November 2007 - Posts
I will be doing an introduction to Silverlight as part of an MSDN web cast... If you have been meaning to learn what Silverlight is, now is your chance.. Please come if you can make it! MSDN Webcast: An Introduction to Silverlight (Level 100) This webcast is a quick introduction to Microsoft Silverlight. In this session, we explain what Silverlight is, describe how it works, and explore what it is used for. We also give an overview of the designer and developer workflow in Silverlight Date: Friday, November 30, 2007 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Language: English-United States Read More...
Here's how to build an instrument set with two guitars/basses, a drum set and a mike that will work for Guitar Hero and Rock Band . The first thing you need to know is that the Rock Band Fender Stratocaster guitar sucks . Here's why: The fret buttons and strum bar are way too soft. It's generally unresponsive and imprecise: it will miss notes that you definitely hit right. Star power / overdrive is difficult to trigger when sitting. You don't need the additional 5 fret buttons and effects switch. The strum bar has a kind of cylindrical tip that will hurt your thumb. I's not wireless. It doesn't work in Guitar Hero . Of course, there are things to like about it. It's been modeled after one of the most aesthetically pleasing real guitars, I like...
Last week we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 . This release is a big one for .NET, and delivers a ton of new capabilities and improvements for web, client, office and mobile development. Over the next few months we'll be delivering a series of additional products that build on top of this VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 foundation, and make .NET development even better. Below is a road-map of some of the upcoming initiatives and releases for .NET web development that my team is currently working on for the months ahead: Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries We announced last month that we'll provide the ability for developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, as well as enable...
Je viens de mettre à disposition un nouveau projet sur CodePlex : "WordPressSLPlugins" http://www.codeplex.com/WordpressSLPlugins qui intégre des plugins Silverlight pour WordPress. Pour le moment il n'y en a qu'un seul, c'est un Widget qui permet d'... Read More...
Just a quick note to say that the IE6 and IE7 VPC images are being updated as we speak, and I suspect the new versions should be online Monday or Tuesday. Read More...
I've helped a few people over the last week who have run into issues with VS 2008 where it would immediately crash when the IDE was launched, or upon creating new projects (usually failing with a "Visual Studio has encountered an unexpected error" dialog). After debugging the issues, it turned out that they were caused by an older VS 2005 add-in that people had installed on their machines that wasn't compatible with VS 2008. In each of these specific cases it was an older version of the VisualSVN source control utility (note: Version 1.3.1 of VisualSVN works fine with VS 2008 - but older versions have problems). By default when you install VS 2008 on a machine that has VS 2005 on it, setup will use your existing settings to configure...
This afternoon we released an updated version of the Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha that works with the final release of Visual Studio 2008 . You can download it for free here . The tools alpha refresh released today has the same feature-set as the Silverlight Tools Alpha add-on which was previously available for Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 (it has simply been updated to work with the final VS 2008 release). This feature-set includes basic Silverlight 1.1 project system support, XAML markup editing and intellisense support, debugging support, Expression Blend project compatibility, and VB and C# code-behind intellisense. You can find quickstart tutorials that detail how to use these features here . The next public preview of Silverlight will include...
Below are some answers to a couple of questions about the recent VS 2008 release that I've seen the last few days: When will the trial edition of VS 2008 Professional be available for download? We shipped a free trial edition of VS 2008 Team Suite on the web last week. You can download it here . We are hoping to publish the free trial edition of VS 2008 Professional on the web later this week. Both can be used for free for 90 days after you install them. If you aren't a MSDN subscriber and want to get VS 2008 immediately this is a good way to get started. Can you convert a trial edition installation of VS 2008 to a purchased edition, or do you need to reinstall it? Commercial versions of VS 2008 ship with a PID product key. You can upgrade a...
A quick announcement -- an updated version of the Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 that works with the released version of Visual Studio 2008 is now available! This release provides the same features as the Silverlight Tools Alpha add-on which was previously available for Visual Studio 2008 Beta2. To re-cap here is a quick summary of functionality in this add-on release: VB and C# project templates for Silverlight 1.1 development XAML markup editing with colorization and intellisense Intellisense against XAML elements in VB and C# code-behind files Consumption of Silverlight 1.1 components inside Web Application and Website projects Ability to create Web Services references in a VB and C# Silverlight component Project...
This post presents a few basic Ajax features (similar to partial rendering and behaviors in terms of concepts) running on top of the ASP.NET MVC framework... some early ideas, experimentation and app-building results. Read More...
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