screen mode, so for now I still use FireFox for LogMeIn.

Maybe with FireFox 3.6 and up it'll become faster than Chrome, but I think the tide of change is coming and it's called Chrome.

Microsoft's Doloto and IBM's EGL

2009-09-09T08:57:00.003-04:00

IBM's EGL, http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/community/egl, is meant to make building Web 2.0 apps a lot more easy. Looks interesting. Basically you program in the EGL language and they generate Web 2.0 pages for you and you can debug it without having a server. I don't develop in Java or use Eclipse really so I probably won't touch this one, but still interesting.

Microsoft has released Doloto, http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=70518, that from what I can tell just pushes the JavaScript you need as you need it. Can I coin the term Javascript on Demand (JoD) or has someone already claimed this? :) Doloto profiles your application and then it figures out which JavaScript you need and makes stubs for functions that are not required right away and groups functions into groups that are downloaded together called clusters. So, once once it's profiled your app, the new JavaScript can be uploaded to your server to improve performance.

According to, Somasegar's WebLog, http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/09/04/doloto-on-devlabs.aspx, "In our experiments across a number of AJAX applications and network conditions, Doloto reduced the amount of initial downloaded JavaScript code by over 40%, resulting in startup often faster by 30-40%, depending on network conditions."

I'm just wondering how this works with dynamic pages and 3rd party components that have their own JavaScript. I understand what they're doing, but how do you get 3rd party components to not send the original JavaScript to the client as well that shipped with the component because a lot of times these are embedded resources.

Thoughts anyone?

IE8 Blocker, Download It!

2009-04-29T10:43:00.004-04:00

Yesterday (April 28, 2009), Microsoft made Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) a critical update so if you're the kind of person who says install updates without looking, beware. I only mention this because currently there are a lot of sites that do not support IE8. In fact even the emulate IE7 mode doesn't render some sites like they do in IE7.

To avoid IE8 installing automatically, install the IE8 Blocker Toolkit from Microsoft, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21687628-5806-4ba6-9e4e-8e224ec6dd8c&displaylang=en .

If you have IE7 and wish to test IE8, or use IE6 too , I would recommend installing Virtual PC 2007.

AjaxControlToolkit CascadingDropDown Issue with FireBug

2009-03-27T13:07:00.004-04:00

Well I found a debugging issue today trying to implement something with the AjaxControlToolkit's CascadingDropDown control.

A page I was working on had four CascadingDropDown controls on it and even though on the server side, they were disabled, i.e. .Enabled = false, when rendered on the client, they would be disabled for one second than become readable. It had to do with populating the picklist with the web service call.

So I was trying to use the picklist.CascadingDropDownBehavior.add_populated method to add a function that disabled things after the dynamic data was populated. In Internet Explorer, no issues. In FireFox, FireBug was launching the debugger sometimes but then my add_populated method was never firing. I was going nuts.

In a last ditch effort I said, maybe I'll just disable FireBug as the clients will most likely not have it installed. I restarted FireFox with FireBug disabled and all was good. I must say that wasn't obvious. The issue I describe occurs with FireBug 1.3.3. Maybe it's only this version, I don't know. Just thought I'd mention it in case someone else ends up pulling their hair out because of this.

And for code's sake, here's what I did to disable the CascadingDropDown on the client-side:


function pageLoad(sender, args) {
 DisablePickLists();
}

// Note: If you need to debug this in FireFox, FireBug doesn't really work. I tried and I was able to debug below intermittently
function DisablePickLists() {
 // picklistClientIDs is populated in FormAppointmentBase.cs
 if ("undefined" !== typeof(picklistClientIDs)) {
     var populated = function(sender, args) {                 
         var picklist = sender._element;
      
         // I don't check for the existence of the picklist because it has to exist. The element IDs being returned are from server-side
         // code that got the clientIDs of server controls.                     
         var myInterval;
      
         myInterval = setInterval(function() {
             if (sender._isupdating) {
                 return;
             }
          
             clearInterval(myInterval);
             picklist.disabled = true;
         }, 20);
     };
  
     for (var index=0;index < picklistClientIDs.length;index++) {
         var currentID = picklistClientIDs[index];
         var picklist = $get(currentID);
         picklist.CascadingDropDownBehavior.add_populated(populated);
     }
 }
}

Pretty Print for FogBugz Greasemonkey Script

2009-03-12T11:33:00.006-04:00

Well, we use FogBugz at work for logging cases and for a wiki. I needed to print some stuff the other day and didn't like it showing the header and footer of FogBugz, so I wrote a GreaseMonkey script to remove them. Check out the script on userscripts.org here.

This is a firt version of this script, so one thing you need to do is have this script disabled until you go to the page you want to print. Once you're on that page, enable the script and refresh the page. Print it then disable the script and refresh the page to get your header and footer back. I'll add a button to turn it on and off soon, but for now, it is what it is.

Google's Tip Jar

2009-03-06T08:09:00.003-05:00

I heard about this neat little app called Tip Jar from Google via my codeproject.com newsletter. It's a neat little app that allows anyone to submit useful tips to help us all during this gloomy recession period. Here's the original article, http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/03/05/google-offers-money-saving-tips-with-tip-jar and here's my first tip, http://moderator.appspot.com/#8/e=3cfc .

FireScope FireFox Add-On

2009-02-18T23:31:00.003-05:00

Well for the web developers out there, sitepoint.com has released a really sweet add-on for FireFox that is a reference for HTML elements, attributes, and CSS properties.

It integrates into Firebug which is nice. I must admit that even though I develop in Visual Studio.NET and have all the MSDN documentation, this is a nice reference tool.

Check it out at http://tools.sitepoint.com/firescope

"Drag Everything", My Latest Greasemonkey Script

2009-01-25T21:44:00.007-05:00

Hey folks,

I think I'm having a little too much fun with Greasemonkey. I decided to make another fun, simple and potentially useful script called "Drag Everything".

Basically it makes anything (or almost anything) instantly draggable on a page. Why would you want to do this? Maybe you just want to waste time and have some fun, or maybe you're a designer and want to change your layout at client-side runtime. Once you have a layout you like, you can view the run-time generated source using a cool tool like the FireFox Add-on Web Developer to test out your new markup layout.

Grab the script on userscripts.org here. As usual, make sure FireFox is installed with Greasemonkey. See my previous posts on Greasemonkey to get that setup.

Here's the non-minified code. I minify the code on userscripts.org so as to reduce the footprint of the script. It's not to make anything super secret. I couldn't bother pasting my script in my blog because formatting it was a pain, so here's the script, drag_everything.js.

Learning AJAX APIs Made Easier: Google Releases API Playground

2009-01-23T08:47:00.003-05:00

I can't take credit for this find. I received this via my codeproject.com daily newsletter. And I guess they can't take credit for this either, because it was Frederic Lardinois that wrote the article Learning AJAX APIs Made Easier: Google Releases API Playground .

Anyways, the article points to some cool AJAX stuff that Google has done and gives you a playground, AJAX API Playground, to test it. I haven't really used any of the Google AJAX stuff except for a Google Map that I added to this site. Some of the widgets are pretty cool though like the gauge widget .

Greasemonkey Script for Pre-Fetching Page Content

2009-01-19T22:57:00.011-05:00

Hey folks,

Here's a script that prefetches content from links on a page. The point is to help speed up load times of pages that you may be potentially visiting. I whipped this one up pretty quickly, so there's quirks in it right now.

The way it works is, I load all href attributes of anchor tags into separate iframes and then on the load of the iframe, I delete it It seems to work OK, but I already noticed a quirk. Links that are downloads sometimes pop up a Save dialog. As well, I currently skip loading links from iframes and frames just because I don't want to slow down the browser too much.

I think the FireFox team is working on a page prefetcher for the browser, but for now my script is really just to tinker around a bit.

So to use the script, first, you need to be using Firefox. Second, you need to install Greasemonkey. Once you have all that, download my script, Page Prefetcher.

That's it. Presto!

I recently minified the code for the script using YUI Compressor, so if you want to see the original code as of January 20th, 2009 check it out below. I formatted some of the lines which is why you see some strings broken up when it's not necessary.


    
// ==UserScript==
// @name           Page Prefetcher
// @namespace      Webnick.UI
// @description    Pre-fetches content from links in a page. Released under the GPL license, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
//                 Skips mailto:, ftp:, ftps:, chrome: and javascript:
//                 protocols (suggest other protocols to skip please).
//                 Also skips iframes and frames for now.
//                 This is a work in progress.
// @include        *
// ==/UserScript==



(function() {
if (self != top) {
 // skip frames and iframes for now.
 return;
}

// Change this time to whatever you want.
// I found on my PC, 5 seconds (5000 milliseconds) works best.
var preFetchWaitTime = 5000;


// set this to true if you want to see links being processed.
var seePrefetching = false;


var links = self.document.getElementsByTagName("a");
var linksToProcess = [];
var currentLink;
var preFetcher;



if (seePrefetching) {
 var div = document.createElement("div");
 div.style.position = "fixed";
 div.style.top = "0px";
 div.style.left = "0px";
 div.style.width = "600px";
 div.style.height = "100px";
 div.style.overflow = "auto";
 div.style.backgroundColor = "orange";
 div.style.textAlign = "left";
 div.style.padding = "5px";
 document.body.appendChild(div);
}

for (linkIndex = 0; linkIndex < links.length; linkIndex++) {
 currentLink = links[linkIndex].href;

 if (!(/^(mailto:)|(ftp:)|(ftps:)|(chrome:)/i.test(currentLink))
  && !linksToProcess[currentLink]) {
  linksToProcess[linksToProcess.length] = currentLink;
 }
}

setTimeout(
 function preFetch() {
  if (linksToProcess.length > 0) {
   var url = linksToProcess.pop();

   
   if (seePrefetching) {    
    div.innerHTML += "Pre-fetching " + url + "<br />";
   }

   
   preFetcher = document.createElement("iframe");
   preFetcher.src = url;
   preFetcher.id = (new Date()).getTime();
   preFetcher.style.display = "none";
   preFetcher.setAttribute("onload"
   , "setTimeout(function(){top.document.body.removeChild("
    + document.getElementById('" + preFetcher.id + "'))}, 0);");
   document.body.appendChild(preFetcher);
   setTimeout(preFetch, preFetchWaitTime);
  }
 }
 , preFetchWaitTime);
})();

Greasemonkey Script for Outlining Inputs like Safari/Chrome

2009-01-05T13:06:00.009-05:00

Hey folks,

Here's a very simple script that gives you the outline around inputs when on a web page, just like Safari or Chrome or I guess any AppleWebKit based browser.

First, you need to be using Firefox. Second, you need to install Greasemonkey. Once you have all that, download my script, Outline Inputs Like Safari .

That's it. Presto!

Web Site Performance Tips

2008-12-23T08:36:00.009-05:00

Making web site pages load quickly is paramount. Here's some tips I recommend from past experiences as well as some stuff that I'm sure has already been mentioned by others on the Net. Some of this is ASP.NET specific but there is still some non general stuff in here too.

Minimize the size of image files. Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Fireworks can do this, as well as Gimp plus I'm sure there's tonnes of other graphics editors out there like Google's Picasa. Yahoo! released a tool called Smush It that can do this automatically from a web site, see http://smushit.com/ .
Instead of returning DataSets, use DataReaders. When editing something load up the individual record(s). Doing so will eliminate a big chunk of ViewState which will speed up page rendering.
Remove all inline CSS, put them as classes and store the classes in CSS files. This improves management of style and allows for you to use the “Cascade” in CSS and the CSS file(s). AS well CSS files are cached by the browser.
Remove all JavaScript that is contained in server-side source code, if possible. If ClientIDs of server controls are required, register them through server side code, but pass them as arguments to JavaScript methods stored in *.js files or define them as global variables. Doing so will also allow JavaScript to be cached by the browser.
Compress CSS and JavaScript using YuiCompressor, to minify these files. Another alternative is to obfuscate your JavaScript, but I found this to be problematic and difficult to debug. Having said that I successfully used Semantic Designs JavaScript Obfuscator . You have a file which you define your public API so it doesn't get obfuscated. If done right, you can reduce your JS footprint big time.
Disable ViewState wherever possible.
Cache pages if possible or controls in pages if possible. E.g. For a specific role cache the menu control. You can use ASP.NET’s OutputCache page/control directive.
Reduce our markup. Anywhere where tables are used for layout, consider using DIVs or HTML lists and CSS.
Set the AutoEventWireUp page directive to false to improve performance. Here's some links explaining why:

Use HTTP compression if possible. Here's some links explaining why:

Here's also some guidelines from Yahoo, http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

For ASP.NET, avoid using Server.MapPath as much as possible as it slows down performance. If you need it to resolve a folder, try and load these folders into Application variables when the application starts and then use these base folders to build the folder you need

protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// code ...
Application[DownloadsFolderApplicationKey] = Server.MapPath("~/downloads/");
// more code ...
}

protected void Session_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// code ...
if (Application[DownloadsFolderSessionKey] == null)
throw new NullReferenceException("Downloads folder cannot be null.");

string downloadPath = Path.Combine(

 Application[DownloadsFolderApplicationKey] as string
 , Session.SessionID);
// Don't do this
// string downloadPath = Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("~/downloads/"), Session.SessionID);
// more code ...
}

Some other great articles on web site optimization:

Take a peek at FireFox's YSlow Add-On (courtesy of Yahoo!) for optimizing web site performance.

That's all for now. If you have other suggestions for improving page performance, please let me know.

IBM's XML Challenge

2008-12-02T08:27:00.003-05:00

There's a cool post about IBM's The XML Challenge posted by Antonio Cangiano on his blog, Zen and the Art of Programming . The full blog post is here. Sounds like a fun contest if you wanna flex your XML muscle and win some goodies.

My AJAX Ramblings/Rant

2008-11-21T12:09:00.007-05:00

AJAX! Web 2.0! Rich Internet Applications (RIA)!

Here's my little explanation about AJAX, some AJAX history, some ramblings and some pet peeves I have about the way people refer to it. It's basically one of my brain barfs, not necessarily well thought out. I just felt like writing down some thoughts in no particular order.

Well first off, you've probably heard about AJAX in the past few years. AJAX stand for asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Jesse Garrett is the one who coined this cool acronym.

All this stuff is nothing new even though it might appear to be. Those who've been in the web business since the late 90s probably know this, but AJAX has existed since Internet Explorer 5 (maybe 4, I can't remember). The only reason why it's more popular today and more widely used is because all the major browsers support it now.

Microsoft had an ActiveX object (and still do) called the XmlHTTPRequest object. This was what allowed for server calls in the background that when combined with dynamic HTML (DHTML) gave you AJAX. As far as I know, they were the first browser to have the XmlHTTPRequestObject. Mozilla followed suit later on as did other browsers. I wonder if it's safe to say that Microsoft and/or or Internet Explorer developers were the first ones to use/invent AJAX? (queue Linux users cursing). I'm not pro Microsoft or anything even though I develop in it all day long, but it seems like the last statement I wrote appears to be true. BTW, I love FireFox and am psyched for 3.1 with its JavaScript engine SpiderMonkey using TraceMonkey to speed up JavaScript performance.

Anyways, my major pet peeve about AJAX is that so many people confuse it with DHTML. Great libraries like Prototype, jQuery and Dojo are just JavaScript libraries that interact with the DOM to create cool DHTML effects. The AJAX component in all these libraries is quite tiny. Each of these libraries have some objects that at the lowest level end up calling the browser's XmlHttpRequest object. Aside from that, the rest is all DHTML.

Another thing about AJAX is its not always AJAX nowadays. A lot of people have switched to using JSON instead of XML, which would make it AJAJ I guess. Just doesn't sounds as cool though eh? Maybe AJ²? JSON was created by Douglas Crockford, who is the man when it comes to JavaScript. I prefer to call him the Crockenator even though I have never met him. If you look at John Reisig of jQuery fame, you'll notice that he follows a lot of what the Crockenator teaches. I can't stress enough how much you should read the Crockenator's book JavaScript: The Good Parts. It still amazes me how many web developers don't know JavaScript. In my eyes you don't know web unless you know JavaScript. Zing!

Rich Internet Applications however, have been around since Java Applet's existed. Think of applets as the predecessor to the XmlHttpRequest objects of browsers. Although some sites still use applets, I don't think they ever really caught on because Internet speeds were pretty slow at the time they first came onto the scene. As well, I don't know if it's just me, but I've always found applets super slow.

Anyways, that concludes my first online ramblings/rant. Please leave some comments if you have any.

Cheers,
Nick

JavaScript Jobs

2008-09-08T23:29:00.000-04:00

JavaScript jobs care of jsninja.com

Ubiquity for FireFox

2008-08-27T08:16:00.001-04:00

This is a really cool video describing Ubiquity, a Mozilla Labs project. In a nutshell, it extends FireFox (and I guess possibly other browsers) to let users create mashups and use them fairly easily in daily tasks, like sending a map to someone. Check out the video here, http://www.vimeo.com/1561578?pg=embed&sec=1561578 or here http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity.

If you're still interested, which I think you will be, download the FireFox add-on.

From the post http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity, "Install the prototype and you'll be presented with a tutorial to get you started."

Download FireFox 3 to Break a Guiness World Record

2008-06-15T22:27:00.001-04:00

For all the geeks out there or people who just love FireFox, download it next Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 and break a Guiness Record. I created a FaceBook group for fun for this event, and a lot of people I don't know have joined. So yes I'm a geek, but it's also an interesting social experiment to see people join the group.

Check out the FaceBook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48934425315

GWAP

2008-05-16T08:48:00.001-04:00

Looks cool. GWAP is a set of games which take human answers and store them to make search engines better. From the about section of the GWAP Site "When you play a game at Gwap, you aren't just having fun. You're helping the world become a better place. By playing our games, you're training computers to solve problems for humans all over the world."

Check out http://www.gwap.com.

My Latest CodeProject.com Article

2008-05-08T00:23:00.001-04:00

Well now that I got my first article written for Code Project, I decided to write another. Once again it's short and sweet. Check out my article, Navigating Away from a Page that has Changes, in ASP.NET, on Code Project.

Later skaters,
NickyT

My First CodeProject.com Article

2008-04-28T15:12:00.001-04:00

Well I've been wanting to write a Code Project article forever, so I finally got around to it. It's short and sweet, but I think it's decent for my first article, Integrating a Blogger.com Blog into an ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site. Hopefully I can have a few more brain barfs in the near future to write some interesting articles.

Visual Studio .NET 2005 Keyboard Shortcuts

2008-04-04T08:53:00.001-04:00

I got this list from codinghorror.com in this post. I thought it would be good to post it again as it took a while to find it.

Class Diagram
Num +	ClassDiagram	Expand
Shift+Alt+B	Edit	ExpandCollapseBaseTypeList
Ctrl+Del	Edit	Delete
Del	Edit	RemovefromDiagram
Enter	View	ViewCode
Shift+Alt+L	Edit	NavigateToLollipop
Num -	ClassDiagram	Collapse
DataSet Editor
Ins	Data	InsertColumn
Ctrl+L	Data	Column
Deployment Designer
Shift+Alt+D	Diagram	RedrawConnection
Shift+Alt+T	Diagram	RerouteConnection
Global
Ctrl+-	View	NavigateBackward
Ctrl+Shift+-	View	NavigateForward
Ctrl+.	View	ShowSmartTag
Ctrl+/	Tools	GoToCommandLine
Ctrl+\, D	View	CodeDefinitionWindow
Ctrl+\, E	View	ErrorList
Ctrl+\, T	View	TaskList
Ctrl+Shift+1	View	BrowseNext
Ctrl+Shift+2	View	BrowsePrevious
Ctrl+Shift+7	View	ForwardBrowseContext
Ctrl+Shift+8	View	PopBrowseContext
Ctrl+A	Edit	SelectAll
Ctrl+Alt+A	View	CommandWindow
Ctrl+Shift+A	Project	AddNewItem
Shift+Alt+A	Project	AddExistingItem
Ctrl+Alt+B	Debug	Breakpoints
Ctrl+B	Debug	BreakatFunction
Ctrl+Shift+B	Build	BuildSolution
Alt+Bkspce	Edit	Undo
Ctrl+Alt+Break	Debug	BreakAll
Ctrl+Break	Build	Cancel
Ctrl+Alt+C	Debug	CallStack
Ctrl+Shift+C	View	ClassView
Ctrl+Alt+D	Debug	Disassembly
Ctrl+D	Edit	GoToFindCombo
Shift+Alt+D	Data	ShowDataSources
Shift+Del	Edit	Cut
Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow	Window	ShowEzMDIFileList
Down Arrow	Edit	MoveControlDownGrid
Shift+Down Arrow	Edit	SizeControlDownGrid
Ctrl+Alt+E	Debug	Exceptions
Ctrl+Shift+E	View	ResourceView
Alt+Enter	Diagram	Properties
Enter	Edit	ShowTileGrid
Shift+Alt+Enter	View	FullScreen
Esc	Window	ActivateDocumentWindow
Shift+Esc	Window	CloseToolWindow
Ctrl+F	Edit	Find
Ctrl+Shift+F	Edit	FindinFiles
Ctrl+Alt+F1	Help	Contents
Ctrl+F1	Help	HowDoI
F1	Help	F1Help
Shift+F1	Help	WindowHelp
Alt+F10	Debug	ApplyCodeChanges
Ctrl+Alt+F10	Debug	StepOverCurrentProcess
Ctrl+F10	Debug	RunToCursor
Ctrl+Shift+F10	Debug	SetNextStatement
F10	Debug	StepOver
Alt+F11	Tools	MacrosIDE
Ctrl+Alt+F11	Debug	StepIntoCurrentProcess
Ctrl+F11	Debug	ToggleDisassembly
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+F11	Debug	StepOutCurrentProcess
F11	Debug	StepInto
Shift+F11	Debug	StepOut
Alt+F12	Edit	FindSymbol
Ctrl+Alt+F12	View	FindSymbolResults
Ctrl+F12	Edit	GoToDeclaration
Ctrl+Shift+F12	View	NextError
F12	Edit	GoToDefinition
Shift+Alt+F12	Edit	QuickFindSymbol
Shift+F12	Edit	FindAllReferences
Ctrl+Alt+F2	Help	Index
Ctrl+F2	Window	MovetoNavigationBar
F2	View	EditLabel
Alt+F3, S	Edit	StopSearch
Ctrl+Alt+F3	Help	Search
Ctrl+F3	Edit	FindNextSelected
Ctrl+Shift+F3	Edit	FindPreviousSelected
F3	Edit	FindNext
Shift+Alt+F3	Help	SearchResults
Shift+F3	Edit	FindPrevious
Ctrl+F4	Window	CloseDocumentWindow
F4	View	PropertiesWindow
Shift+F4	View	PropertyPages
Alt+F5	Data	StepInto
Ctrl+Alt+F5	Data	Execute
Ctrl+F5	Debug	StartWithoutDebugging
Ctrl+Shift+F5	Debug	Restart
F5	Debug	Start
Shift+Alt+F5	Debug	StartWithApplicationVerifier
Shift+F5	Debug	StopDebugging
Alt+F6	Window	NextPane
Ctrl+F6	Window	NextDocumentWindow
Ctrl+Shift+F6	Window	PreviousDocumentWindow
F6	Window	NextSplitPane
Shift+Alt+F6	Window	PreviousPane
Shift+F6	Window	PreviousSplitPane
Alt+F7	Window	NextToolWindowNav
Ctrl+F7	Build	Compile
F7	View	ToggleDesigner
Shift+Alt+F7	Window	PreviousToolWindowNav
Alt+F8	View	MacroExplorer
F8	Edit	GoToNextLocation
Shift+F8	Edit	GoToPrevLocation
Alt+F9, A	DebuggerContextMenus	BreakpointsWindow
Alt+F9, D	DebuggerContextMenus	BreakpointsWindow
Alt+F9, S	DebuggerContextMenus	BreakpointsWindow
Ctrl+F9	Debug	EnableBreakpoint
Ctrl+Shift+F9	Debug	DeleteAllBreakpoints
F9	Debug	ToggleBreakpoint
Shift+F9	Debug	QuickWatch
Ctrl+Alt+G	Debug	Registers
Ctrl+G	Edit	GoTo
Ctrl+Shift+G	Edit	OpenFile
Ctrl+Alt+H	Debug	Threads
Ctrl+H	Edit	Replace
Ctrl+Shift+H	Edit	ReplaceinFiles
Ctrl+Alt+I	Debug	Immediate
Ctrl+Alt+Ins	Project	Override
Ctrl+Ins	Edit	Copy
Ctrl+Shift+Ins	Edit	CycleClipboardRing
Shift+Ins	Edit	Paste
Ctrl+Alt+J	View	ObjectBrowser
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+B	Tools	CodeSnippetsManager
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F	NewFolder
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+M	Edit	GenerateMethodStub
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+N	Edit	NextBookmark
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+P	Edit	PreviousBookmark
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+R	View	ObjectBrowserGoToSearchCombo
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+S	Edit	SurroundWith
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+V	View	ClassViewGoToSearchCombo
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+W	View	BookmarkWindow
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+X	Edit	InsertSnippet
Ctrl+Shift+K, Ctrl+Shift+N	Edit	NextBookmarkInFolder
Ctrl+Shift+K, Ctrl+Shift+P	Edit	PreviousBookmarkInFolder
Ctrl+Alt+L	View	SolutionExplorer
Alt+Left Arrow	View	Backward
Left Arrow	Edit	MoveControlLeftGrid
Shift+Left Arrow	Edit	SizeControlLeftGrid
Ctrl+Alt+M, 1	Debug	Memory1
Ctrl+Alt+M, 2	Debug	Memory2
Ctrl+Alt+M, 3	Debug	Memory3
Ctrl+Alt+M, 4	Debug	Memory4
Ctrl+Alt+N	Debug	ScriptExplorer
Ctrl+N	File	NewFile
Ctrl+Shift+N	File	NewProject
Alt+Num *	Debug	ShowNextStatement
Ctrl+Alt+O	View	Output
Ctrl+O	File	OpenFile
Ctrl+Shift+O	File	OpenProject
Ctrl+Alt+P	Tools	AttachtoProcess
Ctrl+P	File	Print
Ctrl+Shift+P	Tools	RunTemporaryMacro
Ctrl+PgDn	Window	NextTab
Ctrl+Q	Data	RunSelection
Ctrl+Alt+R	View	WebBrowser
Ctrl+R, Ctrl+E	Refactor	EncapsulateField
Ctrl+R, Ctrl+I	Refactor	ExtractInterface
Ctrl+R, Ctrl+M	Refactor	ExtractMethod
Ctrl+R, Ctrl+O	Refactor	ReorderParameters
Ctrl+R, Ctrl+P	Refactor	PromoteLocalVariable
Ctrl+R, Ctrl+R	Refactor	Rename
Ctrl+R, Ctrl+V	Refactor	RemoveParameters
Ctrl+Shift+R	Tools	RecordTemporaryMacro
Alt+Right Arrow	View	Forward
Right Arrow	Edit	MoveControlRightGrid
Shift+Right Arrow	Edit	SizeControlRightGrid
Ctrl+Alt+S	View	ServerExplorer
Ctrl+S	File	SaveSelectedItems
Ctrl+Shift+S	File	SaveAll
Ctrl+Alt+T	View	DocumentOutline
Ctrl+Shift+Tab	Window	PreviousDocumentWindowNav
Ctrl+Tab	Window	NextDocumentWindowNav
Shift+Tab	Edit	SelectPreviousControl
Tab	Edit	SelectNextControl
Ctrl+Alt+U	Debug	Modules
Shift+Up Arrow	Edit	SizeControlUpGrid
Up Arrow	Edit	MoveControlUpGrid
Ctrl+Alt+V, A	Debug	Autos
Ctrl+Alt+V, L	Debug	Locals
Ctrl+Alt+W, 1	Debug	Watch
Ctrl+Alt+W, 2	Debug	Watch2
Ctrl+Alt+W, 3	Debug	Watch3
Ctrl+Alt+W, 4	Debug	Watch4
Ctrl+Shift+W	File	ViewinBrowser
Ctrl+Alt+X	View	Toolbox
Ctrl+Shift+X	Test	StartSelectedTestProjectwithoutDebugger
Shift+Alt+X	Test	StartSelectedTestProjectwithDebugger
Ctrl+Alt+Z	Debug	Processes
Ctrl+Shift+Z	Edit	Redo
HTML Editor Design View
Ctrl+B	Format	Bold
Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow	Layout	InsertRowBelow
Shift+F7	View	ViewMarkup
Ctrl+I	Format	Italic
Ctrl+L	Format	ConverttoHyperlink
Ctrl+Shift+L	Format	InsertBookmark
Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow	Layout	InsertColumntotheLeft
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+C	Project	AddContentPage
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+M	View	EditMaster
Ctrl+Alt+Q	View	NonVisualControls
Ctrl+Q	View	VisibleBorders
Ctrl+Shift+Q	View	Details
Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow	Layout	InsertColumntotheRight
Ctrl+U	Format	Underline
Ctrl+Alt+Up Arrow	Layout	InsertRowAbove
HTML Editor Source View
Ctrl+Shift+.	View	AutoCloseTagOverride
Shift+F7	View	ViewDesigner
Ctrl+PgDn	View	NextView
Ctrl+PgUp	Window	PreviousTab
Managed Resources Editor
Ctrl+1	Resources	Strings
Ctrl+2	Resources	Images
Ctrl+3	Resources	Icons
Ctrl+4	Resources	Audio
Ctrl+5	Resources	Files
Ctrl+6	Resources	Other
Del	Edit	Remove
Report Designer
Ctrl+Alt+D	View	Datasets
Ctrl+Down Arrow	Edit	MoveControlDown
Ctrl+Shift+Down Arrow	Edit	SizeControlDown
Down Arrow	Edit	LineDown
Shift+Down Arrow	Edit	LineDownExtend
Enter	Edit	BreakLine
Ctrl+Left Arrow	Edit	MoveControlLeft
Ctrl+Shift+Left Arrow	Edit	SizeControlLeft
Left Arrow	Edit	CharLeft
Shift+Left Arrow	Edit	CharLeftExtend
Ctrl+Right Arrow	Edit	MoveControlRight
Ctrl+Shift+Right Arrow	Edit	SizeControlRight
Right Arrow	Edit	CharRight
Shift+Right Arrow	Edit	CharRightExtend
Shift+Tab	Edit	TabLeft
Tab	Edit	InsertTab
Ctrl+Shift+Up Arrow	Edit	SizeControlUp
Ctrl+Up Arrow	Edit	MoveControlUp
Shift+Up Arrow	Edit	LineUpExtend
Up Arrow	Edit	LineUp
Settings Designer
Ctrl+Del	Edit	RemoveRow
Esc	Edit	SelectionCancel
F2	Edit	EditCell
Text Editor
Alt+,	Edit	DecreaseFilterLevel
Alt+.	Edit	IncreaseFilterLevel
Ctrl+]	Edit	GotoBrace
Ctrl+Shift+]	Edit	GotoBraceExtend
Ctrl+=	Edit	SelectToLastGoBack
Bkspce	Edit	DeleteBackwards
Ctrl+Bkspce	Edit	WordDeleteToStart
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C	Edit	CopyParameterTip
Ctrl+Del	Edit	WordDeleteToEnd
Ctrl+Down Arrow	Edit	ScrollLineDown
Shift+Alt+Down Arrow	Edit	LineDownExtendColumn
Ctrl+E, Ctrl+W	Edit	ToggleWordWrap
End	Edit	LineEnd
Shift+Alt+End	Edit	LineEndExtendColumn
Shift+End	Edit	LineEndExtend
Ctrl+Enter	Edit	LineOpenAbove
Ctrl+Shift+Enter	Edit	LineOpenBelow
Home	Edit	LineStart
Shift+Alt+Home	Edit	LineStartExtendColumn
Shift+Home	Edit	LineStartExtend
Ctrl+I	Edit	IncrementalSearch
Ctrl+Shift+I	Edit	ReverseIncrementalSearch
Ins	Edit	OvertypeMode
Ctrl+J	Edit	ListMembers
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+\	Edit	DeleteHorizontalWhiteSpace
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+A	Edit	SwapAnchor
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C	Edit	CommentSelection
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D	Edit	FormatDocument
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F	Edit	FormatSelection
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+H	Edit	ToggleTaskListShortcut
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+I	Edit	QuickInfo
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+K	Edit	ToggleBookmark
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+L	Edit	ClearBookmarks
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U	Edit	UncommentSelection
Ctrl+L	Edit	LineCut
Ctrl+Shift+L	Edit	LineDelete
Ctrl+Left Arrow	Edit	WordPrevious
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Left Arrow	Edit	WordPreviousExtendColumn
Ctrl+Shift+Left Arrow	Edit	WordPreviousExtend
Shift+Alt+Left Arrow	Edit	CharLeftExtendColumn
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+H	Edit	HideSelection
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+L	Edit	ToggleAllOutlining
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+M	Edit	ToggleOutliningExpansion
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+O	Edit	CollapsetoDefinitions
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+P	Edit	StopOutlining
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+T	Edit	CollapseTag
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+U	Edit	StopHidingCurrent
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+P	Edit	PasteParameterTip
Ctrl+PgDn	Edit	ViewBottom
Ctrl+Shift+PgDn	Edit	ViewBottomExtend
PgDn	Edit	PageDown
Shift+PgDn	Edit	PageDownExtend
Ctrl+PgUp	Edit	ViewTop
Ctrl+Shift+PgUp	Edit	ViewTopExtend
PgUp	Edit	PageUp
Shift+PgUp	Edit	PageUpExtend
Ctrl+R, Ctrl+W	Edit	ViewWhiteSpace
Ctrl+Right Arrow	Edit	WordNext
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Right Arrow	Edit	WordNextExtendColumn
Ctrl+Shift+Right Arrow	Edit	WordNextExtend
Shift+Alt+Right Arrow	Edit	CharRightExtendColumn
Ctrl+Shift+Space	Edit	ParameterInfo
Ctrl+Space	Edit	CompleteWord
Ctrl+Shift+T	Edit	WordTranspose
Ctrl+T	Edit	CharTranspose
Shift+Alt+T	Edit	LineTranspose
Ctrl+Shift+U	Edit	MakeUppercase
Ctrl+U	Edit	MakeLowercase
Ctrl+Up Arrow	Edit	ScrollLineUp
Shift+Alt+Up Arrow	Edit	LineUpExtendColumn
Ctrl+W	Edit	SelectCurrentWord
VC Accelerator Editor
Ins	Edit	NewAccelerator
Ctrl+W	Edit	NextKeyTyped
VC Dialog Editor
Ctrl+B	Format	ButtonBottom
Ctrl+D	Format	TabOrder
Ctrl+Shift+Down Arrow	Format	AlignBottoms
Shift+F7	Format	SizetoContent
Ctrl+F9	Format	CenterVertical
Ctrl+Shift+F9	Format	CenterHorizontal
F9	Format	AlignMiddles
Shift+F9	Format	AlignCenters
Ctrl+G	Format	ToggleGuides
Ctrl+Left Arrow	Edit	ScrollColumnLeft
Ctrl+Shift+Left Arrow	Format	AlignLefts
Ctrl+M	Format	CheckMnemonics
Ctrl+R	Format	ButtonRight
Alt+Right Arrow	Format	SpaceAcross
Ctrl+Right Arrow	Edit	ScrollColumnRight
Ctrl+Shift+Right Arrow	Format	AlignRights
Ctrl+T	Format	TestDialog
Alt+Up Arrow	Format	SpaceDown
Ctrl+Shift+Up Arrow	Format	AlignTops
VC Image Editor
Ctrl+-	Image	SmallerBrush
Ctrl+Shift+,	Image	ZoomOut
Ctrl+.	Image	SmallBrush
Ctrl+Shift+.	Image	ZoomIn
Ctrl+[	Image	PreviousColor
Ctrl+Shift+[	Image	PreviousRightColor
Ctrl+]	Image	NextColor
Ctrl+Shift+]	Image	NextRightColor
Ctrl+=	Image	LargerBrush
Ctrl+A	Image	AirbrushTool
Ctrl+B	Image	BrushTool
Ctrl+F	Image	FillTool
Ctrl+H	Image	FlipHorizontal
Ctrl+Shift+H	Image	Rotate90Degrees
Shift+Alt+H	Image	FlipVertical
Ctrl+I	Image	PencilTool
Ctrl+Shift+I	Image	EraseTool
Ins	Image	NewImageType
Ctrl+J	Image	DrawOpaque
Ctrl+L	Image	LineTool
Ctrl+M	Image	MagnificationTool
Ctrl+Shift+M	Image	Magnify
Alt+P	Image	EllipseTool
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+P	Image	FilledEllipseTool
Shift+Alt+P	Image	OutlinedEllipseTool
Alt+R	Image	RectangleTool
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R	Image	FilledRectangleTool
Shift+Alt+R	Image	OutlinedRectangleTool
Ctrl+Alt+S	Image	ShowGrid
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S	Image	ShowTileGrid
Shift+Alt+S	Image	RectangleSelectionTool
Ctrl+T	Image	TextTool
Ctrl+Shift+U	Image	CopyandOutlineSelection
Ctrl+U	Image	UseSelectionasBrush
Alt+W	Image	RoundedRectangleTool
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+W	Image	FilledRoundedRectangleTool
Shift+Alt+W	Image	OutlinedRoundedRectangleTool
VC String Editor
Ins	Edit	NewString
View Designer
Ctrl+1	QueryDesigner	Diagram
Ctrl+2	QueryDesigner	Criteria
Ctrl+3	QueryDesigner	SQL
Ctrl+4	QueryDesigner	Results
Ctrl+G	QueryDesigner	GotoRow
Ctrl+Shift+J	QueryDesigner	JoinMode
Ctrl+R	QueryDesigner	ExecuteSQL
Ctrl+T	QueryDesigner	CancelRetrievingData
WebBrowser
Alt+Down Arrow	Help	Nexttopic
Alt+Up Arrow	Help	Previoustopic
Windows Forms Designer
End	Edit	DocumentEnd
Shift+End	Edit	DocumentEndExtend
Home	Edit	DocumentStart
Shift+Home	Edit	DocumentStartExtend
XML Editor Schema View
Ctrl+-	Schema	Collapse
Ctrl+=	Schema	Expand

Developer Resources

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Here's a list of helpful resources for programming in general but also Web specific programming. Please add references that you find useful here.

General Programming Resources

Microsoft Patterns and Practices Developer Center Home
Data and Object Factory (for design patterns)
Code Project (There are great articles here, but some are also naive articles, so just because they say do something this way, does not mean it's the best way)
OdeToCode.com
String Formatting in C#
ConnectionStrings.com

Web Programming Specific Resources

4 Guys from Rolla
ASP.NET Client-Side Reference
SitePoint.com CSS Reference
ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit
ui-patterns.com (design patterns for GUIs, this is great for increasing usability of a site)
IISAdmin.NET (run multiple web sites off of IIS in WinXP Pro. In a nutshell you can switch what localhost points to)

Blogs

Learn Dash Ajax Dot Com

Fix for Infragistics Web Grid Row Multi-Select on a Mac

Awesome Video

Internet Explorer's Infamous Operation Aborted Error

Google Chrome... I Love It!

Microsoft's Doloto and IBM's EGL

IE8 Blocker, Download It!

AjaxControlToolkit CascadingDropDown Issue with FireBug

Pretty Print for FogBugz Greasemonkey Script

Google's Tip Jar

FireScope FireFox Add-On

"Drag Everything", My Latest Greasemonkey Script

Learning AJAX APIs Made Easier: Google Releases API Playground

Greasemonkey Script for Pre-Fetching Page Content

Greasemonkey Script for Outlining Inputs like Safari/Chrome

Web Site Performance Tips

IBM's XML Challenge

My AJAX Ramblings/Rant

JavaScript Jobs

Ubiquity for FireFox

Download FireFox 3 to Break a Guiness World Record

GWAP

My Latest CodeProject.com Article

My First CodeProject.com Article

Visual Studio .NET 2005 Keyboard Shortcuts

Class Diagram

DataSet Editor

Deployment Designer

Global

HTML Editor Design View

HTML Editor Source View

Managed Resources Editor

Report Designer

Settings Designer

Text Editor

VC Accelerator Editor

VC Dialog Editor

VC Image Editor

VC String Editor

View Designer

WebBrowser

Windows Forms Designer

XML Editor Schema View

Developer Resources