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Eric and I have published the full set of resources links from yesterday's event on What's New in Visual Studio 2008 Sp1. http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/02/2008-10-02-whats-new-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx Technorati Tags: vs2008
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I spent many frustrating hours yesterday trying to get 2 demos to work for today's Visual Studio 2008 Sp1 event at TVP. What was very odd was that both demos (or similar) worked fine on MikeT's machine but neither worked on mine and in both cases the
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I posted a little while back about how much I liked jQuery so I was excited (not to mention surprised) to read that we're going to be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio in the near future . Not only that but we'll have a special annotated version of the
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We've released RC0 of Silverlight 2 . This is intended as a developer only release - neither the Silverlight 1 nor Silverlight 2 Beta 2 plug-in will auto-update to this release. This is an opportunity to test your Silverlight 2 applications against RC0
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I've been wrestling with this for a little while now and wanted to try and get down some thoughts so at least I can refer to them in future. Others will hopefully find them useful as well. I'm not going to pre-amble with all the reasons for why we've
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Mike's already blogged about this one so I'll simply highlight his post. I was building a simple music jukebox app to demo OpenFileDialog and IsolatedStorage . You can select some tracks to play and add them to a queue. The queue is maintained in isolated
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It's been a bit quiet around here recently. I picked up some sort of chest infection, was confined to bed for a few days and still have the nasty cough to prove I'm not well. I thought I'd throw up a few posts about stuff I'd stumbled across in my incoherent
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Just gathering these together in one place before I go ahead and install myself... Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for Windows XP Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for Windows Server 2003
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I've published the demo source for my Deep Zoom, MultiScaleTileSource and the Mandelbrot Set post to my site at http://mikeo.co.uk/cs/files/8/silverlight/entry43.aspx . I also made some changes to the colouring algorithm. Instead of using the simple "Escape
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I got quite a few comments on my post on Dynamically Loading ListView Templates so rather than trying to paste code into a comment in reply, I thought I'd paste an update here. Specific issues raised were problems when databinding without a DataSource
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There are some changes to Deep Zoom in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 including a new XML based file format and the ability to dynamically generate Deep Zoom images by creating your own MultiScaleTileSource . MultiScaleTileSource is an abstract class with one method
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One of the new features you'll see described (or mentioned) in various places about Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is "LINQ to JSON support". In my Vista Squad session last night I wanted to draw a comparison between DataContractJsonSerializer and LINQ
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Has just launched http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx . I know the technology's cool and the results can be amazing but I'm still struggling to see how I would *personally* use it. It's nice to enjoy the efforts of others though :-). Technorati Tags: photosynt
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I must admit I'm pretty relieved as I would have suffered a bit of a ribbing in the office had I not passed Exam 70-562: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Application Development . This is a relatively new exam and I was a little concerned when
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As you probably know by now, we've released Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and the .NET Framework Service Pack 1 (as well as the recently released SQL Server 2008 ). I've posted the relevant download links below: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (ISO)
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