November 2007 - Posts

Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:44 PM

"Call me 2.0... Silverlight 2.0"

Right... no more "Mister 1.1", no more Alpha - Silverlight 2.0 Beta is expected in Q1 2008 (@ Mix ?), bringing a rich set of controls (including DataGrid!), higher level of WPF UI framework, more connectivity options and richer BCL support.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:41 AM

Visual Studio 2008 and Business Intelligence Projects

If you're tempted to uninstall Visual Studio 2005 after installing Visual Studio 2008 (I've done that immediately), a word of caution... There is currently no support for SQL Server 2005 BI projects in Visual Studio 2008 . This means that with uninstalling
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Monday, November 19, 2007 4:11 PM

How many...

... of those "Visual Studio 2008 has RTM'd" posts have you read today? ;) Yes, it's been a busy day... Installed VS2008 this morning, uninstalled VS2005, and life is good. But are we done? Not quite; apparently we'll have to wait a couple of
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1:32 PM

Windows Live Messenger IM Control

See the icon next to my name on the top-right of my blog page? Green means I'm online, reachable by Windows Live Messenger. Click on the icon and WLM web control will fire up in your browser, ready to use and contact me. Nice and easy, no local WLM installation
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:01 PM

It's a-Live

This post was written with final version of Windows Live Writer (version 12.0.1366.1026), which was released today, along with other Live products, combined in a single installer: Windows Live Messenger (8.5.1302.1018) Windows Live Mail (12.0.1606) Windows
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Saturday, November 03, 2007 12:46 AM

WPF/WinForms Binding Pt.2: Value converters

In previous WPF vs Windows Forms binding post , we left off with pretty useless text binding example - we made the form's title reflect whatever user writes in the textbox: <Window x:Class="BindingSample.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
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