Today, Microsoft revealed details about the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2005, complete with price information and target release windows.
Design Matters in Our Visual Culture
First impressions often leave lasting impressions. Impressions also result in people’s perceptions. There goes that age-old debate — “Perception versus Reality.” I say that perception is someone’s impression of reality. And sometimes… no matter what is reality, you just can’t change people’s perception of a situation or thing.
Xamlon Beta Brings Together XAML and Microsoft Visual Studio.NET
Xamlon announced today a new beta release of its cutting-edge development tool, Xamlon.
The Powerful Sales Letter Visual Impact Technique!
Imagine sitting down at your computer, and with a few keystrokes, creating a stronger sales letter that immediately captures your prospects attention, creates a visual image in their mind of them having great success with your product, and then gets them so fired-up about your offer that you nearly close the sale in two or three paragraphs. In a moment, I’ll show you exactly how you can do this for your sales letter.
Beginning Resource Files in Visual Basic
Have you ever wanted to use graphics, such as icons, bitmaps, cursors, and AVI files? How about sound or even message box text? This can be an enormous amount of overhead. These are all examples of more files to keep track of when you distribute an application, DLL, or OCX. Lets find out how resource files can help….
Using Network Functions in Visual C#.NET (Part II – Group Functions)
Welcome to the second installment of articles on how to use Platform Invoke to manage users and groups using Visual C#.NET (Click here to read Part I).
Check Your Site For Visual Balance
This is a peer review of Inf-inet.com by Rob Wiley of www.nadmedia.net.
Before diving right in, lets break this down into three steps. The first thing I do when visiting a site is look at the site’s index page at a glance. That involves taking the approach of squinting your eyes and only viewing shapes, checking the page for balance.
Monitoring a print queue from Visual Basic.Net
Although the VB.Net printer handling has improved immeasurably over that offered by Visual Basic 6 there is still a need to turn to the Windows API in order to monitor a print queue.
Take A Visual Trip To Your Golden Place
Ah, traveling to the Golden Place. A veritable visual voyage. How lovely it is going to this beautiful, magical place where you can just relax and forget about your cares…
Damashi Peer Review – Visual Design Problems
The biggest problems with the Damashi web site are visual. (And the fact that I couldn’t access the shopping cart due to 404 – Object Not Found errors.) The site contains a distinct market niche of which the owners are clearly experts. The products are logically organized, and combination specials are displayed when a user views either of the components. Normally I am not in favor of alphabetical listings of products, but in this case the listing is not overwhelmingly long enough to make a negative impact.