Mucking about more and more with jQuery now that’s it’s pretty much become the industry standard, so I needed a little project to work on. I’ve previously created my online c.v. in a Silverlight4 app (must dig that out and add it to the site); this time I decided to stay clear of any server side tech. and do everything client side.

So I decided to use jQueryUI  http://jqueryui.com/ for a few UX components; first step was to create some tabs.

Creating tabs:

Now if you look at jQueryUI samples for tabs you’ll see something like this.

        <div id="tabs">

            <ul>

                <li><a href="#tabs-1">First</a></li>

                <li><a href="#tabs-2">Second</a></li>

                <li><a href="#tabs-3">Third</a></li>

            </ul>

            <div id="tabs-1">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et .</div>

            <div id="tabs-2">Phasellus mattis tincidunt nibh. Cras orci urna, blandit id, pretium vel, aliquet ornare, felis. .</div>

            <div id="tabs-3">Nam dui erat, auctor a, dignissim quis, sollicitudin eu, felis. Pellentesque nisi urna, interdum eget.</div>

        </div>

Now this is all well and good, but I’ve never been one for dumping a load of html/c#/javascript etc onto my page, maybe it’s my c++ beginnings etc that causes me to look for a structured solution, but whatever it is, I decided to put the content of each tab into a separate web page.

Here’s how:

• Create your webpages
  
  

• Load your content into the tab divs (I’ve just done this after the DOM is loaded with jQuery, I may lazy load other pages…)

<script type="text/javascript">

    $(function(){                        

        // Init the tab control with jQuery 

        $('#tabs').tabs();

        // Load the first page

        $('#tabs-1').load('ResumeTabs/Personal.htm');                    

    });

</script>

That’s it, pretty impressive ey… (that or I’m just easily impressed)

In a visual studio 2010 asp page, start typing

<script src=

You’ll get presented with the following screen.

Choose the Pick URL … option and you’ll be presented with the following screen

I think you’ll figure out the rest

Hi all.

I've discovered this is not as simple as it would appear to be.
Infact it's worse; in "order" to do this you will need to jump through a few hoops...; in a particular order!

1. Add an activity library project
2. Add a reference to this new project from your WF4 app (any app with workflows.. silverlight/mvc etc)
    ENSURE: this is done before step 3 or visual studio 2010 will give you a circular reference error!
3. In the activity library add the service reference to your webservice
4. Modify your webconfig file to contain the abc information for the connection (servicemodel stuff)
5. Now use the activities (from the toolbox)

I gather from crawling through google that the above sequence is already well defined as a workaround for the vs2010 bug.

Take some time to explore the new vs2010 debugger.

Those of you to have experience with multithreading know that it can be a right old PIA (and i'm not talking Primary interop assembly here!).

Try the parallel tasks/stacks in vs2010 and see just how valuable a friend they become :-)

In recent times, CPU clock speeds have stagnated and manufacturers have shifted their focus to increasing core counts.
This is problematic for us as programmers because our standard single-threaded code will not automatically run faster as a result of those extra cores.

Spend some time investigating the new Tasks in .net 4.0