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Ok ok, I've bitten the bullet and upgraded the Twitterlight Silverlight Twitter client to Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. The Coding4Fun article has been updated with the latest source. The client is live at twitterlight.com . The major updates involved changing...
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...
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 =========...
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...
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 After we had this working, I noticed that when we tried to then load a newer version of the dynamic assembly...
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...
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...
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...
When creating an SSIS package, keep mind the power of creating dynamic Property Expressions. Any Read/Write property of a package, task, event, manager, etc can be manipulated at runtime via Property Expressions to change the behavior of a deployed, otherwise...
I've recently been digging into SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS), and I'm really impressed with how powerful a tool this package can be, and the wide range of tasks that can be accomplished in a short amount of time. Lately I've been researching...
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...
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...
I've used the basic-cms content management system a few times for creating simple cms solutions for friends and relatives' web sites......
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...
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...
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