Speed up Visual Studio

Visual studio started dragging(became slow) after I added AJAX control toolkit to environment. Did not know the solution until I discovered blog post from Steve Wellens.



Tools->Options->Windows Forms Designer->General

How to add sitemap to microsoft office live small business

This is an exclusive posts for those who wish to search engine optimize your

"Microsoft office live small business account"

For over an year now my company website was not listed in Google or even Bing then I discovered that my site map is missing in and even Bing requires it.

I generated my own site map and converted to XML and then uploaded it to Office gallery.

Please check this post for more details on adding your website to Google

How to add site map to Officelive

This procedure applies for Bing as well. Good luck

IE8 flicker fix

IE8 Flickers when scrolling fix.

IE8 Flickering starts after an update applied from Intel for motherboard 82945G.

• I tried with Microsoft answers but did not work though the recommendations are for removing the IE Addins.
• There is another thread from super user that also says that there are some issues with flash on 32-bit IE 8 in Windows 7 64-bit. I did uninstall flash .

Ultimately I understood that a recent update for Intel motherboard drivers 82945G from Intel created the IE8 Flickering.



I used the mother board driver from Microsoft instead of Intel and it solved the issue

Device Manager > select the Graphics card > Update Driver > Browse my computer for driver software > Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer > Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation – WDDM 1.0)