INSPIONS Inc

In one of our Projects we needed to display the build date of the Web application on a web page.   There are other ways like using a custom build task to generate this information but we just used a small tweak based on the way Assembly Version information is filled in, to extract the build date and time. 

Just replace the build and revision numbers in AssemblyVersion in AssemblyInfo.cs with ‘*’. So VS will fill in the build date (as number of days from 1/1/2000) and time as seconds elapsed from midnight. Now go and extract date and time from this info.

We always do clean and full builds, so this always reflects the build date/time for all pages.  May not be a perfect solution but it serves our purpose.

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This is pretty cool online show application built  on Silverlight technologies. Silverlight streaming video, excellent typography, really cool art work,  slick animations and tons of relevant content synchronized with the video.

http://everybodysbusiness.msn.com/ 

Content all spread out nicely.

Here is a great opportunity to learn more about Silverlight. A FULL day FREE Fire Starter Event on Silverlight on 2nd Dec 2010.  Great news is that the event is streamed online so you can watch from anywhere in the world.  Register for the event here.

Groupon‘s Unsubscribe screen asks you to ‘Punish’ a team member that recommended Email Subscriptions whenever you unsubscribe to those Email notifications.

Nice, personal, playful and bring you back to interacting with their site, even after you decided to go away. Loved it.

Just noticed that with Windows Live Essentials 2011 upgrade, Windows Live Writer also gets Ribbon style interface that became so famous and productive with MS Office applications.

If you have been using WLW for a while but haven’t used any MS Office applications that feature ribbon style interface, you are in for a big surprise and little bit of confusion. 

If you are looking for all your Picture effects, they are split into two different sections: borders and effects. Click on Image to make these Picture tools/Format section visible.