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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...
Windows Azure Migration from USA-Northwest
If you’re on the Azure CTP (and specifically one of the early participants, eg a PDC attendee) then there’s a good chance you’ll have received an email like this one: I do have a couple of problems with this mail. i think it could be a bit clearer in 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...
Adventures with the SEO Toolkit
Well, TBH, things didn’t get off to the best of starts as my attempts to install the SEO Toolkit via the Web Platform Installer failed. I hunted around but couldn’t find it. Funny though that if you click the link on the SEO Toolkit page , Web PI fires Read More...
Web Application Toolkit for IE8
Some time back I did a video and some demos on how to create IE8 accelerators, search providers and web slices based around a traffic information site I called Trafficify (I know, it’s not pretty, it was never meant to be published but Ian wanted it up 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...
dezineforce Proof of Concept Interview
Following on from my post yesterday about the dezineforce proof of concept, I spent a little more time with Peter Williams (dezineforce), Neil Kidd (Microsoft) and Josh Twist (Microsoft) quizzing them on various aspects of the project… 1. Tell me a little Read More...
A User Experience Overhaul with Silverlight and MVVM
I recently had the opportunity to spend some time in the Microsoft Technology Centre (MTC) with a company called dezineforce who offer a unique capability – a cloud-based engineering design service . Coming from an engineering background myself, I found 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...
Simplifying Cross Browser Compatibility Testing
Microsoft Expression Web includes the capability to render web pages using a variety of different rendering engines. Importantly it includes the IE6 rendering engine so you can render pages in both IE6 and IE7 or IE8 on the same machine. We’ve now made 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...
A little legalese (off topic)
My wife and I have just bought a new house (well new to us). This can be a somewhat of a traumatic process in the UK, not least because of all the legal and historical issues you have to deal with. I’m sure it’s the same the world over though some of Read More...
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