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Today the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 have been released. Both will be officially launched in February 2008, but are already available to developers as of today. MSDN subscribers can get their version from the MSDN Subscribers page. Trail versions are available for download also via the...
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Normally I get flooded with messages about stuff like the official release-date for .NET Framework 3.5. But since my Omea Reader database crashed (for the third time, but this time I can't find a solution to get it working again) and I still haven't added a lot of blogs again, the only resource...
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I really love [wikipedia:ClickOnce], because it removes the necessity to build a web application. In my years as a developer, I can't count the projects that were web based, simply because of the deployment model. And then ClickOnce came around. Now I can't count the times that I've explained...
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As I really enjoyed giving the Summer Classes a few weeks ago, the first ever real .NET 3.5 class world wide, I'm really pleased to announce the Winter Classes. Although the date hasn't even been set, we're planning it around the end of January or start of February. The classes will be the...
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The weekend-after has passed and I've slept through most of it. Man did we use up some hours (some nights we went on with the training until 23:00 hours) and especially the last night when we drank past the bar its closing hours and went on in a local pub in Domburg! But of course it wasn't about...
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Awesome! Just a few days before the .NET 3.5 Summer Class, Silverlight 1.0 is released. With the announcement , the news is out that Silverlight will be officially supported by Microsoft and Novell on Linux via the Mono initiative. Microsoft will deliver Silverlight Media Codecs for Linux and Novell...
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Michele Leroux Bustamante has just posted a lot of links to resources to get you going on .NET 3.5. As her, I can recommend you get started with .NET 3.5 because it rocks! It makes life a lot easier. I'm really starting to miss all the enhancements every time I go all the way back to .NET 2.0 ;-...
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I hope in the RTM you'll get more help solving your WCF Ajax problems then I currently get, because I'm getting mad from time to time. In my quest for getting things to work, I learned some stuff I wanted to share. Read: have a checklist for myself because I tend to forget this kind of stuff...
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As said before , we're currently on location at the "middle of nowhere", creating material for the upcoming .NET 3.5 Summer Class . We're having a blast, creating slides and hands on labs until way past midnight. I'm busy with the WCF Web stuff, Alex is creating Linq to SQL/XML...
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Two things that should've been there since WCF v1. My colleague Alex Thissen already blogged about the WCF Library projects and the service host that comes with it. In beta 2 there's a new test client that'll connect to your service and will show you the available operations, configuration...
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Today Scott Guthrie and Somasegar anounced the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2. Silverlight 1.0 RC will be available in a few days. Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is a feature complete product, so have a first look at the product if you haven´t seen it yet. Download Visual...
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UPDATE : It seems the SQL team actually have build a solution . A while ago I wrote some articles on System.Transactions and the fact that it's almost impossible to use the Lightweight Transaction Manager (LTM) and not get bumped up to a distributed transaction and use MSDTC. When you look at the...