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  WatermarkedTextBox for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 One breaking change you may have noticed between Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and Beta 2 is that WatermarkedTextBox is no longer available in the Silverlight SDK (System.Windows.Controls.Extended.dll).  We decided to remove the control because in a future... Posted Jun 24 2008, 09:19 AM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, blog, beta, silverlight, source code, system windows, unit test

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  .NET Rocks! on ASP.NET Dynamic Data The great folks over in DNR land just posted Scott Hunter's interview on ASP.NET Dynamic Data!  In it he talks a lot about not only what is available with VS08 SP1, but also what is coming next.   Exciting times! Show #349 | 6/10/2008... Posted Jun 10 2008, 09:51 PM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, developers, microsoft, msdn, software industry, dynamic data, server side, scaffolding, scott hunter

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  TechEd2008 from your Couch Seeing on the buzz from TechEd , I am bummed not to be there... I could not justify the trip to the family with my big 10,343 mile trip to South Africa ...  So I get the enjoy TechEd from my couch here like many of you.  The good news is not... Posted Jun 03 2008, 11:00 PM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, buzz, teched, keynote, user experience, bill gates, ballmer, microsoft silverlight, south africa, looking ahead 1, great clips, robotics, mile trip, track web, sql server data, university of massachusetts, application development, microsoft robotics studio, sync, crossfader

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  ASP.NET MVC Support with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Last week I blogged about the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 release .  One important thing I forgot to mention about this release is that you can now use it with both Visual Studio 2008 as well as the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition. ... Posted Jun 01 2008, 06:50 PM by ScottGu's Blog Feeds Filed under: amp, beta, web application, visual web developer, mvc, tools team, using visual studio, web tools, visual web developer express, web developer express, unit tests, project templates, test project, library projects, vwd, class library

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  Mix Essentials Event in South Africa in June I am very excited that Joe Stagner and I will be heading to South Africa the week of June 23rd.   While we are there, we will have a chance to interact with the very passionate .NET community in both Johannesburg and Cape Town.  The South... Posted May 29 2008, 07:12 AM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, ajax, web applications, futures, users group, user group, dynamic data, web technology, next generation, stagner, 24 june, johannesburg, 26 june, group events, beta2, craig, technology talks, cool web, cape town, south africa

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  Welcome to PDC08! I can't believe it, it is PDC time again!  We are back in LA Oct 27th-30th, I hope you can make it! You can register here: http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Registration/ You can check out a very small sampling of session here: http://www.microsoftpdc... Posted May 28 2008, 09:21 AM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, silverlight, ajax, visual studio, business applications, futures, mvc, dynamic data, interesting things, storage, framework 4, sampling, technology wave, agenda sessions, future technology

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  ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release This morning we released the Preview 3 build of the ASP.NET MVC framework.  I blogged details last month about an interim source release we did that included many of the changes with this Preview 3 release.  Today's build includes some additional... Posted May 27 2008, 01:26 PM by ScottGu's Blog Feeds Filed under: amp, source code, visual studio, tweaks, logic, unit tests, enhancements, execution, method changes, model object, source release, controller changes, return void, control flow, controller actions, three pieces, string values, tool integration, composition, mvc controller

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  .NET Framework Client Profile As I mentioned a few days ago , with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta we are taking some MAJOR steps toward making it easier for customers to acquire the .NET Framework. One of the ways we have done that is creating a client profile of the .NET Framework that... Posted May 21 2008, 09:47 PM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, beta, wcf, few days, subset, client apps, client developers, client profile, development experience, client application, van patten

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  Zen Mind, Programmer’s Mind “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” - Suzuki As programmers of an application or feature, we quickly develop our own preconceptions as to how the software should work. Every... Posted May 21 2008, 07:14 AM by "Hello World" - The SlickEdit Developer Blog Feeds Filed under: programmers, amp, possibilities, suzuki, preconceptions

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  May 20th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF Apologies for the sparseness of my posting the last few weeks - work and life have been busy here lately.  Below is a new post in my link-listing series to help kick things up a little.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page... Posted May 20 2008, 10:02 PM by ScottGu's Blog Feeds Filed under: amp, silverlight, ajax, high quality, apologies, listview control, scott mitchell, tess, javascript files, page loading, perf, data entry, virus scanner, logging code, thumbnail images, large numbers, virus scanners, caps, progress bar control

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  Enhanced Mix08 Videos Posted We recently finished the post product work required to get enhanced videos posted.  The videos not only include slides\demos, but also include a separate video stream of the speaker  so you get a deeper experience.   Mix08 Session... Posted May 16 2008, 09:25 AM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, ajax, slides, visual studio, sessions, scratch, session overview, video stream

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  Tutorial: Adding Language Support to SlickEdit In this article, I am going to illustrate how to add very simple support for a language that, out of the box, is not already handled by SlickEdit. To this end, I am choosing “Logo” as an example. I made this choice partially as a follow-up... Posted May 14 2008, 08:06 AM by "Hello World" - The SlickEdit Developer Blog Feeds Filed under: amp, slickedit

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  XML: The Angle Bracket Tax Everywhere I look, programmers and programming tools seem to have standardized on XML . Configuration files, build scripts, local data storage, code comments, project files, you name it -- if it's stored in a text file and needs to be retrieved and... Posted May 12 2008, 12:59 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: programmers, amp, scenarios, lt, winston churchill, uri, form of government, angle brackets, code comments, readable data, sledgehammer, endless sea, schemas, programming tools, democracy is the worst form of government, configuration files, denny brown, nails, data storage, soap xml

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  Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight In ASP.NET 2.0, we introduced a very powerful set of application services in ASP.NET ( Membership , Roles and profile ).  In 3.5 we created a client library for accessing them from Ajax and .NET Clients and exposed them via WCF web services.   ... Posted May 03 2008, 04:40 PM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, ajax, ui, client library, quot, personalization, login logout, configuration manager, implantation, role management, special thanks, application services, authentication system, website menu, membership roles, test users, chunk, sample solution

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  Check out popfly game creator The Popfly guys are at it again.  They just launched a very cool game creator tool that lets normal people create great Silverlight based games.  The RIA development experience is very slick and I can't wait to see the games people create... Posted May 01 2008, 09:05 PM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: amp, ria, development experience, creator tool, popfly, games, game creator