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Microsoft Ajax Library ( Preview 6 ) released

We have just released a significant update of the Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6). This provides a set of new capabilities to the client-side AJAX library, and can be used with any version of ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC projects. The major Read More...

Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 6:48 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Filed under: Tools, Web, IE

IIS Media Services 3.0, including IIS Live Smooth Streaming, has been released!

We just released IIS Media Services 3.0, a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform. This includes the new IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the separate IIS Advanced Logging Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009 5:59 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Filed under: IIS, Windows Server 2008, IE

How to build a great Silverlight Install User Experience

Laurence in the team published a blog this week which provide a lot of great advise for how you can build the best Silverlight installation experience for your website. This is based on quite a bit of research that was carried out during a number of large Read More...

Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 5:53 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments

Filed under: Silverlight, IE

Windows Live Messenger Lets You Add Chat To Your Web Site

One of the cool technologies which did not get a huge mention by the press today at Mix09 today is the new capability to extend the reach of Windows Live Messenger to web sites. Any Website can add a chat feature right into site pages. This is an elegant Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:23 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Filed under: Services, IE

IE8 RC1 is released – Deployment Guidance

Today we launched IE8 RC1. David in the team spoke to Jane Maliouta for EDGE , who is the program manager in charge of deployment and setup of IE8. She talked about what’s new in setup with RC1 and provides inside details on deployment with IE8. David Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:54 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Filed under: ITPRO, Vista, IE, Windows 7

IE8 Application Compatibility Resources

IE8 is currently in Beta and is also the Microsoft supported browser within Windows 7 (currently in beta) which is seeing dramatic uptake in the community. There are a number of excellent improvements which users will clearly want to adopt once it is Read More...

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 9:59 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Filed under: Web, IE, Windows 7

Silverlight 2.0 Ships

Silverlight 2 shipped today. Silverlight 2 is a cross-platform browser plugin that enables rich media experiences and .NET (Rich Internet Applications) within the browser. Its also pretty small in size ( ~4.6MB) and takes only a few seconds to install Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:12 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Filed under: .NET Framework, Silverlight, IE

PDC Attendees get a 160GB USB Drive with all the goodies!!

Personally I am not a big fan of the "Software + Services" PDC theme, but behind the scenes I know that the new software announcements that we are going to make will erase any bitterness I have from my memory :-) However, there is some other Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:12 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Filed under: Evangelism, .NET 3, Tools, .NET 3.5, Vista, Cloud Based Services, Storage, SQLServer, .NET 3.5 SP1, Cloud Data Centers, IE

IE 8 Beta 2 References

With the release of IE8 Beta2, I thought it might be interesting to pull together some useful tips for installing and configuring IE8 and tips for making your site support IE8. I will keep adding to this over time. But here is a first bash. Please add Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:07 PM by neilhut | 3 Comments

Filed under: Vista, IE