October 2008 - Posts

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CodeRush Xpress for Free! by Jason N. Gaylord

DevExpress and Microsoft announced a partnership today to offer CodeRush Xpress for free. At the present time it’s only available for non-express versions of Visual Studio and will only work with C# (per their post). I’m sure the other support will be...
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.NET Gets a New Logo by Jason N. Gaylord

The Microsoft .NET Framework received a new logo and a revised site recently. The new logo can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/sayanghosh/archive/2008/10/26/new-net-logo.aspx . The new site can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/net/ . Nice logo!...
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USPS Service Leaves Much To Be Desired by Jason N. Gaylord

I am expecting a package from the USPS and have been since Thursday. The package was too large for my mailbox, so I received a re-delivery notice. On Thursday night, I signed it and placed it in my mailbox. It was picked up on Friday and the package wasn...

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Not at the PDC? Participate Virtually Here! by Jason N. Gaylord

So I’m not going to be at the Microsoft PDC this year primarily because of all the work I have to catch up on. However, I can participate virtually at NotAtPDC.com . If you’re going to be at the PDC, be sure to blog about it and tweet your URL to @NotAtPDC...
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MSDN Freedom Roadshow in Scranton, PA on November 14th, 2008 by Jason N. Gaylord

Microsoft and .NET Valley would like to invite you to come to the MSDN Freedom Roadshow in Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 14th, 2008. The event will be held at Scranton University in Room 405 of the DeNaples Student Center and will begin at 9am. A...

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Quake Ported to Silverlight. Seriously. by Jason N. Gaylord

How cool is this? One of my good friends, Aaron Seet , just posted a message to one of the email lists that I’m on with the following link: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Continuum/QuakeLightPreview/ Yes. Quake is being ported to a Silverlight game. I...

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Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks by Jason N. Gaylord

Stephen Walther has posted a great list of Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks . I found 3 or 4 that I didn’t realize when checking out his post. The two I’ll likely use the most are number 1 and 3. Great stuff Stephen!

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Microsoft Releases ASP.NET MVC 1 Beta by Jason N. Gaylord

Last evening, Scott Guthrie announced that ASP.NET MVC beta has been pushed out. There’s a ton of really cool, new features that have been added. Be sure to check out Scott’s book, err I mean post to read up on what new has been added. As Scott has mentioned...
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MVC: From Start to Blog by Jason N. Gaylord

I gave a talk this past weekend at the Philly.NET Code Camp 2008.3 . I’ve uploaded my slide deck , project , and a few additional files (used in the demo) in case anyone would like to review again. I was also able to find another way to fake HttpContext...
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Silverlight 2 is here by Jason N. Gaylord

Scott Guthrie announced yesterday that Silverlight 2 has been released. Rather than reposting everything he stated, you can read his original post here . Here are a few links to note: Microsoft Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1 (Containing Silverlight...
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