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Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie: Silverlight has a bright future!

If you didn’t get chance to watch the Silverlight Firestart event live during the webcast it is available online to view now. If you’re a Silverlight developer or perhaps a shop actively planning on developing a Silverlight application then you’re going to want to watch this video. The Silverlight 5 feature set unveiled during the keynote is fantastic! I particularly like Scott’s approach and comments on the future of Silverlight. I appreciated his open and direct acknowledgment that there has “been...

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Posted On Saturday, December 04, 2010 10:38 AM | Feedback (0)

Silverlight Firestarter Today!! Local viewing event in Research Triangle Park!

What is the Silverlight Firestarter is all about? It is a one day, global, live streamed and on demand event keynoted by Scott Guthrie. It begins at 9am Pacific time. Yes, that noon for us east coasters here in the U.S. It provides new self-paced labs and walk through videos. It is interactive and you can ask the Silverlight product team questions during the event. To me the really interesting part is going to be the opening keynote by Scott Guthrie. Keynote : The Future of Silverlight Be first to...

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Posted On Thursday, December 02, 2010 10:29 AM | Feedback (0)

Silverlight Nugget: TextBlock TextTrimming property

There are times when the amount of text to be displayed in a TextBlock just doesn’t fit and only the initial text that fits is displayed. Usually the user can detect this because they realize, based on the content, that something got chopped off but that isn’t always the case. For example, the following text could fit in a fairly narrow TextBlock: “Never comment your code” Unfortunately the rest of the sample sentence ,“Never comment your code if you want to keep your job”, doesn’t display and the...

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Posted On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 4:35 PM | Feedback (0)

.NET Rocks Road Trip in Raleigh this week May 6th…

Don’t forget to mark your calendar for Thursday May 6th as the .NET Rocks Road Trip comes to town! Where: Reynolds Theatre, Duke University, West Campus 125 Science Dr. Durham, NC 27708 When: Thursday, May 06, 2010 from 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM (ET) Have a day. :-|

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Posted On Monday, May 03, 2010 9:07 PM | Feedback (0)

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook – Book Review (sort of)

I just received my copy of the Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook, co-authored by fellow Microsoft Regional Director, Gill Cleeren, and at first glance I like what I see. I’ve always been a fan of the “cookbook” approach to technical books because they are problem/solution oriented. Often developers need solutions to solve specific questions like “how do I send email from within my .NET application” and so on, and yes, that was a blatant plug to my article explaining how to accomplish...

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Posted On Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:48 AM | Feedback (0)

The Silverlight 4 Training Kit and Green Eggs & Ham

Microsoft has released the Silverlight 4 Training Kit that steps you through the process of constructing Silverlight 4 business applications. “The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes a whitepaper explaining all of the new Silverlight 4 features, several hands-on-labs that explain the features, and a 8 unit course for building business applications with Silverlight 4. The business applications course includes 8 modules with extensive hands on labs as well as 25 accompanying videos that walk you...

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Posted On Monday, April 26, 2010 11:03 AM | Feedback (0)

.Net Rocks Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip coming to Raleigh, NC May 6th

Listen up .NET developers within 50 miles of Research Triangle Park, NC! Take out that red, blue, green, black or any other color Sharpie marker you fancy and circle May 6th! Fellow Microsoft Regional Directors Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell are going to be bringing the .Net Rocks Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip to town. What’s that you say, you’ve never been to a .Net Rocks Road Trip event and don’t know what to expect? Let me help with that. I stol… uhhh… I mean I was “inspired” by some content...

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Posted On Saturday, April 24, 2010 3:43 PM | Feedback (0)

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit

Now that you’ve had time to download and install Visual Studio 2010 its time to start learning about all the new features and capabilities. That’s where this post comes in. Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit on the same day Visual Studio 2010 became available to download. It contains presentations, hands-on labs, and demos on a variety of features and framework technologies including: C# 4 Visual Basic 10 F# Parallel Extensions Windows Communication Foundation...