Software Blog: Helpful Tools

If you're like me you use Outlook all day, every day to manage not only email, but tasks, appointments, contacts and more. And now that I have a Windows Phone 7, I am more in sync than ever. Having come from years of the travesty days of Windows Mobile, I can honestly say it's finally a fantastic time to be fully on the Microsoft stack!

My Kingdom for a Task Manager

That being said, one thing that continues to be severely (and confusingly) lacking is the support for synchronizing tasks from Outlook to Windows Phone. There is no official or ...

As part of the migration of my website from Sitefinity 3, I updated both the Url format for pages (now extensionless) and blog posts (also extensionless and different format) for better readability and SEO. This of course would leave a wake of broken links and search results linking to the old Urls.

There are many options available to resolve this, such as ...

I was doing some coding today when I discovered something very slick about Telerik's JustCode tool I just had to share.

I needed to add a property to a class, and my coding style puts private properties and their public accessors in separate #regions. I added the private member to the "Private Properties" region, and decided to let Just Code stub it out for me, expecting it to generate the public property directly beneath my private variable. I figured I would just copy and paste it into the appropriate region.

Imagine my surprise when instead of generating the code beneath ...

As part of the process of preparing the Sitefinity Toolkit 1.1 update for release later this weekend, I needed to upgrade my sites to the latest Sitefinity SP3 update.

For those of you who've done this, you know it's MOSTLY a simple process, but can get tricky when copying the /Sitefinity folder files, because, like me, many of you probably customize or modify these files to meet your needs. Sitefinity addresses a lot of this by supporting external templates, but sometimes it's easier to just edit the files directly.

However, this becomes a problem with every SP release because these ...