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Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Fx 4 Available Today for MSDN Subscribers
General availability is 21st October. Visit the Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Fx 4 Beta site for more information, downloads, forums and to submit feedback. There have been significant changes to the SKU line-up / packaging and licensing to simplify the SKU Read More...
Search Engine Optimization in ASP.NET
A few days ago I posted about my adventures with the SEO Toolkit and some of its features for ensuring your site is as SEO friendly as possible. Today I noticed that K.Scott Allen has an article in the September issue of MSDN Magazine entitled " Read More...
Silverlight 3 Firestarter Event - Download the Videos
Via Mithun Dhar Kickoff | Mithun Dhar & Mark Hindsbo | Download Keynote | Scott Guthrie | Download Silverlight Key Scenarios & Features | Tim Heuer | Download Expression 3 Overview | Adam Kinney | Download Sketch Flow | Janete Perez | Download Read More...
Boot Windows 7 from VHD without installing a native OS
I’d already started to install Windows 7 as a “host OS” on an old machine simply to be able to use boot from VHD to fire up an existing (VHD based) Windows 7 installation when I stopped myself with the thought “surely you don’t need to install a whole Read More...
More on Boot from VHD - Disk2vhd
A little while ago I wrote about how impressed I was with boot from VHD in Windows 7 . This morning I was trying to convince Mike that using this technique with a base Windows 7 VHD and differencing disks would be a great way to get VS2010 Beta1 and Beta2 Read More...
Web Application Toolkits
Web Application Toolkits provide a packaged set of samples, documentation, templates, controls etc to get up and running quickly with a particular technology. When you just want a bit of help to build an IE8 Accelerator or want to add search to your site, Read More...
Microsoft AJAX CDN Launched
I’ve long thought we were missing a trick by not having a hosted service for the ASP.NET AJAX scripts and lo and behold ScottGu has announced a new content delivery network (CDN) for the ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery libraries. That means: Edge cache servers Read More...
More Sessions Posted for PDC09
Some more sessions have just been announced for PDC09 (Nov 16-19, LA Convention Center). The current session list is available . Below I’ve listed just the latest additions. Advanced Diagnostics, Historical Debugging and Test Automation Advanced Microsoft Read More...
You really ought to check out Boot from VHD in Win7
I should have done it earlier and I’m kicking myself now. After Eric mentioned Scott Hanselman’s posts and then we had a team chat with James and Andrew I was intrigued enough to give it a go. This morning I took the plunge, following the instructions Read More...
Silverlight 3 Firestarter Event Streamed Live
On 17th September there’s a full day of Silverlight 3 / Expression 3 goodness coming live from Seattle. The Firestarter event being held in the Microsoft Conference Centre will also be streamed live so as many people as possible can attend. There’s a Read More...
Live Meeting with ScottGu Tomorrow
The Linked .Net Users Group (LIDNUG) is hosting another Q&A session with Scott Guthrie tomorrow starting at 5pm UK time. Click here for more details and registration Technorati Tags: scottgu , asp.net , .net Read More...
Windows 7 Resources
I’m one of those people who got on okay with Vista on the whole. I enjoyed its new look and feel, it seldom let me down (can’t remember the last time it did) and performance is excellent on the machines I run it on. That said, Windows 7 is just superb. Read More...
Deploying Your First Windows Azure App
Last week I talked about how to get started with Windows Azure . In this post I want to take the simple ASP.NET app I’d built and deploy that to the cloud. One of the great things about Windows Azure is all you have to deploy is the app and some configuration Read More...
Silverlight / Expression UK Launch Videos
MikeT and I were both at the recent UK Launch of Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 and, amongst other things, were filming like it was going out of fashion. My job was simple – capture the screen. Only trouble was tapes last 60mins for a 3+ hour event so Read More...
ASP.NET 4.0 Series Index Post
Just a quick post to provide hooks to the various posts in this series. I’ll add more as I expand on my last post about AJAX features: Visual Studio 2010 Enhancements for ASP.NET ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls Read More...
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