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Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2 released

Yes after they promised earlier this week its finally available for download. See my post over here for all the details.

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 06-07-2008
My first Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 bug

I haven't even had Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 for more than a day and I've found a compiler bug already. My Compact Framework 2.0 project compiled just fine under Visual Studio 2005 against the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 (build 2.0.6129.0) and it even worked using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1 against...

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 08-01-2007
Is Microsoft Surface a practical reality?

The Community-Credit forums has a discussion currently underway on the topic of Microsoft Surface Computing. I was busy responding to the thread when I thought, hey this is blog post worthy, so here it is. I must say that I'm very impressed with Microsoft's surface computing initiative but I...

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 06-21-2007
MSDN Community Distribution details for June

Its great when you provide feedback to Microsoft and it gets heard. In April I suggested that the MSDN Community Distribution program should include beta and CTP content as they are typically the bandwidth killers for developers in countries like South Africa. So the June 2007 CD is coming with a DVD...

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 06-12-2007
Reminder - .NET data binding interfaces talk

Just a quick reminder to all in the Johannesburg area that Mario Lionello will be presenting a talk for SA Developer .NET on the .NET data binding interfaces tomorrow night, Wednesday the 13th of June 2007, at Torque IT in Rivonia. If you haven't done so already, please RSVP here . As always I'm...

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 06-12-2007
New release of the AJAX Control Toolkit

The AJAX Control Toolkit team have released an update to their powerful toolkit for ASP.NET AJAX. According to this post by Kirti Deshpande it only contains bug fixes and feature additions to the existing controls. New controls are currently being worked on and will be included in a later release. You...

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 06-07-2007
A solution to a failing .NET Framework 3.0 installation

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 redistributable has been failing to deploy through Windows Update (with the error code 0x643) on my work Windows XP machine for quite some time now and I was just not bothered enough by it to find out exactly why. I had tried all workarounds as suggested on the MSDN forums...

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 05-23-2007
How to access resources embedded in an assembly

I've been asked by a few people recently how to embed and access resources in an assembly. And yes your .NET executable (.exe file) is actually an assembly. First you will need to embed the resource inside the assembly. In Visual Studio this is very easy. Simply select the file in the Solution Explorer...

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 05-05-2007
Is Delphi dead?

As a developer that grew up on Delphi 1.0 through Delphi 7.0 I am a little saddened at what has happened to Delphi as a product. I recall the local Borland Delphi 8.0 launch where they touted that Delphi was now a first class citizen on the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and that their product releases...

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 05-03-2007
Custom attribute byte enum bug on Compact Framework 2.0

Looks like I found a bug in the Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 today. I had created a custom attribute derived from the System.Attribute class. There wasn't anything really special about it other than that it had a constructor taking in an enumeration. See the following code snippet: public enum Bar : byte...

Posted to Craig Nicholson (Weblog) by Craig Nicholson on 04-25-2007

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