December 27, 2007 12:46 PM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
Windows Presentation FoundationXAML, the Extensible Application Markup Language, is the code-behind language for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight applications. The idea is that application designers...
December 26, 2007 11:48 AM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
Methodologies (Team Development, Agile and so forth)The first set of Power Tools for Visual Studio 2008 is now available. Specifically, this release targets Team Foundation Server.
Ed Hintz of Microsoft has blogged about the
December 26, 2007 11:01 AM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
Mobile applicationsHaving burned more AA batteries than I can count whilst playing Tetris for Game Boy, I would never withhold Tetris news from anyone. And is there is Sudoku news, too? Well, then, I'm a joyous child on Boxing Day.*
Blogger Carlos Aguilar Mares has created versions of both Tetris and Sudoku that are...
December 21, 2007 12:06 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
Ajax,
ASP.NETThere's Ajax and there's Ajax. There is Ajax in the Java world where it's
December 19, 2007 3:52 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
Dynamic Languages,
Visual BasicVB team members Paul Vick and Paul Yuknewicz appeared on a Scott Hanselman podcast to talk about directions for Visual Basic. They talked about the popularity of the language, which still surpasses all others in Microsoft’s yearly developer survey.
Vick and Yuknewicz talked about
December 19, 2007 9:52 AM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
SilverlightJust in time for good tidings of comfort and joy, Jackass 2.5 has hit the browser.
Aficionados of Steve-O, Johnny Knoxville and their whimsical shenanigans can take in the third installment of this cinematic wonder that is Jackass free on Blockbuster.com from today (Dec. 19) until Dec....
December 18, 2007 12:37 PM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
.NET programming downloads,
VS 2005 and .NET 2.0,
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5Forgive our gratuitous use of .NET in the headline there, but Microsoft has re-released its download of.NET 3.5 so that it now includes the Service Pack releases of .NET 2.0 and 3.0.
Here's the
December 14, 2007 2:14 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
Database development and architecture,
ORM (Object-relational mapping)SearchWinDevelopment.com's recent story on Entity Frameworks missed some worthwhile commentary by DataFarm's Julie Lerman. When we were pulling that together,
December 14, 2007 11:56 AM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
.NET Programming Languages,
Architecture and the SDLC,
Client applications,
Database development and architecture,
Web applicationsThe Shameless Plug Dept. would like to call your attention to SearchWinDevelopment.com's .NET User Groups Learning Guide.
As you've noticed, we try to avoid promoting in the blog...
