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If you are interested in the history of LINQ to SQL and how it works internally, go watch Charlie Calvert's video with Matt Warren and Luca Bolognese . The first 30 minutes of this video are primarily about the internals. The last 10 minutes focus...
WPF comes with great support for animation using XAML without needing to code this in for example C#. With Silverlight (fka "WPF/E") you can also do animations from XAML. If you want to perform custom animations in code that you can't do using XAML, you...
If you haven't heard the news yet, you must be living under a rock ;) There is a new CLR in town. Silverlight (fka "WPF/E") 1.1 comes with its own CLR. And the best news is that it runs both on the Mac and the PC. Go check it out at silverlight.net ....
Microsoft has some great news today: the new Expression Web (already RTM) and Expression Blend (RTM later in Q2 2007) tools will be included in the MSDN Premium Subscription. Soma announced this on his blog . This is the result from strong feedback from...
Earlier this month on Channel 9 , Scott Guthrie alluded to some great new functionality coming for web development in Visual Studio "Orcas". Today, the details are revealed on ScottGu's blog and on Mikhail Arkhipov's blog . Mikhail blogs about the new...
Earlier on Friday I played around with January 2007 CTP of Visual Studio "Orcas" . Lots of things are still missing from this CTP. But more is coming soon. Scott Guthrie reveals that lots of new web development stuff will be included in the next CTP which...
Or is it the Visual Studio "Orcas" December 2006 CTP? The product itself is confused. The about dialog shows both monikers. You can download this CTP here . It has been awhile since the October 2006 CTP of "Orcas" that I wrote about previously. Here are...
Microsoft has released the October 2006 CTP of Visual Studio Codename "Orcas". If you have the available bandwith go download it here . It is a bit larger than the September 2006 CTP . This time it is a 4.05 GB self-extracting EXE split over 6 parts for...
Today I started using the September 2006 CTP of Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" . Microsoft has started to distribute the "Orcas" CTPs as Virtual PC images which are based on a common Windows Server 2003 base image. The downloads are pretty large: 1.13...