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PDC 2007 Announced

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:04:58 GMT

It is time to clear a week in October 2007 for attending Microsoft Professional Developer Conference.

Ascend.NET - Nice and FREE WinForms Controls

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:01:01 GMT

The Ascend.NET controls are a collection of Windows Forms controls written in C# targeting Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0. The intent is to provide controls that are flexible but easy to use that will hold up well under heavy usage.

HOW TO: Using Surrounds with in Visual Studio 2005

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 03:33:00 GMT

Kick guide on how to use the Surrounds with feature in Visual Studio 2005

Visual Studio 2005 too slow? The Navigation Bar could be the culprit

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:37:00 GMT

While this "closed" bug dates back to Beta 2, turning off the navigation bar made a huge performance difference for me on the RTM.

ASP.NET: Client-side DataSets with Ajax.NET Pro

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:37:00 GMT

Everybody loves .NET's DataSets. They provide the most simple yet powerful way to manipulate in-memory tables and data collections on the server-side. Good news for hardcore AJAX web developers: using Michael Schwarz's amazing Ajax.NET Professional library we can unleash the power of server-side DataSets to the client-side using Javascript. Not only that, but we can create a DataSet and populate it on the server, invoke it on the client side, modify it or create a new one and send it back to the server.

Channel 9: Designing Experiences at Microsoft

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:57:00 GMT

Ever wonder who creates those cool icons, animations, and the general graphical experiences in our products like Windows Vista? Well, Scoble wanted to meet one of these people and turns out Jenny Lam is the "Experience" Designer at Microsoft. Scoble recently met with her for chat about this whole Experience thing.

Running Windows Vista on Virtual PC/Server

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:45:00 GMT

Virtuall Vista is a new(ish) blog dedicated to issues surrounding running Windows Vista under Virtual PC and Virtual Server.

Sparkle January 2006 CTP Released

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:01:00 GMT

No more manually coding XAML!