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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...
Using AppDomain to Load and Unload Dynamic Assemblies
Recently a project I was working on required us to dynamically load an assembly at runtime, and invoke a method on the newly loaded assembly. After we had this working, I noticed that when we tried to then load a newer version of the dynamic assembly...
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...
Basic CMS ported to ASP.NET 2.0 (C#)
I've used the basic-cms content management system a few times for creating simple cms solutions for friends and relatives' web sites......
WCF Master Class - Concurrency Management
We just finished up a Windows Communication Framework (WCF) Master Class taught by Juval Lowy, President of IDesign. Juval has been deemed a Software Legend by Micrsoft, and his knowledge of the WCF was impressive. I was interested in WCF before this...
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...
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...
Manipulate Virtual Directories via System.DirectoryServices namespace
Just a quick note on manipulating IIS virtual directories from .NET code: I was writing a Custom Action class for my solution's web setup project, and was not sure how to best go about removing the already created virtual directory on Rollback or Uninstall...
App_Offline.htm Gotcha # 2
...becoming app_offline.htm experts one gotcha at a time......
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