-
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 on the history of LINQ to SQL and how it relates...
-
Hi folks, earlier Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 are available for download, get the latest bits here... Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 .NET Framework 3.5 If you experiance problems with the download let Brad Abrams help you.
-
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 need timers. In the full blown WPF you have several...
-
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 . One of the greatest achievements is that the download...
-
finally the orcas CTP is out... i guess the second release will be in beta.. anyway you can get it from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cf76fcba-07af-47ac-8822-4ad346210670&DisplayLang=en
-
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 is scheduled for February 2007. He tells us that...
-
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 my first observations about this CTP. Integration...
-
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 the Orcas differencing disk . This works on top...
-
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 GB for the self-extracting EXE of the base image...