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Dr. "Z" lives in Northern Virginia with his family. He tries to stay in touch with developers and architects in the Mid-Atlantic region.

August 2007 - Posts

Photoblog @ MSN.COM
I have not spent much time at the photoblog site of msn.com until tonight. The old saying that "a picture is worth a thousand words" is absolutely true to describe my initial impression. But this site offers much more. People have repeately used the word Read More...
Converting Silverlight Event Handlers in Javascript to .NET Code
Should Silverlight 1.0 RC code just work in Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh? That's my understanding, but I ran into some issues with Silverlight event handlers in one example , which displays the CurrentState of a MediaElement. I kept getting the following Read More...
Silverlight Assembly: agclr.dll
Where a Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh project is created with Orcas 2008 beta 2, references are set by default to several assemblies, which are stored in the Microsoft Silverlight directory, such as agclr, mscorlib, system, System.Core, system.silverlight, Read More...
Mid-Atlantic Architect Groups, User Groups, and Code Camps
Architect Groups International Association of Software Architects (IASA), http://www.iasahome.org/ Western Pennsylvania Enterprise Architecture Forum, http://www.wpeaf.org User Groups BaltoMSDN http://www.baltomsdn.com/ Baltimore SQL Server User Group Read More...
Blogs by Mid-Atlantic Regional MVPs, RDs and Enthusiasts (August 2007)
Over time I have worked with or been introducted to many professionals in the Mid-Atlantic region. Below is a list of some of their blogs that I'd like to share with you. Some of them have multiple blogs. I will periodically update the list. Brian Noyes, Read More...
Top 10 List about Microsoft Silverlight - A CIO Magazine Article
The CIO magazine recently published an article about Silverlight written by Shawn Wildermuth, a Microsoft MVP (C#) and the founder of Wildermuth Consulting Services. Whether you are new to Microsoft Silverlight, have seen how Silverlight applications Read More...
Silverlight Breaking Changes Between Beta and RC
I converted a few Silverlight beta applications to Silverlight RC, and had to fix quite a few breaking changes. For changes between Silveright 1.1 alpha and alpha refresh, check the document "Changes from Alpha.docx" in the 1.1 SDK. You can find additional Read More...
Mid-Atlantic MSDN Roadshows - Silverlight and Expression Series
The Mid-Atlantic MSDN Roadshow, aka Andrew, Dani and Dr. Z Roadshow, will debut in a week. Our first event of the series will focus on Microsoft Silverlight and Expression. See detail and registration below. Come and join us in learning and sharing the Read More...
Boston ReMIX 2007
Microsoft MIX07 this May at Las Vegas was an exciting and successful event. To carry on the excitement of the event on new Microsoft web technologies such as Silverlight, Expression and AJAX, the Microsoft East Region DPE team is hosting a ReMIX event Read More...
AJAX Programming and Potential Security Risk
A recent Computerworld article by Jaikumar Vijayan warns potential security risk with AJAX programming. Citing the research work done by Billy Hoffman, lead research and development engineer and Bryan Sullivan, development manager at Web security vendor Read More...
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