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Microsoft WebMatrix is intended to serve the website creation, customisation and publication needs of designers and amateurs, and not as a substitute for Visual Studio or other professional development tools. As a professional developer, I can see why it might appeal to its target audience, but I can't stand to use it myself for more than 15 minutes at a time. Rick Grehan's  preview of WebMatrix  in November covered most of the product features well, so I won't repeat his descriptions and analysis. Since then, a few features and gallery items have been added, which I'll discuss as I go along. I've included a handful of screen images at the end of the article. Rick picked on the weakness of the editor and the lack of a debugger, and until I worked with the product myself, I didn't understand how kind he was in the way he phrased his objections. After spending time with WebMatrix, I know otherwise. By choosing the WordPress framework, for example

Introduction This is a quick step by step guide to help all .Net developers to take advantage of the new features of Windows 7. What you will Need   Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework Can be downloaded from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack Minimum .NET Framework version required is 3.5 SP1. A Windows 7 machine. Getting Ready   You will need to compile the Windows API Code Pack Dlls, after extracting the WindowsAPICodePack.zip file open the WindowsAPICodePack.sln located inside the WindowsAPICodePack folder and Build the solution this will produce the following Dlls * Core * Shell (Note : it depends on the Core project ) you will need to add a Reference to them in your applications. Compatibility with Different Versions of Windows   the application will crash and exit if for example a feature exclusive to windows 7 was called and it was running under a windows vista or a windows XP environment. so to prevent your  a

Dream to test your ‘photoshopping’ skills? Or may be wondering how to get hold of Free CAD software legally, or may be burn discs without resorting to piracy? Some of the answers are here. I will list top 10 free or open source software that are good alternatives to paid software.   Adobe PhotoShop to GIMP It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything.   WinZip to 7-Zip Open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Formats 7z , ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR are supported fully, other formats can be unpacked. Internet Explorer to Google Chrome I need not say anything about this. CuteFTP to Filezilla This free, open-source FTP application is handy if you're looking for a solid tool to handle FTP transfers Mic

Windows 7 by default has only few themes available for customization. But you can themes for Windows 7 which are actually hidden. These themes are available for certain regional countries such as Australia, Canada, Great Britain, United States and South Africa. You can unveil them easily. 1. Open Windows Explorer and click Organize 2. Select Folder and Search Options and navigate to the View tab. 3. Select Show hidden files, folders and drivers and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended). Click Yes, if prompted for confirmation. 4. Click OK and now browse to the folder: C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT Considering C: to be your Windows Drive. 5. There are five folders here with the name with format MCT-XX (where XX is AU, CA, GB, US, or ZA ) which represents globalization settings for each region. Go into the folder that you want to activate its theme. Note that AU, CA and ZA regions have the same themes. 6. Open the Theme folder inside the selected re