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Friday, July 18, 2008 4:17 PM

Silverlight now on Ryanair.com

Yesterday Ryanair.com went live with a new destinations map which uses Silverlight to map all its destinations and routes. (For those of you who may not have heard of Ryanair, they are Europe's largest low fares carrier, with more than 700 routes across
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:37 AM

Firefox 3 and Silverlight

I've been doing some work with Silverlight over the last couple of weeks and ran into this question yesterday (specifically re. SL 1.0). The issue arose since Firefox 3 came out after Silverlight 1.0 and is related to silverlight detection, meaning that
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Friday, July 04, 2008 10:09 AM

Composite Application Guidance for WPF now available

Patterns & Practices have just released guidance to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client applications. This guidance will help you design and build flexible composite WPF client applications—composite
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:58 PM

New ASP.NET SQL Injection Defense Tools

If you're doing ASP.NET development then you need to check these tools out. As per this security bulletin there has been a recent rise in SQL injection attacks, exploiting vulnerabilities in sites that do not follow best practice. So here's what you need
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:47 AM

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 publicly available this week

Hot off the press from TechEd US, Silverlight Beta 2 will be available this week. Check out below for a summary of some features, but perhaps most interesting is that Silverlight 2 Beta 2 comes with a commercial go-live license ! · UI Framework : Beta
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:03 AM

Teach yourself how to develop on Sharepoint

This is a great site for developers who want to get up to speed with developing for Sharepoint. You can download a ready-to-go VPC or just take some Virtual Labs to take hands-on exercises via your browser. Here's a snapshot of the available topics: There's
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:50 AM

Microsoft SLPS Case Study featuring Softedge Systems (Ireland-based ISV)

I recently blogged about SLPS and am delighted to highlight a case study featuring a local ISV - Softedge Systems . Softedge Systems flagship product, DocsAlive 2007, is a multimedia content-creation tool built on the 2007 Microsoft® Office system. DocsAlive
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:36 AM

Difficulty accessing MSDN downloads

It has been brought to our attention that some Partners have recently experienced difficulties in accessing their MSDN Downloads. This was due to a system change - affected users will need to re-associate their Live ID to their subscription to re-access
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:57 AM

PDC 2008 goes live

The PDC 2008 site is live as of today - PDC will provide an indepth understanding of Microsoft’s future platform and offer practical guidance to help plan the evolution of your own products. To get a flavour of what to expect, check out the preliminary
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Monday, May 19, 2008 11:04 AM

Enterprise Library 4.0 Released

Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges (such as logging, validation, caching, exception handling, and many others). Application
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Friday, May 09, 2008 2:31 PM

Developing ISV Applications using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

If you need to learn about Architecture, Deployment and Operations essentials of Dynamics CRM then I think you'll find this white paper very useful. It gives a good overview of the platform capabilities and the opportunities for ISVs to plug-in to the
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:59 PM

Popfly Game Creator

Popfly Game Creator is now in Alpha ... all you need to do is log in and you can start creating games either from scratch or else based on a template, without needing to write any code. Since the game is a Silverlight app it will run in your web browser,
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Friday, May 02, 2008 2:57 PM

Protect your .NET code with SLPS

Want to protect your .NET code from reverse engineering? Obfuscation is better than nothing, but it doesn't go far enough. Encryption ? Well the encrypted MSIL has to be decrypted before the CLR can handle it, meaning there's an opportunity for a hacker
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Friday, May 02, 2008 12:17 PM

Bird's eye view on Live Maps : Dublin, Cork, Galway and others...

Check out Windows Live Maps where you can now zoom in to Birds' eye views of · Dublin · Carlow · Cork · Galway · Limerick · Navan · Wexford The level of detail is very impressive For example, here's Microsoft Building 3 (Atrium B) (be sure to select Bird's
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:15 PM

CSI:NY using Photosynth

If you watch any of the flavours of CSI you'll probably get a kick out of this article which describes how the show's forensic scientists attempt to recreate a crime scene using hundreds of photos taken from a camera phone. The technology used to stitch
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