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• Silverlight presentation material

  Wednesday, July 25, 2007

  Silverlight Speaking

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• Delete Live OneCare backup folder in Vista

  Thursday, July 19, 2007

  Tips and Tricks Vista Windows Live

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  Problem: You reinstalled Live OneCare, or you start using v2 beta, and want to delete your old backup folder, but you can't.

  This is a permission problem, that maybe you can solve with cacls with command line:

  cacls "<drive letter>:\<path>" /t /g administrators:F 

  Sample:
  cacls "F:\Windows OneCare Backup\YourComputerName" /t /g administrators:F
  Do NOT put a \ at the end of the path.

  You'll get a message "Are you sure(Y/N)?"

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• Cool free online tools for Web Development

  Thursday, July 12, 2007

  Tips and Tricks Tools Web Development

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  This is not directly related to ASP.NET but might be very useful for general web development, check out these great free online tools from Dynamic Drive :
  

  FavIcon Generator

  

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• Which version of Silverlight is installed on your browser?

  Wednesday, July 11, 2007

  Silverlight Tips and Tricks

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  As you know Silverlight is currently available in 2 versions :

  • v1.0 beta
  • v1.1 alpha

  First thing to know is the 1.1 alpha release contains the 1.0 beta bits, if you already installed 1.1 you do not need 1.0

  Right, so how do you know which version of Silverlight is installed on your browser (Win)?

  On IE if you go to Tools/Manage Add-ons, you see an AgControl pluggin, but no way to get the version there...

  For IE/Win you can use the following code to detect the Silverlight version :

  if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Windows') != -1) &&
      (navigator.appVersion.indexOf('MSIE') != -1) )
  {
    try
    {
      var AgControl = new ActiveXObject("AgControl.AgControl"); 
      agVersion = AgControl.settings.version;
      AgControl = null;
    }
    catch (e)
    {
      agVersion = -1;
    }
  } 
  alert(agVersion);

  Version 0.90 is v1.0
  Version 0.95 is v1.1

  Another way to check the version, more user friendly, look at the folder "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight", if you have 2 files only:

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• Virtual Earth Monster Update!

  Tuesday, July 10, 2007

  Canada Windows Live

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  Live Maps just got 26 terabytes of update !!!

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• Using your mashups from Popfly

  Saturday, July 7, 2007

  Gadget Silverlight Vista Windows Live

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  For a tutorial on creating Popfly mashup, read my previous post :
  Building a simple mashup step by step with Popfly.

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