Archive for September, 2009

Visual Studio 2010

September 1st, 2009

Scott Guthrie has a very informative series about Visual Studio 2010 over on his web site.  Today’s article is about enhanced multi-monitor support in VS 2010.  I have only had a chance to use VS 2010 in a virtual machine, and have not had a chance to take the multi-monitor stuff mentioned in his article for a test drive.  It does look very cool.

Something I am particularly interested in is support for varying numbers of monitors.  At work I have a dual 19″ monitor display rig.  At home I remote into my desktop from my single-monitor 17″ laptop.  I occasionally have trouble with windows displaying correctly when I remote in. particularly using Visual Studio 2008 with tool boxes that are on the second monitor.  In VS 2010, window settings are kept in the local user file for the project, so if nothing else one should be able to move off-screen windows on-screen with a little text editing.  I am interested to see what kind of built-in support VS 2010 will have to detect that the second monitor is not present in this type of situation.  If it doesn’t auto-detect, it might now be easy to build a tool to edit the user file, or swap out user files.

What if Marvel influences Disney, and not the other way around?

September 1st, 2009

B & BThroughout geekdom yesterday a panic spread over the purchase of Marvel by Disney.  Would we soon see IronMan and the Seven Dwarfs or The Little Mer-Hulk?  Artist Jeffrey Thomas takes a different approach.  What if Disney is influenced by Marvel the same way they have got a good swift kick in the butt by clearly superior animators Pixar?

This is my favorite, his new Marvelized rendition of Beauty and the Beast.  Click through for more, excellent art work.