Recently I've passed last exam required to obtain Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer. Now I'm fully certified in web development in .NET framework. That wasn't my first meeting with exams from Microsoft and because of that I want to leave some comments about them. First of all I must say that preparation for some of them took me more time than I thought. That's because exams are testing knowledge in a very detailed way. In my opinion sometimes in too detailed way. Of course they should be diffic...

Developers are mostly lazy. Nobody wants to do the same things every day. Doing the same activities can be very boring and non productive. Of course modern IDE should have multiple funcionalities that can improve speed of coding and development but it's really hard to satisfy all users at once. Below I present my favourite extensions to Visual Studio 2010. Working without them would be much slower and frustrating. This set isn't focused mainly to any of the Visual Studio project type but I've been usi...

Recently Microsoft did something really interesting. Everybody knows that Internet Explorer (especially older versions) shouldn't be even called a browser. But still Microsoft Windows is the most popular operating system used commercially and so their browser is. Every web developer  knows that making something to work on the IE is really challenging task. Microsoft learned a lesson in couple of recent years and wanted to repair their image in that field. Internet Explorer 9 and 10 aren't the best browse...