I recently completed a small series on the Spark View Engine for DimeCasts.net. The first episode “Saying Hello to the Spark View Engine” has been posted. If this interests you be sure to check this blog or DimeCasts.net for new episodes.

Unfortunately most presenters do not think about font size until about 10 _after_ they show code to an audience. Its usually followed by the confirmation question from the presenter that goes something like this: “Hey, can you guys see the code?”

Most of the time the answer is… “No, bigger font please … ”. 2 minutes later the font is larger, but usually its only the code editor window. What about the solution explorer, output window, menu’s, etc? Nope, it is still an 8pt font that strains your audiences eyes.

Big Font to the Rescue

I have a Visual Studio Settings file that I call “WowThatsABigFont.vssettings” that I use when I’m presenting. I’m going to attach to this post so you can use it in the future.

Here is what it looks like (click to see full res picture):

These settings are at 16 pt Lucinda Console (for most everything) and 14pt Consolas for the environment.

 

You have no idea how much this improves your presentation. People can read the screen! This coupled with ZoomIt makes it super easy on your audiences eyes.

Enjoy.

 

Download

WowThatsABigFont.vssettings (~375kb)

I’ve got another Dime Cast up here. The theme of this Dime Cast is Learning how to consume a WCF Service.

 

View the Dime Cast here.

I recently created a small 10 minute recording on how to create a WCF RESTful service. This screen cast has been published on Dime Casts .NET here. This is part 1 of the series in which I go into how to create a WebGet based WCF RESTful service. This screen cast is a video extension of the post I wrote here.  At a high level, this screen cast is an introduction to the RESTful capabilities of WCF. In another future (yet to be recorded) Dime Cast I will go into how to utilize WebInvoke attribute to perform POST operations against the REST web service.

 

Click here to watch, or click on the image below.