Today we're announcing the CTP release of a new add-in for Visual Studio 2010 that makes it easy to create C# and Visual Basic libraries that run on a variety of .NET platforms without recompilation. Download the Portable Library Tools CTP today (install VS 2010 SP1 Beta first). Creating Portable...

Those of you who are already using Silverlight 1.1 Alpha may have seen that the familiar non-generic collections were all marked as obsolete. This includes almost everything under the System.Collections namespace. You shouldn’t be too surprised. We’ve been telling you for a while that you should...

Linq is one of the many .NET features we're pleased to include in the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha release . Linq in Silverlight supports key Linq-to-Object scenarios available in the desktop version, such as queries built on IEnumerable and the ability to implement a custom Linq provider. The Details: ...

Today at MIX07 we announced the availability of Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight is supported on Firefox and Safari on Mac OS X and on...