Did you here you can now use messenger directly in Facebook?

It's an interesting Facebook application developed by Microsoft that uses the Windows Live APIs, Presence APIs  and the Facebook API to enable integration between Facebook and the live messenger networks.

It means that you can view the interconnection between your Facebook and messenger networks, allowing you to import Facebook contacts into messenger and visa versa. It also enables users to anonymously send messages to your messenger account without logging in.

To be honest its popularity will be limited due to the recent Facebook chat application and the CAPTCHA requirements when chatting but it is an interesting and thought provoking application none the less.

The video below around 16 minutes in, explains how Microsoft integrated their ASP.net application with Facebook, going into detail about the frameworks and APIs that they used. An interesting watch for anyone, like me, that's new to Facebook development.

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=401437

If you Integers are displaying as hexadecimals (funny letters) then you've probably switched on the hexadecimal display option in your watch window.

You need to debug a project, open up the watch window: Debug > Windows > Watch 1 then right click on an entry and untick 'hexidecimal display'.

I hate it when your using an IDE and something stops working, finding a fix can be like hunting around for a needle in a hay stack.

Today I faced the above problem; I've faced this problem twice before, it seems to happen once every year or so. I always forget that the fix isn't in the options menu and hopefully by blogging it, next time the solution will be a simple search away.

I got my MCAD through today finally. I'm now a fully paid up drinker of the Kool Aid!

I always thought that to use  another companies trademark in Google's Adsense was against Google terms and conditions? It's at the very least a little immoral. Come on adobe... play fair.

Silverlight - Google Search

Note: Details on how to win (£50/$100) are in the last paragraph

If I talk to an American I generally understand what their saying they have different sayings, different references and different ways of spelling but 99% of the time I understand everything they say first time around. I've found if your exposed for a week to a dialect, your ear adjusts and before you know it you can pull off a half decent impersonation.

That's precisely the same for VB.net and C#;  although technically they're different languages they're actually just different accents of the same language. However it still surprises be how many people (including some developers) still see VB.net and C# as completely different languages. If you are a VB.net programmer to any reasonable level then you are one week of syntax study away from being a C# developer at the same level and visa versa.

I've been thinking of setting up a community that helps developers realize how easy it is to transition between VB.net and C#, does anyone fancy helping me develop it? Leave your details in the comments or email me at martin@thewayithink.co.uk if you do. If you have a decent idea for a domain name (check it's available) then post it up here too, I'll pay the winner £50.