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Visual Studio Talk Show #104 is now online (French)
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Visual Studio Talk Show #103 is now online (French)
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Tech Support Cheat Sheet
Everyone who’s work involve computers is cursed being the tech support for the family. Here’s a tech support cheat sheet that you can give them thanks to http://xkcd.com/
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Book Review: Expression Design Step by Step
At the last MVP Summit, I was looking for some Expression books and I found Expression Design Step by Step at the Microsoft Store. I bought it because it was dirt cheap and it sat in my bookshelf since then. In my quest to learn Expression Blend, I looked back at that book because Design and Blend share many features.
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SQL Management Studio – Saving changes is not permitted
If you want to change the structure of a table, by default SQL Management Studio prevents you from doing this if it require that the table be dropped and recreated.
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Book Review: Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight
In learning Silverlight, I think that the major hurdle for a .NET developer is to learn and familiarized himself with Expression Blend. In my quest to learn Blend, I recently bought Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight by Victor Gaudioso and published by friends of ED.
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Students: Get Expression Studio 3 for Free
Students can get Expression Studio 3 for free by registering with the Microsoft DreamSpark program. On top of that, they can get Visual Studio 2008 Pro, SQL Server 2008 Developer and Windows Server 2008 Standard, all for free.
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Stargate: Silverlight/Photosynth Showcase
Here’s a cool showcase of Silverlight using Photosynth. MGM has use Silverlight to create a 3D virtual tour of the new Stargate show: Stargate Universe.
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Expression 3 Starter Kits
[From Qixing Zheng, UX Advisor Microsoft Canada]
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Silverlight 3 FireStarter – Free Online Event
Silverlight 3 FireStarter is a free Silverlight intro event taking place on September 17th 2009 in Redmond and across the Web via Live Meeting.
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New Google Service Lets Privacy Critics Opt-Out
There you go you Google critics!
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Upgrading to Windows 7
I know that the recommended path is to always repave when a new OS comes out but I wanted to try the Vista to Windows 7 path to see how process goes.
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Enabling TFS Integration in Blend 3
To enable TFS source control integration in Expression Blend 3, you need to install this hotfix:
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PDC 2009 – Registration is now open