Yesterday evening I have played with the new Silverlight 2 beta 1 bits and tried to run it on different Web browsers. The system requirements for Silverlight 2 are:   Operating … more

The new beta of Silverlight 2 introduces Sockets. The security model enforced by the System.Net.Sockets namespace in Silverlight 2 allows for a connection only back to the site or host of origin. So … more

I got some questions about why is Silverlight 2 beta not working on my production Web server? Well, one of the most errors I found is the missing MIME type definition in IIS. Silverlight 2 doesn't … more

The next beta of Silverlight 2 is available online since yesterday. Another announcement appeared in the news is that Silverlight (maybe only version 1.0 for now) will be available on Windows Mobile 6 … more

While developing my small Ajax.NET M! library for creating Web applications that run on the .NET Micro Framework I have started to write my own Web server. Some years ago I wrote a simple SMTP/POP … more

The embeddedworld2008 is over and I had some time to play around with Microsoft .NET Micro Framework devices. I can remember that I had a look on it during the first available betas on Microsoft … more

You may have noticed that the Silverlight web site at Microsoft.com has been updated. Well, I looks nicer than before, I like it. The system requirements are available here. For those of you … more

Während meines Einsatz als Ask the export (ATE) auf dem Microsoft Stand in Frankfurt zum Launch von Visual Studio 2008, Windows 2008 Server als auch SQL Server 2008 sind ein paar Bugs … more