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Facebook Developer Toolkit 1.6 Released on CodePlex
We've released the latest version of the Facebook Developer Toolkit on CodePlex. This release addresses a change to the Profile.SetFBML() method within the Facebook API. As of Thursday, Jan 17, 2008, Facebook will no longer accept the legacy version of...
Twitterlight: Silverlight 2.0 (Alpha) Twitter Mashup
The Twitterlight Coding4Fun article has been published . I've added some updates, including url link support. Check it out! All the source code is available, just make sure you add in references to the C1.Silverlight.dll. Enjoy. - steve =========...
Ding Ding! Sandcastle Oct CTP and the Sandcastle Help File Builder
About a month ago, I began using the October 2007 CTP release of Sandcastle , Microsoft's offering for generating code documentation files from existing .NET 2.0 assemblies. The product will no doubt become the standard for generating your project's...
Silverlight 1.1 .NET & details
I received more detailed info on Silverlight 1.1, here's a quick synopsis: Silverlight 1.0 provides the core functionality for Microsoft's new cross-browser, cross-platform web presentation plugin. Version 1.1 (now available in Alpha) adds the .NET framework...
Free Willy 3.5: Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" Preview
I attended Omar Khan's Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" Preview for AJAX Web Development this afternoon, and walked away very excited about getting my hands on it. Unlike the Silverlight alpha & beta previews, which will take nearly a complete paradigm...
Microsoft MIX 2007 Keynote announcements
Wow. We just finished up the Microsoft MIX 07 keynote address, and as Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie were detailing the latest announcements from the Microsoft dev front, some eyepopping demos and incredible platform announcements were made public. As I...
Web Setup project dependency bug in Visual Studio IDE
Arrgh! Perhaps the most irritating project scenario I can imagine: Today is a "Build Day", so you're fired up to deploy your sweet new code... Hmm, I wonder if the client will buy us "Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ?". All I need to do is compile the latest code...
Remoting De-bloating with .Net 2.0
The .Net 2.0 framework has baked in some new remoting capabilites that, in my opinion, no remoting solution should ever hit production status without. Today I'm focusing on the new binary serialization format available for datasets. In a nutshell, remoting...
Validators are your friends - CompareValidator Type and Operator
I spent some time today reviewing test questions for the MCPD Web Developer upgrade test, and I found a few pretty trivial items that may benefit coders new to ASP.NET 2.0. Not earth shattering, but... Don't forget about the CompareValidator control's...
Gridview Export to Excel
Exporting a gridview control to Excel isn't hard, but I did run into some problems with Response Headers when deploying this functionality to our production site. Turns out the header settings were set at a global level, so I needed to explicitly set...
Simple web.config encryption
One of the easiest new methods of ensuring that confidential information remains secure is to encrypt sensitive sections of your web.config file. ...
Script#, the C# --> AJAX Framework: let the debate begin
Nikhil Kothari, an architect on the Web Platform and Tools team at Microsoft, has released a pet project of his, based on a prototype creating during experimentation with expanding the Atlas toolset. His release, Script# , allows developers the ability...
IIS 7 with deployable IIS configuration settings
Jon Rauschenberger just informed us that iis.net has launched, and I'm excited to try out one of the new features that should make IIS 7 great... deployable configuration settings. IIS Config now supports XML, ASP.NET-style configuration that is able...
Sort a datatable before binding using DefaultView
Here's a quick solution I found that may save you a few minutes... I needed to sort a datatable of records, which normally would be handled by my stored procedure, however in this case the data had been delivered from a hashtable: Instead of using the...
Web Application Project 1.0 available next week
Scott Guthrie just posted an update to the release of .NET Web Application Project...looks like its slated for next Monday, May 8. I can't wait to get this, as updated support for edit and continue while debugging, team builds within VSTS and a custom...
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