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Last week I invited David Sleeckx , the technical architect behind Vidyano, to give us a demonstration on what he has been working on. Vidyano is a tool that is tightly integrated with Visual Studio 2008 to help with the (rapid) development and architecturing
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New MSDN sessions have been planned for the coming months. Not like the MSDN Evening events where you need to go to a location, this time in the form of live sessions can all be followed online from your office or home. We have planned sessions in Dutch,
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MIX09 is just a few weeks from now, good time to get a good look at the sessions and choose a few I’ll be watching. I’m guessing most sessions will be online less than 24 hours after the event. I should be blocking some days in my agenda to catch up,
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The patterns & practices team at Microsoft has released version 2 of the Composite Application Guidance (previously called Prism), now with support for WPF and Silverlight. If you are looking for guidance in building modular WPF and Silverlight line-of-business
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With the beta release of Windows 7, the announcements done at PDC in October 2008 around the Azure Services Platform, Oslo and others; Visual Studio 10 at TechEd EMEA and more in between you might start wondering what your focus should be. Chances are
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If you are looking for best practices for running XAML WPF projects, this is a must read. Jaime Rodriguez , a technical evangelist focusing on WPF has written “ XAML Guidelines ” (draft mode at this time). The document can be downloaded in different formats
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My colleague Philippe’s blog brought this to my attention: a knowledge base on Application Architecture with literally tons of documents. patterns & practices Application Architecture KB Including: Application Types (Archetypes) , Architecture and
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While in the keynote of day 1 we saw the light of Windows Azure Platform, the Microsoft Software + Services platform, on day 2 we actually had two keynotes: a lot of stuff! Keynote 1: Ray Ozzie, Steve Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie, David Treadwell – on Windows
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Are you looking for more technical information on creating RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) and RDAs (Rich Desktop Applications)? MSDN BeLux is organizing a road show around these technologies. This is your chance to learn about Silverlight, new ASP.NET
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I’m really glad with this announcement, the TechDays'08 event will take place the 30th of September 2008, in Mondorf-les-Bains in Luxembourg. It’s a free event by the MS Belux team so be quick to register as places are limited. Note: the event is in French
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Being a developer using Expression Blend 2 (or 2.5 Preview) for implementing basic design of Silverlight or WPF applications, I’ve collected a list of my favorite shortcuts and tips to using the interface. At first it’s a whole new interface you need
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As has just been announced on several MSDN and product teams blogs , Service Pack 1 for .NET Framework 3.5 and for Visual Studio 2008 have been released. SP1 is available for Visual Studio 2008, this download includes the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 as well.
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The Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF earlier this month. As I blogged about earlier , composite WPF which was code named “Prism” previously, provides guidance in building composite WPF applications.
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Prism is the codename for the new guidance for Composite Application development for WPF . This is not an update to CAB (Composite UI Application Block), it delivers a new set of assets and guidance for developing new Composite WPF applications. As it
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Today we released the Beta versions of the Service Packs that will be shipping for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack (SP) 1 Beta Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack (SP) 1 Beta Please note that the betas are intended
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