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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 this method, which allowed three versions of Facebook...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 01-15-2008
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 ===========================================================...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 01-08-2008
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 docs, replacing the previously ubiquitous NDoc...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 11-27-2007
WhatWG, W3C and HTML 5.0

It's an interesting exercise every once in a while to take a look at the technologies we use in everyday development, and how they evolve over time. I started out writing HTML 4.0 & ASP 3.0 apps in high school, then watched as .NET 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 became entwined in our vocabulary. Sitting here...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 08-15-2007
ASP.NET AJAX Tips & Tricks

My final session of Tuesday was a deep dive on ASP.NET AJAX, with Jeff Prosise, co-founder of Wintellect and Matt Gibbs, Development Manager at Microsoft. Jeff and Matt did an excellent job of challenging the advanced AJAX guys while still engaging coders with less experience using the ASP.NET AJAX libraries...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 05-01-2007
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, allowing powerful coding in familiar territory...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 05-01-2007
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 shift by designers and developers to fully appreciate...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 05-01-2007
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 took notes, everytime I saw something I couldn't wait...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 04-30-2007
Simple web.config encryption

Building an ASP.NET website is becoming easier with each new release of the .NET framework, but as the learning curve flattens and more and more developers create forward-facing sites, security concerns need to be considered. One of the easiest new methods of ensuring that confidential information remains...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 07-02-2006
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 to write AJAX scripting from the comfort of a C#...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 06-06-2006

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