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Microsoft blog posts about Silverlight

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:29:42 +0000

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Launch
Silverlight 3 offline/out-of-browser apps maintain a sticky presence on your desktop upon the initial detach (install) operation. They can be looked up and launched in an experience not unlike the one you see with conventional desktop applications. You…(rea…

PhotoZoom Becomes DeepZoomPix
Remember PhotoZoom? The online application that made your everyday photos into deep zoomable pics? Well, it’s now called, perhaps more descriptively: %26ldquo;DeepZoomPix.%26rdquo; This new technology uses Silverlight to display the …

Photosynth’s New Features: Highlights and Cross-Platform Viewer
I missed this update from earlier this month, but it looks like Microsoft Photosynth has added a couple of new features. The first new feature is really more of a change than anything else. It seems the previously experimental …

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Interesting posts on Silverlight on Microsoft blogs

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:14:46 +0000

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More news about ASP.NET from Microsoft

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:59:47 +0000

OBA Part 5 – Building the SharePoint 2007 Workflow
In my last few app building posts we’ve been building a simple Office Business Application (OBA) for the new Northwind Traders. If you missed them: OBA Part 1 – Exposing Line-of-Business Data

A blog on Microsoft Ajax client templates and data
Politian has a great blog series where he goes into the details of building a data-driven Ajax application using the new 4.0 client templates and data. Check it out…

ASP.NET QA Podcast %26ndash; Episode 4
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More news about SharePoint from Microsoft

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:45:13 +0000

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More news about Training from Microsoft

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:29:48 +0000

Opportunities for ISVs to Step-up, Subscribe, Upgrade, Switch to Visual Studio, MSDN
There are a number of great opportunities for ISVs that are currently available for Visual Studio and MSDN subscripltions. Click on the links to find out more about each offer, the eligibility, and the benefits….
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The latest on SharePoint from Microsoft

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:14:46 +0000

implementing a simple Cross SIte collection list view webpart
Out of the box list view web part does not support lists that are contained in a different site collection. In this post I will show you how you can write a simple web part that will allow cross site collection list support. Within the custom web part I’m leveraging

This Week on C9: Office 2010, PowerShell for OpenXML, and would you help a robot
This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week’s top developer news including: …

- Office 14 is now Office 2010, Exchange 2010 beta is now available, and SharePoint will be SharePoint 2010. Office 2010 includes cool featur

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Interesting posts on Windows 7 on Microsoft blogs

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:59:47 +0000

This Week on C9: Office 2010, PowerShell for OpenXML, and would you help a robot
This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week’s top developer news including: …

- Office 14 is now Office 2010, Exchange 2010 beta is now available, and SharePoint will be SharePoint 2010. Office 2010 includes cool featur

New Remember the Milk Sidebar Gadget
There’s a new sidebar gadget available for fans of the To Do list service %26ldquo;Remember the Milk.%26rdquo; It’s cleverly called the %26ldquo;I Forgot the Milk%26rdquo; gadget. Actually, the gadget itself isn’t brand-new %26ndash; it’s been out since January %26ndash; but this latest update is, and …

SkyDrive Adds New Silverlight-Enabled Features
The Windows Live SkyDrive team is putting Microsoft Silverlight to work on the cloud-based photo and file hosting service. Now using Silverlight, you can arrange your photos within your photo albums the way you want them just by dragging and dropping them into pla…

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Microsoft blog posts about Training

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:44:49 +0000

Watch a Security Development Lifecycle War Story Video with Michael Howard
Follow the story of the Security Push, the massive Training effort and the other challenges Microsoft overcame to make the SDL part of its development culture….

Learning WPF at the WPF LOB tour and XAMLFest events
There seems to be a lot of buzz around Silverlight lately and I admit, I like it . But I also think that there is a huge misconception about Silverlight %26ldquo;replacing%26rdquo; WPF . I get emails a lot about people asking me questions about Silverlight and after…(

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Microsoft blog posts about Azure

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:29:59 +0000

From Cloudy in Seattle: The Easy Way to Install the Windows Azure Tools and SDK Pre-Requisites
Jim Nakashima has a handy little post here on an easy way to get all the Windows Azure tools and SDK pre-requites installed. The secret is to use the Web Platform Installer, which you can get

Watch a “How Do I?” Video to Get Started Developing with Windows Azure
New to Windows Azure? This video shows you what you need to download and install, and how to create a simple “Hello World” Windows Azure application….

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More news about ASP.NET from Microsoft

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:14:46 +0000

Geek Dinner WIth SHAWN WILDERMUTH
Shawn Wildermuth, C# MVP, author, and all-round technolo…

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