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Visual Studio Lightswitch - Welcome Advanced Amateurs by Ken Cox [MVP]

There are a lot of people in business who are wizards with tools like Excel, even though their primary job isn’t software development. Sometimes their apps become essential to the business process. Lightswitch , announced at VSLive!, will appeal to advanced...

MIX10 Big Announcements Speculation by Ken Cox [MVP]

What’s your speculation on the big announcements to come from MIX10 ? A date for VS 2010 availability on MSDN? A release candidate for Silverlight 4 on the desktop? An SDK for Silverlight on Windows Mobile 7? A CTP of Internet Explorer 9? Something (anything...
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On Being Blow Away by Technology by Ken Cox [MVP]

While watching Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brian Goldfarb demonstrate Silverlight 4, I had a range of reactions: Wow! I’ve got to play with this stuff! I’m feeling overwhelmed by the avalanche of technology How will I find the time to do billable...

Silverlight 3 Tools Available on Downloads by Ken Cox [MVP]

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...
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Predictions for MIX 09 Announcements by Ken Cox [MVP]

Everybody is heading to MIX 09 except me! Poor me. I'm working on a nice ASP.NET 3.5 contract. Microsoft always saves/targets release announcements for big events. As a Microsoft-owned conference MIX warrants major releases. Here are my predictions on...
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Nice Silverlight 2 Business App Design with Source Code by Ken Cox [MVP]

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...
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New Stuff Coming for ASP.NET and Silverlight by Ken Cox [MVP]

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...
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Silverlight 2 Will Ship "Later This Fall" - On Oct 27 or Nov 22? by Ken Cox [MVP]

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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Using the Silverlight Server Control in ASP.NET Pages by Ken Cox [MVP]

Microsoft makes available server controls that help you insert rich media such as Silverlight into your ASP.NET pages. If you’re confused about where to find the latest version of these controls, you’re in good company! Pre-release versions have appeared...

Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 by Ken Cox [MVP]

Wow! A load of goodies today! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0bae58e-9c0b-4090-a1db-f134d9f095fd&DisplayLang=en This package is an add-on to the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight...
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