I had the privilege to see Steve Maine do some coding in a Microsoft SDR session after MIX07. While coding, he showed this cool tool that's in the BizTalk Services SDK. He was showing something he had build and copied a bit of XML into the clipboard and used this tool inside Visual Studio 2005 to paste...
At MIX07 I've seen a presentation by Pablo Castro from the ADO.NET team on a new project codenamed "Astoria". It's a new technology used for getting data over the web. It's very useful in Ajax scenarios where you'd like some XML or, maybe even better, JSON data into your JavaScript to present on the...
Just attended a session about Silverlight development using managed code. I'm starting to love Silverlight the more I get to know about it. Some details about the current alpha version. Silverlight is: Silverlight 1.0 Managed Code (CLR) XAML Extensibility User Controls Contains sample controls Some other...
So day one is behind us, but what are the big announcements that have been made? Silverlight 1.0 Beta is released Silverlight 1.1 Alpha with .NET support Silverlight Streaming Alpha Silverlight tools for Visual Studio "Orcas" Silverlight for mobile Expression Blend 2 was previewed Expression Media Encoder...
So I arrived... Yesterday the plane landed in Las Vegas and the first thing that I saw were... slotmachines! This is Vegas of course. I'm staying in The Venetian and the hotel is gorgeous. After publishing this, I'll start taking some pictures and publish them on Flickr. You can already see some pictures...
Alice in wonderland, that's how I'm going to feel like in Vegas! Speaking about wonderland, via Alex I got a link to this post about the MIX07 Blogzone. In our hotel, The Venetian, on the third floor, there's going to be a room for bloggers with the following features: Live streaming of all Mix content...
I'll be attending MIX'07 in Las Vegas this year as well as the parallel MDEC conference for Mobile development. One of my goals for this year is to do more with ASP.NET so Alex isn't the only one with all the knowledge ;-) Some fun things are: Vegas! Need I say more?! A lot on ASP.NET, Ajax and WPF/E...