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DZone PlugIn on CodePlex

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:45:45 GMT

John Papa's DZone PlugIn for WLW on CodePlex

KickIt plugin for Live Writer on CodePlex

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:43:00 GMT

New version of John Papa's KickIt plugin for Live Writer on CodePlex

Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:31:02 GMT

Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today. Silverlight 2 Beta2 supports a go-live license that allows you to start using and deploying Silverlight 2 for commercial applications. There will be some API changes between Beta2 and the final release, so you should expect that applications you write with Beta2 will need to make some updates when the final release comes out. But we think that these changes will be straight-forward and relatively easy, and that you can begin planning and starting commercial projects now.

Silverlight 2 Data Binding Basics

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:31:38 GMT

An article on Simple-Talk that discusses the datacontext, data binding, dependency properties in Silverlight

DZone PlugIn for Windows Live Writer

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:01:13 GMT

John Papa has written an excellent new plugin for Windows Live Writer that makes it super-easy to include a DZone widget in every posting you write! Want more traffic? Use this in combination with his dotNetKicks plugin, and watch your numbers climb!

Windows Live writer update (preview)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:01:10 GMT

The update for windows live writer is now available.

Windows Live Writer PlugIn for DotNetKicks on CodePlex

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:31:03 GMT

Windows Live Writer PlugIn for DotNetKicks is now on CodePlex

Windows Live Writer PlugIn for DotNetKicks - Alpha

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:20:26 GMT

Using the June 2008 Technical Preview release of WIndows Live Writer and its SDK, this plug in creates a DotNetKicks "KickIt" link in the footer of a post. The bits are an alpha and only contain the ability t include the link, with 0 cusomtization. A future release will appear on CodePlex with more features.

Entity Framework Q&A - Lazy Loading, ObjectContext, and LINQ

Mon, 05 May 2008 19:07:50 GMT

Why use Entity SQL when I can use LINQ to get to entities? What is the role of ObjectContext? How do explicit and eager loading work LINQ and the Entity Framework? How do I see the SQL that will execute? What can I do with complex types? How do I create a complex type?

Expression Studio 2 Ready For Download

Sat, 03 May 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Expression Studio 2 is out of beta and has been released.

DotNetKicks PlugIn for Windows Live Writer

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:31:03 GMT

John Papa created a plugin for WIndows Live Writer that will customize a DotNetKicks link in a blog post.

Projecting with Aggregates in LINQ to Entities

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:25:08 GMT

This is a quick example that shows how to grab a few properties from a parent entity and use an aggregate function on the parent entity's children entities.