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Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:14 AM

Jon's News Wrapup - May 8, 2008 Edition

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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:10 PM

Visual Studio 2008 (Beta 2) Install - Easter Egg?

Exactly one week ago, I was testing something that required me to install the old Visual Studio 2008 (Beta 2) on a virtual machine. I got part way through the install when a bizarre set of circumstances led to my accidentally sitting on the keyboard....
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Sunday, February 03, 2008 1:59 AM

January 2008 Recap

I've had a policy against posting on big news that's likely to be common knowledge in the Microsoft development community, since nobody needs another post saying "Big News, Visual Studio 2008 is out today!" But I think I'm going to break that policy once...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11:59 PM

Silverlight 1.1 (Alpha) cross domain webservice access makes mashups tricky

Any web mashups, by definition, require cross-domain calls. Those cross-domain calls may happen on the client (in the browser) or on the server. Regardless of the client technology (AJAX, Flash, Silverlight, etc.), cross domain calls on the client are...
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Monday, July 02, 2007 11:47 PM

Some keyboard input tricks for Silverlight 1.1 (Alpha)

Here are a few tricks I learned while doing my "hello world" maze game in Silverlight 1.1 . Silverlight doesn't fire the KeyDown event for cursor (arrow) keys However, just about all keys will fire a KeyUp event. In my case, I was able to just handle...
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Friday, June 08, 2007 10:56 PM

Failed Orcas Beta 1 install - Check for Office 2007 Beta Installer records

The Orcas Beta 1 install kept failing on my laptop with a non-specific error. The install log didn't say anything very helpful: Microsoft Web Designer Tools: [2] Component Microsoft Web Designer Tools returned an unexpected value. setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent...
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Monday, June 04, 2007 10:56 PM

VB.NET vs. C#, round 3?

VB.NET gets a hard time from C# developers. For a variety of reasons, the leading .NET programmers seem to be working in C# , and VB.NET developers get really tired of saying, "Hey, VB.NET can do that, too!" The VB crowd's got something new to talk about...
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Monday, May 21, 2007 12:13 PM

CodePlex is adding support for <strike>Subversion</strike> TortoiseSVN

I just heard that CodePlex is adding support for TortoiseSVN with an estimated release date of June 5 . UPDATE: Newer comments make it look like they are just setting up a bridge from TortoiseSVN to TFS. Not clear... Although the information just says...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:49 AM

MIX07 - WCF adding System.UriTemplate, [WebGet], and [WebInvoke]

System.UriTemplate Build and parse URI's System.UriTemplate (Orcas) - runtime support for URI template syntax UriTemplate.Bind - A safe, smart string.format for URI construction UriTemplate.Match - Extracts URI to dictionary UriTemplateTable - One or...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 4:06 AM

Are you ALT.NET?

David Laribee coined a term which summarizes a movement in the .NET community - ALT.NET: What does it mean to be to be ALT.NET? In short it signifies: You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way. You reach...
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