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Graffiti CMS is Now Free Open Source
Our friends at Telligent have made the ASP.NET 3.5 source code for their Graffiti CMS (content management system) available on CodePlex . This open source project is a huge gift to the community. Wow! Here’s part of  Telligent’s news release : “Graffiti...
Make Parallel APIs Seamless and Almost Invisible
Microsoft Canada’s Adam Gallant gave an excellent presentation today on ‘What’s New with Visual Studio Team System and MSDN’. Among Adam’s demonstrations were the new APIs to support so-called manycore architectures. Most of us are still writing code...
It Works On My Virtual Machine - So Ship My VHD!
With advances in virtualization technology, it seems like the old quip, “It works on my machine - so let’s ship my machine!” is becoming reality. In the old days, people would configure a physical box in their shop and send it out to the client or host...
VS 2010 Product Release Date? March 22, 2010
I don't recall Microsoft announcing a Visual Studio release date this far in advance. The official launch is March 22, 2010 . In the past there have been two product release dates for Visual Studio. The first was soon after release to manufacturing (RTM...
Fixing the System.Data.UpdateException – DefiningQuery and no <InsertFunction> Error
Here’s another in my never-ending series of fixes for dumb mistakes. In this episode we lose time with an Entity Framework error. Here’s the error message: System.Data.UpdateException was unhandled by user code Message="Unable to update the EntitySet...
Automated Web Testing
A quick note of interest to ASP.NET developers and testers: Visual Studio Magazine has posted my review of Automation Design Canvas , a fine Web testing product from ArtOfTest . I see that Telerik is also selling this as Telerik WebUI Test Studio . Visual...
Silverlight 3 Tools Available on Downloads
The MIX 09 avalanche is hitting Microsoft Downloads: Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Software Development Kit Beta 1 The Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Software Development Kit provides libraries and tools for developing Silverlight applications. Silverlight 3 Tools...
Nice Silverlight 2 Business App Design with Source Code
My sense is that Silverlight 2 is going to have a major impact in business applications because of its security, programmability, and ease of deployment. I'm currently working on a prototype for a client who would use the application mainly within the...
New Stuff Coming for ASP.NET and Silverlight
Interesting that you can peer into Microsoft's technology future just by scanning the planned PDC 2008 sessions . For example, here's Simon Calvert's ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap: "See how you can taking control of your control IDs, display images using the new...
Silverlight 2 Will Ship "Later This Fall" - On Oct 27 or Nov 22?
Many architects and developers have enterprise projects in the works that depend on the release of Silverlight 2 , so having a final release ship date is important. In an interview with MS PressPass , Scott Guthrie says, "Silverlight 2, which will ship...
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