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November 2007 - Posts

Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:34 PM

Microsoft Download Center - Silverlight Beta

Microsoft has a new Download Center on their site which is currently in Beta, being built entirely in Silverlight. Check it out - it looks largely like a web page but the whole thing seems to be a Silverlight canvas. I'm not sure if this is the way I
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:18 PM

Silverlight 2.0 Is Coming

ScottGu today announced what many of us have been wondering and hoping would happen with regard to the next shipping version of Silverlight, which is that it will in fact be dubbed 2.0 rather than 1.1. My personal feeling on this is that it's a very smart
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Monday, November 26, 2007 5:02 PM

MIX and Tech·Ed 2008

I'm planning to attend MIX 2008, in its third year and being held at the Venetian in Las Vegas once more. The site has started a weekly podcast called The Signal that you can subscribe to and learn about behind-the-scenes preparations for MIX08. The
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:46 PM

Learn VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Guy pointed out a great resource for learning the newly released Visual Studio 2008 for free: the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit , from Microsoft. To quote the site: The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes
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Monday, November 19, 2007 10:18 AM

Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 Available

Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 is now available to MSDN Subscribers (a fact which is apparently well known, since the server seems to be suffering from the load). Anyway, when the load on the servers reaches an equilibrium, you should be able to pick up
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Friday, November 16, 2007 11:38 AM

MIX08 Registration Open

Here's some official information on the MIX 2008 conference hosted by Microsoft in Las Vegas next March: Registration for Microsoft’s MIX08 opened on Thursday, November 8th. Slated for March 5- 7 at The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, MIX08
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:53 AM

Developer Acronyms for 2007

I've learned a few new acronyms this year and thought I'd start this post to let others share their favorites as well. Some of these are new to me, and some are classics that I thought were worth including even though they certainly predate 2007. Where
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 4:02 PM

DevConnections Afterthoughts and Presentations

I got back from DevConnections yesterday at 7am (took the redeye flight), after being gone since Saturday. I'm glad to be home, and I know it will be a few days before I'm even close to caught up on everything that fell behind while I was in Vegas. The
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 1:40 PM

ASP.NET Membership Manager

In my session this week on Membership and Personalization in ASP.NET, I mentioned a commercial control for this but couldn't recall the name or URL. Well, here it is, the ASP.NET Membership Management control from Quality Data. I have not personally used
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:45 AM

ASP.NET Provider Source Code Install Path

Some months ago, ScottGu announced the availability of source code for the ASP.NET providers . This was great news and a great many comments followed. In preparation for a talk I'm giving this week at DevConnections , I went out to grab the source again
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Monday, November 05, 2007 4:15 PM

VS2008 Shipping November 2007

It's official now - Microsoft has announced that it will ship Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 later his month, November 2007 . The announcement came earlier today at TechEd Developers in Barcelona, Spain. I expect a similar announcement
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Monday, November 05, 2007 3:38 PM

Unrecognized attribute 'securityTrimmingEnabled'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive

Saw this error today working with the SiteMapDataSource in ASP.NET 3.5/VS2008. Apparently this is a bug that has been around for a while, and is discussed here and logged in Connect here . The issue, however, is that the securityTrimmingEnabled attribute
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Monday, November 05, 2007 1:54 PM

SimpleCMS on CodePlex

ASPAlliance SimpleCMS plugin is now available on CodePlex . You can use CodePlex to submit your feature requests and such now, which will help guide future releases of the plugin. Also, if you're interested in contributing to the project, let us know.
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Sunday, November 04, 2007 6:54 PM

DevExpress TechSummit

I'm in Vegas a few days early (before DevConnections ) to attend DevExpress's TechSummit2007, where they've invited a bunch of MVPs, authors, speakers, etc. to come and learn more about their controls and tools. Yesterday we saw some of what
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Friday, November 02, 2007 2:42 PM

Speaking in Ann Arbor November 14th

I'll be presenting to the Ann Arbor .Net Developer's Group in two weeks on ASP.NET Caching Best Practices . The meeting starts at 6pm at SRT Solutions in Ann Arbor. You can find more information about the group and meeting location here: AADND.org Share
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