As I sit waiting for the Visual Studio Service Pack 1 ISO to finish downloading, I spent some time looking and reading about Silverlight and about C#. I have found one or two good websites, ones that I go to regularly to check for updated articles and source code. So three of my favourite Silverlight [...]
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I susbscribe to The Code Project’s newsletter and today I got some great news, jQuery will be supported in Visual Studio 2008. Now this is some awesome news. Makes one wonder if the Microsoft AJAX library will become redundant. You can read the full article on Scott Gu’s website.
At the moment it feels like I am re-designing a navigation system that has probably already been built before. The reason for saying this is because the navigation controls provided to you by Visual Studio 2008 produce table-based layouts, which is not what I want for my website. I want my website to generate valid [...]
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I have been thinking a bit and there are a few reasons I like Microsoft’s new Silverlight technology. One reason is that the Silverlight could potentially make the need for Windows Media Player on a host machine obsolete. During the week I removed Windows Media Player from a machine and tested a Silverlight application on [...]
I attended the Microsoft Mix Essentials ’08 event on the 26th of June 2008 and got two pieces of trial software, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional and Microsoft Expressions Web. Today I am installing Visual Studio, and it’s taken 20 minutes so far to install. It’s a 2.9 GB install!! The features I am most [...]
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I attended the Mix Essentials 2008 event at Canal Walk (Cape Town, South Africa) today and there were quite a few things that interested me. There were five speakers at the event: David Ives – Developer and Platform Strategy Group for Microsoft in South Africa – Microsoft Brad Abrams – Group Program Manager for the [...]
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