Cheap programming books at Borders

Hi all, Just a FYI, I was at Borders today (killing time in Geelong), and they had a heap of programming books for $5 each: many of the latest or "2008"/3.5 stuff as well as other programming books. I grabbed half a dozen for myself; just hope my kindle will forgive me ;) Anyway, not sure if it i

RE: Skilling Up

I also found reading expert's way of coding and structuring program saves me a lot of time. I went to http://www.codeplex.com/ It help me lot when learning WPF. David -Original Message- From: silky [mailto:noonsli...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 2:03 PM To: ozdotnet@ozdo

Re: Skilling Up

> Any particular user groups that you would recommend? Come to MXUG next week: https://groups.google.com/group/mxug?hl=en&pli=1 There is also datamelb tonight: http://groups.google.com/group/datamelb As for getting started; it's obvious, but just find something you want to do, and try and do it.

RE: Skilling Up

Thanks David, I am creating a Virtual Image right now to start toying around with Silverlight again. I usually struggle to think of ideas to do sample projects myself, but for the moment I have some ideas that can link with what I do at work. Simon Kuldin | Senior Technical Consultant

Re: Spell check

I have just noticed that in learning WPF, that the TextBox an RichTextBox have "out of the box" spell checking. Not sure if this is of any use to you but if it is, check out http://www.wpftutorial.net/TextBox.html Have not used this (found it by chance) so cannot say how good it is. Regards Pet

Re: Spell check

I've used Keyoti Rapid Spell checker but only with WinForms (http://keyoti.com ). It also has versions for WPF and ASP.NET (also Java if your that way inclined). Allows spell checking of standard controls and also a number of vendor UI control sets. Its the only cross vendo

RE: Spell check

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Re: Spell check

More context please. For visual studio (if so, which version)? For ASP.NET(and if so, which version)? For WinForms? For WPF? For Silverlight? For Windows Mobile? Compact Framework? Does it need to run on mono? Do you need to be able to customize the dictionary? What languages does it need to suppor

RE: Spell check

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RE: Skilling Up

I like WPF and silver light. I think they are the future. But HTML5 might introduce something else. to my knowledge, there are not many jobs for them at the moment - maybe in the future I hope. I think most programmer can learn .NET, C# easily. Since the .NET is huge, it is good to learn the

RE: Spell check

We wrote our own that uses Word's dictionary to spell check fields in web forms. It wasn't difficult, if I recall correctly. Obviously, applicability depends on target audience, and it was written at the time of Word 2003 and IE 6 (though it still seems to function.) I can dig up source code if

Spell check

Hi All Can anyone recommend a spellchecker add in Thanks Kirsten