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A Ship-It Award!
I’ve been waiting for this for a very long time. I’ve only been with Microsoft for 18 months and it has been a blast. Great people to work with, great technology and an incredible area. I received my first Ship-It … Continue reading
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Secure Cross-Domain Communication in the Browser
With v2.0 Silverlight gaining momentium, features and fixes, the rest of us still working in v1.1 are still fighting the ‘alpha’ code. One of the problems in v1.1 is secure cross-domain communication in the browser. Danny Thorpe wrote a great … Continue reading
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Silverlight 2.0!!!
I do NOT know how I missed this announcement!!! This is huge! This means that they are one step closer to release! Silverlight 1.1 Alpha is now Silverlight 2.0!!!!!!!!!!
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Programmer’s Guide for Virtual Server 2005
Thanks so much to Ben Armstrong from the Virtualization team for emailing me the link to the elusive Programmer’s Guide for Virtual Server 2005. It would seem the docs are still there, just not as easy to find. There are … Continue reading
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Just 58 more days…
Just 58 more days until the 2008 Global Launch Wave! Windows Server 2008 Visual Studio 2008 SQL Server 2008 Just like a belated Christmas! So many toys in each! It’s going to shake up the computing world! Happy Coding! … Continue reading
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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 RC2
Be forewarned people! Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 RC2 is apparently on its way out. I just tried to look at the COM API for VS05 and it is NOT to be found!!! Virtualization is going to be built-in to Microsoft … Continue reading
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Windows Live Platform
Microsoft doesn’t always communicate their visions clearly (take .Net for instance). The Microsoft Live Platform is another one of Microsoft’s great visions that encompass so much that it’s difficult to understand it in its entirety. There is just so much … Continue reading
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A better way to do Singletons
In a recent class I was taking, Jeffery Richter was teaching another class next door. My instructor was commenting on how good Jeffery’s Threading class was. And one of the things he shared from that class was about Singleton initialization. … Continue reading
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Quick rundown on what’s in VS2008
NetworkWorld ran an article that gives you a brief but good rundown on what’s new in VS2008. Well worth the 2 min you’ll spend reading it.
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VS 2008 IS RTM!!!!!!!!!
Folks, the waiting is OVER! VS 2008 is now RTM in all of is glorious editions! Even the Express editions!! And those are FREE!!!!!!
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