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Two international speakers are coming in Dublin!
Cool, Developers.ie, the Irish user group is please to announce two great speakers coming to Dublin in October:
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More info on Vista Service Pack 1
Vista SP1 is still work in progress but finally the Vista team has blogged about the expectations for the most awaited service pack.
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Using Silverlight to create a video player
Microsoft's recent release of it's new web development technology, Silverlight, has generated a lot of interest. Originally code-named "WPF/E" (Windows Presentation Foundation / Everywhere), it was intended to be an online version of WPF. Silverlight certainly did a great job of that, and currently offers a wide selection of built in element and a number of classes seen in WPF, along with ones exclusively for Silverlight. In this article, the author demonstrate how to take advantage of a number of Silverlight features to create a real-world application: a video player.
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How to share one project with two machines ??
I finished the setup of my new rig at office, including a new PC with Vista and two screens. I also have Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 installed.
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Add Google Maps to your .Net site in 10 minutes
Ever wanted to add a Google Map to your site but only had 15 minutes to spare? Now you can add a map and still have time to brag to your mates and bask in the worship that (inevitably) comes afterward.
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SQL Agent: A Job Scheduler Framework
An easy-to-use .NET solution for Job Scheduling with pluggable actions that runs on a Windows Service.Back up your SQL Server Express and much more! -
VS 2008 Beta 2 won't install for some x64 users :-(
Back from holidays, I was hoping to finish my installation of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 after all the troubles I got in July.
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Keepon a robot so damn cute :-)
It supposed to be summer now, more like autumn, but to keep things lighter for the season, why not checking this cute robot Keepon (not for sale sadly).
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LINQ Changes from Orcas Beta 1 to VS 2008 Beta 2
There's a substantial amount of blogging going on about new features and changes to LINQ to Objects and its domain-specific versions in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. This post is intended as a central anthology of changes between the two betas with links to the original sources.
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iPhone like keyboard for your Windows mobile device
I think it's a cool idea. It show clearly an alternative to the basic Windows Mobile keyboard. I quite like bigger keys.
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FlexWiki 2.0 Beta 2 Released
Craig Andera just posted Beta 2 of FlexWiki 2.0 up on SourceForge. Major differences from Beta 1 include:
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Make your web application run faster
It is easy to develop your own ASP.NET web application. But making it do some useful things for your users while keeping the design simple and elegant is not so easy. If you are lucky, your web application will be used by more than a handful of users, in that case, performance can become important. For some of the web applications I worked on, performance is vital: the company will lose money if users got frustrated with the slow response.
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How to capture an entire web page
I have seen other articles that describe how to accomplish this, but had no luck in getting any to work with Internet Explorer 7. This is a simple example that captures a webpage, inlcuding elements below the fold, and saves it as an image.
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JetBrains releases ReSharper 3.0
Version 3.0 features in-depth code analysis for C# and a host of new productivity-enhancing features such as a superior unit testing solution, efficient handling of to-do lists, plus new navigation and search commands.