VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This afternoon we made available the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release candidates. You can find download links here. Right now
Mar 08 2010 10:40 AM

For the past few weeks members of my team and I have been meeting with key individuals in Bing, Microsoft Online services, and Windows. In those meetings we have focused on rich telemetry. We’ve talked about technologies to collect data,
I am currently doing the production-ready pass through the Rhino DivanDB code base, and I thought that this change was interesting enough to post about: public void Execute() { while(context.DoWork) { bool foundWork = false;
Well, I left out something that was very close to my heart having been developing UI based applications for such a long time. That’s testability: How do you Unit Test your UI with standard / Open Source tools (Project White – now rechristened
As is tradition on this blog, I like to write about my first impressions with new hardware. Yesterday at about 8am I received the HP Elitebook 8440p. This machine is HP’s high end professional 14” laptop and I was eager to tear into it and
Content theft Most of the recent - what I'll call - "discussions" about content aggregators have revolved around content theft. I'm not going to flip-flop on that topic: when you use someone else's work, you ask first, and if given the okay, you
Recently I received the following two questions from readers and both the questions have very similar answers.
Question 1: I have a unique requirement where I do not want to use any index of the table; how can I achieve this?
Question 2: Currently my
If you’re a book lover, you may have noticed that the vast majority of book-related websites out there leave a bit to be desired when it comes to design and information architecture. In fact, some author and publisher websites make me feel like my
I’ve always wanted a place that I could look through to find what .net events are going on in Northern California. I’ve found that there is a core group of people with common interested... This site is a resource for asp.net web programming.
I’m at the Game Developer Conference (GDC 2010) here in San Francisco most of the week. The conference has barely started and there’s already a ton of great buzz about gaming for Windows Phone 7 Series. A screenshot from the prototype 3D game “The
If I didn’t want to over-use the exclamation point I would have added it to the post title, cause this is pretty big. Sueetie now natively supports multiple blogs and all that that implies behind the scenes. We know Sueetie can support multiple blogs,
I set out to write an article about the unique features of XNA Game Studio on Windows Phone 7 Series, but while trying to populate my outline, I realized, wow, there actually aren’t many things different about Game Studio 4.0 on the phone compared to
Posted by Tim Cranton Associate General Counsel As you may recall, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit last July filed a lawsuit alleging that Funmobile Ltd., a Hong Kong-based company owned by brothers Christian and Henrick Heilesen, had
Paul Mooney attended my NYC Code Camp talk and was nice enough to record and post the session. Thanks Paul!
For a few projects, I’ve been looking around on how to do some photoshop style effects and remembered Silverlight and WPF have shaders! My hunt both started and ended with Nokola’s Silverlight tool Easy Painter. Pastel, Old Photo (LOMO effect), and
The source code plugin that I use on my blog is great, but does require that I insert some escaped tags with special class names in the XHTML.
For years I’ve used the InsertTagSnippet plugin by Coskun Sunali to help me write posts – but on Windows 7, it
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Series Index Part 1: Reusable controller actions & model inheritance Part 2: Custom meta data provider (coming soon) One of the great new features in ASP.NET MVC 2 is the template system. It is very similar to the template form helper system
[In addition to blogging, I am also using Twitter. Follow me: @matthawley] This post is long overdue, but as I'm preparing the v1.3 release of WikiPlex and working on documentation (yes, I did say documentation) I realized that another extension
If you host your blog on Google’s Blogger service you may have discovered that your blog is an OpenID you can use to log into various web sites that act as OpenID relying parties. But Blogger’s support for OpenID is limited to OpenID 1.1, which is very
We are crawling the Internet all the time; monitoring the latest trends and technologies, seeking, discovering. If you're like me, during your web travels you often come across treasures you want to share. But sharing what you find can be time consuming
For the first time we’re offering the entire code archive for free. Not just the code used in the sample chapters, all code used in the entire book! Related posts:SitePoint Podcast #50: jQuery: Novice to Ninja Kevin Yank is joined by is joined by Earle
My colleague John Hume wrote an interesting post about his experience with the 'const' keyword in ActionScript where he describes the problems with trying to capture a loop variable in a closure and then evaluating it later on in the code.
Since
In today’s number news (State-by-state cremation rates in U.S.), we learn that “slightly more than a third of all persons who died in 2006 were cremated, according to the Cremation Association of North America.” Happily, the article contained the raw
Content theft Most of the recent - what I'll call - "discussions" about content aggregators have revolved around content theft. I'm not going to flip-flop on that topic: when you use someone else's work, you ask first, and if given the okay, you
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