The Jist: Entity Framework 4.1 is out now and you can download it here . Those of you that read Scott Hanslemans blog or listen to Hanselminutes (if you don’t you should) will know that Scott was less than pleased with the name " Microsoft ADO.NET...

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content to help you learn how to use Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric. The April 2011 update of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit has been updated...

Beth Massi, Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Visual Studio BizApps team, presented a great introduction to Visual Studio LightSwitch at last week’s DevDays event. In this demo-heavy session, you will see, end-to-end, how to build and deploy a data...

That was a long short week! Here’s a round up of that four days on the blog. Have a great weekend. Read Mike Taulty’s rough notes on the Silverlight 5 beta May’s MSDN magazine is out now DDD speaker training day, 27 May, Bristol Check out this week’s...

Wander on over to Mike Taulty’s blog to explore this series of posts detailing Mike’s early rough notes on initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta. Multiple Window Support Markup Extensions Implicit Data Templates Ancestor Relative Binding Silverlight...

Here’s this month’s content – you can get your mitts on the full version here . Business Connectivity Services: Consuming External OData Feeds with SharePoint BCS Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for Microsoft Office and SharePoint helps you bring...

Back by popular demand is the DDD Speaker Training Day on Friday 27th May 2011 at UWE in Bristol. This is a free day of training on giving presentations and improving your public speaking skills. Topics covered will include:- · How To Explain Absolutely...

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My name is Finbar Ryan and I am an Escalation Engineer in Customer Services and Support at Microsoft. I’ve been at Microsoft for nearly 14 years (where did the time go?) and since 1998 I’ve been supporting mostly IIS. I also support other things like...

Windows 7 Desktop Integration with Internet Explorer 9 Windows Internet Explorer 9 introduces pinned sites, a feature with which you can integrate your websites with the Windows 7 desktop. A pinned site is more than just a shortcut, however. With very...

The Internet Explorer Platform Preview Guide for Developers provides an early look at the developer features coming to the next version of Internet Explorer. By using the documentation and samples in this guide, web developers and designers can prepare...

Timeglider is a zooming, panning data-driven timeline – great for history projects, project planning and much more. Check it out here .

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I found a link to this ASP.NET and HTML5 local storage blog post while rooting around on MSDN. Author Steven Walther walks you through how to use HTML5 local storage and shows how it can help dramatically improve the performance of your data-driven web...

Short week or not, we’ve had plenty to talk about on the blog. Here’s your regular round-up – have a great Easter weekend! Microsoft at Bluegfx Expo, 12 May Converting Regular Images into 3D Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) HTML5 Labs now has a FileAPI...

Come along to Bluegfx Expo on 12 May at London’s Ravensbourne College to hear about… …the latest 3D modelling & animation technologies, how to optimise your render pipeline, the latest Cloud (CPU & GPU) phenomenon, the future of graphics card...

The boys at Microsoft Research are smart… I mean really smart, they make simple developers like me, look like extras in The Only Way is Essex (for the US readers its a bit like The Hills ). At the MIX event in Las Vegas they had a number of booths near...

The Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) extends Visual Studio 2010, providing a new, streamlined syntax for asynchronous development. Download it here and find out more about asynchronous programming in Alan Berman’s Async Feature Control Flow post...

The new version of HTML5 Labs went live last week and there are some exciting new implementations: FileAPI and soon the Media capture API These new releases compliment the current implementations which were launched back in December : ...

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There is no such thing as a free lunch, and that's also true of trips to Las Vegas. Sadly my Boss didn’t send me to the home of gambling and tacky souvenirs just to play blackjack and hangout with Elvis. No, I had a mission! Firstly I had to deliver a...

IE10 Platform Preview 1, available for download now is the first step in delivering the next wave of progress in native HTML5 support. Web sites and HTML5 run best when they run natively, on a browser optimised for the operating system on your device...

Find out more about the next version of Windows Phone (code-named ‘Mango’) here on the Windows Phone Developer blog . Among the new stuff: hardware-accelerated IE9 with HTML5, enhanced multitasking capabilities, Twitter in the People hub and better support...

The WorldWide Telescope is an amazing project that aims to bring together terabytes of images and information from the world best ground and space based telescopes so that anyone with a web browser can explore the universe. When you couple this project...

Smashing magazine recently published this great (and thorough) round up of useful JavaScript and jQuery tools, libraries and plugins that might come in handy with your upcoming projects and save you scouring the web. These additional JavaScript and jQuery...