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Thanks to everyone that attended the Visual Studio 2008 course yesterday. It was a lot of fun talking about all of the new stuff available in VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 and hearing the different projects people are working on. As promised, here's the lab code from the course: http://www.xmlforasp.net/LabFiles...

Through February 25th, InnerWorkings ( www.innerworkings.com ) is giving away 10 hours of hands-on .NET learning to any INETA member, no strings attached. This is your chance to sharpen your current skills or learn some new technologies at no cost, using InnerWorkings Developer. All the following are...

Silverlight 2.0 provides a new and exciting framework for building rich applications using C#, VB.NET or other languages that are capable of running on multiple operating systems and in multiple browsers. Scott Guthrie recently posted a great set of tutorials on Silverlight 2.0 that are an excellent...

I'm one of those developers that likes to build things myself mainly because the challenge is fun. However, lately I've been taking time to look at some of the 3rd party controls out there mainly because some of the things I've needed to do are already done (and done well) and I'd save time and money...

I'm in Orlando this week speaking at the DevConnections conference on 3 different topics.  It's my personal favorite as far as conferences go and features a lot of cool technologies, people and events.  This week I'm covering custom ASP.NET AJAX controls, building N-Layer applications that...

Apologies for the sparseness of my posting the last few weeks - work and life have been busy here lately.  Below is a new post in my link-listing series to help kick things up a little.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular...

Version : Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Reading an XML file in an XAP package can easily be done with the help of a helper class like so: 1: public static class XmlHelper 2: { 3: public static XElement LoadDocument( string fileName) 4: { 5: //No longer required in Silverlight 2 since 6: //XmlXapResolver has been...

Mes excuses pour le peu de publications au cours des dernières semaines – le travail et la vie en générale furent très occupés dernièrement. Ci-dessous, un nouvel article dans ma série Listes de liens afin de raviver les choses un peu. Visitez aussi ma page Astuces, trucs et tutoriels ASP.NET et ma page...