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08 October 2007
ASP.NET MVC Framework

This would be very heartening news for anyone dreading the prospect of having to back to ASP.NET Webforms after working with RoR or MonoRail. Scott Guthrie 's team is working on a proper MVC Framework for ASP.NET. Some of the goals of the framework (lifted straight from Jeffrey Palermo's blog... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, ASP.NET, Microsoft

04 September 2007
Visual 2008 / C# 1.1 Compiler

It happens. Some of us have to do it. In this modern age taint the Visual Studio 2008 IDE by having to compile .NET 1.1 C# code. As this is pretty much a quick once-off thing I didn't go to the full extend of creating 1.1 project templates like back when Visual Studio 2005 was released. Instead here... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, C#, Microsoft, Retro

11 June 2007
Command Prompt Here - Vista

I'm probably the last person to pick up on this little Vista Feature but you don't need to use a Powertoy anymore to get the very useful "Open Command Prompt Here" explorer context menu shortcut. Today searching for the Powertoy I stumbled across this post by Tim Sneath from 2006 :... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Vista, Microsoft

07 May 2007
Silverlight and the Compact Framework

After the demos of Silverlight running on Windows Mobile 6 at the MEDC and MIX there has been little other information publicly available about the mobile plans for Silverlight on the web, not even a note of it on the Silverlight grand architecture diagram . But now in this post Robert Unoki sheds a... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Mobile, Microsoft, WPF, Silverlight

13 March 2007
Microsoft 2007 MVP Global Summit

After a missed connection from Chicago to Seattle thanks to a delayed flight from London I'm now finally on my way to the Microsoft 2007 MVP Global Summit in Seattle. Or I should say almost as this flight is also delayed and it might take another hour or so to actually get under way. I was hoping to... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Personal, Microsoft

28 November 2006
Free Copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007

Complete three Vista Webcasts on Microsoft's Power Together site and you receive a free full license copy of Windows Vista Business. The same goes for Office Professional 2007, complete three Webcasts or vLabs in the Office series and receive a free fully licensed copy. [Update] Unfortunately looking... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, Microsoft

03 November 2006
Novell and Microsoft Collaborate

Microsoft's public attitude towards open source is changing rapidly. First the Microsoft Open Specification Promise promising not to make any claims against implementations of any of the specifications covered by the promise and now an announcement of the broad collaboration between Microsoft and Novell... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Open Source, Mono, Microsoft