As a developer, you create many projects and open many more third party projects files over the course of your development career. In doing so however, your “Recent Projects” sidebar in the startpage in VS 2008 becomes cluttered with some things that end up being temporary anyways. Here’s how to clean it up: Open regedit. Navigate through the registry to this spot: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ProjectMRUList and you’ll see a list that looks similar to this: File1 Reg_Expand_Sx Path File2 Reg_Expand_Sx Path File3 Reg_Expand_Sx Path File4 Reg_Expand_Sx Path You need to delete the values you don’t want, and then rename all the remaining

For all of you vista users... are you sick of this? Chances are, you are; for Vista throws up security prompts for the all programs they classify as a security risk. I know I get pretty frustrated at times, and I’m considered an “Administrator” of my own machine. Here’s a helpful link to make those prompts disappear. HTH -Kennydust

This is a follow up on a prior post I've made a few months back on XQuery, with the purpose of this post to just show a few more examples on how powerful XML and XQuery can be -- with no additional overhead costs.  If implemented correctly, you can even get better performance gains; but I'll possibly discuss that in a future offering. For this segment, I wanted to document the common usages I've come across lately, and refer to it later on as a refresher. Example 1: So, you've got xml data, and the structure looks as such: key1 value1

Facebook is stretching their limits of their social reach beyond the web, and onto your iphone. Now, custom apps can be facebook aware, and allow for iphone owners to log-in to facebook, leveraging the facebook connect service. For those of you who are not familiar with facebook connect, the original offering was web based only; conceived sometime last year and it allowed any web site to have some user integration with facebook, while allowing access to it's social features via it's API and proprietary markup language. Now with an iPhone offering, it gives the user more reason to stay on the very popular social