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Wednesday, December 31, 2003 1:00 AM

Top ten features in Visual Studio "Whidbey"

OK, I'll stop with the Whidbey articles for a while, but it will take a bounty. Go out and find someone using VS/VB 6 and convince them to try .NET. A Programmer's Introduction to Visual Studio .NET "Whidbey" (aka, the top 10 features coming soon) --
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Friday, December 26, 2003 2:03 PM

Dystopian?

Yahoo has some strange categories for movies - they include 'Dystopian' as a subdivision of Science Fiction films... I *think* I'm looking forward to the I, Robot film. It's been a Long While since I've read that series, but still. Cool stuff. I'm a little
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Monday, December 22, 2003 3:58 PM

One more to keep you away from the tree

Through a heroic effort , the great editorial staff at MSDN (not including me -- I just watched the magic happen, and shuttled e-mails) have rammed this one onto the ASP.NET Developer Center . Compare & Contrast ASP.NET and Jakarta Struts. Enjoy,
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Monday, December 22, 2003 10:45 AM

Device Update #4 for ASP.NET Mobile Controls

For those of you working with ASP.NET Mobile Controls (the creatures formerly known as MMIT), there's a new device update. Headlined at the ASP.NET Developer Center (and I'd appreciate the click-throughs), or go direct at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=02fa15fe-40d9-4dce-9bb1-4dd61a5b7ccb&displaylang=en
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Monday, December 22, 2003 10:34 AM

What's new in ASP.NET Whidbey?

Just sent up a new article from the fine Stephen Walther on some more of the new features in ASP.NET Whidbey. This one in particular blew my little mind: Rich XML Data Binding The ASP.NET ”Whidbey” data controls support a variety of rich data
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Thursday, December 18, 2003 9:44 PM

C1PayPal control

I was playing with ComponentOne 's Paypal ASP.NET control this night, and it's quite cool! It lets you easily add AddtoCart and Checkout functionality to a website. BTW - the control is part of the *free* [sorry, had to] Visual Basic Resource Kit , and
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Thursday, December 18, 2003 3:03 PM

ASP.NET Webcast week

OK, this is horrendously like a press release, but there you go -- the talks that will be part of webcast week are now live at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/using/training/webcasts/default.aspx TTFN - Kent
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Wednesday, December 17, 2003 2:59 PM

Creating a Plug-in Framework

Fresh from Roy hisself, his first MSDN article, now live on the ASP.NET Developer Center Creating a plug-in framework TTFN - Kent
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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:44 PM

User Agent strings

A nice survey of many of the available User Agent strings that may hit your sites. (OK, 90% of them may be one of them, but please, please don't forget the others) http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/browser_ids.htm TTFN - Kent
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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:31 PM

XAML keyboard

Amazingly enough, my very first Longhorn-related posting. Scott has designed the XAML keyboard we'll all be using in 2004 , er 2008 , er soon . TTFN - Kent Disclaimer : I have no clue when Longhorn is going to ship. Really. I just picked those dates out
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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:49 AM

ASP.NET Webcast Week

OK, on the ASP.NET Developer Center we can't have Shark Week , but we can have Webcast Week. Coming to a screen near you January 19-23. Five days! Ten talks! Ken Getz! Michele Leroux Bustamante! Paul Murphy! You'll be thrilled, amazed and educated! Stay
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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:43 AM

re-arranging deck chairs

Things are slowing down here at MSDN for some holiday, and I'm tinkering with the ASP.NET Developer Center . In particular, I added navigation webparts to two of my longer pages: http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/using/building/web/default.aspx http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/using/building/webcontrols/default.aspx
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Friday, December 12, 2003 3:57 PM

Evolving Custom Controls

How can you go from a block of code on an ASP.NET Web page to a polished Server Control? Ask Steve Smith: Evolving Custom Controls TTFN - Kent
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Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:44 PM

Creating Server Controls

Today's new article on the ASP.NET Developer Center : Paul Sheriff has a new article on creating ASP.NET Server controls - http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/using/building/webcontrols/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/servercontrols.asp TTFN
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Monday, December 08, 2003 3:37 PM

MSDN TV RSS feed

Has this been here for a while? MSDN TV now has it's own RSS feed , for those who like watching the smart tube. TTFN - Kent
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Sunday, December 07, 2003 9:04 PM

Thunderbird 0.4

Old news for some (in this day & age where something being released two days ago counts as old news), but version 0.4 of Thunderbird (the Mozilla e-mail program) has just been released. For those of you who don't know it, an excellent, small (about
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Friday, December 05, 2003 3:57 PM

ASP.NET and WalMart

From the sounds of things, the St. Louis roadshow went pretty well , even with a slight riot: I imagined everyone would wait in line and grab their copy - BUT IT WAS NOTHING LIKE THAT! Devin Rader and myself got shoved up against the wall and couldn't
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Friday, December 05, 2003 3:39 PM

Examining Scott Mitchell's skmMenu control

As I strive towards “Enabling people to do new things“ , here's my weekend gift to all of you: the second part in Scott Mitchell's skmMenu control articles . In this article, he examines the skmMenu control (Which, if you don't know is a ASP.NET
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Thursday, December 04, 2003 11:49 AM

two new ones on ASP.NET Developer Center

Paul Sheriff returns (and brings along Michael Krasowski) with a great article on working with VSS and ASP.NET projects. As well, Dino has a few thoughts on data access . Oh, and there's a great MSDN TV show featuring Erik Olson on everyone's favourite
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Tuesday, December 02, 2003 9:16 PM

OK, let's just forget that security thing after all...

Tog on Security D'ohLTs: http://www.asktog.com/columns/058SecurityD'ohlts.html Brian care to discuss? ;) TTFN - Kent
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