Spoiler (Perhaps) - Silverlight to run on Symbian phones!

blogs.zdnet.com — Microsoft is working with Nokia to get Silverlight running on Symbian mobile phones. Would this help influence your decision to use Silverlight for UI over other technologies.....discuss :D read more...

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Nant is not dead.......beta 1 of version 0.86 is out

lists.ximian.com — With support for .Net 3.5 and newer version of mono and experimental support for Silverlight it is good to see that this project still has some life in it. A couple of months ago I had actually thought work on Nant had stopped but from checking the mailing archive I could still see some work going on behind the scenes. I'm glad they are pushing out a release. More notes and the link to the downloads is available via the link. Thoughts......msbuild all the way or do you prefer Nant? John read more...

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First Alpha of MbUnit V3 available

blogs.ipona.com — The first release of the new and improved MbUnit is out the door. This blog goes into more detail. John read more...

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VS2008 / .NET 3.5 Training Kit

microsoft.com — Microsoft have just released a training kit for VS2008 and .Net 3.5 to get everyone up to speed. It includes powerpoint presentations, hands-on labs etc. read more...

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Announcing Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express

microsoft.com — Ever wanted to index your intranet, external sites, documents etc but didn't know how.....well there are various alternatives (.net flavours of lucene), solr, nutch but now Microsoft have just announced they are releasing an Express edition of their search server with no document limits. Sounds good and worth a look. Original blog post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2007/11/06/announcing-microsoft-search-server-2008-express.aspx John read more...

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Patterns and Practices For New Hires

blogs.msdn.com — Not specifically about coding but would generally useful tips: "Whether you're a new hire or taking on a new job, here's some principles, patterns and practices to be more effective. They're lessons learned from the school of hard knocks and they represent some of the proven practices that have worked for others and have stood the test of time. " read more...

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Interview with Shawn Burke on Microsoft's .NET Source Code Release

hanselminutes.com — "Scott and Carl talk with Shawn Burke on the culmination of his many-year-old plan to get parts of the source of the .NET Framework released. With Visual Studio 2008, a simple process will allow developers to STEP INTO the .NET Framework Source from the IDE. This'll be a great debugging and learning tool." Discuss... read more...

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Using Google Analytics with rich (managed) web applications in Silverl

blogs.msdn.com — Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 and the HTML DOM bridge can easily interface with Google Analytics to help you analyze, track, and better understand your web site visitors. Already a common activity for Flash and Flex developers, the concept of tracking within a rich web application may be new to traditional client application developers, and probably not something done with common WPF applications, but it's simple to add and very useful to advertisers. read more...

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