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Back when Silverlight 1.1 (the predecessor to today’s Silverlight 2 release ) was first announced at the Mix ‘07 keynote , I remember being fascinated by the cross-platform .NET Framework aspect of it. As a cross-platform browser plug-in, Silverlight
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If anyone out there has not had an opportunity to use the NY Times Reader to read the NY Times , you're missing out on a great experience! The Times Reader is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that let's you read the paper on or
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Tomorrow, I get to make a trip to what I think is the most beautiful "big city" in the country: San Francisco. I'll be heading out there with a bunch of fellow Microsoft folks to participate at Sun's JavaOne conference. JavaOne is
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This month, the NYC Connected Systems user group has a cool meeting planned. Greg Leake will be in town from Redmond and will present on the .NET Stock Trader application: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/bb499684.aspx . This
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So I have a ReMIX confession to make. I was originally scheduled to deliver a session at ReMIX called "Partying with PHP on Windows". With all of the behind the scenes work going on, I just wouldn't have had time to prepare a great session. Instead, I
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After Brad Abrams completed his Silverlight portion of the keynote, he did a demo of PopFly. PopFly is a mashup tool that was built with Silverlight 1.0. It was designed so that average Joe could build neat things out of different services on the web.
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I'm at ReMIX '07 Boston today. ReMIX is all about connecting web designers, developers, and business decision makers and showcasing topics and solutions that bridge Microsoft and non-Microsoft perspectives, and emphasize the inclusive and participatory
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There's a new .NET reference application out from Microsoft that showcases both interoperability with the Java platform and scalability on the .NET platform. The application is called .NET Stock Trader and it was built by Greg Leake and his team at Microsoft.
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The Microsoft Office 2007 system supports a whole new set of document formats. These are collectively known as OpenXML. The OpenXML format is an XML-based format that has been approved as an ECMA standard and has been submitted to the ISO standard board
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This week in Redmond, my team hosted a summit of approximately 50 tech buffs who don't normally use Microsoft technologies. It was an attempt to brainwa-- to give them a chance to learn more about what Microsoft is up to these days. The hope was that
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Last week, I attended the AJAX World East conference in NYC. The show was hosted by Sys-Con publishing at the Roosevelt Hotel near Grand Central Station. Most of the usual AJAX suspects were there showing off their AJAX tools and frameworks. The biggest
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Via Dino ... If you model your data types in XSD, then maybe you have used xsd.exe, in the .NET Framework SDK. It can generate a .NET class from an XSD, and so can be really useful in the general domain of "XML Data binding" as they call it in the Java
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San Francisco , California . That’s where I was all of last week. And what, pray tell, was I doing there (besides enjoying the amazing California sunshine)? I attended Sun’s JavaOne conference with a group of my fellow Microsoft colleagues . We helped
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