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Microsoft Download Center using Silverlight 1.0
Some weeks ago Microsoft already published a preview version of the Microsoft Download Center. Now, there is a new URL for the preview version (which is now called beta): http://www.microsoft.com/ … more
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Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Wish List (part 2)
I got a lot of feedback for my last post about Silverlight features that are currently missing. Because it is Christmas time we are allowed to wish everything we want, what we get is another thing. … more
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.NET AJAX Survey Results
Simone has finished the survey and published the results of the survey about the usage of AJAX among .NET web developers. The results are very interesting. The most used AJAX toolkit is ASP.NET AJAX … more
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Nintendo Wii and Silverlight: Tracking Your Fingers
While writing my Silverlight wish list I found a very nice project. Johnny Ching Lee is using the controller (Wiimote) of the Nintendo Wii to track fingers. The controller does not need the Nintendo … more
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Ajax View: Remotely Monitoring Web 2.0 Applications
I'm using Ajax View more and more and find it very useful. The goal of the Ajax View project is to improve developer's visibility into and control over their web applications' behaviors on end- … more
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Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Wish List
Well, the year 2007 is nearly at the end and I have my short wish list for Microsoft Silverlight. The following (maybe not complete) unsorted list would be nice to see in 2008 with the next CTP or … more
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MVC Web Application and JSON
I like the MVC (Model View Controller) framework which is available as a public CTP, now. You can download the latest bits with the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP Preview. You will find further links at … more
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Debug .NET Source 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 … more
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LINQ Quickly (Book Review)
I got a copy of LINQ Quickly from Packt Publishing. Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is a new feature in Visual Studio 2008* that extends its query capabilities, using C# and Visual Basic. Visual … more
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Ajax usage among .NET developers
Simone Chiaretta had a look at the results of Ajaxian's survey about the state of the usage in the Web development community. He decided to make a new survey, but this time only focused on .NET … more
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[de] Dodned Usergroup Nachtrag
Ich hatte gestern eine kurze Einführung zu jQuery gemacht, hier noch einmal die wichtigsten Links für Download und Dokumentation: Download und Hauptseite http://www.jquery.com/ Dokumentation http:// … more
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[de] Dodned (.NET) Usergroup Franken 29.11.2007
Wer Web Anwendungen schreibt, der kommt um JavaScript nicht vorbei. Egal welche Web Server Controls man verwendet, wenn's am Client nicht mehr weitergeht oder etwas verbesser werden muss, ist … more
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Object and Collection Initializers in VS.NET 2008
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 … more
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MVC Framework and Mobile Device
The last days I spent nearly all my time with the MVC Framework. As you may expect I absolutely like the way to control my HTML output more and get rid of the viewstate. When you read my blog you … more
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Update Silverlight not working
I have noticed the last weeks that if you have an older version of Microsoft Silverlight installed I get following error message when opening Web pages with Silverlight content: Well, this is nice … more
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MSDN Webcast: Silverlight 1.0 Overview
Rob Bagby, MSDN Developer Evangelist, will present Silverlight 1.0 on Wednesday, 15th August at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada). In this session, we present an overview of Microsoft … more
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Silverlight Peformance Tips
A great post about some Silverlight performance tips: Silverlight: A few thoughts on minimizing CPU usage: The first two suggestions will have the most drastic improvement on the performance of your … more
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PrettyPrint Fiddler2 Plugin (Alpha)
I put a first alpha version of the PrettyPrint Fiddler2 plugin online. There are still some problems with regular expressions and lines that don't end with a semicolon, and some unknown maybe... & … more
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Fiddler2 - JavaScript Beautifier Plugin
Update: download first alpha version of the PrettyPrint plugin for Fiddler2. I think everybody is doing this: you open a Web page and see some nice and tricky effects. Next you start Fiddler2 (which … more
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Upgrading your project to Silverlight Alpha 1.1 Refresh
Scott Hanselman wrote on his blog about how to upgrade your project from Silverlight 1.1 Alpha to Alpha Refresh. There are a couple of breaking changes in Silverlight 1.0 RC1. Because the 1.1 version … more
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SwirlChat Module v2 (for DNN)
swirlhost has released their new chat module that is designed specifically for DotNetNuke: "Since the success of the original SwirlChat version 1.0, we've been scouring our New Features forums and … more
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Silverlight Configuration Tool
With the latest Silverlight bits you will find a new configuration tool in the Silverlight application folder (i.e. c:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight) names slup.exe (SilverLight UPdate?). You … more
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Updated My Silverlight Surface Version
I have updated the Silverlight "Surface" demonstration with video support, too. The only thing I had to do is to replace the Silverlight.js JavaScript file and change the boolean properties in the … more
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ASP.NET AJAX Roles and Security
David Barkol writes on his blog about ASP.NET AJAX Role Application Service with Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas). Well, it is a new service that is working similar to the profile and authentication … more
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[de] Kostenfreier Silverlight Workshop in Erlangen
Nachdem wir den ersten Workshop kurzfristig absagen mussten haben wir einen neuen Termin in Erlangen bei der the campus am 9. August, ab 18 Uhr. Wir haben einen Raum, PCs, Kaffee und Kuchen! … more
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New Silverlight Links
The last weeks I was a little bit busy because of some projects and other work I had to do at home. But today I will publish some new links about Silverlight: New Visual Studio Version for … more
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Silverlight 1.0 RC1 available
As you may have already noticed: the RC1 of Silverlight 1.0 has been put online on the weekend. Since the last beta there have been fixed around 2000 (!) bugs and added some more features. … more
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Authentication and Session
In my current project I'm using a own User object that I store in the HttpContext.Session to have personalized data available without connecting on each AJAX method / page refresh to the database. If … more
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Throw new Exception with AjaxPro
Last Friday I had a discussion with Kris about some problems he had with Ajax.NET Professional. The thing was that he was using Response.Write somewhere in his code to write exception details to the … more
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[de] Silverlight Get Together
(English: I will start new workshops about Ajax, ASP.NET and Silverlight in the next months, first will start on Thursday about Silverlight.) Am kommenden Donnersten, den 26. Juli 2007, veranstalten … more
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Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days
Miguel de Icaza is writing yesterday on his blog that he wrote a Silverlight plugin for Linux: "The past 21 days have been some of the most intense hacking days that I have ever had and the same … more
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Expression Studio in German
The German trial versions of Microsoft Expression Studio are now available. The full versions will be available in about 6 weeks, Expression Web is already available. Expression Blend (Windows, 180 … more
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Silverlight and Infragistics
Infragistics is already deeply involved in Silverlight development. They are excited about the platform as the next-generation Web UI. They think there are several key wins in Silverlight for Web … more
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Balder - 3D Engine for Silverlight
The source code of the 3D engine called Balder is available on CodePlex, now. The state of the source code is not 100% yet, but people can download it for now and have a look at how you could do a … more
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[de] .NET User Group Franken am 5. Juli 2007
Die .NET User Group Franken trifft sich mal wieder, diesmal in den Räumen der evosoft GmbH (Dank geht an Igor Milovanovic). Themen Daniel Zeiss spricht zum Thema ComfortASP.NET, nachdem ich ihm ja … more
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Apple Safari for Windows and Microsoft Silverlight
Since yesterday you can download Safari 3 Plublic Beta for Windows. "The world's best browser.", "the fastest, easiest-to-use Web browser in the world" - does this really be true? After … more
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Silverlight 1.1 Plug-in installed
Well, during the weekend I added a small test to log how many visitors of my blog have installed the Silverlight plug-in already. 55% don't have the plug-in installed, 32% are using … more
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My Silverlight Weekend Summary
During the weekend I found several new examples about Silverlight. Because I'm running several Web sites that need any kind of diagrams I was happy to see these nice examples from Richard: JellyBar, … more
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VistaDB with Silverlight
Today I read on the VistaDB blog that their database engine will run on Silverlight. I'm not sure if I want to put a complete database engine in Silverlight applications. Do I have to put the … more
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New Examples and Tutorials
During the last days I have added some new tutorials and examples to my list. Dave Campbell sent me a short message that he has already a kind of Silverlight examples collection. Have a look on his … more
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Silverlight Tutorials
There are a couple of great tutorials on how to developer Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 or 1.1 Web applications: Mix 07 Silverlight Sessions Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 1 of 2) … more
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How to create Silverlight Applications with Notepad
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 … more
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Updated Silverlight Surface Demo
Ok, it was a very simple bug on my side with the ZIndex property. I have updated the online version and the download. If you have a slow connection you may have to wait some seconds to see the video. … more
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Microsoft Silverlight Introduction (LiveMeeting)
Tomorrow there is an online event for developers talking about Silverlight at 2:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada): "Microsoft Silverlight is a technology for delivering rich, cross-platform … more
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Bubblemark Animation Test
Did you ever compared client-side RIA frameworks? Alexey Gavrilov has written a great test to directly compare performance: Silverlight (WPF/e) vs. DHTML vs. Flash (Flex) vs. WPF vs Apollo vs. Java ( … more
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Silverlight Surface Demonstration (Video Support)
In one of my last posts I wrote about the Silverlight Surface demo of the "photo table". If you had a look on the live demo you only see images, no video. I have added this because it is a very … more
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Silverlight Examples
During the weekend I spent some minutes to collect some of the greatest Silverlight examples. Most of them need the Silverlight 1.1 alpha runtime which is available for download here. If you are … more
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Silverlight Surface Demonstration
Microsoft announced some days ago its Surface product. If you didn't had a look on the videos you should watch it. Microsoft Surface Teaser Business 2.0 Demo The Possibilities Microsoft … more
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Silverlight with Visual Studio .NET 2005
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 … more
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Silverlight Streaming
Microsoft Silverlight Streaming is a new service by Windows Live that makes it easier for developers and designers to deliver and scale rich meda as part of their Silverlight applications. The new … more
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JavaScript and .NET Arrays in Silverlight
During my tests with the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) in Silverlight 1.1 I came accross several things that didn't work first. Most of them could be fixed by using small workarounds. Managed … more
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Silverlight and JSON
Silverlight 1.1 comes with an built-in JSON serializer which can serialize common data types like string, numbers and arrays. It includes a object serializer, too, I think it is nearly the same as in … more
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Call Scribtable Methods from JavaScript with Silverlight
Today I wrote a very simple example how to call a C# method from JavaScript code. I was using this because I'd like to access the IsolatedStorage with a small wrapper that is working similar to the … more
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Silverlight 1.0 and OnLoad
There are some changes for the OnLoad event handler from older beta versions (code name WPF/E). In Silverlight 1.0 beta you will use following event handler, now: function handleLoad(control, … more
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IsolatedStorage and managed JavaScript
Today I tried to use the IsolatedStorage in managed JavaScript with Silverlight 1.1. The IsolatedStorage can be used to store data on the client. Currently the alpha version supports 1MB, which is … more
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DLR and Performance
The idea was to put all JavaScript libraries into the DLR of Silverlight to get better performance, but a first tests failed or is compared to JavaScript directly in the Web browser very slow. To … more
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Running managed JavaScript in Silverlight
At MIX 07 Jim Hugunin announced a new level of support for dynamic languages on .NET that they're calling the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime). With Silverlight 1.1 you get support for dynamic … more
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Silverlight .NET Support
The Silverlight team has released a new version today at the MIX with .NET support. Since Mike announced this Web developers are waiting for this new feature. What's New in Silverlight? … more
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Orcas and JavaScript IntelliSense
I had a great discussion with Bertrand about the feature to have dynamically (Assembly Resources or on-the-fly created JavaScript files) added JavaScripts in IntelliSense available, too. Currently it … more
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webinale 07
[I will be available for Microsoft Silverlight discussions at the webinale 07 conference in Ludwigsburg/Stuttgart to talk and discuss about the latest version of Silverlight presented at the Mix07 in … more
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Visual Studio Orcas JavaScript IntelliSense
Bertrand has a great post about JavaScript IntelliSense with the next Visual Studio .NET code-name Orcas. I downloaded the bits to give it a try. Oh yes, it is working great when creating ASP.NET … more
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AjaxPro more JSON compliant
I put the next beta version online to test the new JSON converters. I have added a new web.config paramter which will bring JSON converters to render a different output. <oldStyle> & … more
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AjaxPro User Experience
DotNetSlackers creator Sonu Kapoor writes about Ajax.NET Professional: "In one my projects, I needed to use some Ajax functionality, so I thought I should try out AjaxPro and see how it works. … more
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Rich Media Platform Comparison
I found a nice table which will show a comparison between Microsoft products and Flash/Flex: Features/Benefits Silverlight .NET Flash/Flex Rich 2D animation/graphics … more
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Silverlight Support on Windows Mobile
I got several questions about when and if Silverlight (code name WPF/E) will be supported on Windows Mobile devices. The code name has included the word everywhere. Do you still remeber this: " … more
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Microsoft Live Labs - DeepFish Experience
Some weeks ago I installed the DeepFish Technology Preview which will enhance existing mobile browsing technologies by displaying content in a view that is closer to the desktop experience. … more
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Microsoft Silverlight
For all of you didn't noticed the name change of code name WPF/E, it is now Microsft Silverlight. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media … more
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Download AjaxPro Beta with jQuery Support
I forgot to put the beta version online that will support jQuery and json.js from http://www.json.org. You can download the latest beta of the AjaxPro library at http://www.ajaxpro.info/download/ … more
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AjaxPro and the jQuery JavaScript Provider
Because jQuery is a often used JavaScript framework I will have a provider available in the next release of Ajax.NET Professional that will render only the wrapper JavaScript files in the jQuery … more
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Looking Forward to next AjaxPro Release
Some developers mentioned that it would be nice if Ajax.NET Professional could be more JSON compliant to use with some JavaScript frameworks that are not using the eval statement. And, if you have a … more
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Tip #2 - Display JSON String from Object
Sometimes it is necessary to see i.e. the full result you will get inside the asynchronous callback function to see all properties. The AjaxPro JavaScript includes a method to convert a JavaScript … more
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Tip #1 - Using AjaxPro.AjaxNoTypeUsage
If you want to hide name and assembly details of classes you return in your AjaxMethod simple add the AjaxPro.AjaxNoTypeUsage attribute as meta information: [AjaxPro.AjaxNoTypeUsage] public … more
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Trackbacks, Who Is Linking You and where you should pay attention
Today I opened the turkish version of Google and did a search for something I cannot remember. The thing was that I didn't hit enter, instead I clicked on the button Google'da Ara. What I … more
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jQuery and Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro)
jQuery is a fast, concise JavaScript library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to … more
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Intel Software Network Videos using AjaxPro
I talked today with a Intel developer and he showed me where the are using Ajax.NET Professional JSON Library. The Intel Software Developer Network has it's own video library where you can see … more
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JSON Hijacking and How Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) Avoids these Attacks
There are a couple of web sites reporting about security issues that hackers can use to invoke AJAX methods or use the JSON output to get data from other web applications. Specificallly, these … more
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Windows DreamScene Preview
Windows DreamScene Preview is available for Windows Vista Ultimate users, simply go to Windows Update and Windows Ultimate-Extras and you will find it.Update: on my new Dell laptop I have a very high … more
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[de] .NET User Group Franken - Erstes Treffen 2007
Am 21. Februar ist es wieder soweit, die .NET User Group Franken lebt wieder auf. Meine Wenigkeit wird dort über AJAX und WPF/E sprechen, mehr Details und Anmeldung gibt es auf der Dodned Web … more
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WPF/E SDK (February CTP) available (and Windows Vista running in a web browser)
The WPF/E SDK (February CTP) is now available, you can download the files from the MSDN web page. The WPF/E QuickStart is not yet available as download.If you didn't see this: Renderspace and … more
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WPF/E February CTP and Problems with Firefox
I tried a some of the WPF/E examples I collected with Firefox on Windows Vista. Oh, sorry, a lot of them are not working correct, and some kills my Firefox here.The Page Turn example from the … more
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New aghost.js JavaScript for WPF/E
In my last post I wrote that there is a new aghost.js you need. The main reason is that the December CTP of the WPF/E plugin is only running until end of January, so you have to update your plugin … more
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The February CTP Of WPF/E Is Live
Like Mark Harsh is writing on his blog the new February CTP of WPF/E is live. Download the Windows and the Mac version, but keep in mind that there is a change in the aghost.js for the new version, … more
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[de] Premiere im Internet: ZDF Folgen zuerst im Netz (s. Windows Vista Media Center)
Krimiserie schon einen Tag vor TV-Ausstrahlung bei zdf.de Einen Vorsprung von 24 Stunden werden Internet-Nutzer künftig vor den Fernsehzuschauern der neuen ZDF-Krimiserie "KDD - … more
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Windows Vista Updates: Language Packs and Ultimate Extras
During the Windows Vista event in New York I noticed the new updates including some language packs:Update: Windows Update just dropped over 20 updates to my Ultimate machine. 7 of those updates are … more
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[de] Ingolstädter .NET Developers Group am 22.02.2007
Die Ingolstädter .NET Developers Group ist eine unabhängige Gemeinschaft für Interessierte der Microsoft .NET Technologie aus dem Großraum Ingolstadt. Sie besteht aus … more
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I've been Tagged: Five Things You Might Not Know About Me
I've been tagged by Albert, so here are 5 things to share about me:1) Like Thomas written on his blog, too, I started reading a Perl and PHP book while moving from Karlsruhe to Nuremberg to … more
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The WPF/E Gear Keeps Turning
As you may have read on my blog I have added an animation to the gear example from Mike Harsh. Now, the gear community is here! Read Bryant Likes's Blog post about the gears:First the … more
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Are we ready for AJAX?
I had a watch today on the webcast How Hackers Reverse Engineer and Exploit an Ajax Application. There wasn't any new security issue as we already should know as AJAX or web application … more
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Transforms, Opacity Masks and Animation to Create an Animated Reflection in WPF/E
I read a great artice about Use Transforms and Opacity Masks to Create a Reflection in WPF/E and tried to add some animation for the gear image. WPF/E is really easy, and you don't need any … more
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How to surf the Internet more safely
In the past you may have heared about more and more security bugs on well-known web sites you use maybe more often a day. Below there are some tips you should have in mind when browsing:Don' … more
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Thumboo moved...!
Today my snapshot service Thumboo has moved to Sonu Kapoor (owner of DotNetSlackers). Sonu will add much more features and make it a really nice site for the community. If you are still interessted … more
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How do I hack a web site?
On next Tuesday I will talk at the .NET User Group in Munich / Germany about following topics:Ongoing talk about Yahoo! UI experience with Dom.js, Element.js and Event.js and the YUI-EXT … more
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DotNetPro’s Search Engine Spam
My friend Philipp Lenssen wrotes some days ago about the German magazine DotNetPro which offers different html output when Google's crawler is fetching the site.“Neue Mediengesellschaft mbH& … more
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Performance Research: Browser Cache Usage - Exposed!
Tenni Theurer posted a new blog entry on the YUIBlog about performance research with browser cache usage. In an earlier post, I described What the 80/20 Rule Tells Us about Reducing HTTP Requests. … more
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Pending Members - Google Groups XSS Bug [Part 2]
Some weeks ago I wrote about a Google groups bug where it was possible to get all the mail adresses from subscribed members for a Google group. I have already reported this bug to Google, … more
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Congratulations! You have received the Microsoft MVP Award 2007
All the things around Christmas and New Year's Eve are left, now, and starting this morning reading my mails I got a very surprising mail from Microsoft:Dear Michael Schwarz,Congratulations! We … more