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Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience
One of the things that is important to think about when you start using Silverlight in your sites/applications is to make sure you handle the "what if the end user doesn't have Silverlight installed yet?" scenario. Ideally you want to make sure that the installation experience for Silverlight is very seamless, and nicely integrated into your overall end user experience.
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Important Notice: VS 2008 Beta2 VPC Images Expiring on Nov 1st
Earlier this month we discovered that the VPC (Virtual PC) images we distributed as part of the VS 2008 Beta2 release this summer unfortunately have an operating system timeout of November 1st of this year. The standalone VS 2008 setup packages do not have this issue - only the pre-built VPC images do. So if you've installed VS 2008 on your own operating system image you won't have any issues.
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October 25th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, Silverlight and IIS 7.0
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.
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ASP.NET MVC Framework
One of the things that many people have asked for over the years with ASP.NET is built-in support for developing web applications using a model-view-controller (MVC) based architecture. -
October 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, and .NET
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.
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Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries
One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, and to easily enable debugging support in them.
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Tip/Trick: Building a ToJSON() Extension Method using .NET 3.5
Earlier this year I blogged about a new language extensibility feature of C# and VB called "Extension Methods".