Internet Explorer 10 Preview: download the testdrive

IE10 is available for download: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

Here is it:

Lot of Demos, Developer Information etc. User Guide is here: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Info/UserGuide/

Developer Tools are already included and can be launched as usual: F12. As expected, browser compatibility mode 10 has been added:

Useful: main menu –> Report Issue –> Run IE Diagnostics. Displays a lot of info about current system and provides 2 protocol options - network and process activity:

The results are written in a cab file.

“Microsoft continues HTML5 commitment and leadership with the first platform preview of Internet Explorer 10.” (from here)

IE10 expected to be delivered also for tablets, in perspective probably also for Windows Phone devices.

While there is no support for Windows Vista and older, this preview version does install and run side-by-side with IE9 on the Win7 with all most recent updates and fixes – at least on my machine. The public updates are expected to be available every 12 weeks.

Download and enjoy the exploring of IE10!

Troubleshooting Firefox 4 and delicious bookmarks

If you used delicious bookmarks with FF 3.x and recently updated FF to the version 4.0, you’ll be negatively surprised, the delicious toolbar is not displayed anymore: the delicious bookmarks add-on isn’t yet officially compatible to FF 4.0.

The found solution (here in german: http://wordpress.kendaric.net/2011/03/17/delicious-plugin-im-firefox-4-nutzen/) described the steps to solve the problem:

1. Start FF and navigate to “about:support”
2. Click “Open containing folder”
   
   
3. Navigate in the newly opened explorer window to subfolder “extensions\{2fa4ed95-0317-4c6a-a74c-5f3e3912c1f9}”:
   
   
4. Open install.rdf and find the line with “em:maxVersion”
   
   
5. Change the value to “4.0”
   
   
6. Save the file and restart FF.
   
7. Enjoy!
   

Display last “build completed” time in Visual Studio 2008/2010

The build process in VS08/10 doesn’t display by default the timestamp of the “build completed”:

We use following post-build event setting:

[your code if necessary]
  echo build completed
  time /t

This generates a timestamp in output window displaying the time when the build was completed:

So you can see if you are dealing with most recent build.

Enjoy!

Turn on anonymous access for Sharepoint 2010 Site

Excellent description:
http://blog.drisgill.com/2009/11/sp2010-branding-tip-9-turn-on-anonymous.html

also here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-foundation-help/grant-permissions-to-anonymous-users-HA101805390.aspx

Follow the instructions and enjoy!