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MvcContrib version control has moved to GitHub

MvcContribs version control is now managed on GitHub.com. Thanks to Jeremy Skinner for doing the work necessary to move the Subversion repository. Thanks to Eric Hexter for reconfiguring the TeamCity build to work with GitHub and publish artifacts to teamcity.codebetter.com. Jeremy also has a tutorial for how to work with GitHub. http://MvcContrib.org continues to be the main URL for the project. It currently directs to CodePlex for all SCM except for version control. What... Did you know
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Windows 7 and a Quick Launch Toolbar

I installed Windows 7 this week after my Vista installation finally started going really whacky while I was in Europe. All things considered Vista has been good the previous install lasted nearly 2 1/2 years without a repave which is more than any OS Ive had ever had installed before. The Windows 7 install went fairly smooth for me no install problems although I screwed myself royally doing an upgrade from Vista using an RC build instead of final! Duh! In the end I reinstalled from scratch an
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OpenId Part One: A Friend of A Friend

Authenticating someones identity has been a persistent challenge throughout history. How can you trust that someone is who they say they are? Hence the FBI agent flashing her badge, the ancient king brandishing his magical sword, and the long lost relative regaling you with stories of the old times. Authentication is a two way street. It is in your interest to know who youre dealing with to not get taken advantage of. It is in the other partys interest to make sure no one else is using their
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gift of healing

is the gift of healing still operating today? who is the healer? how do we pray for healing?some people says that when you sin, you do not have the authority to make healing manifest. is it true?if it is not true, then how do we pray for healing?pastor prince talks about healing.this audio plays well ...Related posts:I hate Internet ExplorerFireFox 3 with Silverlight =
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SQLAuthority News SQL Server 2008 Migration White Papers

Quite often I get project when I am asked to migrate different database to SQL Server. Microsoft has excellent white papers written for this series.Guide to Migrating from MySQL to SQL Server 2008In this migration guide you will learn the differences between the MySQL and SQL Server 2008 database platforms, and the steps necessary to [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories inc
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Interesting Finds: August 22, 2009

Other What Wolfram Alpha Really Did This Summer: Struck A Deal With Bing. , Erick Schonfeld 10 tips to integrate CodeSmith into your processes , Tim Stall Let It Fail Naturally , Jason Bock TabStudio add-in for Visual Studio , Tim Heuer .NET Reflector Support: Why does .NET Reflector auto-update itself? and .NET Reflector Support: Is it possible to sort the list of assemblies? , Bart Read Type.FullName returning null in the wrong situations? , Dave Box
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Water Soluble Bikini Really Works, Is Still A Cruel Prank [Bikini]

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Qik iPhone Video Sharing App Now Allows For Video Uploads Over 3G on iPhone [Iphone 3gs]

MINI brings roadside assistance into the 21st century with mobile app

Drive a MINI? Have an iPhone or Blackberry? Well then, you are in luck my friend. MINI has recently released a free app, MINI Roadside Assistance , to better assist its customers in times of need. Should your street legal go-kart break down, be involved in an accident, blow a tire, or suffer some other incident while you are out motoring, MINI Roadside Assistance will use your device
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BLinq - Linq to Bing Search APIs

As part of validating and playing with some of the extensibility features in .NET RIA Services, I needed to write a LINQ provider. This was also a good opportunity to delve into some of the deeper technical aspects of the IQueryable construct, expression trees and related concepts, which I had not gotten into first-hand until now. For my prototyping, I decided to write a LINQ provider for querying Bing to search for pages and images. This post will focus on using the LINQ provider itself, and se
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SQLAuthority News Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online

SQL Server 2008, the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform. Books Online is the primary documentation for SQL Server 2008.Books Online includes the following types of information:Setup and upgrade instructions.Information about new features and backward compatibility.Conceptual descriptions of the technologies and features in SQL Server 2008.Procedural topics describing how to [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written
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Devscovery 2009 Redmond follow-up

During my CLR/BCL/C# 4.0 talk, a few people asked me questions for which I didn
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TUAW Guide: Setting up the Ultimate Mac mini Home Theater

Filed under: Multimedia , Software , How-tos , Mac mini , Apple TV The Mac mini has always been the perfect form factor for a media center appliance (often called a Home Theater PC/HTPC). It's extremely small, almost completely silent and it can easily blend into an existing electronics shelf - or be hidden away completely. The lack of a refresh (and rumors that the line was going to be discontinued), coupled with technical specs that didn't justify the price-point, have led many
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BBGeekcast: August 21, 2009 - Episode 78

After a week of not generating many headlines, RIM is back in a big way. They
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The Official Round-Up from Nitrome

For those of you who didn
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Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/19/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.
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MSN Toolbar 4

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Great timing! PHP toolkit for Astoria, err, ADO.NET Data Service

Yesterday I blogged that my client is writing a PHP app that hits an Astoria service that I built for them. He
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Hungry for More Info on Exchange 2010? Try some Learning Snacks!

Microsoft Learning has created a series of Learning Snacks to help satisfy your hunger for more knowledge. Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning experts. Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos. At the end of each free presentation, you can view more Snacks, learn more about the topic, or visit a related Web site. Check out t
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Balder: A Silverlight 3 Managed 3D Engine Optimized for Multicore

Silverlight 3 doesn't offer native support for loading and rendering 3D models. However, Balder offers a very complete managed 3D engine for Silverlight 3. It achieved the necessary frame rate taking advantage of Silverlight's threading capabilities.
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Watch the NFL live in HD thanks to Silverlight

NBC has partnered again with NFL to stream the NFL Sunday Night Football games live through Silverlight with IIS Smooth streaming at 720p HD quality. Starting on 10th September, you
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Windows4all.com moves to Silverlight 3.

Windows4all is an online virtual operating system. It is is a website that simulates an operating system inside your web browser. You can launch applications right away without installation. This project has now moved form Silverlight 2 to Silverlight 3. Right click on its desktop and it will give you 2 options : (a) Silverlight Settings and [...]
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Take a Tour of Online Virtual Operating System Build in Microsoft Silverlight

Do you want to take a tour of a virtual OS which doesn't need to install? Just type the URL in your web browser, hit the Enter and enjoy the virtual OS. Our friend "Vikram Pendse" shared this excellent piece of information. Windows4All is a website which provides a virtual operating system build in Microsoft Silverlight. It [...] [ This is a content summary only. Visit AskVG.com for full article. ] Read More Articles | Subscribe to AskVG Newsletter | Advertise | Contact Us | About
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 23: Azure

Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff. Azure represents a general trend in the industry towards a cloud computing model. As much as I love the development phase of projects, the operations side...(read more)
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Sunday Night Football - Powered by Silverlight

Today is a wildly exciting day for Silverlight and all football fans! NBC announced that this fall, Silverlight together with IIS Smooth Streaming, will power full HD (720p) experiences for live delivery of all the NFL Sunday Night Football games this...(read more)
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Silverlight tutorial: Play HD YouTube videos with Silverlight

You can play HD YouTube videos with Silverlight 3 easily. Basically, since Silverlight 3 supports H.264 format you can create your own media player and play high definition video content directly from YouTube in your Silverlight application. Let me show...(read more)
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WPF ribbon control roadmap and look into the future

It is not a secret that Microsoft is developing its own WPF ribbon control. By default it will support Office 2007 (Fluent) user interface style and newer, Scenic Ribbon for Windows 7. I
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Shine Draw

Today is exactly one year from the first article published here on UXPassion.com and today is the day when I'd like to introduce you to Shine Draw blog. His author Terence Tsang from Hong Kong is my colleague Microsoft MVP and hooked on all things Silverlight...(read more)
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Eyes On: Is High Def 3D Better When It

3D TV hardware still has a ways to go, but Panasonic
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Using WCF for Silverlight Development with Telerik OpenAccess

Microsoft
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Digg, eBay Have "Web Slices" on Microsoft Internet Explorer 8

REDMOND, WA -- Internet Explorer 8, the latest version of the Microsoft Web browser , provides users with the ability to use a drop down menu of recent stories from a designated site. Microsoft calls these "Web Slices." A handful of publishers have made their feeds available as Web Slices including Digg, eBay, ESPN, Bing and a few others. Not only are these slices updated text headlines, but can also be streaming video in Flash or Silverlight. For publishers wanting to get "slices
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LOTD for August 20

The airport perimeter security market is large and growing rapidly. This article has a nice summary of all of the varied technologies involved: http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/single.php?id=8551 Article about how much needs to be done for airport perimeter security in the US: http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/single.php?id=8560 Raytheon just won a $100+ million contract to provide airport perimeter security for four New York City-area airports. This is a great market for Raytheon
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SQL SERVER Get Query Plan Along with Query Text and Execution Count

Quite often, we need to know how many any particular objects have been executed on our server and what their execution plan is. I use the following handy script, which I use when I need to know the details regarding how many times any query has ran on my server along with its execution plan. [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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DevForce Silverlight

DevForce Silverlight enables you to build data-intensive rich internet applications today. Writing ...
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Silveright Resource Directory Update (21 Aug)

3D Menu Carousel using PlaneProjection An 3D Menu Carousel effect using Plane Projection (Perspective 3D). The author also explained how this application is implemented. Original Post Hit Test (Get all objects in a specific point) Most of the time, when you are creating games, you will have to find out all the UIElement in a specific coordinate. (Or we can this hittest). In such circumstance, you will need to use the method VisualTreeHelper.FindElementsInHo
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Photography in Fashion

People are not the only subjects of photography. Many times you will find a fashion illustration among the Vanity Fair photos. You may even find Olympic fashion or jazz fashion among any fashion illustration. Fashion images are among the top photography images you may discover, and they are important in order to project each Vogue fashion illustration in the most positive way. People are not going to buy any outfit without a fashion illustration
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RIM bringing Silverlight and Flash to BlackBerry Devices

The word has been dropped by BGR that RIM may soon be loading Silverlight and Flash on BlackBerry devices. With Flash being one of the most sought after features this can only be taken as extremely good news for BlackBerry owners, as at present there are no workarounds or even third party apps that will allow Flash video content on BlackBerry devices. Sorry, no solid word on any release details yet, but as I
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RIM Is The World

Blackberry has been making waves this past week. First Fortune Magazine named RIM, the makers of Blackberry, the fastest growing company in the world . Then came the news that upcoming Blackberry devices, possibly next year, will offer Flash and Silverlight support in their their mobile handsets. It
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RIM to bring full Flash and Silverlight to Blackberry phones

RIM produces one of the world
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Will the BlackBerry browser get full Flash, Silverlight support?

Research In Motion is planning on integrating full Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight support into their BlackBerry web browser, according to a report. BoyGeniusReport notes that the integration is
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Element Binding in Silverlight

Jesse Liberty returns to the podcast to explain some of the new features found in Silverlight 3. This week, we talk about element-to-element binding. What
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RIA technologies: lets compare font rendering.

The idea is to compare the current RIA frameworks like Flex(Flash), Silverlight and JavaFX and see what are the fonts that they produces. We are in 21th century most of the people have laptops and use TFT screens and windows is the most usedOS this days, so most of the people use clear type font rendering. Lets see how each technology uses clear type.
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Future BlackBerrys to have full Flash and Silverlight support

BoyGeniusReport has confidently declared that future iterations of RIM
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10 Reasons Why Flash Is Better Than Silverlight

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BlackBerry News From The Wire for the Week of 8/17/09

Feeling overloaded with BlackBerry news and rumors? We know the feeling. We hear new things almost every day, and it can be tough to keep up with it all. that
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Microsoft gets HD friendly with LifeCam Cinema webcam

Microsoft has decided that there
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BlackBerrys to get Flash & Silverlight support

RIM is planning to bring full Flash and Silverlight support to the BlackBerry web browser. However, it
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RIM Plans to Implement Full Flash and Silverlight on BlackBerries

Research in Motion is looking to implement full Flash and Microsoft Silverlight on the BlackBerry web browser and no, do not mistake this Flash for Flash lite, since it
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8.20 The Cooler

Nothing Fugazi About Fouzia The Definitive Guide To Finding Free Wi-Fi [Life Hacker] Wanna See John Mayer
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BlackBerry to Sport Flash and Silverlight? Maybe Next Year (PC World)

PC World
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Full Flash and Silverlight Video Coming to BlackBerry, Report

Watching video on a BlackBerry right now is not the best experience -- it involves a download then playback. According to a post on the Boy Genius Report , support for Flash Video and Silverlight will be streaming to the BlackBerry in around 12 months. Although a more limited version of Flash, called Flash Lite, is on many mobile devices outside the U.S., the new implementation is for the full Flash application to appear on the BlackBerry, the report says. Last September, I interviewed Ado
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Remains of the Day: YouTube Gets More

YouTube adds legit clips from popular TV shows and movies, the Wall Street Journal explains why AT&T killed Google Voice, and Symantec rounds up the worst offending malware sites of the summer.Robot Chicken, Gossip Girl and Ellen Clips Coming Soon to YouTubeYouTube gets excited about a partnership with Time Warner that will bring legal clips from Turner, the Cartoon Network, CNN, Warner Bros. movies, and more. They said
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ARTICLE: RIM to add full Flash and Silverlight support to BlackBerry Browser?

Despite the fact that BlackBerry devices are the best in the world (okay, maybe I'm ever-so-slightly biased), the browser can certainly use a bit of improvement - especially in today's world, where an efficient browser is a must on a smartphone. It wouldn't be very smart if it had a completely non-functional browser, now would it? The good news? Apparently, RIM has been cooking up a solution to the issue by building in full support for Flash and Silverlight into their browser. And when they
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RIM Plans Full Flash and Silverlight Support

According to Boy Genius, RIM is planning to integrate full Flash and Silverlight support into their BlackBerry web browser. Although there is no official ETA, you should not expect it up until next summer.
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RIM To Add Full Flash And Silverlight Support To The Blackberry Browser

Details over the last month have showed that Research In Motion (RIM), the recently named fastest growing company in the world and the mastermind behind Blackberry, are planning to add full Flash and Silverlight support to the phone company
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Quick Clicks

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MediaPlayer control included in Silverlight 3

For some reason I missed this until just recently, but Silverlight 3 comes with a MediaPlayer control courtesy of the Expression team. If you open the Assets panel and search for media, you
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SketchFlow Prototypes embedded in DotNetNuke

Here is a post that shows you how to embed SketchFlow prototypes in a DotNetNuke site: http://dnnsilverlight.adefwebserver.com/Silverlight30/SketchFlowViewer/tabid/81/Default.aspx...( read more )...(read more)
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Oslo + Data Programmability (EF, ADO.NET, etc.) Teams Merge

Ive been waiting for someone from Microsoft to blog about this. Finally, Doug Purdy has done the deed: we made a decision to merge the Data Programmability team (EDM, EF, Astoria, XML, ADO.NET, and tools/designers) and the Oslo team (Quadrant, Repository, M) together. After watching his PDC 2008 presentation on Oslo, I got very excited because I knew that Oslos modeling platform was very much aligned with the importance of modeling highlighted by Entity Data Models being used not only in Entit
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Microsoft Virtual TechDays are here

Microsoft.. yes. One of the biggest software company providing you the chance to learn directly from there experts. Microsoft Virtual TechDays is an even where we can learn some of the new technologies directly from Microsoft professional and yes,, Free of cost. !! Microsoft Virtual TechDays will be held between August 19 to 21 [2009]. The registration is open and free . Just go to VirtualTechDays.com register yourself using
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Bing Rises Again, Says ComScore

August 18th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment A few stories ClickZ editors are reading: Bing Rises Again For the second month, Microsoft
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Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 3

I
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Easily Install All Versions of .NET Framework plus Hotfixes with AIO Runtimes

I don
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UX Passion

Today, I would like to introduce you a site called
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BBC trying out HTML 5, video element

The BBC has an HTML 5 demonstration using the video element. The video itself is encoded in both Ogg and H.264. In the screenshot below I have just clicked on a navigation image to jump to a specific place in the video. The demonstration is meant to work in Firefox, Safari and Chrome, though for me it only ran in Firefox (3.5). There is a detailed comment from the BBC
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ITV: Please sort out your Champions League site

The Champions League starts today. And ITV seem to have cocked up their website. If you go to itv.com/sport/football/ and click 'Champions League' at the top, you go to itv.com/sport/football/championsleague/ (first picture - still showing last season's final). ITV.com champions league page Clicking 'Video' on the left hand menu takes you to championsleague.itv.com/ , shown below. The championsleague.itv.com site Under the heading 'watch now', this site says: "itv.com/foot
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Novell Gets Closer to Silverlight With Moonlight 2

InternetNews: "Open source Silverlight clone gets new milestone release as it races towards feature parity with Microsoft."
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LXer: Moonlight 2.0 Beta 1 Rolls Out With Improvements

Published at LXer: While betas of Microsoft's Silverlight 3 platform have been available for a number of months after being announced in the last half of 2008, their free software implementation of Silverlight, which is known as Moonlight and developed largely by Novell with the Mono developers, has lagged behind. Read More...
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20 Resources providing Loads of Excellent Tutorials and Cheat Sheets for Flash and Action Script

Adobe Flash goes back several years and have turned into an excellent development platform. It allows developers to push the boundaries for what is possible to achieve with a web page. Flash even have allowed companies to create great online games running in web browsers. Even though they are not so common as earlier some websites rely completely on Flash. In my opinion Flash should be used wisely and only where it adds value. Avoid being tempted to having different kinds of images and text flyi
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re: Inkscape to support XAML export

You would do it if you are developing silverlight or wpf apps. These technologies are utilizing an UI-Language called XAML which is an XML format. You could also use just png or something like that, but xaml is much more flexible, i.e. you can adress just a single path in your XAML Object, maybe the shadow from within your application, wether the whole png.
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New Second Life Video & PDF

We have written before about watching YouTube videos in Second Life . But it has still been a hacked together solution limited by the support of only QuickTime in the Second Life Viewer. Linden Lab today announced the LLMedia API. The LLMedia API allows developers to create third party plugins for the Second Life Viewer. There is a new wiki page which covers the Media Rendering Plugin Framework which should allow developers to utilize other media rendering engines to create plug-ins.
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Moonlight 2.0 goes beta

The developer of the Moonlight software that enables Silverlight applications to run on Linux computers said on Monday that he is ready to start publicly beta testing an update to the software.
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How to always open the vsixmanifest in XML view

The new VSIX projects contain a manifest that is by default opened with a designer. No matter how many times you specify that you want to open it with the XML editor by default, VS will continue to open it with the designer. The only way to force the change is to manually modify the .csproj as follows: DesignerCode (on Beta1, the manifest file name would be... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles i
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Remains of the Day: Video Extravaganza Edition [For What It's Worth]

Take a look at an experimental coffee table that doubles as a universal remote, see what the world
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SilverX 1.0.0

updated on Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:46:24 +0300 - SilverX converts Flash swf to Silverlight
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Moonlight 2.0 moves to beta phase (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - Moonlight 2.0, which is open source software that puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application technology on Linux, was offered up as a beta release on Monday, the chief developer of the technology said in a blog entry.No tag for this post.
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Silverlight 3 Firestarter in Portland

Announcing: Silverlight 3 Firestarter Simulcast in Portland, September 17th. Scott Guthrie keynote followed by presentations from Tim Heuer, Brad Abrams, Karl Shifflett and others. Register here .
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Moonlight 2.0 goes Beta

Today we released the Beta for Moonlight 2.0, a quick follow up to the original Moonlight preview that we did in early May. Congratulations to the Moonlight team being lead by Chris Toshok on this release; And thanks a lot to the Silverlight team at Microsoft for helping us get here. This means that Moonlight 2.0 is now feature complete and we consider it ready to test against Silverlight 2.0 sites. Users that have installed Moonlight 2.0 previously will be offered a cha
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Programming news: Windows 7 Code Pack release, an anti-IE 6 campaign

Get highlights about programming stories, which include an update on the LAMP/WIMP/ASP.NET shootout, the upcoming Embarcadero RAD Studio release, Silverlight 3 broadens its networking options, and more.
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Microsoft to Support IE6 Until 2014

Despite numerous online campaigns calling for the death of IE6, Microsoft has confirmed their commitment to the browser until 8 April 2014. A post on the IEBlog states that upgrades are the responsibility of the user and the company will continue to support the 8 year-old browser: The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the prod
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Using web service faults with the new SL3 client HTTP stack

Carlos, one of our team members, has posted an quick blog post on how to use SOAP faults with the new client HTTP stack , introduced in SL3. This makes configuring faults significantly easier: there is no need to write custom code in your WCF service...(read more)
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Hey! Where

I will be on vacation starting today, and returning on Monday, August 24. During that time I will be in Maine but I will be writing Programming Silverlight 4 , studying RIA Services in depth and otherwise having a geek vacation. Project Turing, the Mini...(read more)
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Updated FlickrViewr for Silverlight 3

Now using ChildWindow, Validation UI and more! Go here to see the app and get the code....( read more )...(read more)
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LinqToSQL A Detailed Review

Turing Project Page : [Novice: 8 | Advanced: 5 ] FAQ Table of Contents What is this and where do I start ? In a previous post I discussed the advantage of separating the Data Access Layer (retrieving data...(read more)
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Linq For Silverlight Developers

Turing Project Page : [Novice: 7] FAQ Table of Contents What is this and where do I start ? Special Note: This posting introduces a new element in the series...(read more)
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More Silverlight application themes and fixes

When Silverlight 3 launched, we also published several additional application themes for the navigation and business application (for .NET RIA Services ) templates. I just uploaded two more themes from one of our designers, Corrina , to the Expression...(read more)
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Silvelight Resources Directory Update (13 Aug)

12 new Silverlight Resources Entry...( read more )...(read more)
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From DB to DataGrid

Turing Project Page : [Novice: 6, Advanced: 4] FAQ Table of Contents What is this and where do I start ? In the previous entry , we created the design for the database...(read more)
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New networking stack in Silverlight 3

In previous versions of Silverlight, the browser handled all the HTTP communication for the Silverlight plug-in. The browser HTTP stack works well but has some limitations including the HTTP methods you can use and the response codes that are accepted...(read more)
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Upcoming Silverlight events

I have the pleasure of being invited to participate in two Silverlight events coming up soon (one very soon). These are a part of a
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A Silverlight 3 FireStarter event narrative

Minimal event description: FREE Silverlight and Expression Training on Sep. 17 in Redmond and online presented by Microsoft product team members and evangelists. Flavorful description: When you wake on Sept. 17th the year of 2009 you have a smile on your...(read more)
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An out-of-browser install pattern for Silverlight

One of the features that a lot of developers seem to enjoy is the out-of-browser feature in Silverlight . This is the feature that allows you to take your Silverlight application and run it like a desktop application (without some of the trust levels...(read more)
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How to index your Silverlight application in search engine

There isn't too many particles articles in the web talking about Silverlight SEO. Therefore, I would like to share my seo optimization knowledge with all of you....( read more )...(read more)
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 22: Separate Solution Files

Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff. This time I take up a challenge from Mr. Wildermuth . Shawn recently raised a very interesting issue with RIA Services development. He works with a lot of...(read more)
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4 Expression Studio 3 Starter Kits available for download

AGI has put together 4 starter kits for you to enjoy. The Starter Kits cover SketchFlow, Game Programming, SuperPreview and Silverlight Support in Expression Web. Each Kit includes a guide, assets and tutorial videos. Introduction to Prototyping...(read more)
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DataBase Design & Creation

(click on the image to see other Mini-tutorials ) Turing Page [Novice: 5, Advanced: 3] FAQ Table of Contents This project will explore, among other things, getting data into and out of a SQL Database. In fact, we
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Silverlight-3 FireStarter 17 Sept 2009

On 17 September you have a wonderful and free opportunity to kick-start your Silverlight and Blend 3 skills. I’ve started writing Silverlight 3 applications and love where this platform currently is and where it’s heading. Come join...(read more)
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Silvelright Resources Directory Update (11 Aug)

Silverlight Resources Directory Update (11 Aug)...( read more )...(read more)
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Silverlight 3 “toast” notifications

I was messing around with a new internal application the other day and made a wise crack about some of the features out in the open. And by wise-crack, I mean
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 21: Hierarchal Data

Wow
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Presenting Expression for Developers on a European ReMix Tour

The next few months will be full of conference visits and presentations. I
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NBC Sports goes Silverlight for HD

NBC Sports has announced it will be moving all its HD video- streaming feeds to the latest build of Microsoft's Silverlight , including the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics. The broadcaster will use Silverlight 3 across all its HD sports broadcasts, and committed to Microsoft after testing "many different technologies" , says Perkins Miller, senior vice president of Digital Media at NBC Sports, via VB . NBC Sports used Silverlight for the stunning HD feeds of the Summer Olympics in Chi
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SQLAuthority News Interview with SQL Server MVP Glenn Berry

Glenn Berry works as a Database Architect at NewsGator Technologies in Denver, CO. He is a SQL Server MVP, and has a whole collection of Microsoft certifications, including MCITP, MCDBA, MCSE, MCSD, MCAD, and MCTS. He is also an Adjunct Faculty member at University College
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LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 8/3/2009+

Note: This post is updated weekly or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles. Entity Framework and Entity Data Model (EF/EDM) Alex James delivers Tip 30
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Bing Indexing NoIndex/Nofollow Content

August 8th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Bing
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Understanding Reverse Proxy Servers and the Mailman

Ok, the goal isnt to learn about the mailman, but hes going to come in handy later. Proxy servers have been around since the early days of computing and they play a large role on the web today: sometimes obvious, sometimes not. They can be used for good or they can be used for harm, like man-in-the-middle attacks. Today I want to provide a visual representation of a reverse proxy server used for load balancing. I also want to address some concepts and potential issues and solutions... Did yo
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EF Table Splitting The Opposite of Entity Splitting

There
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Important Entity Framework Query Improvements for .NET 4.0

Kati Iceva, the gal I know as the brains behind query compilation for Entity Framework (though she may have some partners in crime) has written a great blog post laying out some of the improvements to query generation in EF4. Improvements to the Generated SQL in .NET 4.0 Beta1 Kati explains 7 major changes in detail with before & after examples and lists an additional set of changes we will see after Beta 1. Here is my abbreviated version of the changes she lays out: More efficient...
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Article on PHP vs ASP.net relative speed with interesting results.

I get a kick out of people who think that ASP.net doesn't scale. (Considering that some of the biggest, baddest, websites in the world run it, and can run anything they want). Interesting post of PHP vs ASP.net performance test. Comments are a good read too. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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How is the Hong Kong Educational Situation?

by Barry Lee Every year, there are two public exams for secondary school students in Hong Kong, which are the HKALE and HKCEE. They are held in March to May. This system runs for more than thirty years. But, can students really get something form it? Students may learn how to duel with exam. They may learn how to do revision efficiently. They may earn offers for secondary six or university. And, for sure, they earn an impressive experience. The Hong Kong educational system is always
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Swivel Behavior in Silverlight 3

A while back I created a pair of Storyboards that make a pair of panels swivel to show a front side and a back side. The key ingredients in the storyboards are: Plane Projection using Perspective 3D Easing Visibility (Opacity can be used instead if you prefer) Easing and 3D features are new to Silverlight 3 but really give it a nice effect. The easing makes it start slowly, then appear faster at the 90 degree turn, and then ease out. Storyboard The storyboards are
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Fun with Reflection, DataTable, Classes and SQLHelper

Some simple data conversion methods to help with the SQLHelper v2 utility class read more By Peter Bromberg Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Debugging, Profiling and Analyzing Parallel Applications

Any time a programming model is introduced, developers need robust tooling support for learning, writing, debugging and optimizing their code to make use of it. This is particularly true for parallel programming, which adds a set of new variables to the equation. Visual Studio 2010 has made great strides in the parallel debugging experience. Many features are also available as add-ins for Visual Studio 2008. Heres a brief tour of the parallel programming, debugging, and diagnostic... Did yo
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Using Hungarian Cube to demonstrate enterprise architecture

As much as I tried to explain it they didnt manage to get it and they staid in low level detailed technology architecture. On one of the knowledge transfer session that we had I got an idea to use the Hungarian Cube to demonstratethe difference between EA and solution architecture, and . It simply worked! I started the show holding the cube very close to my eyes. What I'm doing right now is technology architecture, I said. I see just one side of the cube, but I can see in detailed what... D
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Bubble Breaker

A good tutorial for beginners to develop game in Silverlight.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Using Microsoft Enterprise Library Logging Application Block

Using Microsoft Enterprise Library Logging Application Block to log events in Application Events Log... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Silverlight DataForm and confirming deleting an item

I was talking with a good friend the other day about some feedback about DataForm. It
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Skyfire adds Gmail integration, search history and Facebook thumbnails

Skyfire, the up-and-coming mobile web browser has just released a handful of new features. The Skyfire browser uses a client-server setup to process all web pages on super-powerful computers that you would never be able to afford. That makes for really fast page-load times and even streaming media like Flash or Silverlight content. Yesterday, Skyfire made a bunch of upgrades to these servers, enabling a slew of new features. Skyfire now supports full Gmail integration, the ability to browse yo
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How great is the Hong Kong Educational Situation?

Every year, there are two public exams for secondary school students in Hong Kong, which are the HKALE and HKCEE. They are held in March to May. This system runs for more than thirty years. But, can students really get something form it?
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New Ballistics App

Winchester has developed a new external ballistics web app . You can find it here . First impression is that it
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How will Silverlight 'light up' Microsoft's Web-based Office apps?

August 7th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 10:31 amCategories:Azure, Code names, Corporate strategy, Office, Office 2010/Office 14, Office Live, SharePoint Server, Silverlight (wpf/e), Utility/cloud computing, Windows 7Tags:Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Web Application, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Cloud Computing, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo FoleyMicrosoft still has yet to release the technology preview test build of its Office Web Apps that is slated for some time in August.
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Silverlight 3 Is A Lot Cooler, But Still Not Worthy Of Taking Seriously

While Silverlight is proving a fantastic competitor for Flash particularly in enthusiast content, it still has a lot more ground to cover before it can be used heavily in the enterprise.
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Looking for a few Silverlight contractors in Austin, TX

Email jobs@headspringsystems.com if you are interested. Need: desired rate range (low-high) cover letter (with what you know about headspring and why you are interested) resume
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Silverlight Resources Directory Update (07 Aug)

Silverlight Resources Directory Update (07 Aug)...( read more )...(read more)
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 20: NHibernate

I am having a blast with the series where I am updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo. In this part, I wanted to explore one of the most popular data access solution for .NET
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Announcing

After more than five years working for the WPF and Silverlight teams at Microsoft, I’ve decided to move on and start my own business. Participating in the creation of WPF and Silverlight was a fantastic experience. I’m proud of the work we’ve...(read more)
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Expression Studio Resources - now including myself, Adam Kinney

Before MIX09, I was completely prepared for the new features in Silverlight 3 that we demoed for the first time in public. It was my job to know and I was excited to see the features released. What I wasn
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Silverlight at Microsoft PDC09 – we will be there!

It
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TreeMap in Silverlight Toolkit: How to write your own interpolator

One of the new concepts introduced in the TreeMap control are Interpolators. They are used for example to interpolate the colors of rectangles or the font size in the titles of the NHL teams in the sample TreeMap in the picture above. I would like to...(read more)
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TabStudio add-in for Visual Studio

I came across this add-in for Visual Studio the other day that is subtle but added some productivity features to Visual Studio for me. It
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Seadragon.Com

Microsoft Live Labs recently released Seadragon.Com . Using Seadragon, you can share any size image on the net as a zoomable photo. You can then share the image on Facebook, Twitter, or embed it directly on your blog or any other site. The picture viewer...(read more)
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C# Sqlite

Noah Hart did a line-by-line port of Sqlite to C# and has uploaded the code to code.google.com/p/csharp-sqlite . The frequently asked questions on the web site talks about performance (it is about 5 times slower than native code, but still, it can do 1.5 million selects per second, 300k inserts per second). Still, not bad for a line-by-line port; Folks on the #mono channel on irc.gnome.org a couple of days ago were commenting on the possible ways of tuning it up by not forci
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Online virtual operating system by windows4all.com

Introduction: Have you ever seen operating system in your own web browser, no! then have a look at this one - this is one of the first operating system you have ever seen before - Online virtual operating system - which has been rolled out by windows4all.com , which has been developed using Microsoft Silverlight . When you browse to windows4all.com , it will request us to install Sliverlight on to desktop, if you have already installed the same on to your desktop, then you will be dir
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Techsmith Camtasia Studio V6.0.1 Build787 Portable Precr

TechSmith Camtasia Studio v6.0.1 Build 787 Portable portable and precracked
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AgOpenSource Project Turing - Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

Pingback from AgOpenSource Project Turing - Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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Interesting Diagram Generation Controls

Some time from now I was searching for controls that would made the generation of diagrams of several kinds, like for instance:: Network Diagram Worlflow Diagram Database Diagram Hierarchy Diagram
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UFC 101 Prefight Press Conference Video

The LIVE pre-fight press conference is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:00 am Pacific Time / 1:00 pm Eastern Time on Thursday. You must download Silverlight Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts Related posts: UFC 100 Prefight Press Conference Video UFC 99 Prefight Press Conference
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Windows Live Photos

Windows Live SkyDrive & Photos
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Symbian^4 to Beak Compatibility with S60 Apps?

Symbian^4 is not yet available but we have started seeing it mentioned around the Internet. David Wood, the
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RIA Services, Silverlight and MVVM

I've finally had a chance to take a look at the July CTP of RIA Services. My opinion is mixed, but its still pretty early. I ran through the simple walkthrough and it was easy to set up but it still felt as if there is too much Visual Studio magic (a complaint I've had for a long time now).
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Some thoughts on Microsoft Tech Ed 2009

First of all, let me say that the organization of Tech Ed was simply astounding. Very well organized and very professionally executed. Besides the demo gods playing havoc and SA bandwidth not helping at all, it was brilliantly executed and I want to commend the organizers. I
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Ramifications of Google

There
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C#-SQLite now published

Noah Hart has published his port of SQLite to C#. The project is called C#-SQLite. The main SQLite author, D Richard Hipp, originally said that the project should not include SQLite anywhere in its name, but has now relented : I think I would be comfortable with a name like C#-SQLite. The prefix makes it clear that it is a reimplementation, not the original. People notice prefixes much more readily than suffixes. There is also precedent for changing a prefix for a reimplementation. Lucen
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Bing Silverlight SDK

Auf Codeplex gibt es nun die Silverlight SDK für Microsoft Bing. Damit kann man Bing in eigenen Anwendungen verwenden und neue Funktionen hinzufügen. The second component is the Bing Silverlight service runtime itself
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Microsoft Expression Studio 2.0

Microsoft Expression Studio 2.0 Windows |580 MB Microsoft Expression Studio is a suite of tools for designing and building web and Windows client applications and rich digital media contents. It consists of: * Microsoft Expression Web: Website designer and HTML editor. * Microsoft Expression Blend: Visual user interface builder for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight applications. * Microsoft Expression Design: Raster and vector graphics editor. * Microsoft Expression Media: Digi
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Winchester Launches Innovative Ballistics Calculator

Winchester Launches Innovative Ballistics Calculator Winchester Ballistics Calculator East Alton, IL - -(AmmoLand.com)- The new Winchester
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Silverlight Resources Directory Update (06 Aug)

Silverlight Resources Directory Update (06 Aug)...( read more )...(read more)
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Quick Bit on Turing Project

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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 19: ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Still have good fun updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo. In this part, I wanted to consider how we might build the admin site of our site.. Because it is just for a very small number of trusted users, I
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AJAX client for HTTP polling duplex WCF channel in Microsoft Silverlight 3

If you are interested in coding an AJAX client application that consumes asynchronous data notifications from a WCF backend service using the Microsoft Silverlight 3 HTTP polling duplex channel, check out the AJAX client for HTTP polling duplex sample...(read more)
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Silverlight SEO Testing

However, in order to attach more visitors from the search engine, there is a need for my new Silverlight site to be SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly. Amazingly, my site is able to be listed in Google within 48 hours. Besides that, the content...(read more)
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Scrolling so smooth like the butter on a muffin [How to: Animate the Horizontal/VerticalOffset properties of a ScrollViewer]

Recently, I got email from two different people with the same question: How do I animate the HorizontalOffset / VerticalOffset properties of a Silverlight/WPF ScrollViewer control? Just in case you've never tried this yourself, I'll tell you that it's...(read more)
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TechEd South Africa Slides and Code - .NET RIA Services and ViewModel

This is a quick blog post to share slides and demos from my presentations at TechEd in South Africa. Feel free to post questions here... From the talk on ViewModel and Application Patterns for Silverlight... The app I built was a mini-Twitter client named...(read more)
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Creating A Form

(click on the image to see other Mini-tutorials ) TURING Entry [100:4] [ What are these numbers? ] In Entry [ 100:3 ] we were about to create a form and then go on to data validation. Here is the form we
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 17: Evolving an Application

More from my Mix09 talk
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Silverlight 3 Resources

I have uploaded 40 of my Shine Draw samples into the Silverlight Resources Directory. There are many new features, go and check it out now! You may also upload you own resources. Later on, I will write an article on teaching users how to use it....( read...(read more)
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Bing Maps Silverlight: Plot/Edit Pushpin data via a ChildWindow

Recently I posted an example of using the Web.Maps.VE Bing Maps ASP.NET AJAX Server Control with the AjaxControlToolkit ModalPopup Extender over at the Simplovation Blog . Writing that example was rather simple since those two components/libraries are both written on top of ASP.NET AJAX and work extremely well together. This did however get me thinking about how to implement this same type of functionality using the Bing Maps Silveright Control CTP, and now that Silverlight 3 is out and it has
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 18: Custom Linq Provider

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services. I have been updating the example from my Mix09 talk
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Hey Pop-Up Ads, Get Outta My Xbox!

Over the weekend, I sacrificed the better portion of one evening to my Fight Night Round 4 addiction. Home alone, playing offline (but connected to Xbox Live) and grinding through match after match, I was confronted with this: Aah! After a moment of shock, I realized this was an advertisement for the upcoming film The Final Destination, and suddenly Fight Night Round 4 was stumping for it in every available nook and cranny. Each post on the corners of the boxing ring had a number you cou
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Silverlight Design (Nova/DC/MD)

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Huge Bing Maps Worldwide Update

Looks like Microsoft rolled out a huge new release of Bing Maps. From Chris Pendleton
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Star Trek Meets Golden Eye at Moscow Electricity Control Center [Architecture]

Related tweets from Twitter: foreverbird : Moscow United electricity control centre by Arch-group and ABTB http://ff.im/69O9A 2009-08-04T15:46:55Z - Reply - View Tweet slforums : New: silverlight 3 navigation (uri template) using wcf rest: Does silverlight 3
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Tracking Dangling Object References In Silverlight

One of the downsides of working with a young platform like Silverlight is that the tool support isn
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Project Turing

(click on the image to see other Mini-tutorials ) TURING Entry [100:3] [300:3] [400:3] [ What are these numbers? ] Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi The Turing Project design calls for a four component system: Data Entry Data Storage Data Service Data Display Eventually Data Entry will be via email or web, Data Storage will probably be SqlServer, Data Service will probably be a WCF ap
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CodeDigest.Com Digest - August 2009

CodeDigest For the Month 8\2009 Hi All, Welcome to the CodeDigest.Com Digest for the Month
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Netflix to offer iPhone movie streaming?

Netflix may soon be opening the gates to its unlimited movie and TV streaming on the iPhone and iPod touch, a rumor indicates today. An executive for an unnamed company claims to MCN that Netflix will
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Is Bing Ignoring The NoArchive Tag?

August 4th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment A WebmasterWorld thread has a senior webmaster claiming that in some cases, Microsoft Bing is ignoring the tag. The noarchive tag basically tells the search engine not to display a
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Microsoft PDC 2009: What's on tap for developers this November?

August 4th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 5:41 amCategories:Azure, CRM Live/CRM Online, Channel, Corporate strategy, Database, Development tools, Live Mesh, Microsoft Big Brains, Multicore/distributed computing, Office 2010/Office 14, PDC 2009, Red Dog, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Silverlight (wpf/e), Utility/cloud computing, Visual Studio 10 ("Hawaii"), WinHEC, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, Windows Server 2008 R2 /("Windows 7 Server"), Windows client, Windows serverTags:D
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Interesting Finds: August 4, 2009

Other MonoTouch: Mono on iPhone closed preview , Miguel de Icaza Release: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 , Alessandro Perilli Step-By-Step: Turning a Windows 7 DVD or ISO into a Bootable VHD Virtual Machine , Scott Hanselman Reporting Code Diff , Patrick Smacchia Code to look at Singleton pattern in a multiple worker thread Application Pool , Wawrzyniec Wawro Web Debugging Client-Side JavaScript Using Firebug's Console , Simon Pickersgill Micro
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WrapUp: Evolution of the Windows 7 Taskbar, Schedule Outlook Emails, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet . This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don
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What is the problem of the Hong Kong Educational Situation?

by Barry Lee Form March to May, secondary 5 and secondary 7 students need to attain HKCEE and HKALE respectively. Students need to pay many efforts in order to get a good grade. However, what can students learn or earn at the end of the exams? Students may get an offer in university or secondary six. However, they may also get great pressure. Besides, they may be disappointed because their, like drawing and music, may be not approved by exams. Anyway, attaining public exam must be an unforge
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What is the problem of the Hong Kong Educational System?

SQL Server 2008 Augmented Reality Powered By What?

Serge Jespers demoed a series of augmented reality apps at the DevSummit in Bangalore, including one that got quite a laugh from the audience. SQL Server Usergroup Belgium has posted Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Augmented Reality Experience , and of course it is powered by Flash. Actually, this is not surprising, as Silverlight does not have support for webcams. As for me, well, I like SQL Server, and so I'm glad that we can be of assistance in any way. Really! ;-)
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Microsoft Windows Xp Professional Sp3 Ju

Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 Integrated July 2009 Corporate Unattended-UP2DATE INFO
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Send data from javascript to Silverlight

Article on how to create communication bridge to send data from javascript to silverlight application and render charts using Silverlight Toolkit charting control
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Bing's Stefan Weitz: "It's hard to break that habit" of Google

REDMOND, WA
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TextTrimming TextBlock for Silverlight

A handy feature of WPF is the ability to tell TextBlock to truncate its text to ellipses if it runs out of room. You do this by setting the TextTrimming property on the TextBlock and voilah!, your text ends up looking
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SQL SERVER Forgot the Password of Username SA

I just received a call from an old friend with whom I used to work in Las Vegas. He told me about a password-related issue he faced in his organization. They had changed the password of username SA and now they are not able to recall the new password. I am sure that he is [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Default Templated Views

Note, this blog post is based on Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 2 and details are subject to change. Ill try to get back to normal ASP.NET MVC 1.0 content soon. :) While in a meeting yesterday with The Gu, the topic of automatic views came up. Imagine if you could simply instantiate a model object within a controller action, return it to the view, and have ASP.NET MVC provide simple scaffolded edit and details views for the model automatically. Thats when the light bulb went on for Scott and he brie
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Put Your Views (and Pages) On a Diet

One of the complaints I often here with our our default view engine and Pages is that theres all this extra cruft in there with the whole page directive and stuff. But it turns out that you can get rid of a lot of it. Credit goes to David Ebbo, the oracle of all hidden gems within the inner workings of ASP.NET, for pointing me in the right direction on this. First, let me show you what the before and after of our default Index view (reformatted to fit the format for this blog). Before
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Singleton pattern in a multiple worker thread Application Pool

This article is about cross-"worker thread" solutions of implementing the Singleton Pattern in ASP.NET.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Response to A Deleted Response to a TFS Blog Post

Recently a friend of mine wrote a post about having his comments deleted from a post. It has caused a bit of a controversy because both of them are MVPs. http://flux88.com/blog/a-deleted-response-to-a-tfs-blog-post/ Go ahead and read it, Ill wait here. Seriously. Some people have said it was a bad thing that he wrote the post. I personally think he did a very good thing. At times it is very important to hold people accountable for something you believe in. While its not always the... Did you
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Netflix iPhone movie streaming on the way?

If the latest rumors are to be believed, apparently Netflix might just be offering up movie streaming for subscribers on their iPhones and iPod touch devices. And while nothing has been confirmed yet, it does seem somewhat likely. The
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Apple is like Microsoft

That was my first thought after seeing the news that Google CEO Dr Eric Schmidt is leaving the Apple board . Steve Jobs: Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple
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Netflix instant watch on iPhone soon?

The word on the street is that Netflix is going to let iPhone users stream movies via WIFI. While the idea would be well received by customers, we wonder how the implementation would work. The iPhone doesn't support Flash (or Silverlight), so it's probably not going to be a web portal. Netflix can also develop its own application and take care of everything itself (rights management, streaming, decoding): that might be the most likely option. What
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Banner Ads Introduction

Website banners or just
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Comparing the performance of IronRuby, Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9 on Windows

In my latest article I discussed the importance of JRuby as a means of introducing Ruby to the Enterprise world. Most of the companies that belong to this ecosystem are Java based, but we cannot forget that a sizable portion of them are Microsoft-centric. Within these companies, Ruby will be far more welcome if a .NET implementation is available. The answer to this need is sufficiently fulfilled by IronRuby (version 0.9 was just released ). IronRuby has been progressing fast lately. First
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The real reason Microsoft has given in over Internet Explorer

So why is Microsoft giving in over Internet Explorer? What
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Windows Mobile Automated Testing Plan confirms Windows Mobile

There has been much speculation about the basis of Windows Mobile 7, with some saying it will be Windows CE 6.0, an embedded OS that has been released around 2 years ago, and others claiming it will be the very latest and still shadowy Windows CE 7, code named Chelan. From an Windows Mobile 7 Automated Testing plan we recently uncovered, it appears Windows Mobile 7 and Windows CE 7 will be intimately linked, and should arrive on the market around the same time. Windows CE 7 brings with it
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Interesting Finds: August 3, 2009

Other What
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This Is Why I Don

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SQLite C# port raises hopes for a Silverlight local database manager

Yesterday programmer Noah Hart announced a port of SQLite to C#: I am pleased to announce that the C# port is done to the point where others can look at it. Unfortunately the code was taken offline almost immediately afterwards, thanks to the intervention of the author of SQLite, D Richard Hipp: Noah, you are welcomed, even encouraged, to take the source code to SQLite and translate it in any way you want and do whatever you want with it. But you need to make it abundantly clear to
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Developing Widgets with ASP.NET, WCF and jQuery

The article demonstrates how to use ASP.NET, jQuery and WCF to develop widgets - portable chunks of code that can be embedded into other HTML pages.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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[Cool tool] Silverlight Spy

Silverlight Spy is a free(*) tool that allows you to inspect any online Silverlight app. Just launch it and point to a web page with a Silverlight app, then you can: Explore the XAP package Isolated Storage use Monitor performance Browse the UI visual and logical tree Examine objects Here is a screen shot of the app that shows the UI inspection (Live XAML outline): You can even decompile code inside the dll, for that you need Reflector installed, then go to Tools / O
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Who Activates, Displays, and Closes Screens?

Jeremy Miller just published a post asking for feedback on how we activate and deactivate our screens in our application frameworks (what I also call a Presentation Framework). I started replying in the comments then realized it was going to be too long so here is my reply to his post. I find this topic very timely as I have gone through this process of creating a Presentation Framework for Silverlight and WPF applications several times over recently. Sidenote: Prism itself is a library
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Azure FAQ Part 1

Azure FAQ Part 1... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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SQL SERVER Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler

IntroductionSQL Server Profiler is a powerful tool that is available with SQL Server since a long time; however, it has mostly been underutilized by DBAs. SQL Server Profiler can perform various significant functions such as tracing what is running under the SQL Server Engines hood, and finding out how queries are resolved internally and what [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categ
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Poll: What is your favorite web gaming technology?

Poll: What is your favorite web gaming technology? Flash 1 votes Java 1 votes Shockwave 0 votes Silverlight 0 votes I can't decide. 0 votes I don't know what any of these are. 0 votes What's Silverlight? 0 votes Other 0 votes Here is a poll about what your favorite web gaming technology is. System.out.println("Over and Out");
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Ignore this post

Poll: What is your favorite web gaming technology? Flash 0 votes Java 0 votes Shockwave 0 votes Silverlight 0 votes I can't decide 0 votes ignore this post
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Interesting Finds: August 2, 2009

Other STM (Software Transactional Memory) , Salvador Gascon
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Summary

This series on updating my Mix09 talk to current bits has sort of taken on a life of its own and I am not quite through, but I have had numerous requests for a directory of these posts so folks can quickly find what they are looking for. Notice...(read more)
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Updated

Note: I updated this blog entry because the first method ran into problem with StackFrames in release builds without .pbd files. I did find a JIT Compiler workaround but would never suggest such a hack. I have so much to share with you since my...(read more)
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View TV: 900 canali tv in diretta streaming GRATIS e in HD

Oggi vi presentiamo una piattaforma tv eccezzionale che permette di vedere moltissimi canali tv nazionali in diretta sul pc in streaming (compresi adult e pay-tv ) gratuitamente , oltre a numerosi video on-demand senza l
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The Client

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 7/27/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles.
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"Un-Official" List of Microsoft Twitter Feeds

While you can follow Microsoft's main Twitter feed at @Microsoft -- there's also many specific Microsoft Team's on Twitter too! (Thanks Sarah & Olen ) Products and Services: @Bing
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Hosting Silverlight Client Apps In A Silverlight Host App

For one of our customers, we need to be able to host multiple Silverlight applications within one dedicated Silverlight
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Foundations Of Programming - Small Update

I've updated the Foundations of Programming license to a Share-Alike (as opposed to a no derivatives) license. As always, you can download it from: http://codebetter.com/media/p/179694.aspx OR http://openmymind.net/FoundationsOfProgramming.pdf Additionally, I've released the raw docx file (under the same license): http://openmymind.net/FoundationsOfProgramming.docx... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 article
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New web development paradigm for ASP.NET Ajax Web Developers

I would like to direct your attention to an interesting articletargeted for Web developers and more specifically ASP.NET developers who would like to learn a way to focus their development efforts on algorithms, requirements and business logics using a new, highly productive, boosted web development paradigm which provides maximal flexibility, interoperability and interactivity with any other web applications, controls set and architectures. The article compares between traditional web developme
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Interesting Finds: August 1, 2009

Other Some misconceptions about Team Foundation Server & Team System , Ben Day Profiling the memory usage of a .NET application with ANTS Memory Profiler , Red Gate Software Video: Artificial Intelligence Arrives , Microsoft Research Strategy Design Pattern , Salmanzz August's Toolbox Column Now Online , Scott Mitchell Garbage Collection Thread Suspension Delay (250ms Multiples) , Sasha Goldshtein FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rej
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Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0: Analogue of Adobe Flash

s p o n s o r e d l i n k s Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0 is the analogue of Adobe Flash. Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0 to watch stream video and audio (clips) will need to install addition to the current browser. At this stage supported browsers are Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and Mozilla Firefox 1.5, 2 and 3. There is a lot of movement on the first day of the National Association of Broadcasters, one of the essential items in video and multimedia. read more
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In Depth: How to turn the Mac mini into a great media centre

In Depth: How to turn the Mac mini into a great media centreAugust 1st, 2009 Posted in General, Hot Stuff, Tech News, TechnologyApple would have you believe that the Apple TV is the perfect media centre; we disagree. Though the Apple TV is sleek and comparatively cheap, it's too restrictive.No, for our money you need a Mac mini. It's a proper little Mac, so it's ready to be expanded, added to and turbo-boosted to do everything you need it to.The Apple TV, on the other hand, is pretty much a c
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The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed

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What is maintainability anyway?

Reacting to a comment left by Frans Bauma, Ayende recently wrote about Maintainability Maintainable is a value that can only be applied by someone who is familiar with the codebase. If that someone find it hard to work on the codebase, it is hard to maintain. If someone with no knowledge of a codebase find it hard to work with it, tough luck, but that doesnt say anything about the maintainability of a code base. I usually agree with... Did you
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MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT 3.0.40723.0 GDR 1

Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0 GDR 1 | 5.08 MB Silverlight is essentially nothing more than Microsoft's vision of a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in designed to be the source of rich online user experiences and to dislodge Flash from its current dominant position on the market. And when the Redmond company said cross-platform they indeed meant it.Microsoft revealed that it does not plan to leverage the existing Windows Update infrastructure in order to make available Silverlight to all u
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Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0 GDR 1

INotifyPropertyChanged

I have so much to share with you since my last blog entry. Went on a cruise to Alaska to write BBQ Shack and Ocean v2 Code Name: Glacier. Only got off the ship once because I was having way too much fun programming! OK, I need an intervention, let
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SQLAuthority News Proposed eGov Standards Policy Benefit for All or Only A Chosen Few

Does the proposed eGov Standards Policy benefit all or only a chosen few? As a wider audience comes to accept new technology, so the technology itself grows. The recent debate in India on the eGov Standards policy has been a point of contention for some time. I would like to start our discussion on this [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look
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Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight

Something you might not be aware of is that the part of Comcast that I work for is all open source. We use open source technology, we open source projects, we're even all on Macs which is something new for...
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Baseline Registry Settings for new Domain Controllers

I have a list of baseline registry settings which I put on any new domain controller. I thought I'd share the VB Script below which sets all these as well as enables some performance counters. Many of the settings are applicable outside of a Domain Controller. Note: These settings have been tested countless times with Windows Server 2003 domain controllers. I indicated where possible which settings do not apply to a Windows Server 2008 (or better) domain controller. I've used these on Windows Se
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A big step for Stored Procedures in EF4

When you are building or updating a model from a database, included Stored Procedures find their way into the SSDL (Store Schema Description Layer) of the metadata but not into the conceptual model. In order to expose them in your model, you need to create something called a Function Import which imports that stored proc from your SSDL into your model. In EF4, when you run the Function Import Wizard, you will see a new option: Complex. Complex Types have been around since the beginning of Entit
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How MSFT/YHOO Could Affect Newspaper Consortium

July 31st, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment How might the Microsoft/Yahoo search ad pact affect Yahoo
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Out-of-Band Security Bulletin for Visual Studio

Download security updates, register for the security webcasts, and access two new out-of-band security bulletins to find out more information on how it affects Visual Studio and certain types of applications.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Using Interceptors with Ado.Net Data Services and Telerik OpenAccess ORM

ADO.NET Data Services enables an application to intercept request messages so that you can add custom logic to an operation. You can use this custom logic to validate data that goes to the client or returns to be persisted on the server. You can also use it to modify and filter further the scope of a query request, or add in that way a custom authorization policy on a per request basis. Interception is performed by specially attributed methods in the data service. These methods are called by
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Silverlight 3 Navigation: Dynamically Loaded Pages

Recently David Poll posted a very cool technique for navigating to dynamically loaded pages and on demand downloading of pages in a Silverlight 3 application . It was very cool but the explicit wire up of each page can be a pain in large applications...(read more)
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Bayesian Probability (Quick Bit)

Added a Quick Bit today on Baysian Probability....( read more )...(read more)
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Developing with Rx (Part 2): Converting the Event-based Async Pattern to IObservable

In part 1 we talked about how to convert events to IObservables. However Rx isn't just about querying events, it's also about querying asynchronous operations. There are two common asynchronous patterns in the .NET framework: the event-based asynchronous...(read more)
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AgOpenSource Project Touring

Today, after a bit of design work, I begin very frequent updates on a new application to be created under the AgOpenSource project, code named: project Touring . [This is a place holder
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Video Wiki

This page will serve as the Overview of the VideoWiki Application to be developed as part of the AgOpenSource project. This particular application is on temporary hold pending its move to Moderated Open Source as of July 30. Definition VideoWikipedia...(read more)
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AgOpenSource Moves Forward

. Our Goal Is Not To Create Great Programs; It Is To Create Great Programmers This posting will quickly review the AgOpenSource project, whose Table of Contents is available at www.AgOpenSource.com or from a link on the sidebar of my blog. Overview...(read more)
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Developing with Rx (Part 1): Extension Events

Based on the logs it seems there is tremendous interest in Rx , the new .NET 4.0 interfaces that allow you to query events and asynchronous operations. I can't say I'm surprised. In my opinion Rx is the big story of .NET 4.0. I've been...(read more)
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Don Burnett on Prototyping with SketchFlow

Interesting article on SketchFlow by Don Burnett: http://uxmagic.com/blog/post/2009/07/12/Prototyping-a-WPF-3D-game-design-workflow-using-TrueSpace-3D-Expression-Blend-3-with-Sketchflow-and-exporting-the-prototype-XNA-Game-Studio.aspx...( read more )...(read more)
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Silverlight Developer (Minneapolis MN)

City: Minneapolis Are you a Silverlight Developer with User Interface Experience?- We have a short term project for you with a leading interactive agency. Advertisement: read more
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service

I am having a blast with the series where I am updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo. In this part, I wanted to consider the scenario that I hope is a common one. The developer writes their Silverlight app using the RIA Services pattern and the application becomes wildly successful. So successful in fact there is a demand to put a services head on top of the same application logic to facilitate writing a bunch of other clients. This is the sort of pattern we see happening with
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Adobe Bugs Linked to Microsoft ATL Flaw

When Adobe announced that it would periodically have Patch Tuesday releases of its own to coincide with Microsoft's, it became clear that Windows plays a vital role in the third-party software firm's security repertoire.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Single Project Areas With ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1

This post is based on an early preview of ASP.NET MVC 2 and may be obsoleted by a future version of the product. Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 2 introduces the concept of Areas. Areas provide a means of dividing a large web application into multiple projects, each of which can be developed in relative isolation. The goal of this feature is to help manage complexity when developing a large site by factoring the site into multiple projects, which get combined back into the main site before deployment.
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Using Twitter and PowerShell to Find Technical Information and Join a Community

Using PowerShell and a little bit of .NET Framework and XML knowledge, it is possible to delve a little deeper into the information which is potentially available to you from Twitter. Jonathan explains about Twitter and shows how to use Powershell to access twitter automatically.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Turing Project: Level 100, 300 AND 400

TURING Entry [100:2] [300:2] [400:2] [ What are these numbers? ] In previous post I described Project Turing. This is the second entry for that project and will describe how I hope to meet the needs of three audiences: Beginner [Level 100] novice programmers who may or may not have experience with other languages, may not know C# (or advanced C#), .NET or the fundamentals of Silverlight (e.g., what Xaml is) Intermediate [Levels 300] programmers who have looked at but not really
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Microsoft gunning for Hulu in the UK with MSN Video Player

Friday, July 31st, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentMicrosoft is launching a free video service in the UK that will be focused on streaming full-length television shows. Dubbed the MSN Video Player, and powered by Flash and Windows Media Video, the service will go into a six-month trial version next week. While it
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Cat out of Bag: Netflix Officially Supported in Win 7 Media Center

Back in May, Netflix officially was added to Windows Media Center-- the Vista version , that is. The new app, which uses Microsoft's Silverlight streaming video technology, should automatically show up in your Vista Media Center menu. But if you're using any version of Windows 7? No dice. Sure, there are several work-arounds developed by the enthusiast community (there have been for years, in fact), such as MyNetflix and vmcNetflix . But even as Microsoft announced this, and a version for the
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PUG

PUG DevCon 2009 What: Pune User Group (PUG)
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Free is free

Following my review of Chris Andersons book Free: The Future of a Radical Price, I found a few interesting interviews and presentations by Anderson and most interesting, I found that you can get the book for absolutely free. The book is available online from Google Books and Scribd and the audio version is free at Audible.com or as zipped MP3 files from Wired. Heres a 5 minute overview by Chris Anderson: Chris Anderson on Charlie Rose show talking about new book "Free": Andersons... Did
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Using Silverlight in Enterprise: RAD of User friendly database access

this article introduces FulcrumWeb RAD Framework - A Silverlight UI Engine to build user friendly database driven applications... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Netflix Watch Instantly coming to Windows 7 Media Center

Filed under: Media PCs In what is sure to be just the start of many announcements surrounding Windows 7 in the next few months leading up to the general release, Microsoft demoed Netflix on Windows7 Media Center at the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting. No hard release date yet or big surprises here as Vista owners got this access some time ago and Extenders still don't support Silverlight. The good news though is that the app will be full touch screen capable, so for those with t
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Interesting Finds: July 31, 2009

Other Rebasing System.Reactive to the .net CLR , Jb Evain
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No Zune phone as MSFT goes aggro v iPhone

Posted by Jonny on July 31st, 2009 under Apple, NewsMicrosoft has moved to cease speculation it intends releasing its own Zune phone to compete with the Apple iPhone, and presumably the iPod touch.The company pooh-poohed the notion during its financial results announcement this week, saying its strategy will be to improve Windows Mobile and continue working with its existing hardware partners.CEO Steve Ballmer and entertainment and devices business chief Robbie Bach said Microsoft intends purs
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Embed high resolution images in zoomable box widget with Seadragon

Seadragon from Microsoft LiveLabs is a cool web service to neatly display high resolution images. It creates a zoomable box or widget in which you can zoom in or out to see detailed look of any part of a high resolution image. You can even switch to full screen mode and enjoy viewing of high resolution image in a cool interface. To get started: 1. Open Seadragon website . 2. Enter direct image URL and click Create button. 3. Share the zoomable widget box either using direct viewin
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LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation

I had a great time at the LinkedIn Users
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Microsoft Launches Online TV Player | MSN Video Player To Rival BBC iPlayer & Hulu

With the collapse of Project Kangaroo, I assumed online TV in the U.K. would be limited to the BBC iPlayer for a long while to come. However, that doesn
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The Silverlight App Store

OK. Did Microsoft just absorb Yahoo for zero additional cost beyond its oft-stated plans to spend some 10-15% of its budget on search per year? Did Apple really stifle innovation with its carrier-friendly App Store rules? And what
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TechDays 2009 Sessions Announced, and Other News

Developer Sessions at TechDays The sessions for TechDays 2009 , Microsoft
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Microsoft Releases Seadragon - High Resolution Photo Zoom Sharing Service

Microsoft's Seadragon can share any image on the web as a zoomable photo. Point Seadragon at any image you've got on the web, and you've got a zoomable viewer. Share the link on Facebook, Twitter, or through email or IM. Or embed it directly on your blog, eBay listing or virtually any site. Seadragon allows you to share virtually any size image on the web, whether it is a five, ten or two hundred megapixels. The embedded viewer adjusts dynamically to the layout of your page, or
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Build Profit Not DMCA Suits: YouTube and the Wedding March

An unconventional wedding march in Saint Paul, Minnesota sent sparks across the web. Not only was it a celebration of couple Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz
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Learn how to build interactive WCM portal in sharepoint

Hi folks, Excellent video by Technology Director of Razorfish, he shows how can you build interactive content management portal in sharepoint using jQuery,Ajax,Silverlight and flash ? The video also shows how to enable RIA features/Web 2.0 in your sharepoint Read More......( read more )
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SharePoint Tasks Popup using JavaScript API

SharePoint Tasks Popup using JavaScript API... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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SQL SERVER Introduction to Cloud Computing

Introduction
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Ramp Up with New ASP.NET Track: Move from PHP to ASP.NET

This course is designed to help PHP developers learn the nuances of building Web applications with ASP.NET, without presuming existing knowledge of earlier versions of the technology. Syntax in ASP.NET is compared to its use in PHP, to guide the developer through similar concepts in ASP.NET.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation Demo Posted

I had a great time at the LinkedIn Users Group meeting the only down side is that I missed the really bad pizzas that most Users Groups offer ;-) Here is the demo (and demo steps) I did Download. Ill post the recording when it gets uploaded as well. A couple of follow-ups: There was a question about creating your own DomainService for a custom DAL Id recommend checking out my DataSet and WCF examples as well as the full source code for the LinqToSqlDomainService. Someone... Did yo
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ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 Released

Four and a half months after my team released ASP.NET MVC 1.0, I am very happy to announce that the release of our first Preview of version 2 of ASP.NET MVC is now available for download. Go download it immediately and enjoy its coolness. :) Dont be afraid to install it as it will sit nicely side-by-side with ASP.NET 1.0. The release notes provide more details on whats in this release and Ive also updated the Roadmap on CodePlex, which describes the work we want to do in Preview 2 and beyond.
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Silverlight 3 Multi-touch: The Basics

One of the new features to Silverlight 3 is the ability to add multi-touch capabilities to your application. When I posed the question on Twitter , I got some responses of ideas people would use this for. Honestly most of them could be accomplished with mouse events today and X/Y calculations. These would be the touch applications that are pretty singular. But I did get some multi-touch ideas that I think I
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Posts about Mobile Internet as of July 30, 2009

Microsoft Tags To Offer Interactivity Almost Everywhere - dailydooh.com 07/30/2009 Microsoft has developed a new platform that allows advertisers to add colourful, two-dimensional barcodes to anything from marketing materials to computer games, and which directs consumers to specific Web sites when scanned using a mobile phone. The colorful 2D Microsoft Tags (in geometric or dotted design formats) transform offline marketing media
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 15: ASP.NET MVC

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services. I have been updating the example from my Mix09 talk
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Bing

Earlier, we noted how Bing, Microsoft's search engine, relied heavily on the meta language tag . Google's Matt Cutts even commented why using that method can lead to issues (don't you love it when the search engines nitpick at each other). In any event, Bing's geo targeting capabilities continue to plague some webmasters. A WebmasterWorld senior member started a thread at WebmasterWorld with his issue with Bing's capability in classifying where his site is targeting. He said: I'v
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LINQ Tip of the week: A quick peek behind the curtains

In our previous post in this series we had a look at how to optimize query execution with the help of parameterized queries. Today we will briefly look at what actually happens behind the curtains when a LINQ query is executed and you get back the results. As you already know LINQ can be used to query various data sources like in-memory objects, XML or databases,which is of particular interest to us. Consider the following example where we query for all employees who are born in the sam
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Using the DragDropService in RadDock

Overview The new docking framework introduces service-based semantic, which allows for granular and pluggable functionality per RadDock. Entire drag-and-drop functionality is handled by the registered DragDropService instance, which simply receives drag requests and instantiates the appropriate operation. The service is responsible for drop target hit-testing, displaying docking guides and docking hints as well as for processing user input while dragging is in progress. On the scree
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How To: Display Hierarchical Data with Row Details (RadGridView for Silverlight)

The main goal of the Row Details feature is to let you present additional information about a row. This makes row details the perfect candidate for presenting hierarchical data. My sample uses two kinds of business objects a football club and its players. As you might expect each club has some players. The master grid will show our clubs and when the user wants to see some additional information about a club he will be presented with the row details. Our first goal is to define what wi
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Silverlight Resource Directory - alpha

http://silverlight.shinedraw.comThe alpha release is alive!!! I have created a new sub domain (http://silverlight.shinedraw.com) and this application will reside on this domain at the beginning. So far, I have spent around 25 hours in making the application. The approximate break down of the works is:6 hours: Layout Design and Planning 12 hours: C# Coding 7 hours: Integrating with DrupalClick Silverlight Resource Directory to preview the application now! Feature HighlightThis is just preliminary
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Why Buy The Milk When You Can Get the Cow for Free?

July 30th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Yahoo Had No Leverage
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Google open sources Wave components

Google open sources Wave componentsIn: Google| News Article| Open Source| Web| Web Development| home 29Jul2009 By: zdnetasia.comGoogle has open sourced two components of its Wave project, as part of a drive to get third-party developers interested in the communications and collaboration platform.In a blog post on Friday, Google Wave engineers Jochen Bekmann and Sam Thorogood said Google had released two components of Wave under the Apache 2.0 license: the Operational Transfo
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WebResource access in ASP.NET MVC

Its no secret that ASP.NET MVC is missing a few features that are native to Web Forms the most notable of which (for me anyway) is lack of access to the ClientScript functionality outside of Views. The Page.ClientScript object provides a host of features for retrieving WebResources and embedding script links into a page. If you need to access ClientScript from within an ASP.NET View, then you can still access this object, but many of its methods that output content in particular places in the p
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Silverlight 3 and the Data Form Control

(Dino Esposito) A significant share of Web and Windows applications exists only to let users edit and save data. Data? What data? Unfortunately, each application has its own
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Microsoft out of band patches especially for IE

Microsoft out of band patches especially for IE
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Windows 7: Tour Windows 7 using animated Silverlight browser

Get to know your way around Windows 7 and see it in action. The new Windows 7 tours page now features a fancier Silverlight player that does a little more than just play videos. Once loaded, each of the four
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Windows 7 tours gets animated Silverlight browser

[See post to watch Flash video] Those fun and quirky animated characters at the beginning of every Windows 7 tour video released earlier are back to do more of what they do best, animate! Replacing a static imagery, the new Windows 7 tours page now features a fancier Silverlight player that does a little more than just play videos. Once loaded, each of the four
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Microsoft Expression Studio 3.0.1061

Microsoft Expression Studio 3.0.1061 | 254.53 Mb Microsoft Expression Studio opens up a new world of creative possibility. Its professional design tools give you the freedom to make your vision real
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Slidentity Updated for Silverlight 3 RTW

Big thanks to Mark Reynolds of Techsys Business Solutions who did most of the heavy lifting for this port. I made one additional change to get the slide thumbnails working since the usage pattern for WritableBitmap changed since the beta. The new code is here and you can click the image below to launch the app.
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Making Silverlight 3 Application Code More Compatible with Blend

Expression Blend 3 is a great tool for creating Silverlight or WPF user interfaces using design time tools and controls. If you haven
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SQLAuthority News Authors Birthday Top 7 Commenters Volunteers

Today is July 30 and I am very happy; its my Birthday, celebration time!!! The most common question I receive on my every birthday is -what are my plans for birthday. Let me share my plans here today. Additionally, if you are interested to know when SQL Server was born read my post SQLAuthority News [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: h
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Microsoft and Yahoo Finally Tie the Search Knot

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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 14: Visual Basic (VB) and WPF Support

A few folks commented that they
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Microsoft Retail Stores Announced for Arizona and California

Today it has been announced by Microsoft that it will open its first two retail stores that are similar to those of its archrival Apple Inc. in Arizona and California. According to Cnet , it has been confirmed by the Vole that on Tuesday it has signed leases on storefronts in those two upscale bedroom communities. The Redmond, Wash., giant will open stores in Scottsdale, Ariz. and in Mission Viejo Apparently. Apparently, the Mission Viejo location has been targeted by Microsoft because
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Client Web Development Using Open Source Software

Web development using open source software is often a common debate in the online community. Web development is described as the act of developing and constructing a website on the Internet. Some of these websites can be labeled as an e-commerce business, web design, content development, scripting and much more. Some online professionals think of web development as dealing with the non-design aspects of constructing websites such as coding and mark up. Since web development can be very complex f
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RIM whips out new developer tools

Today RIM has went ahead and released new and improved tools for developers building applications for BlackBerry. The first plugin was launched on Tuesday with a version 1.2 for Microsoft Visual Studio. Basically the tools enabled developers to build BlackBerry apps within Eclipse and Visual Studio environments. Both plug-ins include BlackBerry smartphone simulators for application testing, together with application profiling for checking on the data traffic and load time implications of web
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View Photoshop PSD thumbnails in Vista and Windows 7 Explorer

Windows Vista introduced a new imaging stack, called Windows Imaging Component (WIC), and uses it in Windows Explorer to create thumbnails for most image file formats. 3rd parties can write their own WIC codec to support proprietary image formats such as Nikon NEF or Canon CR2 raw files and Windows Explorer is able to show thumbnails for those files when the corresponding codec is installed. Microsoft maintain a page containing links to existing codecs . Sadly, there is no publicly available
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Silverlight 3 related information

Silverlight 3 has been release and now we have also the Unit Testing Framework binaries here that will help making Unit Tests in our solutions when using Silverlight 3. More information
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A Future of Googling for Twitter Results?

July 29th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment After checking out Bing
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Press Release - Infragistics Ships User Interface Components for Microsoft Silverlight 3

PRINCETON, N.J. and ELSTREE, United Kingdom, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Infragistics, a world leader in user interface (UI) development tools and experts in the User Experience (UX) market, today shipped the NetAdvantage Silverlight control toolset to develop UIs in Line of Business applications that is part of NetAdvantage for .NET 2009 Volume 1 and NetAdvantage for Web Client 2009 Volume 1. Built on Microsoft Silverlight 3, Infragistics provides developers with advanced, unique controls to quick
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Microsoft has Announced the Location of its First Two Stores

Today it has been announced by Microsoft that it will open its first two retail stores that are similar to those of its archrival Apple Inc. in Arizona and California. According to Cnet , it has been confirmed by the Vole that on Tuesday it has signed leases on storefronts in those two upscale bedroom communities. The Redmond, Wash., giant will open stores in Scottsdale, Ariz. and in Mission ViejoApparently. Apparently, the Mission Viejo location has been targeted by Microsoft beca
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MSNBot Clicking on Bing adCenter Search Ads?

July 29th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment There is a thread I have been watching at the Bing Community where one member said that he had log files that shows MSNBot (Microsoft Bing
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ComponentOne delivers Silverlight 3 controls

Studio Enterprise 2009 v2 includes Silverlight 3 controls intended for the creation of business applications. Visit website for full story...
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 13: The New Class Library Project

Well
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Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Official Press Release

Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Official Press ReleaseIn: Microsoft| News Article| Search Engine| Web| Yahoo| home 29Jul2009 By: techcrunch.comMicrosoft and Yahoo have now officially announced the search deal that has been rumored for long and finally confirmed by us and other news outlets yesterday evening.Official press release (emphasis ours apart from title and subtitles): Microsoft, Yahoo! Change Search Landscape Global Deal Creates Better Choice for Consumers and Adve
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It's Official - Microsoft to Power Yahoo! Search

After almost a year of talks, at one point with Microsoft seeking to acquire all of Yahoo!, word came a short time ago that the deal that has been hinted at for the past week, is done. Microsoft's new Bing search engine will be the default provider to Yahoo! Search and Microsoft acquires a 10 years license to Yahoo's search technology. In a story followed closely by Kara Swisher at AllThingsD , Microsoft and Yahoo! just released simultaneous press releases here and here . The compan
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Interesting Finds: July 29, 2009

Other Why Is Network Solutions Covering Up Breach News? , Michael Hickins UnTeams and Real Teams , Esther Derby Putting Search into Context , Microsoft Research Monads and my many language road to more functional programming , chrisdonnan.com Team Office Hours , Kris Gray Babel 2.0.0.0 Has Been Released , Alberto Ferrazzoli Developer evangelism handbook released , Chris Heilmann Incremental Delivery and Continuous Design , Jeremy D Miller Pro
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1-800-FLOWERS.COM Sets Up Shop Inside Facebook

In another testament to the notion that Facebook is quietly turning into the internet on top of the Internet, online flower retailer 1-800-Flowers.com has launched an e-commerce store inside its Facebook Page . Registered users can now order all kinds of floral products from the popular florist and gift shop without ever leaving the social network. 1-800-FLOWERS is a bit of a pioneer when it comes to initiatives like this. In 1992 (!), the company was already fiddling with selling goods via the
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Microsoft Page Hunt

Microsoft
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OMG, where do I start?

A lot of email comes my way beginning with the sentiment:
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Deep Thoughts on Silverlight

Jan just posted a great article about Silverlight, Flash and RIAs in general. As expected, Jan approaches the topic from a video angle, but comes to some of the same conclusions as many of us here in the Flash camp: "If Microsoft dropped Silverlight tomorrow, most web site owners and 'Netizens' wouldn't even notice, or care if they did." And of course I'd like to give Jan a hug for quotes such as "Flash caught on because it provided design functionality that HTML couldn't match and solved prob
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RIM

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Installing skins on DotNetNuke 4

How to install skins on DNN 4. A 10 minute overview on the process. Ideal if you're new to DNN or want more insight to the process.This blog is sponsored by http://www.xd.com.au - XD Design Pty Ltd... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Using Microsoft's Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Plotting Chart Data

The Microsoft Chart Controls enable developers to specify chart data in a number of ways. Chart data may be specified statically via the Chart Web control's declarative markup. Chart data may also be specified programmatically using a variety of techniques. For starters, you can add the points to plot one at a time via the Points collection's AddXY method. The Chart Controls API offers methods for binding enumerable data to the chart in one line of code. For example, you can pass an enumerable.
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KB971092 Fails to install

This morning, a Visual Studio security patch was waiting for me, thanks to Windows Update. I launched the installation and everything worked fine, no errors. Wait! Windows Update prompts me again to install it. Strange but lets do it. No errors. What? Windows Update prompting me again? Lets reboot, install again and, oh well, same prompt. Lets now look at the updates details. Wow! A 365.2MB patch! Theres a link to get more info, click! ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also
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Linus Torvalds: I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease

What else to say? http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html var addthis_pub="guybarrette";... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Microsoft Attacks Sage in ERP Market Battle

Microsoft is taking aim at U.K.-based Sage Software in an attempt to grab a greater stake in the enterprise resource planning software market.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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SQL SERVER 2008 Copy Database With Data Generate T-SQL For Inserting Data From One Table to Another Table

Just about a year ago, I had written on the subject of how to insert data from one table to another table without generating any script or using wizard in my article SQL SERVER Insert Data From One Table to Another Table INSERT INTO SELECT SELECT INTO TABLE. Today, we will go [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Digital Rapids Extends Video Solutions with Support for Microsoft Silverlight 3

Digital Rapids announces support for Microsoft Silverlight 3 in Digital Rapids' comprehensive range of studio encoding, transcoding and live streaming systems. Silverlight 3 support further extends the proven abilities of Digital Rapids' award-winning solutions for delivering unparalleled, high-quality, live and on-demand online video experiences. Silverlight 3 is the newest version of Microsoft Corp.'s powerful platform for creating and delivering rich Internet applications and media exper
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Microsoft Launches SDK for Silverlight Bing Apps

This week Microsoft announced a Bing API application, which is a Silverlight feature that gives users the ability to manipulate Bing results. The software developer kit (SDK), is what Microsoft says the real news is. "This framework is designed to provide support controls for the sample Bing component, but also to provide an additional reusable view control toolkit for implementing and using some of the advanced data metaphors shown in the Bing search component," says Bing API Lead Program
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RIM Releases Web Development Plugins For Eclipse 3.4 & Visual Studio 2008

RIM is taking a few steps forward today by releasing two development tools for the BlackBerry browser. I am still sticking to Dreamweaver but I know that Eclipse and Visual Studio are necessary for more complex projects. Once I get a chance I will be checking out the Eclipse plugin. If you try it first let me know what you think! Details from RIM: The BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse, available today at this link , is a new plug-in that allows developers to create web appli
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PROFESSIONAL VISUAL STUDIO 2008 (WROX PROGRAMMER TO PROGRAMMER)

EAN : 9780470229880 ISBN : 0470229888 Author : Nick Randolph, king Gardner Publisher : Wrox Pub Date : 2008-07-28 Pages : 1032 Language : English Description : Professional Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is the stylish edition in the current phylogenesis of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and this inventiveness examines the different facets of the IDE
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RIM releases new tools for developers creating web apps

RIM have announced new and improved tools for developing web applications for BlackBerry. The new tools include the BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse and the BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio version 1.2. The BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse , will allow developers to create web applications and content more easily and in a familiar Eclipse 3.4 environment. This plug-in opens up more rich internet applications using AJAX, Silverlight, PHP, ASP, Ruby on
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Page Hunt: Silverlight-powered Microsoft Research game

Microsoft Research has launched a new online game
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Apple iPhone Deal With China Unicom Imminent? - Mac Rumors

Fortune summarizes recent fast-moving developments in reports of Apple and China Unicom
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Why Morgan Stanley chose Flash not Silverlight for trading app

Tim Anderson's take on Morgan Stanley's decision to use Flash for their trading application, and what this means for Microsoft and for developers making their own decisions about which display tech to go for.
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RIM Introduces New BlackBerry Tools for Web Developers

Today RIM announced their new and enhanced tools for developing web apps for BlackBerry smartphones. The BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse, available today at www.blackberry.com/developers/webeclipse , is a new plug-in that allows developers to create web applications and content for BlackBerry smartphones within the familiar Eclipse 3.4 environment. Using this plug-in, developers can debug and profile Internet/intranet web pages displaying HTML and CSS content in addition to m
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Interesting Finds: July 28, 2009

Other The TFS MVP Kerfluffle , Jeremy D Miller Unethical behavior , Ayende Rahien My Mistake + Here's Why I Like Team System , Ben Day Improving Mono's compatibility with .NET CLR , Miguel de Icaza Iterator Blocks, Part Six: Why no unsafe code? , Eric Lippert ILMerge , Microsoft Downloads On effects and ubiquitous parallelism , Joe Duffy Windows 7 Creating a bootable/installable Windows 7 (and Vista & Win2k8) USB key the easy way -
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Silverlight 3 Resources Directory - Preview

After working for a couple of hours, I have came up will the application prototype. Click on the image below to open the application.Click here to open the Silverlight Resources Directory Prototype.Development FlowI will firstly focus on the functional features rather and then the user experience. The detailed flow is:Complete all the Silverlight logic using sample data Integrate the system using Drupal. Alpha release to the public Implement the User System Beta release Implement various kind of
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Morgan Stanley: why we didn

I attended an online briefing about Morgan Stanley
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IronPython in Action

IronPython in Action Product Description In 2005, Microsoft quietly announced an initiative to bring dynamic languages to the .NET platform. The starting point for this project was a .NET implementation of Python, dubbed IronPython. After a couple years of incubation, IronPython is ready for real-world use. It blends the simplicity, elegance, and dynamism of Python with the power of the .NET framework. IronPython in Action offers a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to Microsoft
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Radixweb, Software Development Company Becomes ISO 9001:2008 Certified

RadixWeb is an Offshore Software Development Company with ISO 9001-2000 Certification and Microsoft Gold Partner, headquartered in Ahmedabad, India and office at Artesia, USA. We have been delivering offshore outsourcing software development services from more than 10 years. We offer Custom Application & Product Development, System Programming, Embedded Software Development, System Device Drivers, Offshore Development Services, Re-sourcing & Staffing, Quality Assurance & testing Ser
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Free eBook - Developer-Evangelism.com

My first job at Microsoft was as a developer evangelist. The company I ran before I came to Microsoft did a great deal of technical evangelism for ASP, Java, Flash, and others. And many of the folks who read my blog are Technical Evangelists, either as part of their job, or in their work with their developer community of choice. So I wanted to share this super (and free) eBook. http://developer-evangelism.com/ I love the part on Remove the Brand. Hope you enjoy it ! Technorati...
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LINQ FAQ Part 3

LINQ FAQ Part 3... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Prototyping Technique and Tool

While speaking at the USI 2009 conference in Paris, I attended Todd Zaki Warfel paper prototyping session. The purpose of paper prototyping is for a team to create screen mock-ups with simple tools like paper, scissors and Post-Its. Team members would consist of graphic designers, engineers, marketing people and stakeholders. The goal is to produce the mock-ups without relying on software tools because clients often focus on non important stuff instead of functionalities at that... Did you kn
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ASP.NET MVC T-Shirt by CodeClimber

In order to promote our book on ASP.NET MVC and to spread some love for the library itself, for the Italian ALT.NET conference I printed 40 T-Shirts similar to the one that Chad Myers created on Zazzle last year. It was quite an interesting experience, as I didnt know how many people would have been interested in buying such marketing t-shirts. And it turned out that quite a few developers wanted them, as you can notice from the people in the first rows of the room. I ran out of T-Shirts,
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SQL SERVER 2008 Design Process Decision Flow

I was recently invited by a company that is primarily using other RDBMS as their primary database for solutions. It was a different experience for me, as I am used to having pretty good SQL Server Smart crowd in my presentations, but this time there were smart people but no SQL Server experts in front [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look:
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LinQ To Xml retrieve element value by its attribute

LinQ To Xml retrieve element value by its attribute... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Sobees - Twitter and Facebook in Silverlight 3

Switzerland-based deskNET SA has been testing various versions of their Sobees online social interface as well as their social client app bDule for several months now in Alpha. While numerous others have similar products permeating the growing Twitter API client landscape, in this space most notably Tweetdeck and Seesmic , Sobees has garnered a devoted early adopter audience with their products, with reviews appearing on blogs again over the past few weeks. Earlier today, Sobees went to
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Improving Mono's compatibility with .NET CLR

For as long as we remember, most new versions of IronPython, IronRuby or the Dynamic Language Runtime exposed new missing functionality in Mono. After a major release of any of these tools that deeply exercise the internal Reflection.Emit support and the runtime we would implement the missing features and ship a new Mono version. As part of the Microsoft/Novell collaboration on Silverlight for Linux, a couple of months ago, we received from Microsoft the test suite for the Silverl
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iPhone 3GS encryption

Jul.27, 2009 in AppleWired has a report about the iPhone 3GS encryption feature. Jonathan Zdziarski is quoted as saying the encryption is basically worthless; while that quote alone wouldn
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Programming news: iPhone development emergency guide, Embarcadero's great deal

Get highlights about these releases: Dryad, Iliad, Ruby 1.9.1-p243, Ruby 1.9.2 preview 1, Rails 2.3.3, IronPython 2.0.2, Bing#, Gestalt, and the JIRA Connector for Jama Contour. Also, learn about Embarcadero
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Eric Griffin

Eric Griffin
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Silverlight Resources Directory

Having develop Silverlight more than a year, I find that I am lacking of a good management tools to organize all of my Silverlight Resources. For example, suppose I want to add a Gradient Background in one of my control. The xaml coding is somewhat like
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Microsoft Local Impact Map: Surface Edition

After the excellent reception of the Microsoft Local Impact Map Silverlight application, we
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Popfly, Microsoft

From John Montgomery comes word that Microsoft
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ASP.NET Membership Tip: Requiring New Users To Change Their Password When Logging On For The First Time

Most Internet-facing websites that support user accounts allow visitors to register an account on their own. Take a site like Facebook, for example. A visitor who wishes to create a new account may do so by visiting the registration page, choosing a username and password, and entering their email address. Implementing such a workflow in an ASP.NET application is relatively straightforward: enable Membership and then create a registration web page, using a CreateUserWizard control to collect us
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Compress Response And HTML WhiteSpace Remover

Use of GZipStream or DeflateStream to compress your HTML output in your response when available. Added new class as WhiteSpaceFilter to remove whitespaces from HTML... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Think first, 'doing' is for later

In the comments section of Ayende's blog, I recently debated the usage of principles like the ones in SOLID and argued that these principles aren't really the important thing to focus on. Instead, people should focus on thinking. In the Netherlands we have an old saying: "Bezint eer ge begint", which translated to English is something like "Think everything through before you start". Now, before I wake up the anti-Waterfall people, I'd like to add that this post isn't about Waterfall... Did you
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WPC09

If you weren
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Interesting Finds: July 27, 2009

Other Securing Web Services (Even with OOB) , Shawn Wildermuth Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship , Sam Gentile Visual Basic gets some T4 Toolbox love
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Popfly To Shut Down In A Month

Proof that you not only need a good idea and good first execution, but that you need to keep up evolving it as time goes. This is precisely how you could describe Popfly, a site that had the original purpose of providing a way to create Silverlight powered mashlets in the same way you create feed mashups with Yahoo Pipes. Later on as the site was slowly updated and Silverlight evolved to version 2 it became more of a Silverlight Game Engine Editor. So it is now more known for its silverlig
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BlogInto, the new bloginy desktop client is available

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Lots of buzz about MvcContrib!

As the ASP.NET MVC framework gains in adoption (its only been 4 months since the release), many folks are also clamoring to download and use MvcContrib. Ive come across several posts and discussions about using various features of MvcContrib on the web. Ill list them for you here. You can also check out CodeCampServer to see a full project that uses MvcContrib, and there is plenty of content in my book ASP.NET MVC in Action. Elijah Manors blog Grid and model binder post on... Did you k
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Anonymous Types - Dynamic Programming With C#

Anonymous Types are a powerful feature in the .NET language, but are limited when you need to pass that information around. In a previous post I discussed a way to use Reflection to work with your Anonymous Types after they had left their initial scope. In this post I discuss extending the Anonymous... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Linus Torvalds: Microsoft Hatred is a Disease

Ive been doing Open Source stuff for a decade, but I work at Microsoft (They dont call me Misfit for nothing.) There are a few folks in the so called Open Source Community that viscerally HATE Microsoft. Personally I consider this a chosen form of stupidity. I love working at Microsoft and I love many of our products, and I dislike some of the others. I love and use many non-Microsoft products, and hate others. But I do so based on the products attributes. Lest we forget what the origin
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Migration strategy for simple .NET classes to LINQ classes

Migration strategy for simple .NET classes to LINQ classes... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Update to Logging in to DotNetNuke from a Silverlight Application with RIA Authentication

I have made a few changes to the AuthenticationService so that it can be used from any portal and child portals as well. The previous post had a few hard coded variables to get the ball rolling. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Web.Ria; using System.Web.Ria.ApplicationServices; using DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals; using DotNetNuke.Security.Membership; using DotNetNuke.Common.Utilities; using DotNetNuk
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Virtual Windows For all

Do you know about online virtual operating system? most probably many company
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Skinning UIKit (iPhone) Sliders | BIT-101 Blog

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 26th, 2009 at 6:05 pm and is filed under Objective C, iPhone . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Exploding with joy: behind the scenes with

Twisted Pixel has already released one above-average Xbox Live title this year, The Maw . In that game you made friends with what amounts to a living mouth and, while the game was rather short, the personality and twisted humor of the game helped it to stand out. This week Microsoft kicked off the Summer of Arcade with
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92% of Flash users affected by 0-day hole?

Jul.26, 2009 in Security, Short newslinksSecunia released some interesting statistics last week; according to their numbers, at least 92% of the people using their PSI scanner that have Flase Player installed are running a version that is affected by the zero-day attack that was recently discovered. The real number might be even higher; they didn
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Smart Client Technology, Dependency Injection and More with Brian Noyes

This second dose of Bytes by MSDN and TechZulu brings to you Brian Noyes. Brian Noyes is Chief Architect of IDesign, a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, author, and speaker. Brian speaks at many conferences worldwide, including Microsoft TechEd, DevConnections, VSLive!, DevTeach, and others. He is the author of Developing Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation, Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce, Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0, and frequent articles in major magazines. Brian got
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Forum 4.5.3 User Control Panel

In 4.5.3, one of the primary goals was to minimize post backs. This goal was across the entire module, from end users to moderators and module administrators. For moderators and module administrators, finding areas to enhance via Ajax was pretty easy, all we had to do was look at where those users spend a large portion of their time within the module. However, for typical end users the areas a developer can expose an Ajax experience quickly is very limited because... Did you know that DotNetSlac
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WCF 4: Higher Default Throttling Settings for WCF Services

It has been quite a while that I did not write anything. This is because I was fully focusing on WCF 4. Now that we have got most of the work done, it is good time to continue my writing. Starting from this blog entry, I will show you performance related changes in WCF 4. Please let me know what you think about WCF performance and what you would like to see in future releases. When WCF was first released in .NET Framework 3.0, the default values for WCF Service throttling settings such... Did yo
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Interactive Kinship Calculator

Standard Relationship Chart Let
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Amyuni PDF for Silverlight (Freeware)

Use Silverlight to view PDF documents and forms 1 Stimmen
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SQLAuthority News Search SQL Server Solutions

So far, I have written over 1030 articles on my blog, and I have received an astounding 12,000+ comments. Undoubtedly, it has acquired the status of a huge database now!I nearly receive 200+ emails and lots of comments on this blog every day. I do maintain a log of all the comments and emails received. [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look:
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A paged searchable ListBox control in Silverlight 2

(Alberto Venditti) I had the need to use a ListBox control in a Silverlight 2 project to display many items (there were about 1500 players' names), and I faced some big performance problems: when binding the ListBox (just setting its ItemSource property), it takes more and more seconds to render the final control with the items loaded. Something not acceptable from a user experience perspective. Okay, everybody could ask "how useful is to show so many elements to the user"? In fact, also in my o
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Extensible Test Assertions With MSTest VSTS

If you have used more than one unit test framework (i.e. xUnit.NET, NUnit, MSTest/VSTS, etc.), chances are that youll miss features from one when using another. In particular, MSTest/VSTS is lagging behind the crowd as its stuck in an NUnit circa 2002 (2.0) API for assertions and test attributes. This is what happens when you have a product that has to honor backwards compatibility even at the expense of usability and/or evolution of coding styles and API design. Compare that with xUnit.NET, whi
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FIX: Error message together with a System.InvalidOperationException exception when you run an ASP.NET 2.0 application: "Hashtable insert failed. Load factor too high"

969454 ... FIX: Error message together with a System.InvalidOperationException exception when you run an ASP.NET 2.0 application: "Hashtable insert failed. Load factor too high"This RSS feed provided by kbAlerz.com.Visit kbAlertz.com to subscribe. It's 100% free and you'll be able to recieve e-mail or RSS updates for the technologies you pick from the Microsoft Knowledge Base.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already hav
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DotNetNuke Silverlight 3.0 Hello World

The goal of this tutorial is to walk you through creating a simple Silverlight module in DotNetNuke that authenticates the currently logged in user through a web service.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Online Operating System Brings Windows Vista Experience Within The Browser !

Really we don
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Microsoft Expression Studio v3.0.1061

Microsoft Expression Studio v3.0.1061 Microsoft
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Mobile Learning in India | Upside Learning Blog

Six in ten people (more than 4 billion individuals) around the world are carrying a powerful computing device in their pockets and purses. They don
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Webhosting Deals : On High Performance Windows 2008 DotNetPanel Reseller Hosting

Hostgator is the best shared web hosting provider and ThePlanet offers the best dedicated servers for cheap. This web hosting offer posted by SoftsysHosting-Rick on 25 July 2009 Experience Fastest Hosting on our latest Windows 2008 / IIS7 / MS SQL 2008 Hosting Plans with DotNetPanel on our ultra fast server cluster with Quad Processors, 4-8GB RAM & 100Mbps connectivity. Supported Technologies: Classic ASP, ASP.NET (1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5 SP1), PHP 5.2.x, Silverlight, Perl/
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Webhosting Deals : High Performance Windows 2008 DotNetPanel Hosting

Convert Flash Movies To Silverlight: SilverX

SilverX is a free software which aims to help Silverlight designers/developers for converting existing Flash content to Silverlight . It supports most of the Flash
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Whats New In Silverlight 3 Merged Resources

Silverlight 3 provides the ability to manage your various resources in dedicated files and folders, and then merge them together as needed. This allows for far easier scaling of applications and easier reuse of resources. It is easiest to see this at work by creating a small example. Ill open a new application and name it MergedResources1 and Ill create this one in VB. To keep life simple, Im going to use some of the resources I used in the based-on-styles discussion. Ill create a simple layo
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Embed Windows Media Video (WMV) File to Playback with WMP Player on Websites

Windows Media Video (WMV) format is of the widely used video codec formats. WMV codecs were developed by Microsoft to support online streaming videos, WMV Screen and WMV Image, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD-ROM), ForSure-certified online stores and devices. WMV is the only video codec format that supports the Microsoft Silverlight platform. Embedding WMV files and playing them as streaming videos online will be easy after reading this tutorial. WMV video files can easily be created on our
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Darknez Windows XP SP3 DVD Edition July.2009

Darknez Windows XP SP3 DVD Edition July.2009 | 3.38 Gb -------------------- General Information -------------------- Author...............: Darknez Type.................: OS Platform.............: WIN XP Sp3 DVD Image Format.........: .iso Size: 3.39 GB TOTALLY CLEAN BUILD, NOTHING TWEAKED BUT: Unsigned Themes Patch TCPIP set to 1000 Disabled system File Protection Otherwise its a fully Updated, Driver integrated XP Sp3 Enjoy..Darknez Instructions: UnRAR *.iso Burn *.iso Boo
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Windows Vista Kagome Titanium SP2 Edition July.2009 For Designer

Windows Vista Kagome Titanium SP2 Edition July.2009 For Designer | 4.3 Gb MAC OSx -Se7en Style with Office 2010 & Photoshop CS4 . After RED Vista For Gamer.Keosoft & AMC will Release Titanium Vista For Designer Vista Kagome Titanium
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Posts about Lifehacker as of July 24, 2009

The Bookworm
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Augmented Reality Apps to Arrive with iPhone 3.1 Update - Mac Rumors

The LA Times reports that Apple will begin allowing developers access to the tools they need to produce augmented reality applications starting with upcoming iPhone OS 3.1. While there have been m.
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See Carl and I Talk about Behaviors on DNR-TV!

URL : http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?ShowID=144 Recently while in Vancouver for DevTeach, I sat down with Carl Franklin and recorded a couple of DNR-TV episodes. The first one is on Behaviors (and how to write them). If you're interested in Silverlight, Blend or Behaviors...head over the DNR-TV site and take a look. http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?ShowID=144
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Lightstreamer & Valemobi to offer Real-time iPhone Applications in Brazil

Milan, 23rd July 2009
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 22-24, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies.
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XAML Playground: A XAML Designer Built In Silverlight For Gestalt | IRhetoric: Convergence in the Simulacrum!

Seems like I can't get away from writing designer tools. After shipping Glimmer: a jQuery Interactive Designer, I helped out with the Gestalt project and assisted with the XAML Playground.
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Microsoft to Bundle Firefox and Chrome with Windows?

In its effort to detangle itself from the ongoing proceedings of the European Union antitrust case, it seems Microsoft is offering to include rival web browsers in the Windows OS. Revealed in a statement
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Expression Studio 3 LAUNCHED

We announced the official launch of Expression
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Netflix CEO on Growth, Microsoft, Streaming, Redbox & Saturday Shipping

During the Netflix earnings webcast last night Netflix CEO Reed Hastings commented on growth, Microsoft, more streaming titles, Redbox and Saturday shipping: On Market Penetration : "We believe that the inclusion of streaming in our service has broadened the appeal of Netflix and is driving growth in our most highly penetrated market of the San Francisco Bay area where 20.7% of households now subscribe to Netflix versus 9.1% nationally." Microsoft Update : "Microsoft is rolling versio
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MEF With Glenn Block

In this show, we explore the Managed Extensibility Framework or MEF. Our guide is none other than Glenn Block ! Today
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Use PopFly Game Downloader to nab your faves before it shuts down

Filed under: Fun , Games , Utilities , Microsoft , Freeware Microsoft may be pulling the pin on Popfly, but that doesn't mean you have to kiss your favorite games goodbye. What's that you say? You didn't even know there were games on Popfly ? Well, there are - and some are actually pretty fun. Over at Coding4Fun, they've released a handy tool that allows you to save the games you enjoy forever and ever. Or at least until you grow weary and decide it's time to delete them from your
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List of Best Free Mobile Browsers

This post contains a list of Best and Free Mobile Phone Browsers . Download it and have internet on on your finger tip every time! Opera Mini Colorful skins. Faster page downloads. Sync bookmarks and Speed Dial. Download and upload files. Save pages for offline viewing. View pages in Landscape mode. and many more features! Download Opera Mini UCWEB Navigation function to easily access the sites. UC browser offers various search engines, such as Googl
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 11: The Client-Only World

I have had a great time so far with this series.. I hope you have gotten something out of it as well. Some readers have asked me if RIA Services is required for the client validation goodness. Nope, the .NET RIA Services bits are not required
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How Corporations Should Handle Mistakes

Every large corporation, sooner or later, is going to do something bone-head stupid. It is the nature of people to make mistakes now and again, and if you aggregate people into a large organization that affects lots of other people, those mistakes...(read more)
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New Silverlight Site Redesign

We have been working on a new redesign for the silverlight.net site
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Microsoft Expression Studio v3.0.1061-Lz0

This article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our site for full content. Lz0 brought to us the lastest version of this web designers and developers software. Enjoy Description : Microsoft Expression Studio takes your creative possibilities to a new level. The professional design tools and innovative technologies in Expression Studio give you the flexibility and freedom to bring your vision to reality
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Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2, Third Edition

TITLE : Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2, Third Edition TYPE : Computer/Programming AUTHOR : Matthew MacDonald / Mario Szpuszta PUBLISHER : Apress ISBN : 1430215674 PAGES : 1520 pages EDITION : 3rd LANGUAGE : ENGLISH RELEASE DATE: Unknown RELEASE NOTES : ASP.NET 3.5 is the latest version of Microsoft
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Hey You Get Off of My Cloud

Sandwiched neatly between the RealTime is God and RealTime Who Needs It crowds is a new group that embraces both positions while moving forward rapidly. These folks include Brett Slatkin of the PubSubHubub effort and Dave Winer of rssCloud.org. Slatkin and fellow conspirator Brad Fitzpatrick demoed the PSHBB architecture at the RealTime Stream Crunchup, and Winer quickly jumped in with his own implementation. While Winer attacked PSHBB as a Google (and TechCrunch) conspiracy, the rhetoric seemed
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Can the U.S. Government Help Cloud Computing Reach a Tipping Point?

It used to be that large corporations were the biggest boosters of new and cool technologies; more recently the consumer has been driving technology trends. But with the timing of an economic recovery still uncertain and VC dollars hard to come by , it may be the Feds
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Online operating system within Web browser: Windows4all

We have already seen Ghost virtual online operating system , Windows4all is similar online OS powered by Microsoft Silverlight technology. Within web browser, you can access and get feel of an operating system. It has Windows Vista like feel complete with Orb start button and fully loaded sidebar gadgets on the desktop. You can access number of basic applications within this virtual online operating system including: - Internet Explorer to surf web or google around for any information.
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More Halo Legends Details Emerge

The anime compilation Halo Legends was announced yesterday, bringing several legendary Japanese animation studios together to produce short stories based on the popular Xbox 360 franchise. Now we have a few more details based on what we heard at Halo
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Data Access Guidance

A few of us in patterns & practices, with some help from our partners on the Data Platform team have been working on some guidance to help .NET customers build data access layers (DALs). Weve been hearing for a while that data access on the .NET platform is not intuitive and this confusion is related to technology choices, approaches, design decisions, and implementations. So in response, we putting together some guidance that will hopefully reduce the confusion. High-level Description..
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SQL SERVER Maximizing View of SQL Server Management Studio Full Screen New Screen

I had a great, unforgettable time at Teched India 2009 in Hyderabad. I had delivered a successful session on SQL Server Management Studio Best Practices, which created a lot of interest in community. I was truly amazed at the tremendous response I got. I received countless different questions on this subject as soon as the [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silv
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Expression Studio 3, Deep Zoom Composer

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PROFESSIONAL VISUAL STUDIO 2008

Description: Professional Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is the stylish edition in the current phylogenesis of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and this inventiveness examines the different facets of the IDE
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Want to Join the Google Wave Testing Movement?

Want to Join the Google Wave Testing Movement?In: Google| News Article| Web| Web Development| home 23Jul2009 By: cmswire.comHey, remember when Big G revealed Google Wave at this year
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Telerik Eats Own Dog Food, Launches Sitefinity.com

Telerik ( news , site ) launched a new site to highlight the power, flexibility and compatibility of its ASP/.NET-based content management system. The best advertising for any product is to see it in use, which is why Telerik
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Death of Popfly shows the dark side of the cloud

I am not sure what goals Microsoft had for Popfly
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Interesting Finds: July 23, 2009

Other Improving Cold Startup Performance (Prefetch) , Sasha Golshtein Small Companies Need Team System 2008: The Licensing Discussion , Benjamin Day Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers , Jeff Atwood
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How to install the KDE desktop environment in CentOS

CentOS by default uses GNOME as its desktop environment. But for KDE fans, they won
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AT&T to provide the built in wireless access on Barnes & Noble

American operator AT&T will be providing the built in connectivity for the Plastic Logic eBook reader that will be offered by Barnes & Noble in early 2010 said The Wall Street Journal .
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David Lowe Educates Us On The Microsoft Web Platform

In this RunAs Radio podcast , Richard and I talk to David Lowe about the Microsoft Web Platform. The Web platform spans from development and designer tools, through the Web server (IIS) and the databases. David starts out digging into running PHP and mySQL on Windows before moving on into the IIS extensions, including: Application Resource Routing, Dynamic IP Restrictions, Live Smooth Streaming, Windows Media Services and Search Engine Optimization. Check out the Web platform here and the II
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MVC and ORMs for PHP Developers tonight in Burlington, VT

I finally read the abstract for Matthew Weier OPhinneys PHP U.G. talk, Play-Doh: Modeling Your Domain Objects, tonight and realized he is focusing on the MVC design pattern and ORMs. Im looking at my day /evening which still has two more dog walks (I havent been on my bike in over 2 weeks :-(), client work, 2 articles to write, a screencast to create and a major house cleaning preparation for some weekend guests. Boy would I like to steal 4 hours out of the evening to go to Matthews talk and ex
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Azure July CTP

Microsoft has released a new Azure SDK CTP. Basically, workflow is gone. Whats new in the Windows Azure SDK? The Windows Azure SDK supports developing and deploying services containing multiple web and worker roles. A service must include at least one role, of either type, and may include zero or more web roles, and zero or more worker roles. The new PowershellRole sample hosts the Powershell runtime within a Windows Azure role. It demonstrates a simple remote console web... D
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Bill Gates Live in India

Bill Gates will be in Delhi India on 24th i.e tommorow to inaugurate the 5th year anniversary celebrations of the Microsoft Research India and attend a symposium on
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Opening the Flash file format

Summary: Ruminations on differing perceptions.... Earlier this week Adobe opened up the Text Layout Framework (advanced typography available within today's browsers via Flash Player 10) and Open Source Media Framework (component-based construction of video interfaces with advanced functionality), to both source-code publishing and community contribution . The varied reaction was interesting... some thought this was a reaction to Silverlight , others to Ogg Theora or new font-dis
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Getting Started with IronRuby and Silverlight

A great introduction tutorial on building Silverlight applications using IronRuby. Goes through setting up the environment and building a simple drawing application.
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Silverlight 3 and Expressions 3 have escaped!

Yesterday ( 22 July 2009) Microsoft annouced the release to manufacturing of their web design suite Expression version 3. This means that the development tools for Silverlight 3 will be available for developers.Although Silverlight 3 is accourding to Microsoft
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 10: LinqToSql

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services. I have been updating the example from my Mix09 talk
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.NET RIA Services Twitter Pitch

There is the well-known elevator pitch - can you describe something while riding in an elevator? Now we have the twitter pitch - what can you describe in 140 characters? Here was a question on twitter from yesterday: Can someone explain in 140 characters...(read more)
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Preliminary Product Review

NB: This post is not about Silverlight; it is a short digression to share one of the cooler new products I
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Expression Blend 3 released!

On July 10th Scott Guthrie and Soma launched Expression Blend 3 and and SketchFlow, and today, the full version of Expression Blend 3 including SketchFlow was released. You can check out the Expression Web site , and don't forget to download the 60 day...(read more)
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SketchFlow: A Bit of History

SketchFlow, the dynamic prototyping toolset for Expression Blend, has now officially graduated! You can get a trial here. As I always love to see how people, ideas or products evolve, I thought you might enjoy a quick look into the past of SketchFlow...(read more)
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 9: POCO and Authentication Provider

I have gotten lots of good comments on my series updating my Mix09 talk
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11 Storyboard Animation Easing Demonstration

In Silverlight 3, there are a lot of fantastic new features. One of it is the use of Easing Function in your Storyboard Animations....( read more )...(read more)
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Mini-Tutorial

What It Is With element binding, it is now possible to bind the value of one object in your UI directly to a second object, without recourse to binding to a data object or handling events. How You Do It The canonical example (for me) is binding a TextBlock...(read more)
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Katrien De Graeve has a whole bunch of 3 minute videos on Blend 3 and SketchFlow on her blog. And not just in English, but also in French and Dutch. Wow. Thanks Katrien!...( read more )...(read more)
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Silverlight 3 Offline CHM released!

Download the MSDN offline docs for Silverlight 3 here . The CHM is nice if you're offline plus it's faster than the online content, has an index, and only contains Silverlight content. The plan is to update this CHM at the end of every month, so stop...(read more)
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Silverlight Tip of the Day #108

Out of browser support allows Silverlight applications to run as a stand alone application out of the browser. This is especially useful if you have an application that you want to run when you are offline and unable to connect via the browser. Configuring...(read more)
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New controls in Silverlight 3

Silverlight 3 runtime and SDK introduce many new controls. Some of these controls were previously released as part of the Silverlight Toolkit and some are completely new. Regardless of their origins, since they are now part of the Silverlight 3 product...(read more)
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Q&A with Scott Guthrie on Silverlight 3

Read Scott Guthrie
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store

I wanted to continue with the enhancements to my Mix09 talk
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Introducing Rx (Linq to Events)

It
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Essential JavaFX (With Source Code)

Gail Anderson, Paul Anderson " Essential JavaFX (With Source Code) " May 2009 | English | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-704279-1 | 361 Pages | PDF | 5.33 MB A complete introduction for beginners to Sun's powerful JavaFX scripting language JavaFX is a scripting language which provides built-in properties for manipulating objects within a 2D coordinate system. A competing technology to Microsoft's Silverlight, JavaFX provides the tools to fill and pen stroke colors, and create special effects, shapes and li
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Mental Image

Mental Images, creators of MentalRay, have just released RealityServer2.3, a web-based 3D rendering system based on Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). All this means it
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Parsing the

It
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Getting started with C# for Unity3D

Unity3D offers a choice between 3 different programming languages: JavaScript, C# and Boo . Each of them has its pros and cons, but for me C# almost immediately came out as a clear winner. That is because it is fully object oriented and it's syntax is similar to Java and Actionscript 3 , both of which I am experienced with. However, before I started to play with Unity3D, I never wrote a single line in C#, so I had to learn it from scratch. As you probably know C# was originally develope
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Office 2010 FAQ

Office 2010 is the latest version of the Office productivity suite by Microsoft. It has become more richer, streamlined and feature packed than previous versions. New features such as Backstage provide quicker access to various features. Office 2010 is currently in Technical Preview. Here
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Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers

Jonathan Swift, Salvador Alvarez Patuel, Chris Barker, Dan Wahlin,
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FloatableWindow source on CodePlex

I got enough feedback and suggestions that I figured it would be better just to put the code up on CodePlex rather than package zips on my blog :-). Here it is: FloatableWindow project . The latest build I have is up there which incorporates some feedback that I
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Yahoo Offers Redesign as Talks with Microsoft Continue

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentYahoo rolled out a customizable home page design Tuesday amid uncertainty about whether Microsoft and Yahoo may announce a search-advertising deal. The new portal is called Yahoo Front Doors and enables users to build a customized home page and add widgets to display special content like the weather. Direct links to popular sites like Facebook, Twitter and eBay can be added to a My Favorites menu on the left side. It
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Course 2310C: Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Course 2310C: Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 | 5.06 GB Length: 5 Day(s) | Published: April 24, 2008 | Audience(s): Developers | Language: English This five-day instructor-led course will teach introductory-level Web developers the fundamentals of Web application development and best practices for Microsoft Web development technologies, including ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX Extensions, and Silverlight. This course focuses on using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 d
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SharePoint Job Listings: Interesting

I opened up my email this morning and had over 30 job listings coming in from LinkedIn. Holy Smokes! Is the job market really that desperate for SharePoint people? Here
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Ads come to Xbox 360 via your Dashboard

The Xbox 360 dashboard is about to get a whole lot less friendlier thanks to new ads/commercials that will briefly take the place of the usual NXE Windows, as you can see in the video below. To make matters worse, these ads are not static. They are in fact videos (or commercials) and come complete with sound . . . making the Xbox 360 Dashboard as annoying as those video advertisements you see on youtube and other sites whenever you are trying to watch a video. Although there are banner ads as
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Microsoft BizSpark Startup Night - 14 Aug

The next Microsoft BizSpark Startup Night will be held 14 Aug. Look forward to anther evening of networking, discussing Silverlight and XBox 360! Event Details Date: Friday, 14th Aug 2009 Time: 645-9pm Venue: Microsoft Auditorium (Microsoft office, 21st floor) Agenda Business Value and Developer Productivity with Silverlight 3: Tan Choon Ngee / Lee Kai Boo (aZaas) ...
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Press Release - Build Web, Mobile, and Desktop Applications with Speed and Style

PITTSBURGH, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, ComponentOne released ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2009 v2. Studio Enterprise provides a complete suite of custom controls for Windows, Web, and Mobile application development. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080410/NEW078LOGO )The company's second release of Studio Enterprise this year brings new controls, features, and benefits to the developer community. The expansion of their offering for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) debuts
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Xbox Live advertising sparks gamer row

Gamers using Microsoft
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Adobe offers up more Flash technology to open source (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - Adobe Systems will offer more of its Flash rich media application platform up to open source Tuesday, a move viewed by analysts as reactive to the fierce competition Adobe faces in the rich Internet application space from the Microsoft Silverlight platform.No tag for this post.
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Silverlight 3 Bouncing plane gratuitous demo

I
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On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation

As those of you who
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F1 for Silverlight in Visual Studio is still targeting the Beta1 content: Here's a workaround

Unfortunately, the web service that underlies the F1 behavior in Visual Studio is flawed. Specifically when you are trying to find a Silverlight API, the service is promoting the old, v3 beta1 content for Silverlight, and will show you that page (the...(read more)
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Cool New Samples in the Community Gallery!

5 new community samples have been added to the Community Gallery . Check out the DotNeNuke Silverlight Chat Module , use the mouse to position control movement , view a Silverlight Workflow Designer , review Silverlight Financial Charts , and checkout...(read more)
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Bing

Roz Savage, the Ocean Rower I linked to the other day, recently mentioned that she was a feature on Bing.com
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Israeli cable TV provider tries its hand at streaming games on demand

Although it won
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Market development: horizon or mirage?

The recession has sharpened the points of a dilemma that technology vendors were already facing: Do cleave closely to our existing customers, or try to expand outwards? Do we try to sell more into existing account in familiar markets, or do we look for new markets where people are struggling with business problems that look congruent with the ones we're solving for our existing customers? With no obviously correct choices, vendors experiment, to the point where they see real opportunity, or de
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Why I Dislike Classic Or Typical WCF Usage

If you
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TreemapViewer: Building Silverlight Applications on Unix

A few months ago, to get an idea of what contributed to the size of Mono libraries I wrote a small Treemap visualizer using Moonlight: Moonlight's assemblies; area represents the codesize. You can browser the code or get a copy from our AnonSVN repository. There are a couple of tools here: A tool that extracts the sizes of methods for a collection of assemblies (built using Cecil ). A Silverlight control to render treemaps . The code is based on a pa
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Universal Studios to Launch Blu-ray Features on the iPhone

Universal Studios announced today that they would be releasing the first iPhone app to control Blu-ray features in upcoming Blu-ray releases starting with the two-disc Special Edition release of Fast & Furious on July 28. iPhone and iPod Touch owners will be able to control certain features over their local Wi-Fi network and in the [...] Related posts: Apple Opens Up More Ways To Get Paid On The iPhone, Adds Key New Features. Apps Hit 800 Million Downloads. iPhone apps have been down
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Integrating Silverlight 2.0 with Sharepoint MOSS2007

Silverlight is a revolutionary technology and its much in demand these days,Sharepoint is an old player but very extensive and offer a lot of features which make it alluring for medium to large enterprise. Sharepoint already provide a lot of out-of the box features but as silverlight is catching up every now and then you will have a requirement from the client to integrate silverlight with sharepoint. So in this article i will tell you how to integrate silverlight with sharepoint.Altho
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ESRI

A couple people asked me at the ESRI UC what I thought about the ESRI MapIt announcement and how it related to MapDotNet and IDV Solutions products. Both MapDotNet and IDV Solutions have great products and really impressive support teams so don
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Programming news: Oracle patches, Azure pricing, OpenAmplify 1.1 released

Get news highlights about Oracle
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Xbox Live infiltrated by ads and commericals

It
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Apps for Windows

If Twitter clients weren
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Ads with sound hit Xbox 360 dashboard

Well, how
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Netflix Adds Enhanced Streaming, But Not 'Smooth Streaming'

The enhancements to Netflix's streaming on Xbox Live will not include the implementation of Microsoft Silverlight's Smooth Streaming technology
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Simple Example of Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in Silverlight

As you may have heard, we recently shipped MEF support of Silverlight in our CodePlex drop .. I wanted to give you a very simple introduction to MEF and how to use it in Silverlight. This example will show how to use lose coupling, dependency injection and delay loading of components. This is also an update to my Simple MEF example from a few months ago as just about everything here applies to WPF, WinForms and ASP.NET apps as well. The demo requires (all 100% free): VS2008 SP1
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The Great Video Instruction Debate

Over the past year or so I
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My new home page, enhanced [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!]

In the time since posting my last collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links , there's been some great activity! Of particular significance, the June 2009 WPF Toolkit includes the same Data Visualization goodness that was introduced for Silverlight...(read more)
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Silverlight 3 Navigation: Adding transitions to the Frame control

Continuing with my recent theme of enhancing the built-in support for Navigation in Silverlight 3, I thought I
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Silverlight and Making a Statement on Twitter

A little bit of weekend fun with Twitter and your avatar image... using Twibbon to spread the Silverlight "Light up the Web" message... [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
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Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 supports Windows 7, Vista, XP SP3

This package is an add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 3 . It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1, and it provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic. Note : One of the prerequisites for Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio is the installation of the Visual Web Developer feature in Visual Studio 2008 SP1. If VWD is not alr
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Video: New Xbox 360 ads invade dashboard

Earlier this month Microsoft revealed it was planning to place adverts on the Xbox 360 dashboard , promising they won
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Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 30730.126

Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is a useful package that is designed to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 2. It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1, and it provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# [...]
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marketing

NewsNew Dashboard Commercials Bring Ad Breaks To Your 360By Luke Plunkett on July 20, 2009 at 10:30 PM As many of you have no doubt probably seen by now if you
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.NET, Silverlight, Windows Azure, and other ramblings (from the UK

Silverlight: iPhone Apps. So this was a tweet I picked up from @scottGu who picked it up from @techarch (by the way my twitter address is @chrishayuk). So the Mono folks are working on a version of Mono that can compile to the iPhone
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The Morning Brew #393

Software Welcome NHibernate 2.1.0 - The NHibernate Team announce the GA release of NHibernate 2.1 GA, along with the news that the NHibernate 2.1.x releases will be the last releases to target .NET 2.0 IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 beta released - Steve Schofield shares the news that the beta release of the IIS7 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 has been released by the IIS team. Available as a standalone install or through the Web Platform Installer this rules based rewriting engine allows you
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LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation

On July 30th @ 8pm I will be doing a virtual talk at the Linked .NET User
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Seven Hours of Feynman Lectures Free Online

Seven Hours of Feynman Lectures Free Online : Bill Gates bought the rights to Richard Feynman
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SILVERLIGHT 2 UNLEASHED

Product Description Full Color Code samples materialize as they do in Visual Studio and Expression Blend! Printed all in color, with adjuvant figures and structure foodstuff to attain cipher samples materialize as they do in Visual Studio and Expression Blend! Silverlight is Microsoft
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Links (7/19/2009)

SharePoint ****
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Silverlight Modal Dialog With Custom User Controls

The Silverlight code sample below shows one way to launch custom user controls in a ModalDialog without the standard windows border or X to close the window. It also automatically centers the ModalDialog. read more By Robbe Morris Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Using the latest Web Testing Tools along with the latest RadControls

Closely monitoring the customer feedback on our web testing tools , I noticed that various issues have actually been caused by outdated versions of the RadControls used along with the most recent testing tools versions. Please note that we highly recommend using the versions of RadControls and the testing tools from the exact same release . Let me explain why. I completely understand why customers do not always upgrade their applications with the latest RadControls (at least not immediately)
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Url.Action() and RouteValue Encoding

As Im working though my first MVC application Ive run into a few problems with creating URLs based on special characters. Heres a specific example, where I need to create links from a list of tags. In the example above a list like C#,ASP.NET,MVC is turned into a list of links that looks like this: The tags are stored as a simple comma delimited string and are split and turned into links using the UrlHelpers Action() method. The following is an extension method on my application specific UrlHe
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Quick Look Windows 7 in the Workplace - Remote Desktop

Many years ago computing was very stationary in the sense that you were often tied to your computer at work or home. Over the years, with the increase in network connectivity, users were able to embrace technologies such as Remote Access giving them the ability to access PC's and Server's remotely, anywhere, anytime. Although Remote Access became a reality there were still some problem's that persisted: ease of use and user experience. Then came along Remote Desktop software, which also faced it
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IPTV English News by InformITV (20/07/2009)

IP Vision FetchTV version of BBC iPlayer A new digital video recorder is about to go on sale in the shops, offering a combination of broadcast and broadband programmes, including video-on-demand services, with no ongoing subscription. The FetchTV Smartbox has been developed by IP Vision, which is backed by the French company Netgem. Providing access to BBC iPlayer programming on the television, it appears to offer the sort of service envisaged by the BBC Canvas project. Former DirecTV execu
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Silverlight 3.0 RTW

As you might already know Silverlight 3 RTW is out and with it the great power of Silverlight 3 was unleashed. The main features made available are: Tools Expression Blend 3 RC Ability to Import Photoshop and Illustrator SketchFlow State Management Visual Studio 2010 Still in Beta 1 version but with a strong design tools for Silverlight Controls DataForm Simple control that enabled a flexible way to display data of a si
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Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories, Memes and Moments (18-July-2009)

The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler. Highlights of the Week Nuxeo Galaxy: Extending Enterprise CMS to CEVAs . Nuxeo being quite a busy bee lately, launched their Galaxy Program. No, astronautical adventures are not included. Plone Web CMS Update - What
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Coming Soon: Wire Draw for iPhone | BIT-101 Blog

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 18th, 2009 at 10:03 am and is filed under iPhone . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Microsoft and Yahoo close ad deal

Microsoft and Yahoo close ad deal
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Interesting Finds: July 18, 2009

Other Solving 2 pesky Windows behaviors , Patrick Smacchia A Quick Description of MEF , Kathleen Dollard Tuning ConnectionBufferSize , Nicholas Allen Realtime Reading of Windows Internals , Dmitry Vostokov Anemic Domain Model Anti-Pattern , Salvador Gascon Upgrading my Lenovo W500 to a OCZ Vertex 250GB SATA II Solid State Disk (SSD) , Scott Hanselman Great Explanation on Why 32 Bits Instead of 64 , Mauro SantAnna MEF and XAML integration
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ESSENTIAL JAVAFX

Product Description A rank launching for beginners to Sun
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Sample The Web

R eminder: this list is largely culled from taking a look at my 500+ feeds in Fever
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Interesting Finds: July 19, 2009

Other What
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Simple Silverline Video Pla

We need a very very simple Silverlight video player We need to use this player to two application in our website 1 Showing our live MMS stream mms 94 21 6 23 8 81 2 Showing our
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Extensible Templates in Deep Zoom Composer

In the previous post , I started talking about some of the collection-related improvements we made in Deep Zoom Composer. The crux of that post was describing how you can defer to the Silverlight application the task of arranging and positioning your images. Deep Zoom Composer ships with one basic template, based on my earlier Tag Browser, that handles simple arrangement of like-sized images during runtime. Of course, there are many more things that you may want to do beyond just having ite
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Superior Windows Xp X64 Edition (64 Bit) Revival 6 2009

Description: This is a clean SECURE thoroughly tested A/V & IT Expert
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Parallel Computing on Azure

Interesting blog post from May-Jo Foley where she writes about parallel computing projects from Microsoft Research called Dryad and DryadLINQ and how Microsoft envision them to run on Azure. var addthis_pub="guybarrette";... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Introducing LINQ to M

Now , it happens that you go to McDonalds website order an item for you. It could happen that price of the menu changed or new one comes to the menu. Now, generally it can happen that admin can go though wizard and loads of textboxes or dropdowns to make the changes or he/she can just write as if he/she is writing in some text editor and everything else is taken care of on behalf. Textual DSL is a powerful tool that might become the future of how we communicate to computer systems. Well, things
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LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 7/13/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles. Entity Framework and Entity Data Model (EF/EDM) Jason Short reports VistaDB 3.6 Preview Build 87 with Entity Framework Support is available on 7/18/2009 We have not decided if we are going to leave the EF in the 3.6 edition when we release, or if it will continue to be a Preview technology. It all depends on the feedback we get from the community. The Entity Framework D
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links for 2009-07-18

Project Tuva: Enhanced Video Player Home
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New in Silverlight 3: Perspective Transforms

3d Perspective Transform In addition to the transforms that were available in Silverlight 2 (translate, skew, etc.) you can now apply perspective transforms to any Silverlight Element to create 3D images and animation. We have a two part video on how...(read more)
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Simple Styles for Silverlight

This is a long time coming. I finally created a version of Simple Styles that is designed for Silverlight. Woohoo! This was a rewrite, a complete departure from the WPF Simple Styles and it may still be a little rough around the edges so please send me...(read more)
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 8: WCF Based Data Source

More updates on my Mix09 talk
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Building Silverlight 2 and 3 applications with Visual Studio 2008

As we
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Watch Dr. Richard Feynman making Physics fun in Project Tuva, a Silverlight-based, rich media experience

Explore the natural laws of physics as explained by the brilliant and dynamic Dr. Richard Feynman , American physicist, Nobel laureate, author and humorist in his classic "Messenger Series" of lectures from 1964. Project Tuva is the Silverlight-based...(read more)
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Silverlight 3 unit test framework binaries available

Two weeks ago, I posted the July 2009 release of the Silverlight Unit Test Framework online for folks looking for updated bits. Of course, the real gem is the Silverlight 3 version. Now that Silverlight 3 has shipped, you should definitely look at moving...(read more)
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Silverlight.FX Updated for Silverlight 3

First build of Silverlight.FX on top of Silverlight 3 with updates/enhancements ready - new features include ApplicationContext class, new Float/Spin3D effects, and Back/Forward integration. [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
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Bringing the Silverlight Toolkit's TreeMap to WPF [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 0]

Now that Data Visualization is part of the Silverlight Toolkit and the WPF Toolkit , it has an official release vehicle for both platforms of interest. This is great because it means that any customers who need to be running signed bits from an official...(read more)
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Hey! There Is Such A Thing As A Free Lunch!

Free eBook: Chris Anderson: The Kindle Store ASIN : B002DYJR4G You have to respect a man who believes in his message. Chris Anderson , author and editor in chief of Wired Magazine , and formerly Internet Editor at the Economist , has followed...(read more)
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Xbox Live update detailed: Games on Demand, Netflix queue/Movie Party, and more

click for gallery of new Xbox dashboard features Microsoft just dropped some details on the upcoming Xbox Live Dashboard update which begins rolling out later this summer - first, and perhaps most notably, we'll hit what won't be in this update: Facebook, Twitter , and Last.fm support, along with Zune video and 1080p Instant On video functionality. Those are coming in "future Xbox Live updates" Microsoft assures us. "Updates" plural , eh? So, what is included? The Games on Demand
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Microsoft Shuts-Down Its PopFly Mashup Tool

Microsoft has announced that in late August it will be discontinuing availability and support for PopFly , its once popular mashup creation tool. As some of you may remember, we originally covered PopFly in May, 2007 , shortly after its release as a developer preview. PopFly
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Microsoft Had a Yahoo Pipes Competitor?

Covering social media almost exclusively as long as I have, it
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Links (7/16/2009)

SharePoint SharePoint Surveys
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Microsoft proclaims: Silverlight sucks, don't waste your time with it

It's always nice to be reminded that Justice Gray doesn't just influence individual developers, but in fact also determines the direction of major corporations. That's the other big message - aside from the one in the post title - that Microsoft has given the industry, by showing everyone that Office 2010 has been written entirely in Javascript ! That is right, Silverlight now joins the ranks of other hallowed languages/applications like J# and Visual Sourcesafe in the realm of "things that
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LIDNUG: Tim Heuer presentation recording now available on www.lidnug.org

The recording of Tim Heuer
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Video Advertising Innovator EyeWonder Supports Launch of Microsoft Silverlight 3

As a driver of in-stream video advertising adoption, EyeWonder works with Silverlight to provide engaging user experiences that allow publishers to monetize their content and create new ad space ATLANTA
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HeadTraxExtreme Sample Application Updated

David Anson has posted about an "extreme" update for the Silverlight 3 release . A few weeks ago I wrote about an "app building" exercise we did on the Silverlight Toolkit team to help test our controls and identify potential issues with Silverlight 3 before it was released. My contribution to that effort was HeadTraxExtreme, an organizational hierarchy viewer loosely based on an internal tool . That blog post has been fairly popular, and I wanted to update the sample code for the recent
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Exploding Objects in Silverlight with a Behavior

Peter Blois explains about one of his favorite things to do with behaviors - to make interfaces explode . I've been doing this for years and it never fails to lighten up my day. With behaviors in Blend 3 and perspective transforms in Silverlight 3 I was finally able to make an decently gratifying explode behavior.
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms

In this part Brad Abrams shows a demo that will take the Application logic he created in his Mix09 talk and put a REST based web service head on it with ADO.NET Data Services. This might be useful if an application starts as a simple RIA Application but later you discover that you want to add a more explicit services layer to enable a wide range of clients to access your application. Luckily all your investment in the server application logic continues to work. Just to show off the po
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Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight (Prism-v2) Reference Implementation Using Silverlight 3 Validation

In this post Damian Schenkelman compares the validation provided by the RI to the one that comes with Silverlight 3 . I came up to the conclusion that the approach provided by p&p is pretty similar to one of the approaches Silverlight 3 allows related to validation. You can watch this video about Silverlight 3 Validation which explains some of the possibilities you have. After that I decided to replace the RI
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Death sells

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Posts about Steve Jobs as of July 16, 2009

When Man Went On the Moon - ibabuzz.com 07/16/2009 This morning, 40 years ago, Apollo 11 was cleared for liftoff and would begin a mission that would forever be remembered by people around the world for generations to come: when man went on the moon. Fast forward almost half a century later and America finds itself uninspired in a thwarted space race. Our country has lost its drive for something greater and otherworldly and instead focuses on war and repairing an economy in turmoil.
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Silverlight Helper (With out of browser capability)

Originally, I just want to make a simple application to test over the out of browser feature. However, I came up something more interesting and useful. It
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Dreaming of RIA Services - Literally

I was having a hard time sleeping last night so I got up and did some work. I started reading up on RIA Services on Brad Abrams' blog and Nikhil Kothari's . I needed a refresher from the last time I dug into them just before TechEd. I'm really excited about RIA Services because they bridge a very frustrating gap when working with ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria). I finally went back to sleep and dreamt that Brad and some other's from Microsoft were at my user group ( www.vtdotnet.org )
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Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight

One thing that often comes up when developing Silverlight applications is the desire to share entity classes between Silverlight and server-side code in WCF. .NET RIA Services handles the sharing for us automatically. But you
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All about Silverlight 3.0, SketchFlow, and More

An overview of Silverlight 3.0, Expression SketchFlow, and several new customer uses of the Silverlight stack.
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Interactive Microsoft Partner Website Widget

Microsoft is offering a new set of free interactive web tools
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DeepZoom fixoutlook

I haven
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Website Designers loacated in Tulsa Oklahoma now offering state of the - PR Inside

Website Designers loacated in Tulsa Oklahoma now offering state of the - PR Inside 2009-07-15 18:42:01 - Website Designers loacated in Tulsa Oklahoma now offering state of the art search engine optimization services at a reduced rate. Tulsa Websites and SEO Supernova Broadcasting releases panamaNET information technology - pressbox.co.uk Supernova Broadcasting releases
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Demo Videos from Blend/SketchFlow Launch Online

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsAZjb7FKXA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ErrS68YMM...( read more )...(read more)
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Who's Using Expression? Stimulant

Stimulant worked with Microsoft and StepChange to create "MIXr", a Silverlight-based application, in only 6 weeks using the Microsoft
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Take your ideas from concept to completion with Expression Blend 3

Expression Blend 3 revolutionizes the speed and efficiency you can take your ideas from concept to completion on the Silverlight and .NET platforms. Concepts and ideas can live through the project end-to-end, reducing redundancy, enhancing creativity...(read more)
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Silverlight 3 Navigation: Navigating to Pages in dynamically-loaded assemblies

In my last post on the new navigation feature in Silverlight, I explored how you can navigate to pages in assemblies/projects referenced by your main application. Almost immediately, a number of you asked how you can navigate to pages in assemblies...(read more)
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An "extreme" update for the Silverlight 3 release [HeadTraxExtreme sample application updated]

A few weeks ago I wrote about an "app building" exercise we did on the Silverlight Toolkit team to help test our controls and identify potential issues with Silverlight 3 before it was released. My contribution to that effort was HeadTraxExtreme , an...(read more)
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Improved Collection Support in Deep Zoom Composer

A couple of days ago, we released another version of Deep Zoom Composer. One of the major changes we made revolved around dealing with large collections of images, and this was something that Deep Zoom Composer never handled particularly well in the past...(read more)
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Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RC Overview

Last Friday we announced the public release of the Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow Release Candidate and Silverlight 3 RTW. If you haven
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Spotted First SketchFlow Prototype in the Wild :)

I spotted my first SketchFlow prototype running on a public-facing web site (without the player, but with a description): http://www.silverlightbuzz.com/ One note: If you like running storyboards as part of a screen, also consider using Visual States...(read more)
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 4: SEO, Export to Excel and Out of Browser

More from my Mix09 talk
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The Weekly Source Code 44 - Virtu, an Apple Emulator in C# for Silverlight, WPF and XNA

I really advocate folks reading as much source as they can because you become a better writer by reading as much as writing. That's the whole point of the Weekly Source Code - reading code to be a better developer. Reading code in Open Source projects...(read more)
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Silverlight 3: Cached Assemblies and you can to!

One of the new features I mentioned in my What
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Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Preview 6: V1 Feature Complete Silverlight Support and Much More!

Today we released MEF Preview 6 on codeplex . Not only is this the feature complete build for MEF V1.0 (which will ship with .NET Framework 4) but it also has the first drop of MEF for Silverlight! Nick has the best summary of what is new...(read more)
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Silverlight 3 Controls Sample App

Want a quick reference and simple example of how to use all the cool controls in Silverlight 3? Check out the Silverlight Toolkit Samples The best part is not only can you run it as a quick reference and get a feel for how the controls work, but...(read more)
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First Book on SketchFlow: A Chapter Available for Download

Sara Summers and Chris Bernard are writing a book on SketchFlow. Yay, thank you! You can get a free chapter including tutorial projects at http://www.dynamic-prototyping.com/....( read more )...(read more)
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 3: Authentication

More update on my Mix09 talk
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Rating Control: Netflix Style

In his recent post blog , Jafar Husain did a nice introduction to the Rating Control which we shipped with the July edition of the Silverlight Toolkit. Jafar and I (the PM) spend quite a bit of time on this control making sure we provide a very powerful...(read more)
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Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 Released - Free Download

Microsoft has released their newest version of Silverlight plugin for internet browsers, version 3.0 with slogan
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Microsoft releases Silverlight 3 (Macworld.com)

Macworld.com - Microsoft has released Silverlight 3, a major new release of its multimedia software for Mac OS X and Windows â competition for Adobeâs Flash software. Itâs a free download, compatible specifically with Intel-based Macs (an older version is available for PowerPC based systems).
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Download Silverlight 3.0 build 3.0.40624.0

Silver Light adalah salah satu web browser plugin yang bersaing dengan tekhnologi seperti Adobe Flash Player. Meski saat ini belum banyak yang situs yang menggunakan tekhnologi SilverLight, tapi tidak ada salahnya jika dari sekarang kita menginstallnya. Karena dalam waktu dekat ini pasti akan banyak situs yang menggunakan teknologi ini. Silverlight 3.0 build 3.0.40624.0 telah direlease oleh Microsoft pada 09 July 2009 dan sudah dapat didownload oleh public. Jika anda ingin mendownlo
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Interesting Finds: July 12, 2009

Other Google Stealing Apple
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SEO Experts Weblinx Generate Great Success at London

SEO Experts Weblinx Generate Great Success at London
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Thanks Everyone: The Real Time CrunchUp + The August Capital Summer Party.

Thank you to all of you who came out to support the 2009 Summer CrunchUp! We broke 600 attendees to the Real Time Stream CrunchUp, double our initial expectations, and we hosted lots more of you at the August Capital outing. In typical TechCrunch style, it was a work-hard, play-hard day. Thank you to all our CrunchUp speakers for investing your time with us to talk about new trends, boundaries and your passions. Plus we fit in 22 new product highlights from start-ups and big internet companie
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Watch UFC 100 Online, Free Live Streaming Of UFC 100 Replay
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MVVM

There
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FOUNDATIONS OF POPFLY: RAPID MASHUP DEVELOPMENT

ashups are big; everybody and their canid are creating newborn and engrossing structure of consortium aggregation on the Web. But if every the speech of APIs and Byzantine cipher leaves you cold, you
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Build ReST based Web Services in .NET/C#

A ReST based Web Service for C#.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Application Pools on IIS 6.0

Improve your web application performance using Application Pools... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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The MethodLinq concept

There are now a lot of Linq providers around that do various different things. However, some interfaces were never meant to have linq. In fact there are particular APIs out there that we struggle to use without even thinking about adding linq. The idea here is that what if there was a linq provider that was able to build and pass parameters into complex methods and interfaces. Why on Earth would you want to do this? Well, some interfaces, for example web services can end up with generate de
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Building a 3-Tier App with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services and Azure Table Storage

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building a 3-tire Azure hosted application using Silverlight 3 (presentation tier), .NET RIA services (business logic and data access), and Windows Azure Table (data storage).... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Silverlight 3 Navigation: Navigating to Pages in referenced assemblies

At long last, Silverlight 3 has arrived! That, in and of itself, is worth a thousand blog posts, but since there
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NibblesTutorials: Beautiful New Tutorials On Blend and SketchFlow

Celso Gomes, who is an extraordinary designer on my team in the Expression Blend world, has updated his great tutorial site, all in Silverlight of course. There are now some great tutorials based on the new samples that ship with Expression Blend 3. See...(read more)
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UI Virtualization

Today’s post is motivated by a scenario that’s common in business applications: displaying and interacting with a large data set. We’ll quickly run into performance problems if we use the na
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Posts about Lifehacker as of July 11, 2009

Posts about Lifehacker as of July 11, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/12/2009 Posts about Lifehacker as of July 11, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/12/2009 Posts about Lifehacker as of July 11, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/11/2009 Posts about Lifehacker as of July 11, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/11/2009 Top 10 Tips and Tricks for Better Coffee [Lifehacker Top 10] - folktrash.com 07/11/2009 Coffee doesn
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Silverlight 3 Is Here: Smoother Video, Better Web Apps

Microsoft releases Silverlight 3, the free plug-in for video and audio content on the web, and its answer to competing technology like Adobe Flash. The upgrade improves Silverlight's streaming capabilities, and it offers developers new tools for building webapps that run outside of the browser.
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Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 RTW

Microsoft Silverlight is one of the largest competitor of Adobe Flash today. Silverlight is a web based framework from Microsoft house and recently it launched it
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Dew Drop (Weekend Edition)

Silverlight / WPF Silverlight 3 Released (Scott Guthrie)
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LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 7/6/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles. Entity Framework and Entity Data Model (EF/EDM) Gunnar Piepman explains Entity Framework 4.0: How to use POCOs in this 7/11/2009 post: Entity Framework 4.0 will provide us with POCO support. That
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Some tips on finding good small business web design

Web designs are presentations of the content and layout of a website that are made available to the end-users via World Wide Web. Today, any business, whether it is large scale or small, requires a website to reach out to its prospective customers and clients. A skillfully created yet simple small business web design will work wonders for generation of its sales or revenue and consequently aid the expansion of that particular small business. The web designs are made obtainable to the end-users
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US Olympic Committee to launch TV network in 2010 - Reuters

US Olympic Committee to launch TV network in 2010 - ReutersNew York Times US Olympic Committee to launch TV network in 2010ReutersCHICAGO (Reuters) - The United States Olympic Committee will launch a cable television network devoted to Olympic and Paralympic Games next
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Latest Blender Related Sightings

Here are the latest Blender sightings: Several people have spotted Microsoft using Big Buck Bunny for their online demonstration for the Silverlight browser plug-in. Spotted by Syndic3d: Fixstars Co. (based in Japan) and Broadcast International produces hardware and software for broadcast video encoding; using the Cell processor as its core feature to encode HD videos. They have [...]
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Bloggers held on hooliganism charges in Azerbaijan: rights group (AFP)

AFP - Two bloggers in Azerbaijan have been ordered detained for two months pending trial on hooliganism charges, media rights group Reporters Without Borders said Saturday. See the original post: Bloggers held on hooliganism charges in Azerbaijan: rights group (AFP) a2a_linkname="Bloggers held on hooliganism charges in [...]
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Microsoft Silverlight 3 released with eye on SEO

When Microsoft released Silverlight, the thought of them trying to compete with Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash seemed crazy, but as the software has evolved, we
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[Microsoft] Silverlight 3 Released,Makes better use of your hardware.

Microsoft has released Silverlight 3 to the world. Silverlight is also known in the tech world as a
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 2: Rich Data Query

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the brand new update to .NET RIA Services and the update the example from my Mix09 talk building business applications with Silverlight 3. You can watch the original video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008) Silverlight 3 RTM .NET RIA Services July '09 Preview Also, download the full demo files and check out the running application. Today, we will... Did you k
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Using SSL in your application

One of the ways to add another security level to our application is to use SSL. SSL gives the ability to encrypt messages between two endpoints. If you will search the web youll probably notice that this ability is given to you [almost] out of the box. If you are already using IIS as your web server and you want to add this security level, all you need to do is to check some check boxes in your web site configuration. In order to accomplish the configuration part you will be asked to provide a
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What Lies Beneath (your csproj file & TFS builds)

Weve recently setup an automated build to our source tree for a project Im working on. The transition took some time as the process of creating an automated build revealed various inadequacies in our project and solution structure. But after a bit of effort, it was all working and we moved on. Or so we thought; we started getting errors about not being able to find a type when running certain services locally. We checked the type names and even used the assembly binding log viewer fuslogvw
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Silverlight 3 Hits the Street

Microsoft Silverlight 3 was released today and is now available for download , as is the Release Candidate for Expression Blend , while the associated Expression Studio 3 tool suite will be available within 30 days. This media and rich Internet application solution, along with Microsoft Visual Studio, provides a highly collaborative development and design environment that simplifies the process of delivering engaging user experiences. Silverlight remains a free runtime that almost anyone c
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Silverlight 3.0 Released, Allows Apps Outside the Browser

TopNews United States Silverlight 3.0 Released, Allows Apps Outside the Browser Slashdot Many different sources are reporting that Microsoft has unleashed the third major version of Silverlight to the masses. With 3.0 we see things like better 3D graphics support, the ability to offload tasks to a GPU, and the ability to run apps outside
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Microsoft hopes users see the (Silver) light

At an event in San Francisco, Microsoft launches the latest version of Silverlight, its would-be rival to Adobe's Flash.
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Silverlight 3 Released! What is new/changed?

Alas, Silverlight 3 is released ! It has been a long road
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Three Years and Three Versions

Silverlight 3 just shipped! 3 is so much bigger than 2. See Scott's post announcing the release to web (RTW) and outlining the major features. Microsoft.com/silverlight gets a facelift. Goodbye dusk (theme), hello dawn. Be sure to check out the overview...(read more)
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Silverlight 3 Released

Today we officially shipped the final release of Silverlight 3. Silverlight 3 Features Silverlight 3 is a major update and delivers a ton of new features and capabilities. Some of the new Silverlight 3 runtime capabilities include: HD Media Silverlight...(read more)
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TODAY ONLY - Win a free pass to the Patterns & Practices Summit

Telerik is giving away a free pass to the 2009 PNP Summit ($1900 value) along with a Telerik Premium Collection license TODAY. To be in the drawing for the big prize, you need to attend the last of
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Silverlight out-of-browser apps: How Updates Work

Silverlight makes updating your out-of-browser XAP a breeze. It does the heavy lifting for you, asking that you merely invoke the update logic from within your app at a time or frequency of your choosing, and respond to events raised by Silverlight. If...(read more)
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Get Silverlight 3 and Microsoft Expression 3 Now

Today we announce the availability of Silverlight 3 and Microsoft Expression 3. With version 3, Silverlight rounds out a feature list that delivers innovation and benefits to key areas of rich internet applications, including: Support for true high definition...(read more)
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Creating a Minimal Workspace for SketchFlow

With Blend 3, we have made the Blend UI much more configurable. Panels can now be docked and undocked, and the panels can be set to
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SketchFlow Map: A Mini Tutorial, Part I

This is a very brief tutorial on how to use the SketchFlow Map. If you don’t know yet what SketchFlow is: SketchFlow is a fun, informal, flexible, quick and powerful way to sketch and prototype rich, dynamic interactivity with Expression Blend....(read more)
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Silverlight 3 has Released!

WHOOT! Here's some links to get you synced up: - Scott Guthrie's Silverilght 3 kick off announcement - What's New in Silverilght 3 - Get Started (e.g. get new tools, SDK, runtime, tutorials, other links) - Breaking Changes (good to read if you're migrating...(read more)
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See the Light: Silverlight 3 & Expression 3 Launch

Today, in the heart of Silicon Valley, Microsoft is announcing the latest release of the Silverlight browser plug-in and the upcoming availability of Expression 3 design tools. The live launch event is headlined by a keynote speech presented by S. Somasegar...(read more)
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Silverlight Charting gets an update - and a TreeMap! [Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 release now available!]

We've just published the July 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit to help celebrate today's release of Silverlight 3 ! Silverlight 3 includes a wide variety of new features that significantly enhance the platform and make developing powerful applications...(read more)
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Silverlight 3 Ships

Silverlight 3 is out in the wild!! (team-signed poster in my office) Links to all the good stuff: Developer Runtime (pc, mac) SDK (link) VS Tools (link) Expression Blend RC (link) July Toolkit (link) Some of the new Silverlight 3 features include
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Silverlight 3 + .NET RIA Services July Preview

Silverlight 3 is here!!! The Silverlight platform has come a long way (in a relatively short period of time) from a scriptable graphics and media runtime into a full-fledged platform for developing Rich Internet Applications, using managed code, the goodness...(read more)
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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 1: Navigation Basics

With Silverlight 3 shipping and a brand new update to .NET RIA Services I thought I would update the example from my Mix09 talk
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Is your career THRIVING

Thrive
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Who's Using Expression? McCann Worldgroup

Using high-definition video in Silverlight, and Microsoft Expression for web design, McCann Worldgroup created "The Server Unleashed" an online ad campaign to promote Windows Server 2008. Who's Using Expression? McCann Worldgroup...( read more )...(read more)
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Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, a memorial

Today represents a significant moment in music history, as millions of eyes focus on one single event
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Designing a Glassy Button using Expression Design

Learn the simple recipe to design the look of a glassy button. It is a very simple process as you will discover and surprisingly easy to replicate even for the non-designer. Designing a Glassy Button using Expression Design Click these links to download...(read more)
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LIVE, HD broadcast of the Michael Jackson memorial using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight

Tomorrow, July 7 th , 10AM PT, 1PM ET
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Day #7: Using WCF Web Services With Silverlight (and LINQ)

This is the 7th post in a series of " 31 Days of Silverlight ." Today I'm going to show how to create a simple WCF service, and consume it from a Silverlight application. Talking to data services is something you're going to need to do quite often, which is why I've spent two consecutive posts talking about it. Create your Silverlight application I'm going to start from the beginning. First, we need to create a new Silverlight project. I'm naming mine JBWCFService. We will then be pro
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Michael Jackson Memorial Live with Silverlight

I just heard that the Michael Jackson Memorial, which happens tomorrow, July 7 th , 10am PST, will be streamed live in HD from the Staples Center in Los Angeles using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight.
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See the Light

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Mouse Events in Silverlight

In this 1st post of his 31 Days of Silverlight series, Jeff Blankenburg explains how to work with the different mouse events (MouseEnter, MouseLeave, MouseLeftButtonDown, MouseLeftButtonUp, and MouseMove) in Silverlight.
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Microsoft removes a hurdle for Mono

July 6th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 6:08 pmCategories:.Net Framework, Development tools, Legal, Linux, NovellTags:Mono, Novell Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Icaza, Moonlight, Ramji, Mary Jo, DonnieBoy, No_Ax_to_GrindAs reported recently by OSNews, a number of Linux vendors have been on the fence as to what to to with Mono, Novell
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From Microsoft: C# and CLI under the Community Promise

First the big news: Microsoft will be applying the Community Promise patent licensing to both C# and the CLI. The announcement was done by Peter Galli at Microsoft over at Port25 and it states (emphasis is mine): I have some good news to announce: Microsoft will be applying the Community Promise to the ECMA 334 and ECMA 335 specs. ECMA 334 specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of programs written in the C# programming language, while the ECMA 335 standard
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Windows 7 Media Center - Sky Digital + Freeview HD Setup.

I have been getting a lot of questions recently about my home media center setup since I told people that I have moved to the Windows 7 Release Candidate. I thought the best way to address things is with a blog post. You may or may not be aware that Windows 7 opens the door for watching Freeview HD natively without the need for any additional codec's to be installed inside of Media Center. Prior to upgrading to Win7 RC I was running Vista 64 bit with a Hauppauge WinTV PVR500MCE card. It was a
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SEO Tip - Beware of the Login pages - add them to Robots Exclusion

A lot of sites today have the ability for users to sign in to show them some sort of personalized content, whether its a forum, a news reader, or some e-commerce application. To simplify their users life they usually want to give them the ability to log on from any page of the Site they are currently looking at. Similarly, in an effort to keep a simple navigation for users Web Sites usually generate dynamic links to have a way to go back to the page where they were before visiting the login page
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SQLAuthority News Authors Visit DotNet Buzz Delhi TechEd Delhi on July 11, 2009

DotNet Buzz Delhi is organizing TechEd Delhi on July 11, 2009. Not just this, they are launching an official PASS Chapter in Delhi. The Agenda of the event is here and if you are around Delhi do not miss the opportunity to be a part of this upcoming great event. If you are keen to [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Programming news: PHP 5.3.0, VirtualBox 3.0, Silverlight tutorials

Read about the releases of PHP 5.3.0, Sun VirtualBox 3.0, and Mono 2.4.2. You
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Creating a ComboBox Style AutoCompleteBox Control in Silverlight

Silverlight
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The Connected Show

Dmitry Lyalin has been a longtime friend/supporter of the Sparkling Client. Along with co-host Peter Laudati, he
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Tracking Michael Jackson

In an interesting visualization with convenient timing, a chart of Micheal Jackson
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The Silverlight Tour - Vancouver, BC

URL : http://silverlight-tour.com In case you are spending too much time enjoying the summer, you might not know that our partner, RunAtServer Consulting, is holding a stop of the Silverlight Tour in Vancouver on the same day as our Atlanta class, July 20-22nd, 2009. If you are looking for the same Silverlight 3 training that we offer, but in Canada, this is the stop for you. This is your first opportunity to learn Silverlight 3 based on the RTW release. This course is entirely Si
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Yes, I Am Still Talking About Prism - On The Connected Show!

URL : http://www.connectedshow.com/default.aspx?Episo... I had a chance to sit down (metaphorically) with Dmitry Lyalin and Peter Laudati and talk about Silvelright, MVVM and Prism 2.0. Let me know if you agree, disagree or think that I am a little obsessed with IoC containers. The Connected Show is a podcast on New Microsoft Technology for the developer community, produced independently by Dmitry Lyalin and Peter Laudati.
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3D Capabilities in Silverlight 3

In this article, Sergey examines the 3D capabilities in Silverlight 3 that were not supported in previous versions of Silverlight. It became possible in Silverlight 3 to create 3D projections of content in an application. Sergey provides a detailed explanation of the various aspects with relevant source code examples along with screen shots including the usage of animation.
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HTML 5 Will Leave Video in the Air

HTML 5
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Build a Simple Twitter client using Silverlight 2

See how you can build a simple Twitter client in Silverlight. We will also learn the shortcomings of WebClient Class in Silverlight.
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Windows Hosting

Servers are complex machines
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Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using jQuery, ASP.NET 3.5, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, WF and Unity - Omar AL Zabir blog on ASP.NET Ajax and .NET 3.5

Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using jQuery, ASP.NET 3.5, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, WF and Unity Dropthings
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Silverlight 3 ComboBox Control - Manish Dalal

This post outlines technique for displaying ComboBox control with .net RIA services to handle Foreign Key scenarios. When ComboBox control was introduced as part of Silverlight 2, I blogged about a technique to use ComboBox control in foreign key scenarios, to workaround the lack of SelectedValue\SelectedValuePath property. I further enhanced the technique to handle cascading selection as outlined in this post. Fast forward to Silverlight 3. ComboBox control still does not have SelectedValue\Sel
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Why Shouldn

Plenty has been written about PRISM, its benefits, and how to get started; but very little on why you wouldn
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HTML 5 for a better Web

This is a long article about HTML 5 current and upcoming features, how it will contribute to a better and open Web illustrated with some very impressive videos. It also contains a reflection on whether HTML 5 will kill Flash, Silverlight and Java on the browser.
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html 5 for a better Web - PHP Classes

html 5 for a better Web By Manuel Lemos The html 5 will definitely contribute to a better Web. Despite its specification is still being drafted, several browsers like Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 8, Safari 4, Chrome 2 and Opera 10 already implement a significant part of the current html 5 specification. read more
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Json.NET 3.5 Beta 4

Best. Serializer. Ever. ??? Profit! JsonSerializer Improvements Part Deux A huge amount has changed in the Json.NET serializer since beta 3. As well as a general refactor (the JsonSerializer.cs file was pushing 1000 lines last release), tons and tons of new features have been added. New to the serializer is reference tracking, type tracking, serialization callback events, MetadataTypeAttribute support for when working with code generation, additional property level
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Telerik looks to boost 3D for Silverlight

In a new release of its RadControls component suite, the company introduced a 3D charting engine for Microsoft Silverlight. Visit website for full story...
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Silverlight 3 - MergedDictionaries

Chris Klug discusses Merged Dictionaries in Silvleright 3 and how this could help you if your XAML is getting overloaded with all the things you want to drag from application to application. So what do MergedDictionaries offer? Well, they make it possible for you to store resources in external files. These files are then either embedded in the application as Content or as Resources. This means that we can spread out or resources in several files and just reference them in our controls, or
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Disable Autoplay on Silverlight Video in Expression Encoder 2 SP1

By default any Silverlight video you create in Expression Encoder 2 has AutoPlay set to true. If this cause you troubles, find out a way to solve the problem in the post of Walt Ritscher. There is a way to configure AutoPlay in Expression Encoder. It
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Azure Simon

David Kelley announces that Davide Zordan posted a version of Silverlight Simon up in the cloud . Davide had also added multi touch support to the WPF version. You can check out the code on the codeplex project http://Simon.codeplex.com/
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Hanu Kommalapati's MSDN Magazine Articles

Hanu Kommalapati decided to create a blog post in which to present the MSDN Magazine articles that he has recently written: ".NET Framework Internals: How the CLR Creates Runtime Objects", "Build Line-Of-Business Enterprise Apps With Silverlight, Part 1" and "Build Line-Of-Business Enterprise Apps With Silverlight, Part 2". I wrote some MSDN magazine articles but never really blogged about them.
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Silverlight 3 Navigation Drag and Drop Actions

So far Nigel Sampson has covered building a Trigger "Double Click Trigger" and a Behavior "Mouse Wheel Behavior" so all that's left are Actions and he concentrates on the subject in this post. Actions I believe are probably the most useful of the three sorts of Behaviors in Silverlight, the sheer amount of variation possible when composing these with events provides a lot of richfunctionality to the Blend user. The real power comes from having all this functionality at your drag and drop dis
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Silverlight 3 talking to a RIA Service, Everything Hosted on Windows Azure

Mark Monster has published his first tryout of Windows Azure. He wanted to find out if it
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IPhone Style Drag and Push Panel in Silverlight

SmartyP has recreated the iPhone's implementation very successfully and you should definitly check his work. I've been doing a bit of work at the new job on some custom panels relative to our project. In doing the work we have been talking a lot about the iPhone's main launcher panel and how the iPhone implements dragging and reordering of icons on the screen. I wanted to take what I have learned in working on those custom panels and apply it to actually recreating the iPhone's implementa
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Snapshot of the Silverlight 4 Wishlist

It
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Budget 2009 WebStream: ET Now, NDTV, UTVi, Indian Govt; Facebook, Coveritlive

With around an hour left for the unveiling of the Union Budget for the 2009-10 fiscal, and much is expected from Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Looking to cash in on potential viewers who would otherwise not be able to catch the budget on TV, media companies are planning to stream the Union Budget live. Indian Government: The live stream is available from the National Informatics Centre, and can be viewed here . But given the history of how NIC was unable to handle the traffic on the da
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Deep Zoom Into Michael Jackson

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SQL SERVER Languages for BI MDX, DMX, XMLA

Today, we have a very basic thing to go over. Few days back, I was discussing with one of my friends regarding BI. He told me that he knows that BI stands for Business Intelligence but he would like to know what languages BI uses to achieve the goal. The reason I found this question [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Control System Works 1.0.623.0

updated on Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:22:07 +0300 - Web HMI/SCADA/EMI Silverlight-based framework
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Links (7/5/2009)

SharePoint **** SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery How to Upload Files to SharePoint Server 2007 from ASP.NET Web Applications WebPart Development
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What if Microsoft bought Ubuntu?

My previous post was from a humorous side by asking the question
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The Unofficial FutureRuby Guide to Toronto, Part 2: The FutureRuby Venues

Welcome to the second installment of The Unofficial FutureRuby Guide to Toronto ! This is a series of articles aimed at showing out-of-town attendees of the upcoming FutureRuby conference around our fine city. (It
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Selenium and Canvas

I don
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Watch Indian Union Budget 2009 Live On Your PC

The Economic Times, the major print new paper and news website of India is going to live web cast Union Budget 2009 on it
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XSL Transform : Rendering XML Data using XSL - Get HTML output

Rendering XML data using XSL transformation... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Transparent Cookie Encryption Via HTTP Module

A C# HTTP module that encrypts and decrypts cookies transparently to an application... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Watch India

The Economic Times, the major print new paper and news website of India is going to live web cast Union Budget 2009 on it
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Official Microsoft products account on Twitter

Twitter got many big companies like Dell, Google with their official accounts. Microsoft products have their individual accounts on Twitter to allows users to get latest updates. Microsoft is finally showing life on its main twitter account @Microsoft. Twitter users can follow Microsoft main account and other Microsoft accounts for more personalized interaction. You can track different products updates and interesting bits of news of Microsoft products on their respective Twitter account.
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Really? $50 a year for Silverlight ads on my Xbox 360

( photo: original ) After reading Major Nelson
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Watch Indian Union Budget Online

This is the first time in India when people can watch Indian union budget online. Economic Times of India is going to use Microsoft Silverlight Technology to stream live Indian union reported by Vasudev . According to Vasudev The event will be hosted at http://budgetlive.economictimes.com You can also get minute-by-minute update and live news feeds if you are interested in specific parts of the budget. Powered by Microsoft
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SQLAuthority News FIX : Error : HP OfficeJet Scanning and Printing Gray or Pink Shades

Unlike my usual articles todays article is not at all related to SQL Server but something drove me to include it on my blog. This issue snatched away my precious few hours. It took me over 2 hours to resolve it yesterday, which barred me from doing research on SQL Server. I am sure many [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Recording of my MVVM talk at NDC2009 is now online

The videos from NDC2009 are now published on the conference agenda site . The site isn
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Job at Microsoft - Developer and Platform Evangelism Workgroup

If you
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HTML5 is a Big Deal for Enterprise Developers

I was recently made aware of HTML5's canvas element and I believe that this could render Silverlight, JavaFX and Flex obsolete. The "canvas" tag allows you to embed script based graphics, usually JavaScript, in your page. Expect the leading Ajax frameworks, like JQuery and GWT, to provide programmer friendly APIs for canvas based visualizations.
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Dew Droplet

I
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Maj Nelson says chillax, more ads are not incoming

Major Nelson made a post in response to the uproar from the community over the possibility of more advertising on Xbox 360
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A simple way to dynamically change style of web for each browser

this is the simple asp.net web application that can determine how users can view the single page with single content in the many browsers with custom presentation and styling... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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XHTML Fixes

I have put a small sample project on CodePlex to show just techniques for achieving XHTML compliance in ASP.NET web pages. Currently it is just has samples in the C#, but it will be extended to have samples in both C# and VB.NET.You can download the first sample from:http://xhtmlfix.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=29660... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories inc
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Optimizing LINQ Queries using DataLoadOptions

Optimizing LINQ Queries using DataLoadOptions... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Simple In-Progress Message for time taking tasks in ASP.Net Pages

In-Progress Message & Disabling controls in ASP.Net Pages using Javascript... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Public Enemies: Great Story, Sucky Implementation

Having seen
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Bing Photo Contest

Im enjoying watching the social dynamics of the bing photo contest play out. Some photos are bubbling up because they are generally good Others beacuse people ask their friends to rate them high. If you start Rating Photos Yourself you will realize how poor the quality is of most of the material that is being submitted. I submitted a few photos of my own and it is clear that people are favoring the classic sunset/ landscape type photos to the more abstract themed ones. That said if you are on
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Silverlight: Reflection Image Button

A simple silverlight control that creates an image button with zoom and reflection.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Creating a Sample Icon using Expression Design

In this Principles of Design Series video, Arturo Toledo of the Microsoft Expression team, shows how to design a full colored icon (a pencil). In fast-forward style you will see the artist take a simple shaped pencil icon turning it into a full colored...(read more)
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Few posts for the next week or so

I probably won
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Major Nelson

Microsoft have recently announced that they are bringing Silverlight advertisements to the Xbox 360. In an attempt to quell any fears people have about this development, Larry Hryb aka Major Nelson, has put a post up on his blog to reassure people that this will not lead to a massive increase in the number of [...]
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The Morning Brew #382

Software IronRuby 0.6 Released! - Jimmy Schementi announces the release of IronRuby 0.6, which brings further improvements to performance and Ruby compatibility, along with a bunch of new features and a return for Silverlight support Sandcastle Release - The SandCastle team announce the latest code release, releasing the source for the version of the SandCastle Documentation Generation tool that was used to build the VS2010 documentation Information Pretty Code #1 - Building Sel
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A Member of SilverlightShow Wins Microsoft MVP Award

The team of SilverlightShow is proud to announce that our colleague Emil Stoychev is now one of those lucky guys who could name themselves "a Microsoft Silverlight MVP"! Find out more about Emil's work and interests in his MVP profile . Congratulations, Emil! You really deserved this award with your hard work! Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world e
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Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part 3 and 4

In Part 3 of his series Faisal adds some code in the btnLogin
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Silverlight Application

Pete Brown turns your attention to one great Silverlight 2 application for the Animal Testing Breaks Hearts campaign that PETA and AIS just completed. For this application, PETA supplied all the comps in Adobe Illustrator format and AIS converted the assets into Silverlight. Tad Van Fleet took the heart images and others and imported them into Blend 3 using the new Illustrator import function, and created the appropriate Xaml. A team consisting of Jim Jackson, Tad Van Fleet and Tom Snider w
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Summer Cabinet 2009

Another great Silverlight mapping application has just gone live: Summer Cabinet Map 2009 . The Summer Cabinet Map has the following features: Zooms to show Scotland as a start point Smooth zooming and panning with more detail seamlessly brought into view Select a location zooms to that location and the pin changes to show more detail, including date and location name When selected each location exposes a panel which offers various information and media
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Styling a TreeView in Silverlight 3 and Blend 3

In this article Timmy Kokke explains in detail how to style a TreeView control in Silverlight 3 using the Silverlight Toolkit and Expression Blend 3. He covers topics like Sample Data and Hierarchical Data Templates. Today I would like to show you how to style a TreeView control in Silverlight using Expression Blend 3. The TreeView is a control to visualize hierarchical data structures. The TreeView control isn
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XMLFoundation

As the name suggests it provides a foundation for XML support in an application, however this is much more than just another XML parser. It applies a unique approach to handling XML that allows your application code to focus on the application rather than traversing DOM or subscribing to SAX events... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Telerik Q2 2009 Release Week Webinars

[Cross posted from Telerik Watch ] Smell that? That's a freshly baked release from Telerik that's just about ready to "officially" launch. The Q2 2009 release is one of the biggest releases in Telerik's history, again delivering simultaneous updates to all 7 Telerik product lines at one time. An update of this scale is bound to have lots new and interesting stuff, and we can't wait to put it in your hands so you can start playing with it. The official launch of Q2 2009 is Monday, July 6th ,
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SharePoint Customizations - Answered ASAP

I try to keep a list of everything I can't find on the internet that I find an answer for. If you have any questions I would be glad to answer them if I can. I am only quite frequently as well. read more By Mitch McMillan Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Report writer for WPF. Long-expected tool.

Stimulsoft Company today announces the release of a new product Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf the reporting tool for WPF. Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf is the reporting tool that allows creating feature-rich reports, edit them, save, print and export to different formats. Stimulsoft Company strives for using the most advanced technologies, develops today trying to predict what user may need tomorrow. The reporting tool for WPF is the fully functional reporting tool that is developed on the base of Windo
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Using ImageMagick to Create Previews and Thumbnails from Uploaded Images

This ASP.NET Web Application demonstrates the use of ImageMagick to create thumbnails and larger preview images, both from an uploaded image file.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Creating IT strategy (with a little help from enterprise architecture)

Creating IT strategy is one of the complicated task that I know. To create a good IT strategy, you have to use many ingredients from different types and sources. Those ingredientsshould be used in unique combination that can be cooked and then be served as a delicious Cake to different customers ( IT workers, IT management, Information workers, enterprise CxOs and sometimes the board). In this post I'll try to describe what, and who I manage to create an IT strategy. Usually I tend to spl
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SQLAuthority News Book Review The Rational Guide to Building Technical User Communities (Rational Guides)

The Rational Guide to Building Technical User Communities (Rational Guides) (Paperback)by Greg Low Short Review : A Great, one-of-its-kind book for everybody who is interested in building technical user community. There is no other book written on this subject but after this comprehensive book no further reading will be required.Link to AmazonDetailed Review :This is [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80
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The Technology Post for July 2nd, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #40 I wont be posting anything tomorrow due to the US holiday of Independence Day on Saturday. I will be taking the day off. Daily Oddball The Best Way to Photograph Fireworks (Tweeted by Dana Coffey ) .NET Framewo
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Pretty Code #1 Building SelectListItems

In ASP.NET MVC, you can use a collection of SelectListItems to help build an HTML . Just watch out for the HTML helper overloads. The question is what is the prettiest code that can change a list of Products into a collection of SelectListItems? Tonight, youll be the judge in this first contest of charm, grace, and readability. Contestant #1 hails from the System.Web.Mvc namespace. It likes pina coladas and string literals, but is turned off by tattoos that look like programming symbols.... D
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I am a PC and a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP

So glad that that Microsoft renewed my ASP.NET Most Valuable Professional for the third time. I am so honored yet I feel a little guilty that I
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Countdown to Silverlight 3 Part 7: Navigation

In this 7th part of the Countdown to Silverlight 3 series Andrej Tozon presents another powerful Silverlight 3 feature - Navigation . Here is a list with Andrej's previous posts from the series: Countdown to Silverlight 3 #1: Out of Browser applications Countdown to Silverlight 3 #2: Setting styles Countdown to Silverlight 3 #3: Merged resource dictionaries Countdown to Silverlight 3 #4: Element binding Countdown to Silverlight 3 #5: ChildWindow (Modal, N
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Qixing

Qixing Zheng just posted a series of short video tutorials on Blend 3 and SketchFlow. See them at: http://blogs.msdn.com/canux/archive/tags/Mini-tutorial/default.aspx Stay tuned, more on SketchFlow very soon…...( read more )...(read more)
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Experimenting with User Interface Colors with Expression Design

Learn more about how to apply the right colors for your user interface. In this video you will experiment how to apply colors to a user interface. Learn more about color while exploring Expression Design. Experimenting with User Interface Colors with...(read more)
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Three great screencasts on Silverlight unit testing

If you're looking to learn more about Silverlight unit testing, here are 3 screencasts of interest....( read more )...(read more)
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Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated

If you're doing Silverlight 2 development with the unit test framework, you might want to check out the latest release that includes bug fixes and a few small new features....( read more )...(read more)
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Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional)

I got a MVP award from Microsoft for my activities on the online community, especially in the Silverlight category....( read more )...(read more)
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JUST RELEASED: p&p Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I - beta2

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software engineering guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I (BETA 2) Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance Here is some...(read more)
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31 Days of SIlverlight !

Jeff Blankenburg has committed to publishing a Silverlight article EVERY DAY for the Month of July. [ CLICK HERE ] to check it out. Technorati Tags: Microsoft , Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)
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Choosing Colors to Complement Your User Interface with Expression Design

Learn more about how to choose the right colors for your user interface. In this video from the Principles of Design Series by Arturo Toledo, you will learn a few techniques to pick colors that work well with each other. Choosing the right colors for...(read more)
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WPF Toolkit: Charting release

The Silverlight Toolkit's chart controls have made their way into the WPF Toolkit! More details on David's blog....( read more )...(read more)
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Game Programming with Silverlight.

Tomorrow, June 30th, is the release date for my book titled
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Principles of Design Series: Learning about Points, Lines, and Form using Expression Design

Learn more about the point, line and form; elements of design (some theorists see them as principles of design). These elements are the foundation you can use to compose and design user interfaces. Explore these elements while exploring Expression Design...(read more)
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So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening!

June has been a madhouse month; I
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Organizational Chaos Followup

About a month ago I wrote about getting organized . Since it is Sunday and I
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Fixing a Header in Datagrid

Simple way to fix the Datagrid header using javascript and CSS... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Ampa Studios

i want a and online music store for the artist that i am working with and i want it to be a mix of itunes and a regular label site like universal. i have an example of what i want here is the link http://demo.componentone.com//Silverlight/SilverTunes/ if you can just do the platform for me i can complete [...]
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Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services

Vijay , one of the folks working on RIA Services recently posted a very good overview of how to do Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services. I think this is an important benefit of adopting the RIA Services pattern. Check it out and let us know what you think! Unit Testing Business Logic in .NET RIA Services
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Ms Silver Light Developer

Hi, We are looking for a developer for our project who have knowledge of Silverlight customization. Please send your past work relevant to the field. Only genuine and knowledgeable person. Go to Source Post similar project on sosexpert.com
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Links for June 25th through June 26th

Some links for you: Pixel Perfect Pre-Raphaelites - Latest News - Digital Birmingham - "Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery will be the first museum to offer an unrivalled resource for studying the art of the Pre-Raphaelites, using Microsoft's cutting-edge Silverlight technology to bring pixel perfect definition to the screen, as if seeing the real artwork in a museum. By mid-June, over 2,000 fine and decorative artworks with never before seen clarity will be available through Silverlight, a
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What to read on the GigaOM network

Silverlight takes its first step into the living room (NewTeeVee) Valuations for later-stage cleantech startups have tumbled: VC (Earth2Tech) Apple developer diary, day 1: Game on (TheAppleBlog) Create tour widgets for your site with Amberjack (OStatic) Keep stuff on your notebook with MojoPac (jkOnTheRun) Planning a home office in a small space (WebWorkerDaily) Market research you can use: Keep informed about Cloud Computing and IT Infrastructure. Learn more
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Silverlight Takes First Step Into the Living Room

Microsoft this week announced Silverlight would be integrated with the Xbox
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Flash Gaming Payments Heat Up: Heyzap Launches Microtransaction Platform

Flash Gaming Payments Heat Up: Heyzap Launches Microtransaction PlatformIn: Ecommerce| News Article| Web| Web Development| home| professional media| publishing| social media 26Jun2009 By: techcrunch.comHeyzap, the Y Combinator startup that offers an easily-embedded widget containing thousands of Flash games, is launching a major new product today that introduces the company to an entirely new source of revenue. Dubbed HeyZap Payments, the platform offers developers a way to
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Rendering Historic Maps on Bing Maps

One of the Bing Maps APIs feature that has gained a lot of traction is the ability to overlay custom tiles atop the Bing Maps tiles to illustrate tons of data in a raster format. But when you want to render census data, weather illustrations or even historic maps of what an area used to look like, you
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Windows 7 Prices Announced! Pre-Order Your Copy of Windows 7 for $49.99 and $99.99 NOW

Microsoft has done a good job with Windows 7, not just technology wise but also in terms of creating a positive buzz around the software. I know quite a few people who tested Windows 7 beta and RC and are very excited to own a full version as soon as it is officially released. There is no mystery around the release date of Windows 7 which is October 22nd but the prices were being speculated. Well, today all of that ends as the prices of all the versions of Windows 7 are announced. F
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A Mouse Wheel Blend Behavior

One fairly useful piece of functionality missing from Silverlight is the use of the Mouse Wheel, thankfully there's a lot of code out there about how to use the Html Bridge to receive DOM events and bring in Mouse Wheel functionality.
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Links (6/25/2009)

Using the Today token in a CAML query Be selective about how you get items from an SPList Using KeywordQuery to search in your SharePoint site Use SharePoint and Silverlight to display a summary of SharePoint blog posts on any site page How Page Parsing functionality in SharePoint (SPPageParseFilter) works with the constructor of a webpart How to use SharePoint Rich-Text Editor in Webparts and Controls Inconvenient PublishingScheduleControl SharePoint Task M
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Hotfixes Issued for SharePoint SP2 Glitch

Microsoft on Thursday announced that hotfixes are now available to patch a SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) glitch that surfaced last month.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Disposing a WCF Proxy

A common misconception is to think that a WCF proxy can be used and disposed as any other regular class that implements IDisposable. However, the IDisposable implementation in the WCF client channel is not like any other, and it can throws exceptions. A phrase I got from this thread in the WCF forum will give you a better context about this scenario, I think a key thing to notice is that Close() often implies doing "real work" that may fail, including network communication handshakes to shutdown
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Is It Too Late To Change JSON?

In my last post, I wrote about the hijacking of JSON arrays. Near the end of the post, I mentioned a comment whereby someone suggests that what really should happen is that browsers should be more strict about honoring content types and not execute code with the content type of application/json. I totally agree! But then again, browsers havent had a good track record with being strict with such standards and its probably too much to expect browsers to suddenly start tightening ship, not to ment
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Live Mesh as an application platform

The potential You surely read quite a bit about Live Mesh. Oran Dennison has number of very technical and insightful posts on various aspects of the underlying platform. Recently, we run an internal prototype to build an application on top of Live Mesh. Im not talking about the kind of the typically showcased consumer-centric application where its all about sharing my personal photos, apps and videos with friends and family. Im talking about a typical app for collaboration, involving group... D
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Wimbledon Is Here and We

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Silverlight Attached Behavior and Commands

Recently, I am doing some research related to Attached Behavior and Command. The attached Behavior and Command features are only available in Silverlight 3 Beta and also Blend 3 Preview. If you want to experience how useful is it, please install those...(read more)
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Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000!

I was honored to be asked by ComponentArt to participate in a judging panel for their just now released 2009 Summer Silverlight Coding Competition . The grand prize is USD $10,000. Yes, that
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WPF Charting: It's official! [June 2009 release of the WPF Toolkit is now available!]

The WPF Toolkit team just published the June 2009 release of the WPF Toolkit . Those of you who know I'm on the Silverlight Toolkit team are probably wondering why this is relevant - so let's get right to the release notes for the next version of Silverlight...(read more)
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Principles of Design Series: Learning about Unity using Expression Design

Learn more about Unity, a principle of design that will help you communicate visual cohesion in your user interface composition. Unity will help you communicate a single message even when using multiple objects. Learn more about Unity while exploring...(read more)
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Learning to Create Icons using Expression Design

In this video, part of the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo, demonstrates the basics of designing icons. Icons are a way to abstract a real visual object into a usually smaller representation that preserves the essence of the original object...(read more)
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Silverlight Ads on Xbox LIVE Announced at Cannes

On Tuesday, June 22nd at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival 2009, Microsoft announced it will bring Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) recognized rich media technologies including Silverlight to Xbox LIVE within the next year. By extending...(read more)
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Easy cross-site scripting using the easyXSS library

How to use the easyXSS javascript library to transmit messages and method calls between windows in different domains... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Testing E-Mail Functionality

One of the most common questions I see on ASP.NET forums relates to sending E-Mail. I have addressed many of those issues already, so I wont get into how to send E-Mail from an ASP.NET web site. This week I have been working on testing applications and...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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ToggleButton Command for Prism

Prism Commands enables you to handle user interactions in Xaml. Even though the plumbing is there, Prism lacks commanding support for everything but Buttons. Fortunately, it
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IT Freelance : E-Commerce Web Developer-RM1500/ month by HR

Responsibilities:
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Deep Zoom Competition: Find Ryan and Win!

If you attended the Future of Web Design earlier this year you may have pinned your uber-cool business card to the Micorosft
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First Steps in Silverlight 2 and Expression Blend 2

(Ged Mead) As a Developer, Visual Studio is my comfort zone but I thought the time had come to see what the experience of creating a Silverlight 2 project in Expression Blend would be like. Having spent the past six months working almost exclusively on Windows Presentation Foundation, I was particularly interested to find out how different the WPF and Silverlight experience would be.
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Microsoft HealthVault and Common User Interface Presentation from the UK - Slideshow

This slide show combines both HealthVault and information on the Common User Interface. If you are not familiar with the Common User Interface it is open source code at Code Plex that anyone can download and develop to create simple yet dynamic screens for entering and viewing patient data. The eventual goal is to embrace the interface at numerous facilities and hospital so you don
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TechSmith Camtasia Studio v6.0.1 Build787 Portable Precrackd

portable and precracked...just open and start using People don
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Using Telerik OpenAccess ORM in N-Tier applications

Hello, by means of introduction, my name is Alexander Filipov and I am working as a developer for the Telerik OpenAccess team. In my first post I would like to share some thoughts about using Telerik OpenAccess ORM in advanced n-tier web applications. Undoubtedly, the main goal in such architectures is to lose-couple the tiers from each other, so the code is modular and easier to maintain. Here comes the question how Telerik OpenAccess ORM fits into this scenario and which are the layers that it
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Two frameworks are better than one

Looking deeper into the raw data of the survey about Ajax adoption among .NET developers I found some interesting figures that show a probably different mindset you get when you start working with ASP.NET MVC. Lets see the following table, that show the percentage of developers that use jQuery vs the MS Ajax Stack based on which web UI framework they are using. MVC only (7,8%) WebForms only (62%)
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JavaScript implementation of "M"

Matthew Wilson is pushing "M" into the land of browser client-side scripting with his partial (but growing!) JavaScript implementation, as seen in his web 3-pane "M" grammar mode ala Intellipad. It's work like this that could make "M" a cross-platform solution for languages as well as data types and values. Good job, Matt!... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverligh
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.NETOOP high level configuration storage decision.

In designing .NETOOP we have this issue: Since .NETOOP will be an adaptable application designed to meet the needs of many users, some of the things that one might hard code in an application like Web Site Name will need to be set at installation time. For system configuration settings we have the web.config file. For language and culture variations we have resource files. But this type of site configuration doesnt really fit nicely into either of these categories. We could use.... Di
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RadFormDecorator Q2 2009 - more decoration options, faster rendering!

RadFormDecorator might be one of the lesser-known controls in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite, yet it is a control that can eliminate much of the hassle and greatly reduce the time needed for completing the look and feel of a Web solution. What the control does is decorate elements that are usually rendered by the browser, such as buttons, checkboxes, radiobuttons, fieldsets, etc. It just so happens that this product can be used for free - as it is one of the goodies that Telerik p
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FTab (Floating Tabs)

FTab (Floating Tabs) is a cool cross browser DHTML floating window script with support for tabs.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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RadFormDecorator Q1 2009 - more decoration options, faster rendering!

For the RadFormDecorator to be able to perform its task of decoration efficiently, there is a tradeoff between features, flexibility and speed. It is a complex control that uses many hacks designed for different browser - very often the *same* visual result is achieved in a [slightly] different manner for different browers. We have just finished the new rendering of RadFormDecorator. As we have used a totally different approach - heavy use of inheritance and attribute selectors in or
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SQLAuthority News Update on pinaldave.com and SQLAuthority.com

Problem: SQLAuthority.com site was not allowed in some browsers as pinaldave.com site was marked as malware or badware distributing third party site.Status: SQLAuthority.com and pinaldave.com both the sites are safe now and there is no threat to your computer. Feel free to click on the links.Since the last two mornings I have received over 200 [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several cate
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The June Microsoft Silverlight links

As many developers come to the wonderful side of Silverlight there are now many new resources to help you to write code in Silverlight. I would like to bring some very interesting ones into the light on my monthly link series. The Interesting list. GeoReference any XAML to place it correctly on an ElementLayer by Morten Nielsen Hanselminutes Podcast Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer where Scott Hanselman and time Heuer discuss the new features of Silverlight 3 Hanselmans Breaking all the rues w
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Patterns and Practices of Lean Software Development

J. D. Meier emailed me this week to ask my opinion on
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Principles of Design Series: Creating Mosaic and Tiled Patterns using Expression Design

In this video, one of many in the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo, shows how to create patterns (mosaic, tiles) with Expression Design. Watch and discover how easy it is to create your own patterns in Expression Design so you can then reuse...(read more)
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Principles of Design Series: Learn about Emphasis using Expression Design

In this video from the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo of the Expression team at Microsoft, demonstrates Emphasis, a basic principle of design. Watch this video to learn more about the concept of Emphasis while using Expression Design. Principles...(read more)
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FireFox 3.5 Geolocation - scary accurate

Firefox 3.5 can tell websites where you
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Weekly Link Post 99

This is is my weekly link post. It is here that I note the web sites and posts that I have run across that interest me
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FACTBOX-South Korea

FACTBOX-South Korea
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MS Silverlight developer (Austin)

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Adobe Says HTML 5 Won

When it comes to rich media on the Internet today, much of the media is powered by Adobe Flash. Flash has some competition like Microsoft Silverlight , but Flash continues to be one of the most supported rich media applications. The future of Flash is not as clear as it once was with Google touting the ability to support rich media applications online with HTML 5. For its part Adobe insists that Flash will survive HTML 5 and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen went so far as to dismiss HTML 5, re
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How-to: Consume WCF services from Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight(Prism-v2) Modules

Yesterday, while developing a demo app that uses Prism-v2 , WCF services , ASP.NET web application and interaction with WebBrowser controls (we will post it soon.. stay tunned!), I run into a little problem trying to consume the service from a module. I thought could be useful posting about it to save someone a little time. The Problem I had a WCF service in place. It was working fine with a ASP.NET web app, but when I tried to cunsume it from a Prism-v2 module I got the following ex
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SalesCentric Updates CRM Solution

London, United Kingdom, 18th June 2009
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Windows Vista Ultimate Nvidia Evolution SP2 DVD

June 19th, 2009 Posted in ApplicationsWindows Vista Ultimate Nvidia Evolution SP2 DVD Language: English US Size: 1.55 GB Architecture: 32-Bit Version based: Vista UltimateNvidia evolution has been tweaked for a best performance and stability with particular reg tweak and other important setting . This time i completely left the possibility to personalize it with your favorite apps.(exactly like Ambra) The speech support hasn
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Daily Links 06/19/2009 (a.m.)

HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
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Traditional Media In Transition

Watch out the video series called Traditional Media In Transition. We have some episodes where companies share their stories about using the Silverlight application. Here are some of the videos about Silverlight: Traditional Media in Transition: DNCC Traditional Media in Transition: Stimulant Traditional Media in Transition: Hard Rock International
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Release Candidate ArcGIS API For Microsoft Silverlight/WPF Now Available

The release candidate build of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF is now available download from the ESRI Resource Centre for ArcGIS Server. Build numbers are as follows: Initial Release: 1.0.0.160 Updated Release: 1.0.0.209 Release Candidate: 1.0.0.255 There are a number of updates and enhancements along with a few breaking changes as well as a few bugs which have been resolved. The updates/enhancements include: Breaking Change: All assemblies and namespac
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Internet Explorer 8

Microsoft sure stirred up some controversy with this browser comparison chart . Here is a picture, because I suspect they
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This Week in SharePoint with Joel - Week 04

This is week four our weekly broadcast with Joel Oleson of SharePointJoel.com . You can also subscribe to the iTunes channel for this set of broadcasts. We look forward to your feedback and recommendations on topics for next week
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Flash and Silverlight animation: to overload or not to overload Posted By : Alesia Arefjeva

Due to the fact that access to the Internet is now faster and more affordable, the developers of sites with a web project started massively complex application of visualization technology. view source
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WebKit owns mobile, and iPhone 3G S owns WebKit

======================================================================== Today's Blogs June 18, 2009 ======================================================================== WebKit owns mobile, and iPhone 3G S owns WebKit http://ifwnewsletters.newsletters.infoworld.com/t/5310663/475345205/198628/0/ Taming the SOA hype monster http://ifwnewsletters.newsletters.infoworld.com/t/5310663/475345205/198629/0/ 7 green technologies poised for success http://ifwnews
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Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 5

Trimming in Public is a series where I go through my list of 293 RSS feeds, 10 RSS feeds at a time, give some detail as to why I subscribed to a particular feed, and then decide whether or not to keep on consuming that feed. In Episode 1 I explained what RSS is and how to use it, please read that if you need a refresher on why RSS is awesome and why you should be using it if you take reading news on the internet seriously. The prefix to Trimming in Public is
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Awesome Resources on WPF and Silverlight with Billy Hollis

This weeks Byte from MSDN and TechZulu is with Billy Hollis. He brings some great resources on WPF and Silverlight and his list of favorite technical resources, which blogs he reads, and why he's hesitant to tell you about them! About Billy Billy Hollis authored many of the earliest books on .NET, and has been working with WPF and Silverlight for over three years. He is a regular speaker at conferences such as Tech
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Tweepware

Tweepware is a Microsoft Maps and Silverlight based Twitter Application. You can see exactly where in the world all your friends are. Tweepware also lets you send tweets and read messages all in a map interface. Advertisement 1. TwitSnaps is a much better way of sharing photographs on Twitter. It allows you to rotate and save, put a watermark, and get a magnified view of the images. 2. Update Twitter from your browser with Yoono 6.0 , plus you can manage Facebook and other soci
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6 New Silverlight Image Rotators

After working for one whole day, I have created another 4 image rotators. We have all together 6 image rotators now! All image rotators are redesigned such that they can be reused easily using XAML....( read more )...(read more)
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Principles of Design Series: Learning about Symmetry and Asymmetry using Expression Design

This Principles of Design Series video describes Symmetry and Asymmetry, two styles of composition you can use in your user interface design. Watch this video to learn more about these concepts while exploring Expression Design. There are 13 videos in...(read more)
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Hanselminutes Podcast 164 - Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer

My one-hundred-and-sixty-fourth podcast is up . When's Silverlight 10 coming out? These versions are moving pretty fast. Scott chats with Tim Heuer to try and make sense of it. How does offline for Silverlight work? What's the best way to keep on the...(read more)
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Silverlight Control Explorer

Shine Draw has released more than 60 samples. In order to make all the controls more presentable to all of the developers, I decided to create this Control Explorer....( read more )...(read more)
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Photobucket Visual Search powered by Silverlight and Windows Live

We
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Who's Using Expression? Hard Rock Café

How would you share one of the largest and most valuable collections of rock memorabilia with the world? Duncan/Channon, Hard Rock International
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Principles of Design Series: Learning about Emphasis using Expression Design

This is one of the 13 videos in the Principles of Design Series created by Arturo Toledo of the Microsoft Expression team. In this video he shows how you can use Emphasis, a basic principle of design, in Expression Design. If you like this video and want...(read more)
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Principles of Design Series: Learning about Rhythm using Expression Design

This is the 2nd of 13 in the Expression
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Silverlight Revives Playboy, Rolling Stone Archives

Silverlight is bringing magazine memories back to life through Bondi Digital Publishing
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Photobucket Visual Search launches, powered by Silverlight and Windows Live!

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Principles of Design Series: Learning about Balance using Expression Design

This is the first in a series of 13 Principles of posts created by Arturo Toledo on the Expression team. In this video Arturo demonstrates Balance, a principle of design that will help you achieve harmony in your designs and compositions. Watch it to...(read more)
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Peanut butter jelly time [How to: Create a pleasing visual effect with Silverlight/WPF Charting]

I was recently part of an e-mail thread with Pete Brown discussing the prospects of reproducing Richard Zadorozny's cool "jelly chart" behavior with the official Silverlight/WPF Charting controls from the Silverlight Toolkit . Richard's sample is really...(read more)
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Photobucket now enables you to Visual Search - International Business Times

Photobucket now enables you to Visual SearchInternational Business Times, NYBy integrating Photobucket rich interface with Windows Live Messenger and Silverlight application, it was able to create a unique new service. Photos can now be shared instantly through Windows Live Messenger with a single click that allows you to
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Win the Nokia N97 with your widget installed

Nokia has introduced a contest to win an N97 with the widget that you created (to win the contest) installed on the phone. Create a widget and submit it to the competition. A jury will pick winners based on the creativity and feasibility of developing them for the Nokia N97. The selected widgets will be made available for download from Ovi Store. All 10 winners will receive a Nokia N97 with their very own widget installed. Click below for more on the widget development and to see t
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Microsoft Mix-It-Up: Re-MIX Event

If you are interested to learn more about Silverlight, Expression Studio and ASP.NET, the Microsoft Mix-It-Up: Re-MIX event will be the perfect opportunity. The event will be held on 25th June 2009 (Thursday), 9am
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Digg Accelerator for IE8

Digg is an online destination that enables people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. The new Digg Accelerator enables you to quickly Digg, Submit, and find related content from anywhere on the Web. A great tool! Also, coming soon, is a Silverlight version of the accelerator providing a really rich experience for Digg stories, revealed John C. More Info : Download
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HTML5 could kill Flash/Silverlight fo' realsies

HTML5 could kill Flash/Silverlight fo' realsies : Don
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See You on Microsoft Day @ Dhaka!

Microsoft Community in Bangladesh proudly presents Microsoft Day @ Dhaka. This is a special day dedicated to all Microsoft technology professionals and students in Bangladesh. We will be having the best Microsoft community technologists from Bangladesh - Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) delivering sessions at the event. This technology marathon is a great opportunity to learn from the best and network with each other. Both Microsoft developers and networking professionals
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MSDN Day @ Dhaka

Venue. IDB Auditorium E/8-A Rokeya Sharani, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Agargaon, Dhaka 1207 Saturday June 20th 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Microsoft Community in Bangladesh proudly presents Microsoft Day @ Dhaka. This is a special day dedicated to all Microsoft technology professionals and students in Bangladesh. We will be having the best Microsoft community technologists from Bangladesh - Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) delivering sessions at the event. This technolo
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The Morning Brew #370

Software Small Basic : The newest, leanest and the meanest is here! - The Small Basic team announce the release of v0.5 which adds in their most requested features along with bugfixes MVVM light toolkit (Silverlight edition) posted - Laurent Bugnion announces the release of his Model-View-ViewModel toolkit for Silverlight. This article also gives a run through it in use Information First look at debugging .NET 4.0 dumps in Visual Studio 2010 - Tess Ferrandez takes a good look
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HTML 5: Could it kill Flash, JavaFX and Silverlight?

While Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun duke it out with proprietary technologies for implementing multimedia on the Web, HTML 5 has the potential to
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Windows Vista Cyber Edition 2009 x86 SP2 v2 ENG | 2.83 GB

Windows Vista Cyber Edition 2009 x86 SP2 v2 ENG | 2.83 GB --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows Vista Cyber Edition 2009 x86 SP2 v2 ENG : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No Viruses, Malwares and Backdoors. Tested with Kaspersky, NOD32, Avast and AVG 8.0 Author: UNDEADCROWS Platform: Windows Vista Compilation Date: 08.06.2009 Version: Based on V
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STSADM Evolution

Body: I like the STSADM Silverlight viewer, but the usefulness is limited by the scrolling you have to do. They need to all a button so we can take it full screen or stretch the corners. On my screen resolution, the little app is a small little box. I hope they don
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Vanderbilt University Sepsis Detection Technology Update

After deployed the very first alert initiated an attending physician to begin antibiotic therapy for a patient. They average 3-4 alerts daily in a 25 bed ICU unit. Work has just started on adapting the language and knowledge to chronic heart failure. I originally posted this story back in March of 2008 with the start of the project. The hospital felt they were only getting to about half the the patients in time to avoid organ and other damage. As is mentioned in the video,
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HTML 5

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Tech-Ed Roadshow from Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group - 20th June

What: A half-day event by the Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group (PUG) What : A full event by the Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group (PUG) on the latest technologies from Microsoft When : Saturday, 20th June, 9:00am-5:30pm Where : International Convention Centre, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune - 411016 Registration and Fees : This event is free for all. Register here . Details : Image via CrunchBase Tech-Ed On Road brings you the very best in Microsoft Te
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Photobucket

Photobucket has gained enormous popularity as an image-hosting and slideshow-creation site since it was launched in 2003. Today it hosts close to 8 billion photos, with dozens more pouring in by the second. Browsing through those photos, however, was a challenge. But now Photobucket
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Class to handle HTTPS and non HTTP services

To follow the post from yesterday I created a class to handle better HTTPS and HTTP web services. The problem is not seeing the request in HTTPS, just the connection to the server. public class SSLSilverlightWebServiceProxy : SSLService.SimpleSilverlightWebServiceSoapClient { public SSLSilverlightWebServiceProxy() { if (Config.Globals.WebService.Address != null) { if (Config.Globals.WebService.Address.Length > 0) ...
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Using the Silverlight HeaderedContentControl

This article examines the Silverlight HeaderedContentControl class, which displays content with a header and content pane. It takes a look at the various ways Silverlight can use this control. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Using ASP.NET 3.5's ListView and DataPager Controls: Inserting Data

The ListView control is similar to the GridView control in many ways: both display a set of records, both support built-in sorting, paging, editing, and deleting functionality with minimal effort. The ListView differs from the GridView in two key ways: Rather than using fields, the ListView is rendered via templates, which offers the page developer much finer control over the emitted markup, andThe ListView supports built-in inserting supportThe first installment in this series explored the Lis
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Functional Programming Battles GOTOzilla

Steve Wellens had a recent blog post arguing for the use of a goto in C# (see: Why goto Still Exists in C#). Steve had a series of methods he wants to execute, but he wants to stop if any given method returns false. At the end of the post, Steve decided that the following code with goto was better than setting boolean variables: // DoProcess using goto void DoProcess3() { LOG("DoProcess Started..."); if (Step1() == false) goto EXIT; if (Step2() == false) goto EXIT;
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Parameter Passing: By Value vs. By Reference

I was reading some old posts on Wil Shipleys excellent blog the other day, when a subtle (and very common) error caught my eye. I dont mean to call Wil out by this; I was reading his blog specifically because I think he has great advice about software development. The error in question was talking about some of the problems with the outdated Carbon framework that much of Apples older software is built on. The following caught my eye: Parameters passed into functions are passed by re
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SQL SERVER List Schema Name and Table Name for Database

Just a day ago, I was looking for script which generates all the tables in database along with its schema name. I tried to Search@SQLAuthority.com but got too many results. For the same reason, I am going to write down today
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The ESRI Web ADF 9.3

Remember this post ? Count that as the most popular post ever on my blog (so much for a positive post being my watermark). Anyway Doron Yaacoby has followed up almost a year and a half later with another look at where ESRI has taken the Web ADF since then. Almost none of the issues I addressed in my original post were fixed. The API is still overly complex. Resources, functionalities and all these so-called abstractions remain in place, emphasizing the strength of the JavaScript API
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Web.UI ASP.NET Grid: Synchronize Checkbox States with Row Selection

One can use the Grid's itemBeforeCheckChange and itemBeforeSelect client events to synchronize the state of checkboxes and row selection. Some extra logic is required since checkbox clicks also trigger row selection. I use the load client event is used to initially set all checked rows as selected. ASPX: Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look:
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Sneak Peek: New ASP.NET Rating Control

One of the reasons Im excited about the upcoming 2009 Volume 2 release of DXperience is the new ASP.NET Rating control which allows your website visitors to rate content on your site, just like rating a movie on Netflix.com or Blockbuster.com: The ASPxRatingControl supports 3 precision display types: Half Full Exact Youll also love the fact the ASP.NET Rating control also co
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40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns

Advertisements If there is a commonly reoccurring need for a particular solution, there is a great probability that someone has - by now - solved that need and has finished the legwork involved in researching and constructing something that resolves it. At the very least, you will find documentation on general solutions to related problems that will enable you to gain insight on best practices, effective techniques, and real-world examples on the thing you are creating
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Have I Missed The Bus?

About 5-10 times a week I get a letter that says something like this:
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Silverlight Photo Explorer 1.0

You can use this application to share photos that stored in your server with your friends easily. You may now download it to play. Source code is available upon purchase. Only USD $10! Online DemoClick hereDownload ApplicationYou may download the Silverlight Application via the link below:Silverlight Photo Explorer 1.0 (77.8 KiB, 0 hits) Purchase Source CodeSource code is available for you by just USD 10. For any enquiry, please contact us at admin@shinedraw.com.Features:Integrate with PHP to di
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NBC Sports Streams Wimbledon With Silverlight

When the 2009 Wimbledon tennis tournament begins next week, games will be streamed live on the Internet using Microsoft Silverlight's Smooth Streaming technology - but it won't be available everywhere
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Netflix Integration with Windows Media Center - Poor Quality

I finally got a chance to try out the Netflix integration with Windows Media Center last night, and I have to say - the playback quality is horrible . Like, really, truly bad. The test: Pick a movie from my instant queue. From that movie, pick a section as the test. Watch the section of the movie from the Xbox 360. Watch the section of the movie through Windows Media Center (Silverlight based player). On the same PC as the Windows Media Center test, watch the section o
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Intersoft Solutions Releases WebUI Studio 2009

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Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 2

Trimming in Public is a series where I go through my list of 293 RSS feeds, 10 RSS feeds at a time, give some detail as to why I subscribed to a particular feed, and then decide whether or not to keep on consuming that feed. In Episode 1 I explained what RSS is and how to use it, please read that if you need a refresher on why RSS is awesome and why you should be using it if you take reading news on the internet seriously . The prefix to Trimming in Public is
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Press Release - iStreamPlanet Selected to Create and Manage Live Webcast Experience of The Championships 2009 at Wimbledon

iStreamPlanet chosen by Microsoft to spearhead content acquisition, encoding, origination point of distribution, file-based transcoding, content management and developing the media player experience. LAS VEGAS, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- iStreamPlanet, a provider of digital media strategy, services and software applications, announced today that it has been selected by Microsoft Corp. to help deliver Wimbledon Live, providing live streaming and on-demand access to The Championships. iStreamPlanet
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Silverlight Product Maintenance Application

Mike Taulty shares a 6(!) part tutorial on building a product maintenance application going from authentication, roles, through data services, data models to code reuse in WPF. An excellent reading for all starting to write business applications with Silverlight. Part 1
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Early look of upcoming Silverlight Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit

Michael Sync shares the idea behind Silverlight MVVM Toolkit and want you to share your opinion about it. The toolkit includes: A Visual Studio 2008 Project Template Silverlight Command Implementation ViewModelBase that implements INotifyPropertyChanged interface
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Deep zooming on the fly

1. Introduction The use of Deep Zoom Composer for creating deep zoom source files is often inconvenient. For example, one guy has his online shop with thousands of high quality product images and after the release of Silverlight Deep Zoom technology he decided to use it. Surely he can
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How to turn off Visual Studio preview mode for XAML views

John Papa has a tip on how to save some time and prevent Visual Studio to open your XAML files in preview mode . If you work with Silverlight a lot like I do, you might be frustrated with the time it takes Visual Studio to try to render the preview of your Silverlight Views. This can be a painful process, especially when the View gets more complicated
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Slides and demos from Silverlight 3 session at NxtGen Fest 09

Mike Taulty shares his demos and slides from his talk on "Essentials Silverlight 3" at NxtGen Fest.
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Guest comment: Is Microsoft

Guest comment: Is Microsoft
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Nokia E72 - thin QWERTY messenger evolves - All About Symbian

Nokia E72 - thin QWERTY messenger evolves - All About Symbian Today, at the Nokia Connections Event in Singapore, Nokia announced its latest Nseries device - the Nokia E72. The E72 is an updated version of the Nokia E71, which was launched a Acrobat.com takes on Google and Microsoft - PC Advisor Adobe has moved its Acrobat.com web-based productivity and collaboration services out of beta and started offering for-fee subscriptions to provide what the company hopes will be a Microsof
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The Morning Brew #368

I
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Awesome WPF/Silverlight Guidance

The good news is that WPF and Silverlight are aligning, so
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SQL SERVER Query Optimizer Hint ROBUST PLAN Question to You

While cleaning up my bookmarks this week, I stumbled upon a very small interesting thing. I can proudly call myself a pro at finding stuffs, but after continuously hunting online I could not gather comprehensive information about this topic. I was actually looking for a practical example for Query Optimizer Hint
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Nokia E72 in the Works?

You thought that the E71 was a hot Nokia phone? Well apparently Nokia has a follower en route. The E72 is said follower and it appears it has been already posted and removed from YouTube . The phone will come with features like a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and flash, an optical trackpad, a 3.5mm headphone jack and Symbian S60 FP2 for OS. We have no idea when the E72 is actually coming and how much it will cost but we
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Using the Silverlight Accordion Control

(Brian Mains) If you've worked with ASP.NET AJAX and used the AJAX control toolkit, you may have noticed the Accordion control. This control provides an expandable and collapsible view of accordion panels within the accordion control. By clicking on the header expands or collapses that accordion panel. It's also possible to bind data to the Accordion control in ASP.NET, a subject I've written about before on this site.
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Nokia E72 video leaked

A video had been accidentally posted by Nokia Conversations of the Nokia E72 which was picked up by IntoMobile . Although it has been set to private now, they uploaded the video to DailyMotion which is embedded below. E72 looks a lot similar to Nokia E71 and has a 5 megapixel camera. It also seems to have an optical mouse as evident from the video. The video showcases the rich texting and email capabilities of the cell phone thanks to its QWERTY keyboard and optical mouse. The scrolling seems
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Doing WPF/SilverLight? Interested in presentation patterns like MVVM, MVC? Testing/TDD friendly development? Solutions to common UI architecture problems? Then Caliburn might just be for you

CodePlex
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Twampoline

Twampoline is a physics-based visualization of your timeline using MS Silverlight so you can see interactions between people. Advertisement 1. TwitSnaps is a much better way of sharing photographs on Twitter. It allows you to rotate and save, put a watermark, and get a magnified view of the images. 2. Update Twitter from your browser with Yoono 6.0 , plus you can manage Facebook and other social networks as well! 3. Hummingbird - Excel at Twitter Marketing Post from Twit
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An Early Look at Silverlight Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit 1

Introduction This post is just an early look of upcoming Silverlight Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit. I know that this is very early state but I
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Interesting LINQ side affect, Pass in empty List using Contains and Get Where 0 == 1. Hmm

Weve built a data access layer on top of LINQ2SQL for dynamically building the layer we call for data access. Its convenient because we pass in a query object as a parameter that has... This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight
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Microsoft Explosion Ultimate edition

Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). This feed URL has been discontinued. Please update your reader's URL to : http://feeds.feedburner.com/winsmarts Read full article .... ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known
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Easily Build Dropdown Cascading SharePoint Lists with Parent Child Relationship

Do you want conduct filtered lookup?Do you want lookup SharePoint items dynamically?Do you want lookup lists items from other sites?Do you want exercise dual lookup?If you want do all of those, the first thing you need do is build a dropdown cascading lists with Parent child relationship. SharePoint Cascaded Lookup can help you do all of them listed above very easily! ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80
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WPF Bindings and CurrentCulture Formatting

I was surprised to find today that while putting together some localization samples that by default WPF bindings do not respect the current culture. For example check out this localized form that has been localized to German and is running with both Culture and UICulture in the de-DE locale: If you look at the highlighted formatting text youll notice that the form is localized (ie.the UICulture is applied) and that the active culture which in this case displays the CultureInfo.CurrentCultu
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SQL SERVER 2008 SSMS Feature Multi-server Queries

In my recent visit to TechEd India 2009 at Hyderabad, I had taken a technical session on SQL Server Management Studio 2008 New Features, which was attended by a huge number of participants and was very successful. I got loads of requests from my readers for posting the session online. My presentation involved several videos [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Sil
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Flash vs Silverlight

SmashingMagazine has posted great article comparing the Flash and Silverlight in few categories: Animation, File Size, Scripting, Video and Audio and much more.
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Silverlight Deep Zoom Lights Up the CMA Music Festival

Yesterday, the Country Music Association (CMA) and Microsoft teamed up at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville to bridge the divide between the country music world and the world of technology. Using Silverlight Deep Zoom, Microsoft and partner Firefly...(read more)
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Update: Displaying background activity in a Silverlight RIA application

Well, it
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Solaris in my pocket? Why?

Sun is a company whose software strategy puzzles me. On the one hand some outstanding software ideas come from Sun, for example Java. On the other hand Sun
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Origin Digital Business TV

origin digital business tv 2009 Silverlight 3 powered next gen media platform Posted in Adobe Video Formats, Art and Animation, Digital Media, HD Video, silverlight 3, Siverlight, Smooth Streaming, Technology Tagged: .NET, C# 3.0, Microsoft, SilverLight, silverlight3, Software Engineering, Video
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ASP.NET AJAX testing made easy using Visual Studio 2008 Web Test

A collection of ExtractionRules, ValidationRules, and Request Plugin that makes ASP.NET and AJAX website testing painless. No need to record tests, write parameterized tests using server-side control names, handle UpdatePanels, simulate clicks on buttons - all from Web Test. Facilitates painless sop... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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FTab(Floating Tabs)

FTab(Floating Tabs) is a COOL cross browser DHTML floating window script with support for tabs... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Windows 7 Boot to VHD -Screencast

Hello all! I have been speaking about different aspects of Windows 7 from time to time, so I decided to share, in the form of this Silverlight streaming video, how one install Windows 7 to boot from a VHD! This gives us a lot of versatility and provides for many compelling scenarios around dual boot, portability, OS versus Data and profile segregation, and much more. It is a very straight forward process so take a look! ;-) As always, thanks for watching! -Woody Technorati Tags
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Effortless ActiveX Twain Scanning with Atalasofts DotTwain SDK

In general, .NET ActiveX Wrappers are painful to build and deploy. This is because there are a large number of steps involved in the building of signed .NET ActiveX Web Applications. In order to reduce the complexity of this problem, weve created a sample solution which works out of the box.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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The Technology Post for June 12th, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #29 I noticed on Alvin Ashcrafts blog that hell be on vacation next week. Ill essentially be out most of the week with Monday being the exception. Until we return, be sure to check out Chris Alcocks Morning Brew and Jason Hal
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No Close Memory Stream - For When you Just Gotta Leave the Stream Open

Click Here to Goto my Blog HomeTargeting visual studio 2005,2008; wpf, xbap, silverlight, winforms, asp.netI experienced an issue recently with the way StreamReader interacts with the stream it was instantiated with. Turns out the StreamReader will close the stream it was passed when the close... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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HTML5 Storage tests

I have started an HTML5 compatibility table today.For now it only contains a test of HTML5 Storage in all desktop browsers,and a short report is in order. I also retested the DOM HTML; no changes.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Microsoft Shows It

M$ showed it
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Comparing and Contrasting WPF and Silverlight

While Silverlight is a functional subset of WPF and the gap is ever narrowing, there are many features that WPF supports that Silverlight does not. Silverlight even offers a few features that WPF doesn't. Microsoft asked us to do a whitepaper on the differences. Sergio Loscialo, with help from Steve Porter and Kate Gregory, has produced a 69-page paper that goes into amazing detail comparing and contrasting the differences. With this paper, you can learn how to write code that's portable between
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Registration Now Open for St. Louis Day of .NET

It
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WMS 3D with Silverlight and WPF

Fig 1 - Silverlight view of DRCOG WMS Layers Fig 2 - WPF 3D view of DRCOG WMS Layers Silverlight 2.0 MapControl CTP makes it easy to create a WMS viewer. However, Silverlight exposes only a 2D subset of the full WPF xaml specification. In my experiments so far with LiDAR I can see the various TINS, contours, and point clouds as a 2D view, but what I would really like to do is view data in 3D. Recalling some work I did a few years ago using WPF GeometryModel3D elements I decided to look
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iPhone 3G S: What is Missing?

Though everyone is excited about the launch of the new iPhone , I wanted to take a practical look at what features are still missing from this device, compared to others on the market. If Apple really wants to knock the next iPhone out of the park, hopefully some of these ideas will show up next time. HD Video Support With more content on the iTunes Store available in HD, I would like the ability to store this HD content on my iPhone and play it when I plug my iPhone into my HDTV. As more c
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Microsoft .Net RIA Services

Microsoft officials rolled out the delivery timetable for .Net RIA Services via a blog post :
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The Coding4Fun Show: Physics Helper for Silverlight

Andy Beaulieu had the pleasure of being Brian Peek's guest for the first episode of Coding4Fun TV. They talk about using the Physics Helper Library to code simulations and games in Silverlight. The Coding4Fun Show is a new series dedicated to interviewing people creating fun and interesting projects with a bit of "how to" mixed in. In this first episode, I interview Andy Beaulieu, creator of the Physics Helper for Silverlight, Blend, and Farseer . Learn a bit about Andy and how to use h
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PlayBits Silverlight Game Engine Preparing for Launch

Adam Kinney announced that PlayBits is launching their Silverlight Game Engine Early Adopter program on June 30th . The details of the Program are available on the PlayBits blog . Check out their Video Gallery to see the Game Engine in action.
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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application - Part 12

In this episode Jonathan van de Veen gives a closer look at the behavior of the Silverlight 2 DataGrid and especially when databinding and in relation to selecting items. One of the UI elements that we have in our application is that whenever you select an item in DataGrid A, this updates DataGrid B. Not a very difficult peace of code on itself. However, if you need to select an item from DataGrid B right after this update, that's where trouble begins. Debugging my source I realized that it
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Virtual Earth Silverlight Control Part 2: Locate Me

Steve Strong has created a method to report the current location on the Virtual Earth Silverlight control . I have decided to create a separate class of objects to mark my current location. I did this mainly because I wanted to use a different symbol to mark myself on the map -- like a "You Are Here" marker. I have extended this class to collect a time stamp, and this -- in combination with persistence -- can be used to track my movements.
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SilverLight 2.0: Setting the Background of a Button

Michael C. Neel explains how to make some significant changes of a button background . The issue is the Rectangle with it's own Background is on top of the Grid which has the Background from our button. Also, the Border is hard-coded to White, so even if we handle the rectangle we
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Regions in Prism Video

Check this great companion hyper-video on how to do Prism Regions . In addition, there is also a previous hyper-video all about Silverlight Prism and how to create a new Prism project. Regions in Prism are kind of like Master Pages. They allow us to have master and sub-views. If you're interested in composing views separately and then bringing them together in the running application, Regions are for you. As with all of the things in Prism, Regions are a part of the buffet. You can use th
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Versioning your Silverlight application

When writing an enterprise level application it
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Controlling Projection in Silverlight 3

Gavin Wignall has posted an example in which he uses the new Projection control to create a 3d effect based on the users mouse position. And as usual you can download the example files here . In Silverlight 3 we have 2 new variables to give us the ability to show perspective. We can use this effect on any item, including Images and Text. These 2 new variables are: RotationY, RotationX.
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Fluent Silverlight

In the last two posts I introduced Fluent Silverlight which is a new framework designed to offer a strongly typed alternative to the XAML based definition of Silverlight views and its
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FREE training courseware for RadControls for WinForms

Falafel Software have once again helped us produce a new thorough, extensive and FREE courseware, this time for RadControls for WinForms . This is the fifth courseware Falafel has written for Telerik, the previous ones being on ASP.NET and ASP.NET Ajax , Telerik Reporting and Sitefinity . This 650 page hands-on training material will be of great help to individuals, teams, and the community as a whole, and will assist everyone in quickly learning the power of RadControls and experiencin
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Pushing vs. Pulling

Few months ago I heard a lecture about "Velocity", in the begging of the lecture the lecturer asked the audience the next question: "Assume that you have a client which needs to communicate with a server, what is the best communication pattern to work with, pushing or pooling?" 99% of the audience voted for the pushing. It was a tricky question with a tricky answer it depends. I'll explain these two methods for all of those who aren't familiar with them. Pushing in... Did you know that DotNe
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Binding a ComboBox to Enum Values with RadControls for Silverlight

A common request in our support is to display a combo box, containing all values of a specific Enum. This is fairly easy with RadComboBox for Silverlight - all you need to do is to fill its ItemsSource collection with the Enum values. The best way to do this is to create a view model for the Enum: using System; using System.Collections; using System.Linq; using System.Reflection; namespace SilverlightApplication1 { public class EnumModel { private Type enumType; publi
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Use 'Protected Mode' To Secure IE 7, Microsoft Says

A setting in Internet Explorer 7 running on Windows Vista can help stave off a particular remote code execution attack, according to Microsoft's security team.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Microsoft Rolls Out New Forefront Betas

Microsoft is releasing new betas of Forefront enterprise security products, according to announcements issued this week.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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The Technology Post for June 11th, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #28 Daily Deed Microsoft donating 8 meals to Feeding America for every Internet Explorer 8 download at http://browserforthebetter.com (Posted by Microsoft Press ) Other Link Lists Dew Drop - June 11, 2009 Alvin
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SQL SERVER 2008 Customize Toolbar Remove Debug Button from Toolbar

In todays article I have combined two different questions. I was fond of SQL Server Debugger feature in SQL Server 2000. To my utter disappointment, this feature was withdrawn from SQL Server 2005. However, because of loads of requests from developers it was re-introduced in SQL Server 2008.Developers were extremely happy with
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ASP.NET AJAX-based Source Code Browser

This project started out when I began searching for an quick way to put source code on my website to make it easy for guests to browse projects. Time is very valuable so I don't always like downloading a zipped archive and then exploding it to see it - I'd rather have a space online.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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In DAM, Flashy does not always mean Flex

I mentioned in an earlier post (about the recent Henry Stewart DAM Symposium ) that one of the big trends right now in the DAM world is a shift toward client apps built on Adobe Flex technology. Sometimes it's hard to tell the Flex from the non-Flex players, however, because the grey-on-grey look and feel can also be achieved with ordinary HTML and CSS, and some vendors have actually used those technologies to achieve a distinctly Flex-like appearance for their new UIs. A good case in
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Microsoft unbundles Internet Explorer from Windows 7

Microsoft is to offer a special version of Windows in Europe. Called Windows 7 E, it will be identical to Windows 7 elsewhere except for one thing : The E versions of Windows 7 will include all the features and functionality of Windows 7 in the rest of the world, other than browsing with Internet Explorer. Computer manufacturers will be able to add any browser they want to their Windows 7 machines, including Internet Explorer, so European consumers who purchase new PCs will be able to acces
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Customizing Silverlight 3 DataGrid Headers

We
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Turning off Cider

If you work with Silverlight a lot like I do, you might be frustrated with the time it takes Visual Studio to try to render the preview of your Silverlight Views. This can be a painful process, especially when the View gets more complicated
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App Wall gets Photosynthed

At the Apple WWDC conference, Apple put up 20 large 30-inch LCD displays, showcasing the icons of 20,000 of the most popular apps found on the App Store today. Every time that someone downloads an app, its icon bounces up and down. Andreas Douglas and Greg Pascale who were at the conference decided to take some pictures and put them all into PhotoSynth . Check it out, it turned out very nicely. The photos were taken with an iPhone. A reminder, to check it out, you will need to have the Microso
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Facebookster Makes a Splash at the Facebook Developer Garage

DUBAI, June 11, 2009
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Announcement : RadDock for WinForms Beta is here!

RadDock for WinForms Beta is here! Telerik just released the new beta of RadDock for WinForms. The control offers enhanced design-time support as well as new simplified and completely transparent architecture based on a single interface - IDockWindow. You will also get a new drag & drop mechanism, re-dock support and many more. Read more info and try the demo. ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 artic
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Silverlight 3 Behaviors : Double Click Trigger

How to create a Double Click Trigger in Silverlight 3 to compose rich interactive experiences.
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Dew Drop - June 11, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing Unit Testing Interfaces with xUnit Theories (Ade Miller) The Seven Pillars of an Agile Team: Introduction and One pillar of an Agile team: product sense (version 1) (Brian Marick) Hope is Not a Risk Management Strategy (Cory Foy
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Microsoft Bing: WTF Kind of Launch Was That?!

Microsoft has spent a reported $100 million to launch their new
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Introducing NETOOP (The .NET Object Oriented Portal)

Yesterday I announced and new project I
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French International tennis tournament at Roland Garros broadcast live on the Web using IIS 7 Smooth Streaming

France Télévisions partnered with Microsoft, Inlet Technologies and Level 3 Communications to broadcast the French International tennis tournament, held at Roland Garros from 24 May to 7 June 2009, live on the Web. This was the first ever application...(read more)
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.NET RIA Services roadmap update

Today, we posted on the .NET RIA Services forum an updated roadmap for the timing and thoughts around the product offering. What is .NET RIA Services? Microsoft .NET RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together...(read more)
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What is Expression?

So what is Expression then? Well let
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The Coding4Fun Show

The very first episode of my new Coding4Fun Show is now up on Channel 9 . This is a show I plan on doing monthly, interviewing developers creating fun and interesting projects, and showcasing what they
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Build an Out Of Browser Client with Silverlight 3

My Data Points column in the June 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine is now online. In this issue I demonstrate how to build an out of browser application using Silverlight 3 and demonstrate how the API works under different circumstances. I demonstrate the features using a Silverlight Twitter client (a light weight client I might add) that uses offline storage of data when the app is offline, and it also displays the network status. I hope you enjoy it!
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Google Adsense - I share some info and tips. Useful Information to Know

Google Adsense - I share some info and tips Go check out the new Flat House Share site if you need or have a room or property! Have you ever wondered what exactly is up with adsense? This informative report can give you an insight into everything you
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Stock Market Commentary: Spinning Tops

A late day rally reversed the bulk of Monday's losses which turned what was a looking a decent day for bears into something more neutral. The Nasdaq and Nasdaq 100 maintained their healthy form staying well above their respective 20-day, 50-day and 200-day MAs. The Nasdaq enjoyed a "Golden Cross" between its 50-day and 200-day MAs; a long term bullish signal. This followed a similar cross for the Nasdaq 100 at the end of May. The semiconductor index also has a "Golden Cross" working in i
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Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services Keynote at VSLive!

I just finished up the keynote at VSLive in Vegas. I did an update of my Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 3 talk from Mix09 . I updated to the latest internal builds of Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services late last week for this demo. It was very fun to see stuff come together an improve. There are some great updates to the Navigation Application template, navigation in general, authentication, master-details databinding, dataform and much more that makes t
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Tweets on 2009-06-08

@ kayray I played Spore for hours, but it wasn
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Nuberu 10 Free Wordpress Theme

Wordpress Theme Compatable with WordPress version 2.7. A clean, optimized with enhanced archives and a large header image, designed for professional and/or photography blogs. This version adds support for threaded comments and sticky posts. Download Theme | View Demo More Free Wordpress Themes: Oldschool 10 Free Wordpress Theme Ntbliss Free Wordpress Theme Old School 15001 Free Wordpress Theme News Blue 01 Free Wordpress Theme Stacko Theme SilverLight
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Dew Drop - June 8, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing Reflecting reality (Jimmy Bogard) TDDing an Interface - a Twitter influenced discussion (Brett Schuchert) The Impact of Staffing Practices on Software Quality and Productivity (Derick Bailey) Multiple roles (Steven
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Oldschool 10 Free Wordpress Theme

Wordpress Theme Compatable with WordPress version 2.7. A clean, optimized with enhanced archives and a large header image, designed for professional and/or photography blogs. This version adds support for threaded comments and sticky posts. Download Theme | View Demo More Free Wordpress Themes: Old School 15001 Free Wordpress Theme Stacko Theme SilverLight Eclair Theme InnodeMag ModuleMag Financial Circle
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Old School 15001 Free Wordpress Theme

Wordpress Theme Compatable with WordPress version 2.7. A clean, optimized with enhanced archives and a large header image, designed for professional and/or photography blogs. This version adds support for threaded comments and sticky posts. Download Theme | View Demo More Free Wordpress Themes: Oldschool 10 Free Wordpress Theme Stacko Theme SilverLight Eclair Theme InnodeMag ModuleMag Financial Circle
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JavaFX squares off against AJAX (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - In a mock debate focused on the rich Internet application development realm, AJAX was pitted against Sun Microsystems' JavaFX Friday, with proponents for both technologies pointing up their entrant's high points and the low points of their rival. Related posts: Java mobile platform to get widget apps (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Emphasizing the growing importance of mobile device applications,... Sun Executive Reveals More Open-source Plans for JavaFX (PC World) PC Wo
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Weekly Stock Charts review from Stockcharts.com Publishers

The rally keeps chugging along and now looks better positioned to move higher than lower - but the initial outlook for Monday is for weakness. Tomas Leszczynski headed the list of Santoren.com , but most of his front page charts were of stocks. His daily S&P; chart shows a second long signal which may define the resistance level to break from the next pullback. I still like the idea of a move back to the low 800s (perhaps high 700s) but exact mirrors of prior bottoms are rare so it may
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Microsoft NET Social Networking in Silverlight Project

by on June 8, 2009 We have project which is a social networking for farmers and food buyers in USA, we want some sort of design like basic amp;quot;orkutamp;quot; website that we have 2 years ago. Excerpt from:Microsoft NET Social Networking in Silverlight Project Share and Enjoy:Tagged as: asp-net, coding, computer, getafreelancer, quantcast, social, social media, software-coding, start-here
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Google Adsense - I share some info and tips. Helpful Points to Know

Palm Pre Users Reporting Possible Heat-Related Screen Distortion (Jack Loftus/Gizmodo)

Jack Loftus / Gizmodo : Palm Pre Users Reporting Possible Heat-Related Screen Distortion Related posts: Palm Pre
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Email Video Marketing, What

Want to get your video out to the masses? Why not try email? Sure you can
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6/01/09 Weekly Wrapup: @rjacquez on Twitter

By RJ Jacquez. Follow him on Twitter in English @rjacquez and in Spanish @rjacquezEspanol , for real-time announcements, tips & tricks, how-to tutorials, Adobe-branded giveaways (including software at 1K followers) and more. Last week was an exciting week with many announcements coming from our Adobe Labs. Specifically, Flash Catalyst and Adobe BrowserL
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Links (6/7/2009)

Customising Content Query Web Part (CQWP) and Discussion Boards SPLimitedWebPartManager.AddWebPart Mysteriously Increments zoneIndex Case Study: Dynamic Charts in SharePoint, No Code Required! Bigger SharePoint Templates Developing Sequential Workflows for SharePoint Server 2007 Using Visual Studio 2008 jQuery for Everyone:
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Glimpse for Silverlight

Introduction After my previous blog post, “Troubleshoot Silverlight 3 Data Bindings” I got some feedback and while in Phoenix I upgraded the code and have decided to call this Glimpse. This initial release of Glimpse is a proof of concept...(read more)
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Improving the performance of web services in SL3 Beta

Silverlight 3 Beta introduces a new way to improve the performance of web services. You have all probably used the Silverlight-enabled WCF Service item template in Visual Studio to create a WCF web service, and then used the Add Service Reference command...(read more)
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Targeting Other Elements via the Blend 3 UI

In an earlier post, I described how you can change what your EventTrigger and Action (based on TargetedTriggerAction) can target. You can get into various interesting scenarios where what your Action is attached to is not the element your Trigger is listening...(read more)
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Check your Silverlight 2 apps for compatibility with Silverlight 3

One of the goals of new versions of Silverlight is to be be backward compatible with previous versions. We make this a priority goal so that people can keep their previous applications deployed while not worrying that people with newer Silverlight will...(read more)
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Forms Auth\Windows Auth

I was talking to some coworkers today about the scenarios for Forms Auth and Windows Auth in line of business applications. We were having a debate about which was more common. As you might guess at Microsoft we are an all windows shop...(read more)
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Silverlight Validation in Detail

In a previous pos t I mentioned that Silverlight 3 has enhanced support for data entry validation. In this first of two mini-tutorials on the topic, I will take you through the process of implementing validation in some detail. The key to...(read more)
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New Silverlight 2 Video: Using Silverlight 2 Graphics

Watch Todd Miranda demonstrate how to use shapes and geometries to create graphics in Silverlight 2. View this and other Silverlight videos on the Learn page ....(read more)
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Troubleshooting Silverlight 3 Broken Bindings

Introduction I’ve been working with Silverlight 3 for awhile now and one thing I find frustrating is debugging data bindings. In addition to emitting binding error information to the Output window, WPF provides developers a rich set...(read more)
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Maintaining balance [A versatile red-black tree implementation for .NET (via Silverlight/WPF Charting)]

Problem I spent some time in my last post explaining how Silverlight/WPF Charting takes advantage of an ordered multi-dictionary to improve the performance of various scenarios . I wrote about Charting's use of a custom binary tree implementation and...(read more)
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Ocean for Silverlight

Ever since Silverlight version 1 was announced, I’ve been working with my WPF and .NET back-end libraries to ensure that I could reuse business entity objects between the tiers regardless of the UI technology. I wrote these demos in NYC while...(read more)
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Is Google Wave Going to Have an Impact on RIA/Silverlight?

The recently announced Google Wave platform which is promoting HTML 5 is believed by some to have a major impact on RIA, including Silverlight, while others consider that Wave is actually a competitor for Microsoft
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Altoros Supported Three Days of Adobe in Belarus

Adobe
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Favorite Twitter Posts

Not to be confused with the seminal What I think I think series , these are what I think are the best things I
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Dew Drop - June 2, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio F# BootCamp
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The Morning Brew #359

Software SubMain acquires GhostDoc, releases new version, integrates it with CodeIt.Right - SubMain have taken on the GhostDoc tool, and have been further developing it to add in VB support, VS2010 support and done some re-architecting. Part of the agreement is that GhostDoc will continue to have a free version. Roland Weigelt, the orignial creator of Ghost Doc gives further details in his post The Future of GhostDoc Nova Commons - Nova Software make their first release of Nova Comm
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Prism Training Class July 7-9

.NET Guru, David Platt (of Rolling Thunder) and author of Introducing Microsoft.NET, Programming CAB and SCSF, and Why Software Sucks is giving an online training for Prism 2.0! It's a three day course to be held May 18-20, and looks like it covers everything from the goals and basic architecture of Prism, to modularity, UI composition, pub-sub eventing, and services - everything you need to get up and running with Prism. Check out the course details here, and the detailed course syllabus here.
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Update on Windows Azure

Windows Azure has continued adding features since the last major update at MIX. Additional features and SDK updates will continue to roll out in the coming weeks and months. Cool New Feature #1: Geo-Location support Starting in May, a new option was added to the portal to support geo-locating your code and data. In order to use this most effectively, the idea of an Affinity Group was created. This allows you to associate various services under an umbrella label for the... Did you know
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WebUI Test Studio Release History : Q1 2009 SP2 (version 2009.1.527)

Automation Design Canvas On some web pages, while recording a test in Web UI TestStudio, multiple clicks on the same button would leave the recorder in a locked state. The recorder failed to recognize when the browser was ready, usually after the third click; Clicking on a MailTo link (a link that starts an email) with the recorder would leave the recorder in a locked state.The recorder failed to recognize that a MailTo link does not make the browser interact with the web server; Fixed record
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Cross domain access policy in Silverlight applications

In this article, Sergey examines the role of cross domain access policy in Silverlight. After a short introduction, he examines the interaction between client and server as well as a list of threats which may occur in rich internet applications. He also provides steps to take in order to prevent attacks and operation of Crossdomain Client Access Policy with the help of relevant screenshots and source code.
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Review: CryptoLicensing for .NET

I was recently asked to review a licensing solution CryptoLicensing for .NET(disclosure I was paid for my time , the time it took to review it, but had only committed to doing a fair and balanced review). After reading Orens post a while ago about how he couldnt find a decent licensing solution to the point of making his own, I was sure that this one will fall out as well over some technicality. Typemock also has a home-grown solution for licensing, and while searching the web about a year ag
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Microsoft Web Platform Installer

One of the cool new releases coming out this year is a small download manager - the Microsoft Web Platform Installer - that makes installing and configuring web server and web development stacks really easy. It is a free tool that you can download from the www.microsoft.com/web site (here is the direct link to the installer choose the 2.0 version). It works with Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The Web Platform Installer provides an easy... Did you
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta Download, Features, Screenshots

Microsoft
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Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework

I
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First Look at Microsoft

Bing is here a few days earlier than planned, so we decided to go check it out. While we don
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UppercuT - Automated Builds - TeamCity Integration Coming

This is a quick update to note that TeamCity is on it's way to being supported. I was given a patch for this and I am about verify that it works (it came from a trusted source through, so I am pretty sure it will). You know what the greatest part of the patch was? It was one line of code. We don't even need a setting to determine if the build server... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in sev
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The Technology Post for June 1st

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #23 Daily Fact Just realized COBOL is over 50 years old! http://tinyurl.com/7uvd8 (Posted by Jason Gaylord ) Other Link Lists May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Scott Guthrie New
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SQLAuthority News Summary of TechEd India 2009 A Grand Event

TechEd India 2009 was undeniably a magnificent success! The 3-day grand event was adorned by delegates, sponsors, partners, customers, media as well as celebrities from cross the world. The event was marked by the CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer
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JavaScript and User Controls 101

I've been doing quite a bit with user controls and JavaScript. There is an art to using the JavaScript correctly, wiring it in and having it work consistently. I thought I'd post a brief article on the "101" around this based on the things I've found. Hopefully this can be a quick-and-dirty referenc... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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The Manhattan Project

Google Wave may be a big deal for Google, but it
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I just redid my home page

Ad: : SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies ( more information ). Okay so I was heckuva bored of my prev. home page. Plus, the wording there made me sound too full of myself! I love Silverlight! I really do. I am so enthused by this technology lately, that I could spend day and night futzing with it. In fact, when dev
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Graphical viewer by JALJ153

Project is to be developed using SILVERLIGHT. It is an application to present information based on dates. Basic functionallity: a. Read from an SQL2005 DB data to display a jpg/pgn file b. Display the map c
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Bing Tips & Tricks

Now that Bing is available for use outside Microsoft, here are some quick tips and tricks that will help you do more with Bing.com. 1. Use the full version of Bing If you are using Bing outside North America, chances are that you seeing a localized version of Bing that may be missing some features. For instance, the Indian version of Bing.com doesn
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Telerik Released RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta

Newton, MA, June 1 , 2009
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Silverlight vs Google Wave, It

It seems Silverlight and Googe Wave are like apple and orange. How could they be compared. ZOHO CEO Sridhar Vembu did just that with emails and blogging . Vermbu has been taking on Salesforce.com and now obviously Microsoft. Does he have good points this time? I think so and the comparison is reasonable after reading along. As Vermbu wrote,
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Rounding Up The Google Wave Week

Last week actually became a Flex 4 week towards the tail end, but read about that in the next post. Google Wave is a phenomenal project and I already told you that . One of our readers has a doubt:
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John L. Scott Real Estate Launches Social Networking Experience

As a part of its ongoing technology partnership with Microsoft, John L. Scott Real Estate has entered into the social networking space through the launch of JLSconnect. JLSconnect augments the previous
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@ EconAffinity: CBS' McManus: We Will Not Sacrifice TV Revenue For More Online Viewing

Don't expect to be able to watch the Super Bowl live online anytime soon, Sean McManus , president, CBS ( NYSE: CBS ) News & Sports, told ContentNext's Staci D. Kramer , EVP and Co-Editor of paidContent parent ContentNext in the opening panel of the company's EconAffinity conference. CBS, which has the rights to the Super Bowl in 2013, will "Looking at possible ways of using the internet to augment the audience, as we've done with Fantasy Football," McManus said. "They'll watch the live
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Adobe gives Flash a programming boost

New betas of Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, and Flash's open-source Flex underpinnings give Adobe a better response to Web apps and Microsoft's Silverlight. More...
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Learning jQuery 1.3 Review

I have been working with SharePoint for close to 3 years now. I am always looking for ways to improve what I can do with it. As a SharePoint developer, you need to understand that you do not live in Visual Studio 100% of the time. This is definitely disconcerting to developers who are making the transition to SharePoint. There are many reasons why you are not writing Visual Studio code 100% of the time. The functionality you are looking to deploy is already available out-of-the-box. Yes, it m
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Microsoft's Bing goes live in preview

The buzz last week and building overnight (on Twitter) was that Microsoft's new search product, Bing, was going live early. This morning, users of Live.com as well as MSN search got a little surprise ... two days early. Prior to an upcoming multi media advertising blitz valued at 80-100 million dollars, Bing is now live in most time zones in 'preview mode'. Bing Travel , born out of Microsoft's Farecast acquisition, is also now live as well as other new members of the 'Bing family', not
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Dailymotion tests non-Flash video portal

h-online.com: French video portal Dailymotion is ditching the use of proprietary plug-ins such as Flash and Silverlight for its "pré b
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Interesting Finds: June 1, 2009

Other stuff A closer look at the upcoming RSS Bandit ribbon , Dare Obasanjo The Future of GhostDoc , Roland Weigelt VS 2010/Silverlight 3 stuff Clearing some air in Silverlight, Blend and Visual Studio Beta land , Tim Heuer Database stuff SQL SERVER
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Microsoft Bing Uses Adobe Flash for Video

Though Microsoft would have the world switch to its Silverlight competitor to Adobe's Flash technology for playing video on web pages, the OS giant's own new search competitor to Google sticks with Adobe technology for one of its coolest features. Bing can play a video preview from right within the thumbnails on video search result pages, but to implement this, Microsoft has chosen to use Flash.
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Dew Drop - June 1, 2009

Web Development Vici MVC finally released as part of the Vici Project (Philippe Leybaert) .NET / Visual Studio NH Prof & Teaching NHibernate and NHibernate Queries
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John L. Scott Real Estate Launches Social Networking Experience

by admin on June 1, 2009 John L. Scott Real Estate Launches Social Networking Experience IT Business Net, CA
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John L. Scott Real Estate Launches Social Networking Experience - IT Business Net

John L. Scott Real Estate Launches Social Networking ExperienceIT Business Net, CA
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Programming news: COBOL's impact, .NET 4 to revamp 'cancellation,' Cisco's developer contest

The hot topic in the development community last week was Google I/O, which I think is basically a non-story. The news items highlighted below cover the gamut from Chrome 2.0 to .NET 4 to Typekit to the importance of testing and more.Google Chrome 2.0 releasedGoogle released version 2 of its Chrome browser. The Chrome site does not seem to precisely state what makes it version 2.0, but I have heard that it is faster. Other analysts are basically saying,
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John L. Scott Real Estate Launches Social Networking Experience - Business Wire (press release)

John L. Scott Real Estate Launches Social Networking ExperienceBusiness Wire (press release), CA
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Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters

Inevitable comparisons are made between the hugely enthusiastic developer response (including from us at Zoho) to Google Wave yesterday with the relatively tepid reponse to Microsoft's new search engine Bing. The real interesting contrast to us, as independent software developers, is the way developers responded to Silverlight as opposed to the reaction yesterday to Google Wave. Both Silverlight and Wave are aimed at taking the internet experience to the next level. To be perfectly honest, Silve
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Susan Boyle on Twitter - I have a rock garden Last week three... (Saturday the 30th 17:01)

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. Author: Richard Diran What is going on this Saturday in twitter most popular comments on Susan Boyle No way susan boyle came in second! Simon has purchased the rights to her story. Saw it on Craig Furgonson Susan Boyle Loses 'Britain's Got Talent,' But Soars With Final ... - MTV.com ( http://cli.gs/Bz40Te ) Why Susan Boyle May Lose to Stavros Flatley - ABC News ( http://cli.gs/67D7WU ) Susan Boyle 90% As
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Retrieve All Active Sessions Data

Helps to view all the active Session IDs, Session Keys, and Session Values in an ASP.NET application.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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I will be speaking at the Regional SharePoint Users conference

SQL SERVER Create Multiple Filegroup For Single Database

I am elated to receive hundreds of emails every day from my readers. My tight work schedule refrains me from answering all your questions, but I do try my best to entertain them whenever I can. Today
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Daily news blogs about .NET and related creatures

A friend asked me how I know about so many things that happen in the .NET sphere. the answer is very very simple. All you have to do is follow a few blogs on a daily basis, and youll have access to a whole world of new and existing things you didnt even know existed in .NET. here are the first three blogs I subscribe to on a daily basis. These are link blogs, they only supply links to cool and interesting stuff that happens in .NET land. Dew Drop (Alvin Ashcraft) Interesting finds (Jason
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DevDays Netherlands 2009: 10 Silverlight Tips and tricks

My first-ever session in the Netherlands :) A big room, about 70% fill, that means a lot of interest for Silverlight. It seems that the demo that sparked the most conversation after the session was the
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Josh Einstein gives Silverlight a twirl

Josh Einstein of TEO fame gives forms in Silverlight a spin in 2.0 . Nicely done.
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LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 5/19/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles.
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Interactive Web Mapping Api

I need to build an interactive web mapping application using either google maps api or ArcGIS server javasript api/silverlight/WPF. Here
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Interesting Finds: May 31, 2009

Other stuff DevDays Holland
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Susan Boyle on Twitter - Have more than thou showest Speak less than... (Sunday the 31st 07:00)

Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest. Author: William Shakespeare What is going on this Sunday in twitter most popular comments on Susan Boyle why did susan boyle lose?!:(( New #3 from #4 : http://is.gd/KsKZ - Susan Boyle : Final Performance (via @floatr ) New blog post: Susan Boyle just couldn't recreate her magic moment http://bit.ly/93yXt [ Susan Boyle ]Follow Me to 10% off unique gifts for the Outdoor-Lover... Don't forget yo
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Dew Drop - May 31, 2009

Web Development New jQuery Ribbon release! (Mikael Söderström) First Look: Google Wave (Paul Thurrott) ASP.NET 4.0: Modifying ClientID of controls (Gunnar Peipman) Sample Code for New Windows Azure Blob Features (Steve Marx) Using
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REVIEW: First Look at Microsoft's New BING Search Engine

Microsoft is about to release the third incarnation of their online search platform. Originally called MSN Search , then Live Search . . . it's now being rebranded as "Bing" Bing's technology attempts to be more than "just search" and deliver something Microsoft refers to as a
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The SkyFire Browser hits V1.0

There
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SketchFlow: Rapid prototyping that works

What is SketchFlow? SketchFlow, new in Expression Blend 3, provides built-in
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Google Wave: the sky is falling and Flash/Silverlight are dead

At the Google I/O conference this past week, they announced Google Wave . Almost immediately, I started seeing Twitter replies, blog posts and various articles talking about how Google Wave is going to kill Flash/ Silverlight /JavaFX. None of these made...(read more)
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ViewModel with MVC/Navigation in Silverlight

I've been writing about ViewModel (aka MVVM) pattern ( here , here , here and more) and implementing it in Silverlight.FX for quite some time now, and it continues to be an exciting area for further thinking, and prototyping. This time around I want to...(read more)
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And to think that I found it on Bing

Ever since I started writing books I check Google (and for the past number of years it has been Google) for my name every now and then; both for the ego gratification and to see if there is misinformation or unhappy readers or other stories I should respond...(read more)
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I have a Silverlight for PHP Developers article in this months PHP Architect Magazine.

This month the PDF version is FREE ! http://phparch.com/c/magazine/issue/97 There are SEVERAL articles for Developers working on the Microsoft Platform ! Installing PHP on Windows by Hank Janssen and Pierre A. Joye The Windows version of PHP has always...(read more)
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Microsoft confirms Silverlight 3 to launch on July 10

Microsoft is planning to launch Silverlight 3 and its Expression Studio 3 designer tools on July 10 company spokespeople confirmed today. Silverlight 3 introduces more than 50 new features, including 3D support, GPU acceleration, H.264 video support and out-of-the-browser capabilities to Silverlight.. The out-of-browser support will enable developers to build applications that work like Adobe's AIR plugin. Dramatic video performance and quality improvements are also expected. Microsoft is curr
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Amazing AIR 4.0 demos!

If you've been reading the techblogs this week, you may be wondering "Is this the death of Flash ?" There's lots of commentary out there, and no matter how ill-founded, we'll all likely end up in conversations with less-clued-in coworkers or friends asking, "Hey, I heard that *this* will finally be the death of Flash !" Fun, huh? If so, then relax. It's all going to get worse. ;-) There are more corporate conferences coming up in the next few weeks, and a browser release or two. These
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The Technology Post for May 28th

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #21 Daily Video The Vendor Client relationship - in real world situations (Suggested by Wally McClure ) .NET Languages C# and Visual Basic C# - Resizing Images in C# - Tom Hearn NetFX - Pattern Matching in
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Bing it!

Instead of 'Google it!' now there's new verb Bing it! Its Microsofts new and improved search engine.Though number of results returned is still less compared to that of google, the format and quality of results seems better. I personally like the category filter and price compare. There's lot more to bing, find out here http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html It still has long way to go to catch up with googles indexes, and hopefully will get there. It has been released internally for a long t
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.NET 4.0 -- System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ConditionalWeakTable

Back in the PDC build of .NET 4.0 another interesting new feature was introduced: ConditionalWeakTable. This is a special purpose dictionary to associate objects with other objects. It was introduced to help the DLR, which needs the ability to add properties to arbitrary objects. The documentation is pretty clear and the CLR team blog also has some info on it, so I won't rehash that. Instead I'll just mention that ConditionalWeakTable itself is not a magic type... D
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FYI: Successfully Using jQuery's ThickBox with ASP.Net

After getting lots of great help from assorted people on here, I thought I should give back to the community. As more & more people start using jQuery there clearly will be questions about how to use it to replace the ModalPopupExtender of the AJAX Control Toolkit.There are several lightweight jQuery dialog box alternatives. I chose to go with ThickBox as it seemed the most popular and best documented one. At first though, it was not a straightforward process to swap the ModalPopupExtende
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Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web. Easy work.

Stimulsoft reports has a web based report designer component that provides full report editing capabilities inside a web browser. Thanks to this component called Designer.Web you can now allow end users to edit reports to their requirements and save the report definition locally or on the server. The best part of the Designer.Web is drag and drop deployment, all you need to do is insert the designer component on an ASP.NET webform and write one line of code to start allowing users to edit existi
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Zune HD to compete with ITouch

Microsoft just recently made some announcements that they will be releasing the new Zune HD. The new Zune HD will also support the now much loved multi-touch capabilities that has made the ITouch and the IPhone as famous as they are. From the image above you can see that the new Zune HD is going for an advanced look with the beveled edges. I owned a Zune first generation and then I bought myself a Zune (120GB version) later. I really did like it mainly because of the very large screen that
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SQLAuthority News Blog Makeover New Banner New Color

Just a month back I had previously changed my personal homepage and had requested for feedback from my readers here SQLAuthority News Authors Website Redesigned http://www.pinaldave.com Feedback Requested. To my astonishment, I received a huge number of emails. But I received only one comment. This time, I would like to request my [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories inc
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CRM as a Rapid Development Platform

CRM as a Rapid Development Platform Product Description Leveraging Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 as an application development platform to build real world business solutions that go beyond what you think of as
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Links (5/28/2009)

Check that a user has a SharePoint MySite Create MySites using C# and the SharePoint 2007 object model How to redirect on new Page at Item Deleting in SharePoint ECB Menu? Render the all the column of links list through BaseFieldControl Clean up SharePoint
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Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 5/25/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Data Services and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.
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Expression Web 3 tools simplify debugging and Silverlight video encoding

The upcoming version 3 of Microsoft
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Episode #1 of the Misfit Geek Podcast is now LIVE !

The first podcast in my new series is now live at http://misfitgeek.com/podcast/misfit-geek-podcast/ This episode is an interview with Senior Lean PM Scott Hunter on the future of Web Forms. Hope you will listen, subscribe and enjoy ! Technorati Tags...(read more)
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Alan Cheslow: Alchemy: Turning Microsoft

Alan Cheslow Alchemy: Turning Microsoft's embedded platforms into consumer gold | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com - http://blogs.zdnet.com/microso
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Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 launching July 10

Just when I sat down with a sigh of relief, thinking that this week of Microsoft news frenzy was over, I got an e-mail and couldn't stop my fingers from flying across the keyboard. The above image has been sent out to Microsoft journalists and bloggers across the globe, and the message is quite clear: the launch for Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 has been set in stone. Whether you're invited or not, mark July 10 on your calendar. Click here to read the rest of thi
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My Experience with MOSS 2007 on our intranet

We rolled out a company wide intranet solution on MOSS 2007 this week. We used the publishing portal template. Its been 3 days and our launch it has been surprisingly very smooth. Our IT ServiceDesk received very few calls and most were related to now sharepoint issues or user errors. I was a bit worried about 700 + people hitting the web front end server in one day and causing the server to slow down. So far, the performance has been almost the same as when we were testing (about 20 people).
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Silverlight 3 to launch July 10

May 28th, 2009 Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 1:17 pmCategories:.Net Framework, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Expression Studio, Silverlight (wpf/e)Tags:Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight 3, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing, Mary Jo FoleyEarlier this year, Microsoft officials said they planned to deliver the final version of Silverlight 3 before the end of 2009. Looks like they meant months before
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Microsoft Overhauls Search Site

In its ongoing but futile attempt to fight Google, Microsoft has announced Bing which is its new search engine . But it
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Tangram game using silverlight 2.0 by programmingbids

This is a quite short and easy project for the first version. Upon successful delivery, a second version with social networking features can be expected! OVERVIEW: The project involves creating a Tangram
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France Télévisions in partnership with Microsoft, Inlet Technologies and Level 3 Communications broadcasts live on the Web Roland Garros in high definition quality

The French International tennis tournament, held at Roland Garros from 24 May to 7 June 2009, will be the scene of the first ever application of Microsoft
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Skyfire 1.0 Mobile Browser

Skyfire 1.0 is now available for on Windows Mobile (smartphones/PPC) and Nokia N and E Series (Symbian S60, 3rd Edition) phones. The free mobile browser comes packed with Flash 10, Javascript, Ajax and Silverlight 2. Features include scrolling, zooming, and Twitter and Facebook integration. Available in the US, Canada and the UK, a public beta and Blackberry version should be released sometime this year. Visit the site to download to your phone, send a link to it or install through your PC.
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Intel 945GM - Extended Desktop no longer working

I can add that my wife's HP TC4200 Windows XP tablet is having the same problem, so that's now two machines in the family independently affected by the same problem at about the same time. I've been using hibernate almost daily for months without problem, so I would tend to rule that out as a cause. Since so many computers more or less simultaneously and independently lost extended desktop functionality (and thus far this cuts across brands as we have people reporting the same problem o
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Bing: Microsoft Reveals its New Search Engine [Video]

Following speculation last week that Microsoft was planning to rebrand its search engine, the company has announced that it will be launching Bing on June 3rd. In addition to a new name, Microsoft is re-positioning itself in the search market as not necessarily a better place to go for navigational queries (i.e.
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Skyfire Mobile Browser Comes Out of Beta

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Google Adsense - I Share Some Info And Tips

Review: IronPython in Action

I
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Windows Mobile 7 UI: Still Under Construction

( Follow me on Twitter : UX Evangelist ) According to freelance UI/UX designer Kim Sealls , the Windows Mobile 7 UI is still a work in progress. Her resume lists her as presently working for the Windows Mobile UX team creating, "designs for Windows Mobile 7 controls (UI still in progress)," and creating, "XAML layouts for controls and dialogs (Silverlight created in Expression Blend)." It sounds like things are right on course for the Windows Mobile 7 UI to be as drastic of a change as has be
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Dew Drop - May 28, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio Using the BizTalk WCF Service Consuming Wizard (MS Downloads) Get the Windows API Code Pack for the Microsoft .NET Framework (Bruce Kyle) MassTransit Now Speaks XML By Default (Chris Patterson) Oslo May 2009 CTP: Intellipad Changes (Dan Rigsby) A simpler, conventions based DependencyProperty structure for silverlight using CustomControlBase (Roy Osherove) IronPython how cool it is (Ryan Svihla) Oslo May 2009 Sample Downloads and Documentation
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Skyfire launches 1.0 version of its mobile Browser

skyfire.JPG The Silicon Valley startup Skyfire has officially launched version 1.0 of its free third-party mobile browser 'Skyfire' for Windows Mobile and Symbian phones. In early 2008, the company had introduced the Skyfire 0.9 browser, which added Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight capability to Windows Mobile and Symbian smartphones. read more
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Ibrii - A virtual notepad

Ibrii is a virtual notepad which allows you to write your personal notes, organize and share them with your friends. Within your personal notes you can place any content you see from any browsed web page. Through the use of the bookmarklet called
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Banner Ads

A web banner or banner ads is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web. This form of online advertising entails embedding an advertisement into a web page. It is intended to attract traffic to a website by linking to the website of the advertiser. The advertisement is constructed from an image (GIF, JPEG, PNG), JavaScript program or multimedia object employing technologies such as Silverlight, Java, Shockwave or Flash, often employing animation, sound, or video to maximize presence. Images ar
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Pivots to the Rescue

One of the projects my company is currently working on has a requirement to be able to store timesheet data in a more flexible manner. The existing Access forms application is being converted to Silverlight 3 and has a fairly rigid (albeit standard) database structure for timesheets. Hours and quantities are associated directly with days using columns such as MonHours, MonQuant, etc. (see the table image to the right). The catch is that the company needs to be able to store several other p
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KlearTouch Demonstration

Introducing KlearTouch, a rich photo viewer for Facebook using Microsoft Silverlight. More here: www.facebook.com
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Skyfire Mobile Browser Reaches the Release Version; Skyfire 1.0 Gets Tested (Video)

Skyfire has just launched its long-awaited mobile browser, promising that it
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WCF Binary Bindings in Silverlight 3

One of the most common comments I hear form people when they start digging into Silverlight 3 Beta (and Silverlight 2) is the lack of WCF binding options. Some changes have been made to include binary encoding in Silverlight 3
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New mobile browser Skyfire graduates from beta

Nice to see there is some decent competition in the mobile browser space with the launch of Skyfire. Now Opera need to come up with version 9.6 for Symbian to catch up. Full press release is below - and you can download the browser from get.skyfire.com - why not give it a try! You can also see what
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Robust, Reusable Drag-and-Drop Behavior in Silverlight

By manipulating an element's RenderTransform with attached behaviors, you can greatly increase the overall robustness and reusability of any drag-and-drop implementation in Silverlight.
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Opera 10 Alpha (Build 1535)

O Opera é um browser alternativo pequeno, rápido e leve, que suporta HTML 4.0, Javascript 1.3, SSL 3, XML, WML, CSS2 alguns plug-ins do Netscape, navegaç
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"'Oslo', the May CTP and You" at the PDX Code Camp

I'll be speaking at the Portland Code Camp on Saturday, May 30th, just as the May CTP of "Oslo" is hot off the presses: As you may or may not know, "Oslo" is also a place. However, we're not going to talk about that. Instead, Chris Sells, a member of the technical staff on the Microsoft "Oslo" team, is going to give you a quick intro to "Oslo," including "M" and Quadrant, taking you end-to-end on a few real-world-ish examples and then wave his hands furiously about the rest, begging you to give
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SQL SERVER Fix : Error : SQLDUMPER library failed initialization. Your installation is either corrupt or has been tampered with. Please uninstall then re-run setup to correct to correct this problem. in a modal dialog with the title SQL Writer

I often receive emails from reader requesting solution to following error:
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Links for the month of May

Its being a while since posting links to whats happening around the community, I thought today is a perfect day to do that as I have to catch up myself on the blogs and email, I have been really busy traveling for work. Things not to miss a free event called Community Day 09. MVPs Headline at 3rd Microsoft Community Day! From Shawn Wildermuth: Silverlight Tour and Silverlight Firestarter both coming to Washington, DC And talking about Shawn, please make sure you read his article..
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Skyfire 1.0 web browser brings Hulu, full web experience to Windows Mobile

Filed under: Windows Mobile , Symbian , Browsers , Mobile Skyfire is a web browser for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 series phones that puts Microsoft's mobile version of Internet Explorer to shame. And I'm not talking about the kind of shame where you're a bit embarrassed to tell your friends about it. I mean the kind of shame that makes you move to a remote island and avoid human contact for the rest of your natural life. The browser has been in beta for about a year and a half ,
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Skyfire Releases Version 1.0

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Skyfire busts out Skyfire v1.0

Watching Hulu streaming on an HTC Touch Diamond using Skyfire The fastest growing mobile browser in the world has just busted itself out of beta. Today we see the Skyfire mobile browser going all 1.0 on us, and it
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Skyfire mobile smartphone browser now available

Skyfire has finally released the complete version of their smartphone mobile browser, promising a "PC-like web experience." The browser is a free download and will display pages almost exactly as they would appear on a PC, similar to the Safari browser for the popular Apple iPhone . Skyfire also notably supports Flash, Java, Silverlight and Ajax . The browser in its current form will run on all phones using Windows Mobile 5 or 6 and Symbian phones with Nokia's S60 platform.
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Skyfire Drops v1.0, After A Million Downloads

The team over at Skyfire have today released version 1.0 of their browser, bringing it out of beta. Skyfire is a
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Skyfire 1.0 mobile browser now available

Skyfire, the mobile browser that will be competing with Opera and Mozilla
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Skyfire exits Beta - welcome to 1.0!

Skyfire - the remote server-based browser - has now left Beta and becomes a version 1.0 release. Snipped from the press release [PDF]... QUOTE Skyfire Launches its 1.0 Version with Over One Million Users, Making it the Fastest Growing Downloadable Mobile Browser in the United States Today Skyfire, the makers of the same-name PC-like browser for mobile devices, is announcing the launch of its 1.0 version now available for free download at get.skyfire.com. Over one million consumers ha
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Skyfire version 1.0 released, BlackBerry client is next!

Click here to view the embedded video. Skyfire has finally released its first official version for Windows Mobile and Symbian devices. In their press release about version 1.0 they mention BlackBerry as their next platform launch! Skyfire has plans to bring their browser to more smartphones and recently launched a Private Closed Alpha program for the BlackBerry platform. The company will announce plans for a Public BlackBerry Beta at a later date. This step will offer an approximate
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You've got to know where you've been to know where you're going [Some background on Charting's ordered multiple dictionary implementation]

As I've said before, one of our key goals for the March 09 release of Silverlight/WPF Charting was to improve the performance of key customer scenarios . I didn't go into a lot of details with the release notes, but one of the ways we accomplished this...(read more)
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Who's using Silverlight? Schematic

See how OriginDigital, partnering with Schematic, used Silverlight, Expression Blend and DeepZoomPix to create a unique user experience tool that integrates video and written materials for corporate PR and training uses. Who's using Silverlight? Schematic...(read more)
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Who's using Silverlight? 2nd Factory

Using Silverlight, Expression Design, Expression Web, DeepZoomPix and Visual Studio, 2nd Factory in Tokyo created an application for Yahoo! Japan to track sites, images and video and photo assets by category. This tool allows Yahoo! Japan to compare content...(read more)
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.NET RIA Services: Get your metadata from anywhere!

While the feedback on .NET RIA Services has been great, many people have commented on the way we store metadata as custom attributes on
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Silverlight DataForm helpers

If you looked at the updated RIA Services Business Application template which had the authentication built-in, you may have seen the login screen with a little icon next to the password field: When you hover over this some helpful information displays...(read more)
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Internet Download Manager 5.15.6

Internet Download Manager 5.15.6 Apps Internet Downlod; Manager 5.15.6 Patced; : information + Downlod;. Information : Internet Downlod; Manager has a smart downlod; logic cce;lerator that e;atures intelligent dynamic file segmentation and sae; multipart downlod;ing technology to cce;lerate your downlod;s. Unlike other downlod; cce;lerators and managers that segment files before downlod;ing starts, Internet Downlod; Manager segments downloded; files dynamically during downlod; prce
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Asp.net web site performance improvement

tips to speed up your asp.net application... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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SurfRay - SharePoint and Website Search

Welcome to SurfRay's new blog! We are excited to provide you with up-to-date information about SurfRay products, share tips and tips from the support team, and even some techniques to get the most out of your existing SharePoint deployment. If there is content that you would like to see discussed please let us know. Since 2000, SurfRay has been one of the leading developers and distributors of search technology. We deliver search engines which enable finding information in structured, se
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Exposing Events in ASP.NET Server Controls

Thoughts, approaches and major pitfalls in exposing ASP.NET server control events.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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TechEd Video Interview: Wietse Dol and John Doornbos

Check out this video interview I did with web developers Wietse Dol and John Doornbos. Last year, Wietse and John created a website to financially manage European Union research projects. They chose DevExpress ASP.NET tools to build the website and they've been very pleased. In fact, they came by the TechEd booth to share their great story. In the video, we discuss: How they built the website How they chose DevExpress What functions the website serves How the website has scaled
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My First Virtual User Group Meeting, June 2nd, Ft. Lauderdale OnLine

Next week I'll be doing a Live Meeting based presentation for the Florida.NET - they are calling it Fort Lauderdale Online. The presentation will be Entity Framework Core Concepts, something I think people seem to want out of every EF session I present. Therefore, I decided to create a whole session just around the concepts. I find presenting to my computer screen to be a very strange experience, but it also means that I get to stay home and enjoy some of the early June flowers in Vermont inst
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Back to Back DevTeach plus ALT.NET Conferences in Vancouver June 8-12, 13 -14

DevTeach is only a few weeks away and as always, I am really looking forward to it. This summer's DevTeach is in beautiful Vancouver, BC. The main conferences is three jam-packed days of 136 sessions from June 9-11, surrounded by a day of three full-day pre-con workshops on the 8th and a day of three more full-day post-con workshops on Friday the 12th. Plus if you want to hang around, there's an ALT.NET conference for two days in the same hotel and it is sponsored by DevTeach! ALT.NET conf info
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DataForm Templates

URL : http://wildermuth.com/downloads/funwithdataform... It is great to see that Tim Heuer and I are thinking about the same thing. In his recent article on DataForm helpers , he explained how to use the Validation Attributes to hint the DataForm with additional information. These attributes are used extensively in the validation model in RIA Services but I'll be covering that later. Instead of that, I've been digging into how you can customize the look the DataForm while still
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Programming news: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 shipping and Mozilla's Jetpack unveiling

This week
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Which came first, the View or the Model?

As I wrote and subsequently taught the Silverlight Tour workshop, I've had a number of discussions with students, clients and the community-at-large about how to architect Silverlight applications. The momentum behind the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern makes a lot of sense to me, especially with declarative views (as seen in Silverlight and WPF ). Most of my thinking around this was covered in my MSDN article about it: http://tinyurl.com/slmvvm One topic that the artic
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Entity Framework Samples now in Visual Basic

URL : http://thinqlinq.com/Default/Entity-Framework-S... My friend Jim Wooley has been doing some work with the Entity Framework team to help them get their examples into Visual Basic. The first of the fruits of these labors is now available! Hop on over to his blog to see all the details: http://thinqlinq.com/Default/Entity-Framework-Samples-in-Visual-Basic.aspx I, for one, am glad that this is finally happening. I would so prefer that the examples will be in both languages.
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On The Bleeding Edge: Where All The Fun Is.

Tim Heuer did a brilliant job in his recent blog post sorting through and summing up some of the confusion that has arisen out of the current unusual circumstances of Silverlight, Blend and Visual Studio all having two versions available at the same time...(read more)
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Clearing some air in Silverlight, Blend and Visual Studio Beta land

In a previous post I wanted to call attention to the multi-targeting and design surface improvements for Silverlight developers with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 . There has been some comments on that post and a few emails and Twitter replies as well with...(read more)
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Better WPF/Silverlight Development in F#: Attached Dependency Properties

A very common idiom in WPF/Silverlight is the attached property. Attached properties are properties that only have meaning in certain contexts, usually in relation to another class. Attached properties are everywhere in WPF/Silverlight. ...(read more)
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SourceTec Quicker for Silverlight 3.0

SourceTec Quicker for Silverlight 3.0 | 12 MB Is a professional Microsoft Silverlight animation creator for delivering the next generation of web experiences. It is easy to create stunning Silverlight animations. Make Silverlight animation the same way with Flash creation!
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Cross-Browser Panel Web Control

The standard Panel control doesn't has good layout in most browsers. A new Panel Web Control is introduced with consistent look-and-feel for every browser.... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Running a ASP.NET MVC project on Visual Studio 2010 Beta1

You probably already know that ASP.NET MVC is not included with Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 since MVC was released when Visual Studio release was being locked down. I hope it will be available from Beta2. It also looks like if you install ASP.NET MVC after Visual Studio 2010 it does not pick up as well. [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look:
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SQL SERVER Introduction to Business Intelligence Important Terms and Definitions

What is Business IntelligenceBusiness intelligence (BI) is a broad category of application programs and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data from various data sources, thus providing enterprise users with reliable and timely information and analysis for improved decision making. To put it simply, BI is an umbrella term that refers to [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have ov
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SilverUnit Project Template and new version

SilverUnit 0.5 has been released with some speed optimizations, as well as binary reference to the latest Typemock version 5.3.0. If you don
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May 23rd, 2009Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2

May 23rd, 2009Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2
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Interesting Finds: May 23, 2009

Other stuff Using WiX 3.0 to create an MSI-based installer for Visual Studio project templates , Aaron Stebner Thinktecture WS-Federation Metadata Generator , leastprivilege.com Create and Deploy your Windows Azure Service in 5 Steps , Ryan Dunn Do you have Truth Tables in your programming toolbox? , thycotic Data Access Hacks and Shortcuts , Stephen Forte M Language Changes Coming in Next CTP , Shawn Wildermuth Sandboxing in .NET 4.0 , shawnfa Cod
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Realizing a Fisheye Effect in Silverlight - Charles Petzold

I've been experimenting recently with implementing a "fisheye" effect in Silverlight
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An overview of WPF 4 Beta 1 | The Continuum Show | Channel 9

Jaime Rodriguez sat down with Ian Ellison-Taylor and Kevin Gjerstad to talk about WPF 4 Beta 1. The topics they cover include graphics and text improvements, Windows 7 integration, how WPF relates to Silverlight and more...
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Which came first, the View or the Model? - Shawn Wildermuth

As I wrote and subsequently taught the Silverlight Tour workshop, I've had a number of discussions with students, clients and the community-at-large about how to architect Silverlight applications. The momentum behind the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern makes a lot of sense to me, especially with declarative views (as seen in Silverlight and WPF). Most of my thinking around this was covered in my MSDN article about it: http://tinyurl.com/slmvvm On...
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Opening Blend 3 Projects without Actually Having Blend Installed - Expression Blend and Design

Since we released our preview at MIX, there have been a fair number of questions revolving around how a WPF or Silverlight project that uses Blend-specific features will work when opened on a machine that does not have Blend installed. For example, one Blend-specific feature that we have talked about extensively is Behaviors. The Behaviors runtime components are provided to you by Blend, and today, there is no way of being able to author or build a project that uses them without having Blend ins
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Adventures in MVVM

One of the most important aspects of implementing the MVVM pattern in WPF and SIlverlight is the ability for the UI layer to bind directly to commands in the ViewModel. The only problem with this: commands were never implemented in Silverlight. This article will walk you through implementing commands in Silverlight. This technique can be used in WPF as well.
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 beta 1

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 Visual Studio 2010 is out. Currently its beta but its supposed to have lots of new features. Some of them are:Clear UI Organization Reduced clutter and complexity Improved editor Better support for floating documents and windows Enhanced document targeting Focused animations for action feedback IDE support for parallel programming Native C++ libraries that use lambda functions and align well with STL Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework offers su
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9 simple steps to enable X.509 certificates on WCF

9 simple steps to enable X.509 certificates on WCF... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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How to completely process and filter all bounced e-mail messages and get a notification via email when it's completed!

You can easily process, filter and categorize all bounced email messages with NetXtremeBounceFilter component for .NET. The feature-rich, robust and high-performance NetXtreme Bounce Filter Component enables your .NET applications to quickly and easily analyze and categorize bounced email messages with a few lines of code. The result after processing can be used to update your address list, create reports, etc. You do not need to have knowledge of how the EML parser is implemented, NetXtrem
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Easy way to create a web-based AJAX SFTP Client application

This topic will guide you how to create a web-based AJAX SFTP Client application with NetXtremeSshFtp component. This component can be downloaded from here: http://www.safabyte.com/downloads/NetXtremeSshFtp.exe. Click here to see more information about the NetXtremeSshFtp component. Step 1: Creating a simple web form containing two panes (the left pane is the client file list grid view, the right pane is the remote file list grid view). Please see the code snippet below: Did you know that Dot
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Building a basic Menu control for ASP.NET MVC

There are two different ways to build controls for ASP.NET MVC as of now. The most common way is by HTML Helper extension methods. You will find such methods being used in numerous places inside Views. Such methods can take any complexity of parameters, yet return only standard HTML tags in string format as response. [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverligh
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Testing that an event was raised

This question keeps coming up: How can I test that an event was actually raised from my class under test? actually, there is an easy way to check if an event was raised. you subscribe to the event in your test, and in the event handler you set a boolean flag to true. then you just assert on the flag. here is a quick example: Code: public void Test() { bool wasRaised=false; var button = new Button; button.Click += ()=> wasRaised=true; button.DoSomethingT
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2 years ago I gave up on Silverlight

Almost two years ago, to the day, I completely gave up on Silverlight. How do I remember the day so clearly? Because every now and I again, I get an email notification that someone has replied to my following forum post: http://silverlight.net/forums/p/1334/216456.aspx. In it, I asked why the Shape classes are sealed. At the time I figured it might have just been a early-release kinda thing. However, since the issue continues to be raised I'll assume the problem still hasn't been fixed. This...
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jQuery Ribbon

I have created a ribbon control based on jQuery. Its free to use since you dont remove the copyright text in the javascript. Please comment. http://vinkr.net/ribbon... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Download Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Free

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 is out and its absolutely free for you to use it and get an early glimpse of the final version of the product. Some of the major features are : Office Developmen t in Visual Studio 2010 Multi-targeting create an application that works even for lower version of .Net Framework even if you have developed it for high version. Parallel Computing Workflow Foundation Multi-targeted Silverlight development Editable design surface for S
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Visual Studio 2010: Extension Manager

Since PDC 2008 we have been hearing about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) support in Visual Studio 2010. Now that the Beta has been released, we can start to see how it is coming together. To access the MEF extensions, just open the Extension Manager from the menu bar: Tools
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Silverlight vs. Flash SmackDown

The Silverlight vs. Flash SmackDown was a smashing success!
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Silverlight Tour Comes to Washington DC

May 21st, 2009The Washington DC stop on the Silverlight Tour is coming up. It
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Silverlight XAP File Out of Date When Built with Expression Blend

The latest project I am working on involves some rather tight integration between Silverlight and SharePoint so I
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21 Important FAQ questions for WPF and SilverLight

This article talks about 21 important FAQ from the perspective of WPF and Silver light. Both of these technologies are connected to a certain extent. This article not only explains the theory aspect of these technologies but also shows small samples for each of them.
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DiscountASP.NET Web Hosting Firm, Garners asp.netPRO Award

Pasadena, California - ( The Hosting News ) - May 21, 2009 - Hosting for ASP.NET and SQL solutions, DiscountASP.NET, for the fifth consecutive year, has received an award from the asp.netPRO Magazine 2009 Readers' Choice poll. Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET noted, ''We are extremely thankful to the asp.netPRO magazine readers and the ASP.NET developer community for their continued support. Our team is proud of this achievement and we wi
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Interesting Finds: May 21, 2009

Other stuff Report: iPhone Applications Are Getting Cheaper , Robin Wauters M-V-VM for
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Dew Drop - May 21, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) and Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Agent and Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) and F# May 2009 CTP (MS Downloads) Entity Framework 4.0: Scalar and Void Functions (Dan Rigsby) Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet (Dan Fernandez) IronPython 2.6 CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 and IronPython 2.6 Beta 1 (Harry Pierson) General Download of VS2010 / .NET
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Understanding Sitefinity - Sitefinity for Web Designers: Part 1

Sitefinity Admin Screenshot This series was created to appeal to Web Designers who use or are considering using Sitefinity or seeking a good ASP.NET content management solution. There are some resourceful websites out there but none really focused at us Designers. That
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Silverlight Office(r) 2010 App

With little Chinese naming ingenuity I present to you Office
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Microsoft introduces Virtual Earth CDN (Caching Network)

Microsoft roll out a new performance improvement for the Virtual Earth platform, called
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Windows Media Center

Silverlight
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3 essentials to quickly learning Blend

Corey Schuman writes about the 3 most important topics concerning Blend - Understanding the Layout Panels, Animations and States and Templating. To paint the picture, I am introducing Silverlight to creatives, Flash devs, and people in the business. Each group needs a different story. At first I went about it the same way: naturally I would load Visual Studio, create a new project, knock out some XAML, and then run the app. THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. Instead, I found myself increasingly op
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Silverlight 3 Navigation and Google Analytics

Nigel Sampson has posted about Google Analytics and the new Silverlight Navigation . The navigation framework in Silverlight 3 is a welcome addition as it reduces a lot of plumbing code required to start building multi-page Silverlight applications. One thing that multi-page Silverlight applications need is analytics.
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MIX '09 Overview Video

Want to see what happened this year at MIX '09? Watch this video for a recap to see and hear what attendees and presenters had to say about the show. MIX '09 Overview Video...( read more )...(read more)
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Silverlight and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

Well today was the public release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 . It is the first time developers will have the chance to take it for a spin and kick the tires. I wanted to share some information specific for Silverlight developers with regard to Visual...(read more)
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Silverlight powers Netflix in Media Center

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Chart tweaking made easy [How to: Make four simple color/ToolTip changes with Silverlight/WPF Charting]

While answering a support forum question I'd seen a couple of times before, I figured it would be helpful to write a post showing how to make simple styling changes to charts created by the Charting controls that come with the Silverlight Toolkit . Note...(read more)
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Just Built My First SL3 / Dev 10 App

As you no doubt know we released Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 today which you can download here (the usual caution applies: I would advise only installing this on a machine you are prepared to repave!). I installed it and Silverlight 3 on my laptop...(read more)
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Breaking News: Windows Media Center brings Netflix to consumers using Silverlight

It
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Who's using Silverlight? Ebay

When you really need to know if you won that Ebay item, use the new auction item tracker tool created by Ebay using Silverlight and Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8). This tool allows you to easily track all the items you are interested in as well as see which...(read more)
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Silverlight Visual Studio helper files

For things that aren
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Silverlight TreeView Advanced Scenarios (TreeViewExtended)

Hi Folks, One of the most important tenants of Silverlight Controls development we picked up in Microsoft is WPF Compatibility. That means, that if we end up building FooControl in Silverlight and FooControl exists in WPF we
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Interactivity without code!

Add animation, navigation and interactivity to your projects without writing code. Developers are able to encapsulate pieces of interactivity into reusable Behaviors that can then be utilized within Expression Blend. A Behavior is added to an element...(read more)
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.NET RIA Services Update with new Silverlight project template

We
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Tech Ed 2009 Demo Files

It is always a blast to talk at Tech Ed and this year was no different. It was great to get to meet many of you and hear how you are using DataGrid, DataForm, Validation, and RIA Services in your projects today. As promised, here are the files for the...(read more)
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Behaviors and Commands

In my previous post, I explained the basics of how to write a simple behavior. I concluded by mentioning that a behavior can actually be made to work with triggers. This is possible despite a Behavior having no real mechanism for a trigger to bury itself...(read more)
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Looking at Behaviors, the Class

In my earlier article a few weeks ago, I described the basics of Triggers and Actions. Triggers and Actions satisfy your standard, run-of-the-mill, cause and effect condition where something happens when you do something: In this post, I am going to talk...(read more)
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Pixel Lab Silverlight Site Launched

Funny how your own site is always the lowest priority when your job is to create websites for other people. It
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Have you seen Microsoft Interactive Canvas (MIC) in action? See why it won the Design Week award

Winning a Design Week award is similar to winning an Oscar, or Bafta, in the film world: it
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ViewModel + .NET RIA Services Part 2: Testability, Server Mocking and Dependencies

In Part 1 of ViewModel and .NET RIA Services , which I recommend you check out first if you haven't, I created a simple product search UI using Silverlight and .NET RIA Services using the ViewModel (aka MVVM) pattern. One of benefits of the ViewModel...(read more)
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Logging Navigation in the Silverlight 3 Beta

I
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Flash vs Silverlight: Image Slide Show using Perspective 3D

today I will bring you a 3D Image Slideshow using the perspective 3d technology in both Flash and Silverlight. Implementing this effect in the past is not that easy. However, thanks for the advancement of the technology, you may now create it on the fly...(read more)
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Pineapple upside-down chart [How to: Invert the axis of a chart for "smaller is better" scenarios]

Let's imagine that we want to use Silverlight (or WPF!) to chart the performance of a book on one of those "bestsellers" lists... The book we care about has been doing very well lately; here's the corresponding data we want to display: var items = new...(read more)
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Silverlight Best of MIX in Phoenix

I
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Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guidance

We
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.NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview

Today we posted a minor update to .NET RIA Services . This release is mainly focused on addressing bug fixes we have heard in the forums and delivering on a few key areas
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Silverlight Enterprise Deployment

This paper provides guidance on how to deploy Silverlight within organizations using common infrastructure deployment services. It also describes the installer switches for 3rd party deployment tools or manual script processes for deployment....(read more)
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Microsoft Expression offer in UK 40% off

If you are a designer or developer that works with Microsoft technology (ASP.NET, Silverlight, etc) then this is a cracking offer from the guys over in the Microsoft Store
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Editing Model & Default Initializer for Silverlight Controls

Introduction This is part of the series on design time feature implementation in Silverlight Toolkit. This post uses the Chart default initializer to illustrate how to implement default initializer for Silverlight controls, and explain the underlying...(read more)
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Multicast Comes to Silverlight!

Today is a big day for Enterprise media departments who want to migrate to Silverlight. At the Streaming Media East show in New York City this morning, Qumu, Inc., known as an innovator in rich media streaming video solutions for the enterprise, announced...(read more)
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Refactoring Silverlight ChildWindow for a non-modal use

I
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Knowledge Base

Books Links Feeds Sites Share and Enjoy:...( read more )...(read more)
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User-initiated operations in Silverlight

User-initiated operations in Silverlight: must be initiated by the user via an input device like keyboard, mouse or accessibility client... ...within Silverlight have an in-built timeout have atomicity of transaction cannot be marshalled across the specific...(read more)
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Playing around with Silverlight 3

Ok, I admit it
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Time Flys Like An Arrow; Fruit Flies Like A Banana

We recently released my video on the new Animation Transition Control and in looking it over I noticed that I promised to follow up on the definition of a Date/Time
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New animation API for Silverlight (Easing Functions)

Easing functions allow you to apply custom mathematical formulas to your animations. For example, you may want an object to realistically bounce or behave as though it were on a spring. You could use Key-Frame or even From/To/By animations to approximate...(read more)
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NASA releases Silverlight powered Photosynths of the International Space Station and Mars Science Lab

As part of its charter, NASA is tasked with providing public education on its work and programs. To that end, NASA teamed up with Microsoft to bring the public an up close and personal view of the International Space Station and a full scale model of...(read more)
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New Video: Silverlight 3 Toolkit AnimatedTransition Control

Jesse Liberty demonstrates how to use the new AnimatedTransition control to easily enhance other controls by adding animated transitions from one visual state to another. Watch this video and more in the Learn page ....(read more)
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This is a note that I

Remember the Newton ? Such a great idea
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One more platform difference more-or-less tamed [SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better!]

Earlier this week I wrote about the "app building" exercise my team conducted and posted my sample application , a simple organizational hierarchy viewer using many of the controls in the Silverlight Toolkit . One of the surprises I had during the process...(read more)
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NBC Olympics Wins an Emmy with Silverlight

Silverlight, take a bow. You just won best supporting role in NBC
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Share, Inspire, Admire: Expression Community Gallery for Designers & Developers

Where can you share--and find--design-related assets at Microsoft? Just a few weeks ago, we launched an easy answer to this dilemma. The Expression Gallery on the Expression Community site gives you a place to show off the projects you've been working...(read more)
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New York Times Silverlight Kit Announced

Yesterday, Microsoft and the New York Times released a New York Times Silverlight Kit ( http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/NYTimesSilverlight ) at the Enterprise Developer Conference in NYC. The kit makes it easier for designers and developers to use REST...(read more)
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Moonlight 2.0 Preview Released

We
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Kelley Blue Book Perfect Car Finder

Why tramp around car lots in the heat or rain when you can check out geographic availability, price, and even customer ratings of your favorite vehicles on a single Web site? Kelley Blue Book is using Microsoft Silverlight to give consumers an easy interactive...(read more)
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Silverlight Contest app updated with new RadialPanel

Isn
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Going "extreme" with Silverlight 3 [Sharing the source code for a real-world sample application]

My teammates and I spent some time last week on an exercise known as "app building" to help identify issues with the latest build of Silverlight, the SDK, and the Silverlight Toolkit . The way app building works is that everyone comes up with an idea...(read more)
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6 New Community Gallery Entries

Check out realistic 3D eyeballs watch your every move, view animation shapes using PlaneRunner , add interactive maps with Map Suite Silverlight Edition . Find inspiration and upload your Silverlight projects to share with the community in the Gallery...(read more)
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Silverlight Video Player with Source Code

Here's a link to a silverlight video player with all the basic features like progress/seek slider, full screen toggle, play/pause/resume, etc. The player is meant to be relatively simple while still sporting the basic features you'd expect in a video...(read more)
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Star Selector Control Updated - Page Brooks

In my spare time, I have been re-writing the Star Selector control that is part of Silverlight Contrib. I re-wrote this control because there were several things I wanted to accomplish. This re-write includes quite a few new features. I will highlight them in the next few sections: Half-Star Selection The control supports enabling half-star selection. To enable or disable this feature, simply set the AllowHalfStarSelection property accordingly. The default value is f...
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HanselMinutes - Show #160 - JavaFX and the Web's Four Virtual Machines

In this episode Scott talks to Joshua Marinacci from Sun, a Staff Engineer working on JavaFX. JavaFX, along with Flash and Silverlight battle to be The VM for the Web. We chat about how JavaFX approaches things and muse on who will win the web.
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15 Excellent And Useful Microsoft Silverlight Tutorials & Resources - SmashingApps

Microsoft Silverlight is a free framework empowering you to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser, using all the familiar features, languages and tools of the .NET framework. To see the magic of Silverlight, we must suggest you to check out this show...
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Validation. Hey! You

Towards the end of my
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VOTE - Silverlight Game Gallery

Are you still wrapping your head around Silverlight ? Here is a Game Gallery for Games written in Silverlight. http://www.serverquestcontest.com/gallery.aspx Take a few minutes break from your busy day and PLAY !
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Introducing Windows 7 Learning Portal

Stephen Rose at Microsoft announced the availability of the Windows 7 Learning Portal . This site is currently showcasing great IT Pro readiness content, including 7 Silverlight Learning Snacks, free sample chapters from upcoming MS Press Books , Learning Plans, links to clinics/HOLs and more. Also, check out the free 2-hour eLearning Clinic called What
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The desperate quest for doing it 'right'

This morning I ran into an interesting design decision. The problem at hand isn't that interesting, I've solved it a lot of times before. The interesting thing is that this problem isn't always solved the same way. It goes like this: do you tell an element which is inside a container (which can be inside another container) to exclude (remove) itself from its container or do you tell the container to exclude (remove) the element? This might sound simple enough, but what is the right thing to do h
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SQL Server Citation is blog on SQL Server notes and articles

SQL Server Citation by Hemantgiri S. Goswami is a place where you can find information on sql articles, sql forums, sql event, sql faq, sql script,sql support,sql security,sql replication,sql high availability,sql cluster,sql log shipping,sql db mirroring,sql table sizing,sp2,sp4,sql 2005,sql 2008,sql 2000, slq forums,surat-user-group.org, sql-user-group.com,sql help,sql tip, sql tricks read more By Hemantgiri S. Goswami Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written b
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Add a WMS Layer in Silverlight

ESRI has released the WMS Layer sample code at the code gallery. You can download it here. Another layer suppor for the ArcGIS Silverlight API that people requests often. Whats WMS? From Open GeoSpatial The OpenGIS Web Map Service Interface Standard (WMS) provides a simple HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map images from one or more distributed geospatial databases. A WMS request defines the geographic layer(s) and area of interest to be processed. The response to the request i
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Deploying DTS package in SQL Server 2000

One of the challenging activities in working with DTS packages in SQL server 2000 is deployment. Hard coding in DTS objects such as connections would appear inevitable and would require changes every time you deploy depending on the environment. Though Enterprise Manager provides extremely good UI to deploy, it is tedious to deploy using it when there are several packages. This article explains the process of removing hard coding with the help of parametrized global variables and also reading co
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DNNVoice Show #6

So Tom and I finally recorded Show #6 of the DNNVoice Thursday evening. I didnt get a chance to edit until this evening. Below is a copy/paste of the show notes from www.dnnvoice.com Heres a very nondescriptive overview of Show #6 of the DNNVoice...(read more)... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Windows 7 and Foxit PDF Previewer

Public service announcement if you dont use my Foxit PDF Previewer, please move alongthere is nothing to see here :-). When Windows 7 Beta came out (build 7000), there was indeed a confirmed issue where the Foxit PDF Previewer would not work at all on 64-bit versions. There were no install warnings, it just wouldnt work. It turns out this was a Windows 7 beta bug for 64-bit (some COM registering stuff if you care to know). This was found immediately and was fixed in later Windows 7 builds (I c
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SQL SERVER - Roadmap of Microsoft Certifications - SQL Server Certifications

IntroductionIn these times of economic slowdown and uncertainties, more and more IT professionals are concerned about their job security and their qualifications. With job insecurity looming on their minds, it is a common trend for developers to start hunting for ways to update their skills. Sound knowledge and real world work experience are always a [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in sever
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Master Page, Child Pages: Dynamic Communication Flexibility

Over on the ASP.NET forums, where I am a moderator, a user asked a question concerning Master Pages. I thought it was an interesting enough question to spend a little time on it and write a BLOG entry (golf season hasn't started in my state yet). The question was how to have "static" buttons on a M... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Developer Platform Musings

Both references are good reads and would propbably be a good debate topic for many but lets not do the religious cult thing: At This Point, Id Prefer Java Developers Over .NET Developers ... and the ensuing: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly In The .NET World Abstraction, Componentization, Reusability, etc. They have all changed the world the developers live and breathe in, havent they ? No, I dont want to sauter transistors on a motherboard anymore. Give me a PC anytime. Give me solutions
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Using jQuery with Client-Side Data Binding Templates

A few weeks back I posted about a JavaScript data binding template solution that I
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Listagem dos Downloads Abril 2009

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First Sydney SDDN (Silverlight Designer and Developer Network) this Tuesday!

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Windows 7 Learning Portal is now live!

Today, Stephen Rose, Sr. Community Manager at Microsoft announced the availability of the Windows 7 Learning Portal. This site is currently showcasing great IT Pro readiness content, including 7 Silverlight Learning Snacks , free sample chapters from upcoming MS Press Books , Learning Plans , links to clinics/HOLs and more. The portal can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/windows-7/default.mspx Also, check out the free 2-hour eLearning Clin
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MMS 2009: System Center Online Desktop Manager announced; System Center Roadmap

During the 2nd keynote on the Microsoft Managemetn Summit Brad Anderson gave an update on the Roadmap for System Center. Seems like 2011 will be a year with major updates for System Center products, reveals Techlog . Also announced a new product in the System Center product suite called
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Microsoft Builds Awesome Applications Using FaceBook APIs

Microsoft released a demo video of two applications developed using SilverLight, .NET and recently released FaceBook APIs. The user interface of the applications are unbelievable good and you can see it in the below video published by Tech Crunch For developers : Microsoft is going to release the full source code, APIs along with the documentation of these applications soon. This will definitely help the .NET developers to easily kick start FaceBook API usage. We will publish th
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Joel Spolsky talks about Wasabi: His FogBugz DSL

In Scott Hanselman's April 2009 podcast, Visiting Fog Creek Software and Joel Spolsky, Joel talks about Wasabi, FogCreek's VBScript compiler, and he talks about it really being a subset of VBScript used specifically for bringing FogBugz to Unix and the CLR. In fact, it's a VBScript compiler built specifically to compile a single application, doing things like making the 5% of ADO.NET they use cross-platform. And just in case the point isn't completely obvious, Joel and Scott draw the conclusion
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CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum

I recently recorded a CodeCast interview with Ken Levy. We discussed the VS2010 Editor, VB.NET line continuation removal, interop with dynamic languages, the Microsoft languages strategy, and the upcoming VS2010 Beta1 release. Recording: CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum This episode includes Ken Levy with a part 2 interview with Microsoft
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Open Source Video Player - Open Video Player Initiative

The Open Video Player Initiative is a community open source project dedicated to sharing player code and best practices around video player development and monetization. This Open Source Video Player comes for Flash & Silverlight . This Open Source Video Player can be customize easily from colors to buttons. A configuration tool is also provided with the source code for easy configuration. Website: http://www.openvideoplayer.com Demo: http://www.openvideoplayer.com/sh
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15 Excellent And Useful Microsoft Silverlight Tutorials & Resources

Silverlight Blog

Blog about silverlight issues and discoveries read more By Peter Bromberg Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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More Advancements - Silverlight and Unity 2.5

Sllverlight 3 Microsoft's Flash killer now features in pixel shaders, 3d planes (ability to create pseudo-3d engines like papervision3d), local saving, pixel operations/bitmap handling. Unity 2.5 Unity is a multiplatform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application, Unity just happens to contain the most powerful engine this side of a million dollars. The snippet below clipped from drawlogic.com I believe sums up
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Your guided tour of the Microsoft Solutions Development Centre

When I decided to leave the patterns & practices team to move back to Australia, one of my big concerns was whether I would be able to work on teams with the quality and dedication I experienced on projects such as Enterprise Library. It turned out that my fears were unfounded, as Ive found myself working in the most high-performing team Ive ever experienced, Microsoft Australias Solutions Development Centre (SDC). The SDC is basically a software engineering team available for hire, buildi
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SQL SERVER - Add or Remove Identity Property on Column

This article contribution from one of my favorite SQL Expert Imran Mohammed. He is one man who has lots of ideas and helps people from all over the world with passion using this community as platform. His constant zeal to learn more about SQL Server keeps him engaging him to do new SQL Server related [...]... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look:
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Announcing System Center Online Desktop Manager

During the second keynote on MMS on the 29th of April, Brad Anderson announced a new product in the System Center product suite called. System Center Online Desktop Manager (SCODM). System Center Online Desktop Manager provides the tools to update pc's while they are off-premise.System Center Online Desktop Manager features: Host protection Desktop Monitoring Desktop Configuration IT Asset Management Update Management Remote Assistance SCODM will be updated
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On Getting Rid Of Common Libraries

Just wanted to post a small reaction to Ayende
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New Articles, Code Snippets, FAQS at CodeDigest.Com - May,2009

CodeDigest For the Month 5\2009 This Month Contest Universal TV/VCR/DVD Remote Controller Watch with World Time Contribution Required: 4 articles or 6 code snippets USB AA/AAA Battery Charger Contribution Required: 2 articles or 3 code snippets Mini Pig 2 LEDs Flashlight White Contribution Required: For Participation New Articles Published Edit,Update and Delete in GridView using DataKeys Edit,Update and Delete in GridView using DataKeys,A datakey
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Android - Motorola

It seems like Microsoft
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BizTalk Blog

My experiences with BizTalk related to architecture, development and performance in my enterprise. read more By Abdul Rafay Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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ASP.NET Membership and Roles in Silverlight 3

Shows how to hook up ASP.NET Membership and Roles providers for a Silverlight 3 Application using a WCF Service. read more By Peter Bromberg Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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Migrating Graffiti from VistaDB to SQL 2008

Lately my Graffiti blog running Vista DB is being having lock problems and slowing down my blog. After sending an email to my website hoster ORCSWeb They replied with a suggestion to upgrade to VistaDB, this is the kind of service they are running. They even gave me the steps to do that. You can read my review about ORCSWeb here. Steps: 1. Create a new SQL Server database. 2. Install the Graffiti schema (NO sample data) 3. Download your vista db file 4. Run datamover (give it you
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Microsoft Shows Off The Power Of Facebook

Earlier this week Facebook made the landmark (and long-awaited) announcement that it was going to enable the
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PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720 are going to be browsers

That
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Using IronPython for Converters in Silverlight

Another blog entry from David Seruyange on using IronPython with Silverlight, and another example of using IronPython for binding dynamic types in WPF . Using IronPython for Converters in Silverlight The concept is a really nice one but I
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Silverlight MVP, and why I love Silverlight

When I first became an MVP in January 2008 there was some questions as to what bucket Silverlight would fit into. After all, it was brand new; the only versions people were using publicly were Silverlight 1 and the Silverlight 1.1 alpha
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Broadband Content Bits: HD iPlayer On Virgin: Shiny Media Video Ads; RAI Adds Live Streaming

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Silverlight for the MySpace Developer Platform

Silverlight for the MySpace Developer Platform Now you can build Silverlight applications for the MySpace Developer Platform! I have been working with MySpace for months on this initiative and now we have some exciting results:MySpace has just announced support for Silverlight on MySpace
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Silverlight 2.0 DataGrid Demo Application with Formatting of Data - Brij Mohan

In this post I am going to show you the basic example of Creating the Page with DataBound Silverlight 2.0 DataGrid, and also I will show you how to format the Data Using IValueConverter in DataGrid dynamically. Create a new project and Select Silverlight Application. Name your application and select Ok, select the options as given in the scre...
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Animated Visual State Transitions with the Transitioning Content Control - Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

Animated Visual State Transitions with the Transitioning Content Control The Silverlight Toolkit is innovative in many ways, not least of which is that controls are released in one of four quality bands:Mature: ready for release Stable: suitable for most scenarios Preview: suitable for most basic usage scenarios, may have moderate number of breaking changes as the control is developed. Experimental: intended for evaluation purposes The control I
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DotNetRocks - Show #441 - Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight 3.0

Shawn Wildermuth talks about the new features in Silverlight 3.0. Shawn brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. Lots of great tips!
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Expression for Art’s Sake – Silverlight and Blend in Wellington, New Zealand

What do you get when you invite 14 companies for 3 1/2 days and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art
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Locate Me and Virtual Earth Sample for Silverlight

A little sample app that uses Silverlight 3, the Virtual Earth Map Control CTP and IP-based geo-coding to implement the Locate Me scenario... [ Full post continued here... ]...( read more )...(read more)
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WEB09 – Silverlight and Blend in Auckland, New Zealand

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Is it worthwhile to keep AutoCompleteBox

We're considering simplifying the AutoCompleteBox API be removing a few rarely used events, and would love to get some feedback from scenarios this might impact....( read more )...(read more)
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Register Silverlight Controls with Visual Studio and Blend

Introduction This is part of the series on design time implementation changes in Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 Release. This post illustrates the integration of Silverlight Toolkit with Visual Studio and Blend 3 after running Silverlight 3 Toolkit March...(read more)
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Trying to get the story straight [A brief summary of Storyboard differences between WPF and Silverlight]

I was investigating a Silverlight Toolkit bug this morning and got into a spirited discussion about Storyboard behavior with Jafar . We disagreed on a couple of points, so I [grudgingly :) ] coded up a quick test application to help sort things out. Unfortunately...(read more)
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Announcing the re-release of MSDN Code Search Preview

Find More Code Samples on MSDN using MSDN Code Search Preview
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Starting a Podcast

Enough people have asked me about it so I
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4 New Silverlight Showcase Applications

Check out the 4 new applications in the Silverlight Showcase. Play an advanced version of WebDoku, view an Enterprise Training Portal using Deep Zoom and RSS integration, check out the Essilor corporate website, or view online pictures at Antionette Photography...(read more)
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Looking at Triggers and Actions

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of April

This is job or position . If you are using it as a prefix meaning â
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Programming and Computer eBooks at wpspot

Here are many freely available Technical, Programming, and Computer eBooks at wpspot.info . These computer and programming ebooks cover many areas and topics, and their categories are linked here below. The ebooks are located on download sites, such as rapidshare and mediafire. This site also has download links for Video Training (1511) and Audiobooks (22). eBook Categories : IT eBooks (2022) - Ajax (68) - Algorithms (29) - ASP (23) - Assembler (8)
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Unit Testing/Mocking on .net cf

April 29th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment The .net Compact Framework is full of challenges. If you
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Animated Visual State Transitions with the Transitioning Content Control

The Silverlight Toolkit is innovative in many ways, not least of which is that controls are released in one of four quality bands : Mature : ready for release Stable : suitable for most scenarios Preview : suitable for most basic usage scenarios, may have moderate number of breaking changes as the control is developed. Experimental : intended for evaluation purposes The control I
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Silverlight Tour Paris in june

The Silverlight Tour is coming back to Paris, France and for the first time with Silverlight 3 content!! When: June 01-03 Where: Paris, France Registration (Fr): http://www.octo.com/com/com_formation-silverlight.html If you are looking for 3 days of intensive Silverlight training in French this is your chance to learn it from soup to nuts! Technorati Tags: Silverlight Tour , Formation Silverlight
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MVP Silverlight!

Back in march while at the MVP Summit I was thrilled when Scott Guthrie announced the addition of a Silverlight expertise in the Microsoft MVP program . Earlier this week I received an email saying that I am joining this new small group (6 MVPs for now), so I move from ASP.NET MVP to Silverlight MVP!! This is awesome because Silverlight has become my main focus since MVP Summit 2007 (the technology was called WPF/E then...) I made so many Silverlight presentations here in Montreal a
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Paste your REST API definition as strong types

If your a developer that spends any time with web services, you
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DropMind: Powerful and Highly-interactive Online Mind Mapping Tool

DropMind is online mind mapping tool with unique four sphere map layout. Create original mind maps and deliver superior and stylish presentations with Microsoft Silverlight. Learn more http://web.dropmind.com Brought to you by Go2web20.net - The web applications index
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INFO: Facebook

Check this out: Facebook using Silverlight Microsoft shows off Facebook Open Stream API demos from Rafe Needleman on Vimeo . This is actually a set of snapshots highlight WPF usage with Facebook. Microsoft Previews Great WPF and Silverlight Apps with Facebook OpenStreams API http://team.silverlight.net/announcements/microsoft-previews-great-wpf-and-silverlight-apps-with-facebook-openstreams-api/ Interestingly, only Neowin seems to have picked it up. Microsoft de
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Wowza Ups the Game - Adds Support for Silverlight, iPhone

Wowza has previewed their latest version of Wowza Media Server at NAB. Named 'Wowza Media Server Pro Advanced', the upcoming platform will support multiple protocols for streaming video and thereby enable customers to not only stream to Flash clients but also to Silverlight, iPhone and Quicktime. Even IPTV set-top boxes will be supported via MPEG-TS. Wowza is clearly focused on becoming the main hub for unified video streaming across platforms. The company plans to make Wowza Media Server
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Just Launched: the Microsoft Local Impact Map

Stimulant loves technology that tells a story and makes a difference, so we were especially thrilled to design and build the Microsoft Local Impact Map , which describes hundreds of stories about the positive human and economic impacts Microsoft makes around the globe. We used Microsoft's own technologies, especially Silverlight and Deep Zoom, to create a map whose look and behavior keeps the focus on what matters most: the positive impact throughout the world made by the corporate citiz
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This is Your Facebook on WPF

While Facebook recently announced new API's to open the Facebook Stream, Microsoft is showing a new application built on a WPF framework that gives users a feel for what is possible with the Windows platform. This new experience offers fast performance, docking, taskbar integration and adaptive UI while a Silverlight example showcases feeds, exploring friend profiles, and browsing an expansive display of photos with DeepZoom. More examples along with sourcecode coming soon, watch the Silve
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Microsoft to launch iPhone competing device - with Verizon?

Microsoft Corp. plans to take aim at Apple
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Multicasting with Silverlight 3 Local Messaging

[This article and the sample solution included were written with Silverlight 3 Beta.] The very first thing I did to experiment with Silverlight 3
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Obama News Conference: First 100 Days Live Streaming

President Barack Obama has been in office for just over three months now. The challenges he has faced in that time have been both incredible and unpredictable (the Swine Flu ?). President Obama will address the nation tonight at 8pm EDT on the 100-day anniversary of his inauguration. You can watch the address live on the White House
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Zimbra Desktop - No Light, No AIR

With its 1.0 GA announcement this week, Zimbra Desktop is officially launched as an open source, full featured desktop mail client. I
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Mindy

maru cat and the big box http://video.yahoo.com/network/100284668?v=4956499&l=3774740 cat loses weight http://video.yahoo.com/network/100284668?v=4956499&l=3774740 Random Posts Latest E3 Game Announcements Mindy
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James Ward on Flex, AIR and Java

I recently had a conversation with James Ward,Technical Evangalist for Flex at Adobe. We started by discussing what Flex and AIR are, and the differences between them, before moving onto Flex's integration with Java, the competing technologies (JavaFX and SilverLight), the use of Flex in the next generation of Eclipse, and what James would use for development if I took Flex away.
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Adding jQuery to your site with Glimmer

Last week I was wanting to do something on my site sort of a
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PDF for Silverlight

Leveraging the power of Silverlight to view PDF documents and forms
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Dew Drop - April 29, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing More Articles on Trust (Brad Appleton) Stop Using Process Template X with Process Y (David Starr)
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Online Library of UX Design Patterns - Quince

Quince is an on-line directory of UX design patterns created by Infragistics . If you are looking for design patterns or script resources or some inspiration with examples, then your search is over, you are at right place. A beautifully managed collection of design patterns, and what makes it good is it contains all these with a number of examples. I was thinking for some ajax type thing but i discovered that this online directory has been developed using Silverlight. Qu
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Perenthia World Builder in Silverlight

Cameron Albert has been working to modify the tool he wrote for building the Perenthia world . The tool started life as a WinForms application, migrated to a WPF application but is now a part of the Silverlight Client UI. Since all of the actions are role based and controlled with permission on the server having it in the main client UI allows me to make use of all of the framework already in place for Perenthia.
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Press Release - Kaazing Brings Microsoft Silverlight Powered Real-Time Experience to the Financial Markets

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaazing Corporation, makers of realtime web acceleration technology, today announced immediate support for Microsoft Silverlight in its Kaazing Enterprise Gateway. The combination of Microsoft's Silverlight technology and Kaazing's real-time web messaging technology makes it possible to stream unprecedented volumes of live data to huge numbers of distributed Web clients quickly and efficiently. Kaazing's customers in the financial services, online
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The State of Things

I think it is fair to say that interest in Silverlight is wicked-high. Twitter grades. Jesse: 99.5th percentile; Tim: 99.8th percentile! Between us Feedburner shows more than 10,000 subscribers 31 Silverlight Sessions at Mix, 30 at Tech Ed LiveSearch of
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Congratulations To The Winners of Visifire

Thank you for all of the participants of contest in which Visifire, Giving Away 10 Developer Licenses Of Worth $99 Each . We and Visifire selected these 10 best commenter and decided to give them free Developer Licenses of Visifire . AstroMan Scott Kenilworth Amr Ellafi Worldly News Chris webcruzers Irfan Betty Surfhead Chris Spears Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft
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Silverlight: Enabling Rich Internet Applications for the Open Source World

With the work Microsoft has done on Silverlight, not only do Microsoft developers have the latest tools to develop Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), open source developers can share in these tools as well. Whether you write code in PHP, Python, Ruby or use Eclipse, there are tools available to you that let you develop the hottest RIA using Silverlight.
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SMB Startups Save The World!

Make Babies! SM B Startups Save the Economy! By Harry Brelsford In the Hindu religion, a cow is your mother. That
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Technology Related Links

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Build A Ping Utility

build a simple ping utility in silverlight 2.0 or 3.0 in must do the ping from the browser, NOT connect to some server that does the ping Tags: build , ping , ping utility , utility Related projects Website Re-build Website Design/build Website Build Web Site Build In Web 2.0 Web Database Extract Utility Want To Build A Magento Site Tax And Shipping Web Service Squidoo Lens Design
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Free ASP.NET MVC NerdDinner Tutorial Now in HTML

Last month I blogged about a free end-to-end ASP.NET MVC tutorial called NerdDinner that I wrote for the Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book from Wrox Press. The book is now released and shipping on Amazon. The NerdDinner tutorial walks through how to build a small, but complete, application using ASP.NET MVC, and introduces some of the core concepts behind it. You can download a PDF version of the tutorial here. NerdDinner Tutorial Now Also Available in HTML A few... Did you know th
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The 7 Phases of Unit Testing

1 - Refuse to unit test because "you don't have enough time"2 - Start unit testing and immediately start blogging about unit testing and TDD and how great they are and how everyone should do it3 - Unit test everything - make private methods internal and abuse the InternalsVisibleTo attribute. Test getters and setters or else you won't get 100% code coverage4 - Get fed with how brittle your unit tests are and start writing integration tests without realizing it.5 - Discover a mocking... Did you k
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Validation - Part 2 - Client-Side

Validation - Part 2 - Client-Side In Part 1 we looked at our basic framework for validation - a set of attributes, an interface, and some configuration objects. Now we'll see how these can be used in conjunction with jQuery to provide client-side validation. As we already saw, every validation attribute has a ToJson method which serializes attributes into a dictionary. Our goal is end up with something like: $('#saveUserForm').validate( { rules: { Email:{required:true,pa
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Creating Visual Studio Templates from your Web Projects

One of the really nice features of Visual Studio is the ability to very easily create projects templates from existing projects. This is a great feature to create a base project that contains only the things you need or adds additional things that you use in every project or some specific ones. For me this is especially useful for Web Projects as I have a fairly lengthy lists of support files and dependencies that I suck into new Web projects: stock CSS/image folders, scripts, a couple of assemb
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AlertFox Lets You Monitor Your Website In High Technology !

Now you can feel the hardcore website monitoring technology with a powerful application called AlertFox Free Website Monitoring Tool. This tool is available in beta version, which can provide website monitoring service for Web 2.0 and SaaS web application. It has come out with the capability to monitor all the popular internet applications, which can comprise ActiveX, AJAX, Flash, Flex, complex HTML and Silverlight technology. Click to know about Network Monitoring Software
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Microsoft Vine:

Microsoft have launched a new service which aims to keep groups of friends and family updated and located during periods of crisis. Eighteen months in development, Microsoft Vine is a system that integrates local news with status updates from Facebook, presented in a desktop client, by text message or by email. The concept is that local emergencies can be quickly spotted and then group-wide alerts sent out, with users
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Dew Drop - April 28, 2009

Web Development JavaScript for C# developers: date basics (Julian M. Bucknall) To MVC or to WebForms? (Chad Myers) CMS vs Code It Yourself (Dave M. Bush) How I handle JSON dates returned by ASP.NET AJAX (Dave Ward) Tip#57: Did you know
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MTV & Silverlight 3 at NAB 2009

Jit Ghosh wrote about the very cool Silverlight 3 application that a team from MTV, Vertigo, and Microsoft is building. Viacom/MTV announced a web based Digital Asset Management Workflow application completely built in Silverlight 3 (of course using the beta bits for now) and .Net 3.5.
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