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Monday, September 29, 2008 1:44 AM

Developing for ASP.NET mobile

Visual Studio 2008 introduced a lot of new features to support new technologies, adding some cool new designers to developer’s tool belt. On the other hand, support for some technologies was simply left out, leaving a some developers very unhappy. One
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Monday, August 11, 2008 2:03 PM

Splash Screen in WPF 3.5 SP1

Besides improving application startup time, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 also allows developers to add a splash screen to WPF applications. The splash screen is shown using native code, even before WPF application starts to load. In reality this means the splash
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Friday, August 08, 2008 11:09 AM

Silverlight Olympics

Want to tune into 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games with Silverlight ? Not in the United States, you say? Well, tough luck ;) This IP restriction thing is getting sillier by the day... Isn't Internet supposed to be global? What happened to World Wide
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:57 AM

The tide is high – new MS downloads

SQL Server 2008 RTM is out! Microsoft Sync Framework v1.0 RTM is out! Sync Services [now @ v2] is “synchronized” with Sync Framework Peer 2 peer database sync support Sync with device’s Database SQL2008 Change Tracking supported Sync process tracing A
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Saturday, March 08, 2008 2:50 AM

Installing Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview

If you're considering installing Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview over Expression Blend 2 December Preview, make sure you uninstall the December Preview first, and then continue with March Preview installation. When doing vice versa, you'll lose
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Friday, March 07, 2008 4:13 PM

First couple of days with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1

Here's some notes on my first experience with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1: Installation Runtime - quick, smooth. Like it's supposed to be. Tools for Visual Studio 2008 - if running Alpha version of the tools, you'll have to uninstall it first. During the install,
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:11 PM

Mix'n'stuff

As expected, a lot of stuff was shown and discussed on the MIX08 keynote today: eight - Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ( download ): better standards compliance, backward compatible mode, faster faster JavaScript implementation, embedded debugging tools,
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 2:23 PM

WLM tip: just paste the image to send it over

While conversing over Windows Live Messenger the other day, I became aware that not everybody knows about its feature to send an image over by simply pasting it into the message window. You know, instead of the lengthy process of pasting PrintScreen -ed
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Monday, February 04, 2008 3:47 PM

Undeleting shift-deleted emails in Outlook

This one's for future reference... It so happened that I accidentally "permanently" deleted some emails from Outlook... You know, a well-trained keyboard sequence routine - select some (spam) email, shift+delete, enter, and spam's gone. It turned
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:20 PM

Tick, tock... Silverlight Challenge: one week left

Just a quick reminder: 1st European Silverlight Challenge is entering the finishing line. As announced , the competition ends next Monday, which still gives you plenty of time to polish your applications and give them some finishing touches. When ready,
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Friday, January 04, 2008 8:18 PM

Let Silverlight shine on YOU!

Join developers all around Europe in the ultimate Silverlight Challenge. Yes, the 1st European Silverlight Challenge is on and Slovenia is one of the many countries participating. For more information head over to Slovenian and European competition site,
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Friday, December 07, 2007 3:42 PM

Gradient eyedropper in Expression Blend

Gradient eyedropper proved to be one of the fun features for presenting Windows Presentation Foundation / Expression Blend . While fun for presenting, its ability to capture the color spectrum of the mouse-crossed area is useful in real-time designing
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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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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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