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Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers Released
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Free Webinar – Increase Productivity with .NET and LINQ
I’ll be giving a free Webinar titled “Increase Productivity with .NET and Language Integrated Query (LINQ)” next week so if you have 40 minutes and are interested in learning more about LINQ feel free to sign-up and attend. Here are more details about the event:
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Tips for Being More Productive
Ever noticed how some people always act busy but get little “real” work done? There’s a big difference between being busy and being productive. I won’t claim to be a time management expert, but here are a few things I’ve been doing that have helped me stay focused and increased my overall productivity.
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Custom ASP.NET Server Controls and Language Localization
One of the products my company sells is an ASP.NET server control called SmartChart that generates OrgCharts from hierarchical data sources. Up until recently the vast majority of our sales were to companies in the US so we never worried much about language localization support. In the back of my mind I always knew we’d need to get to that, but always put it at the bottom of the feature list since it wasn’t overly exciting. A few days ago we had a customer from France contact us and mention that they really needed to localize some of the strings we display in the control such as Edit, Delete, Insert into other languages for their clients. I decided it was time to make the update.
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Silverlight 2 Runtime and SDK Control Source Code Released
Microsoft just released the source code for the Silverlight 2 runtime and SDK controls. Anyone who says they’re not contributing to the world of code definitely needs to take a closer look since they’ve released a ton of code from .NET, ASP.NET, plus more over the past few years. The amount they’ve opened up is actually pretty amazing compared with how they used to be when I first started writing Microsoft applications.
