You may have read my post about how you can build Silverlight Web applications with Visual Studio .NET 2005 instead of using the next verison codename Orcas. Until this time I used always a Virtual PC which was sometimes a little bit slow. Today I was thinking about how I could do this with Notepad....

Could Silverlight 1.1 assemblies be generated with Visual Studio .NET 2005? Well, if you read the GetStarted page of Silverlight you see only upcoming Visual Studio codename Orcas as development platform. Bryant asked this in the Silverlight forum and got a great answer from Scott Louvau . He replied...

While working with the new Visual Studio .NET 2008 I'm using more and more the new features that are available in Visual Studio .NET and C# compile options. One of those features are object and collection initializers. I like it to write source code like following lines (I always have my JavaScript code...

Scott Guthrie announced some weeks ago that Microsoft will offer the source code of the .NET framework. The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL) and includes all comments which is very useful. The last days I had a more deeper look inside. First I tried to create...