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WPF's Little Brother...The Wait Is Almost Over

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:01:02 GMT

Friday - 29 February 2008 The first public beta of Silverlight 2.0 is expected from Microsoft in the next few weeks. By all accounts, those that have seen the private beta report that the features outlined by the General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, Scott Guthrie, in a November blog posting are pretty much on track.

ScottGu: First Look at Using Expression Blend with Silverlight 2

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:16:02 GMT

In this first set of Silverlight tutorials I didn't use a visual design tool to build the UI, and instead focused on showing the underlying XAML UI markup (which I think helps to explain the core programming concepts better). Now that we've finished covering the basics - let's explore some of the tools we can use to be even more productive.

Link to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:01:03 GMT

I've recently updated the list of LINQ Providers found on my Links to LINQ page, accessible from the News section on the left of my blog. I'm sure there are other providers available. Feel free to write me or append a comment if you want to add to this list.

Welcome from DotNetKicks

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:47:15 GMT

I just wanted to say a hello to the users coming over from dot net kicks. It is always good to talk with fellow .Net coders. This is the first time I have made it to the front page (original post) and wanted to mention a thank you to dot net kicks for the great content that it pumps out. I always find good stuff each day that helps me become a better developer. I hope that this is just the first of many articles that I can contribute to a great community. If you liek this blog please consider signing up for the RSS feed.

Pre Mix Envy

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:33:25 GMT

A new psychological condition is born: Pre Mix Envy. It's when a developer want to be in Vegas but can't. I guess a lot are suffering from this condition.

Visual Studio Gallery launches

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:01:02 GMT

To add another resource to enhance your development experience, today we're launching the Visual Studio Gallery. This site provides a catalog that showcases free and commercial products that complement or extend Visual Studio.

Immediate Window - A forgotten tool

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:16:02 GMT

A little bit about the Immediate Window tool available in Visual Studio.

Quick and Dirty Memory Utility Methods

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:46:03 GMT

Ever curious how much memory that suspect object is hogging on the heap? Find out quickly and easily with a few lines of code.

LINQ.Flickr 1.2

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:46:02 GMT

Last week, I have released LINQ.Flickr 1.2 , this new release comes with some bugs fixes requested by community. The best of them was not to be able to search only by user and with specific photo size. The bug started after converting it to use LinqExtender instead of its own query logic. So, now here it is...

Silverlight 2.0 (beta 1) Controls Screenshot

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:31:05 GMT

SilverlightShow has a nice post up detailing the controls that will be available in the Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 release. The news was originally posted on Shawn Burke's blog, but it appears that the he was forced to take down the screen shot. Thanks to SilverlightShow that graphic is still visible and is also now posted on my blog. Exciting stuff!

Building a LinkedIn Style Address Book with the ListView and LinqDataS

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Another great article from Matt Berseth about building a LinkedIn style address book

Google Lets You "Chatback" With Your Visitors

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:16:03 GMT

I love Google Talk. I love it because of its light foot print both on my hard drive and when running in memory. I love the integration with all my Google services. And I love the flexibility that it provides. However the Google Talk team just gave me another reason to love Google Talk. It now allows me to have direct conversations with my visitors with a simple click of the mouse on the chat bubble you see to your left.

How to follow DotNetKicks.com efficiently

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:16:02 GMT

I'll show here a little tip how I follow my favorite .NET-community, DotNetKicks.com (DNK). It is one of the best .NET-resources and it gets lot's of quality content daily so staying up to speed with the site requires some effort.

PhizzPop Design Challenge Final

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:34:29 GMT

A review of the teams in the final of the PhizzPop Design challenge

Dear Internet: Stop Using Dead URLs As URIs

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:44:17 GMT

HTTP URLs that don't resolve is bad netiquitte.

Using Yahoo! Pipes to convert any XML-feed to JSON-feed

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:52:30 GMT

Recently I've discovered a fantastic free service provided by Yahoo! which makes it possible to convert any XML data feed into a JSON data feed. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ It is easy to create a pipe that provides a JSON data feed with a callback function for web services that don't actually implement that functionality in their API.

LightSpeed 1.2 Released

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

Mindscape released a new version of LightSpeed, their OR mapper. There are quite a lot of new features like more mapping options and a cool debugger visualizer that shows the queries being executed to get the data from the DB.

Coming to an end. Come say goodbye.

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:58:31 GMT

It's ending soon. Come buy and see what you'll miss and say goodbye. .net services, modules and new tools for 2008.

"Click to Activate" in IE going away!

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:01:03 GMT

Update for IE to be included in Vista SP1, XP SP3 and standalone update available starting in December.

IE 7 crashes after installing some cool add-ons. What next?

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:20:33 GMT

Internet Explorer 7 crashes after installing some cool add-ons. What should you do next??

Make your RSS feeds Auto-Discoverable

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:06:23 GMT

RSS Autodiscovery is a technique that makes it possible for browsers and other software to automatically find a site's RSS feed. This feature is actually support by both Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.

IE Developer Toolbar Beta 3... What?

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:31:02 GMT

I've just noticed that a new beta version of the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar is available! Not yet final but I like this Web Developer tool. Despite of all the cool things in it I advise people NOT to install this version as it is far for stable and some features simply crash.

IE Web Developer Toolbar Beta 3 Released

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:16:01 GMT

New features: improved UI, style tracer, enhanced view source (with code coloring), and all your old favorites. Get it free from Microsoft.

The World of Crazy URLs .. Digg.com = 1086311198

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:01:01 GMT

Digg.com can be accessed by simply typing 1086311198 in the Internet Explorer address bar.. this is a technique used by phishers when sending out fake HSBC emails... Have a look how it's done.

System tray icon for Internet Explorer 7 feeds

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:31:01 GMT

Get notifications in the system tray when your feeds are updated without having the Internet Explorer 7 favorites center opened.