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- Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?
- Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?They are waiting for the right time to pounce. Right now, they want to slowSOA as much as possible, to keep the money rolling in for the twin cash cows, but, there will come a time...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- SQA4.Net.Tester (zip)
- SQA4.Net.Tester can instantly record a control's events from any Win32, .Net, WPF applications. During a recording session, all events from controls are completely recorded as test cases. As soon as recording is completed, the recorded test cases are fully generated and ready for execution. The ready-made test cases can be...
- Software downloads 2008-06-24
- Silverlight 2 beta 2 coming this week
- At TechEd today Bill Gates said that the second beta of Silverlight 2 will be available for download at the end of the week with a Go Live license. The Go Live license is similar to the one that was used late in the beta process for Silverlight 1 and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Adobe merging desktop and web with Acrobat 9 and Acrobat.com
- Adobe merging desktop and web with Acrobat 9 and Acrobat.comAdobe puts the smackdown to the Microsoft CloudThis certainly looks very good. The interface is immediately refreshing from anything that is Brand M. I went to the site and the 'feel' is very nice. The uncluttered look is one I find...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- JMC Photo Gallery (zip)
- Using new technology, C#, WPF, and WCF (.Net 3.0), JMC Photo Gallery is able to provide compelling user interface that can be run on any system that has .NET 3.0 Framework installed. Multi-threaded design to load image and generate thumb images dynamically. Special Modes for massive gallery viewing. Quick image...
- Software downloads 2008-06-02
- Silverlight version of New York Times reader for Macs
- The WPF-based New York Times reader is one of my favorite RIAs out there. I wrote a long post about it when it first came out praising the added interactivity and for making reading the newspaper a lot more interesting. I also think it does a good job of showing...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Developers snub Vista in favor of XP
- Developers snub Vista in favor of XPSlight misinformationIts very standard to target previous versions of OSs. In fact, 2000 was the last time I saw the majority of programmers target a recent OS, and that was just because 2k was so good.Dumb!To believe that Vista won't be accepted by...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- ReactOS no threat to Windows
- ReactOS no threat to WindowsBugs[i]Which brings up a final point. Bugs. Is React going to copy Windows’ bugs?[/i]They have to, for compatibility reasons. If they don't they're dead in the water.Of course if they do, they're shark bait. They can't get away with the same bugs Microsoft does,...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- New version of Windows Presentation Foundation released
- Microsoft released a new version of Windows Presentation Foundation, their next generation windows application UI framework. The new version will ship as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Tim Sneath has a very long and detailed post of the features but I'll try and break down the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Microsoft issues first SP1 betas for VS 2008, .Net Framework 3.5
- Microsoft is making available to testers a first beta release of Service Pack SP 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5. On May 12, Microsoft made available to any/all interested parties the first beta bits for both VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Microsoft releases Expression Studio 2
- Microsoft has released the next version of its Expression Studio, their set of design tool for building applications on the web, which includes Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Design, Expression Media, and Expression Encoder. Most of the RIA designers and developers I talk to have been using the beat of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Silverlight going to be all over the Democratic National Convention
- Yesterday Microsoft became the "official software and HD web content provider" for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. I'm not entirely sure what the software part entails, but the HD web content provider means that we'll be seeing a lot of Silverlight content coming out of the DNC. In fact, Silverlight...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: The Mole Visualizer for WPF With Karl Shifflet (Level 200)
- The presenter of this webcast gives a tour of a community project he has been working on - the Mole Visualizer for Microsoft Visual Studio. The presenter shows how this visualizer can save developers tons of time when creating projects.
- Webcasts 2008-04-23
- Silverlight and the future core of Microsoft
- Today Microsoft is unveiling Ray Ozzie's project, Microsoft Live Mesh, which can best be summed up in the words of Mary Jo Foley - "a Software + Services platform for synchronization and collaboration." In simple terms, I think it's being able to interact with your data anywhere you go across...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh
- Microsoft took the wraps off Live Mesh at 9 p.m. PDT on April 22, just ahead of the service's official debut at the Web 2.0 Expo this week. (Here's a bunch of screen shots of what testers can expect to see when Microsoft kicks off its...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- The ever-changing definition of RIAs and how people are killing it
- There's a long and mostly good article about various RIA technologies over at eWeek. I say mostly good because the author, Jim Rapoza, gives a pretty unbiased view of a lot of technologies. It's a rundown that we the entire space needs more of and that I don't feel qualified...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Two new desktop applications for FriendFeed
- TechCrunch has the scoop on the launch of AlertThingy, an Ajax-based desktop client built on Adobe AIR for tracking FriendFeed. I haven't bought totally into the FriendFeed thing yet, but the application is really clean and may make it easy for me to track what people are doing on the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-13
- Docking Control (msi)
- With the first and second release of the .Net WPF library (WPF 3.0 and 3.5) there is no API provided for creating an MDI Multiple document interface or TDI Tabbed Document Interface. This is where Docking Control tries to fill the gab by providing a WPF control library that provides...
- Software downloads 2008-04-11
- MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Tools in Visual Studio 2008 (Level 200)
- What is the big deal with Windows Presentation Foundation WPF anyway? The presenter of this webcast takes a brief look at why WPF is cool and how Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 makes writing WPF apps even cooler. So grab the beverage of one's own choice and let's hang out with...
- Webcasts 2008-04-05
- Update Controls .NET (msi)
- With other controls, you set properties like Text to put data into the form. When the data changes, you have to set the property again. But with Update Controls, you implement events like GetText. The controls automatically update themselves when the data changes. The themed controls add visually stunning refractive...
- Software downloads 2008-04-03
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