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Green Eggs and Blend

MSDN (Free subscription) | yesterday

Let Jesse Liberty take you through this tutorial on programming with Visual Studio and Expression Blend.

See What They're Saying in the Internet Explorer Web Development Forum

MSDN (Free subscription) | yesterday

Visit the Internet Explorer Web Development Forum to ask questions and interact with the community of Web developers.

Do You Have to Know English to be a Programmer?

Global Nerdy (Free subscription) | yesterday

In a comment to Scott Hanselman’s blog post about how Microsoft is using “crowdsourcing” to help create localized versions of MSDN, someone wrote: If you don’t know English, you’re not a programmer. A provocative statement like that cries out for an article and discussion, and Scott got the ball rolling with a follow-up article titled, quite [...]

Try/Catch in PowerShell

Under The Stairs (Free subscription) | yesterday

In a script I posted to my PowerShell Scripts blog, I used both the Open XML SDK and the Try/Catch functions of PowerShell V2. The Office Open XML SDK is available from Microsoft as a free download . However, like some parts of the MSDN Library, Community Content has not been activated (Open Office XML SDK is not OPEN could have been the headline of this post!), at least yet. The XML API is built on...

How to Control the Keyboard Using Silverlight

MSDN (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008

This video shows you how to control your keyboard using Silverlight.

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MSDN (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008

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How Do I: Customize the Appearance of a ListBox in Windows Presentation Foundation?

MSDN (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008

In this video, Todd Miranda shows you how to customize the ListBox in WPF.

Going Dark for a Couple of Weeks

Mike Ormond's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008

Yes, I'm off on holiday for a couple of weeks from tomorrow so things will be quiet around here. I intend to distance myself entirely from technology (I'm not even sure there's mobile coverage where I'm going - Argh!) so my heart will be that much fonder when I get back. In the meantime, I hope you have as much fun as I intend to. Hang loose. Chin up. Best of British, eh? See you in a couple of weeks....

A Fun Little Silverlight Twitter Application

Mike Ormond's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008

My new boss Marc set us a little challenge to build a simple Silverlight kiosk type application that would display the latest Tweets for a set of given keywords. "20mins of work" according to Marc. Well, the end result may have looked like 20mins of effort but getting there took a few diversions (particularly into some threading territory I didn't really need to visit) as well as the usual bugs and...

MSDN Developer Conference in Atlanta

Wallace B. McClure (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008

So, you couldn’t make PDC this year? Watching recorded sessions not quite doing it for you? Missing the interaction with Microsoft folks and industry experts? Well, do we have a fantastic event for you! Come to the Atlanta, GA MSDN Developer Conference on December 16th at the Westin Peachtree Plaza. Right here in your own backyard, you can catch some great sessions from awesome speakers illustrating...

MSDN “Suburban” Roadshow Kick-Off Tomorrow

JrzyShr Dev Guy (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008

Tomorrow is the kick-off of the MSDN “Suburban” Roadshow in Parsippany, NJ! Bill Zack and I are excited to spend the afternoon talking with folks about Windows Azure, Microsoft’s new cloud computing platform, and Silverlight 2 application development. You can read more about the “Suburban” Roadshow in my original post on it here . This just in… we’ve added a new date in East Windsor, NJ courtesy of...

ASP.NET Routing - Generating URLs from Route Data

Mike Ormond's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008

I just made my first, albeit small, contribution to stackoverflow.com . Stack Overflow is a great programming Q&A site built with ASP.NET MVC. If you haven't visited, it's well worth a look. Someone asked a question about how to generate URLs if you're using ASP.NET Routing with webforms. MVC has nice helper methods on the HTML helper class like Html.ActionLink() that will render a URL given a controller...

[Demo Code] ASP.NET Dynamic Data Demo

Mike Ormond's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008

I've just posted the ASP.NET Dynamic Data website I usually build when I do a Dynamic Data demo. You can download the source for it here . The demo site illustrates a few features of ASP.NET Dynamic Data: Scaffolding of my Houses database using Linq to Sql as the model ScaffoldAllTables is set to true but I prevent scaffolding of the HomeTypes table with the [ScaffoldTable] attribute Customisation...

Spatial Data and now the Spatial Wiki

Mike Ormond's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008

A long time ago I came up with a simple web site that allows you to draw features on a Virtual Earth map and generate the SQL statements required to store those features in using Sql Server 2008's spatial data support (and it can do the reverse , ie give it some WKT (Well Known Text) string and it will render it on a Virtual Earth map). It's been very popular and lots of people use it in demos and...

I Didn't Appreciate that TinyURL had an API

Mike Ormond's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008