Console.WriteLine("Hello World");A Weblog by Sascha P. CortiVisual Studio 2008 and Web Projects. A true Romance.- December 11, 2007 With Visual Studio 2008 released, I was missing some features in the area of web projects for example the ability to add AJAX extenders to regular ASP.NET Controls using a simple click on the Controls Tasks icon. This was possible in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 using the ASP.NET Futures CTP (July) which wasnt built for Visual Studio 2008 RTM. Now however, there is the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview which re-enables these features among a myriad of other amazing things,...http://www.corti.com/WebLogSascha/permalink.aspx/b2bbded5-6544-46c9-bc9d-3f2f46e4c6b6 Live Labs announces Volta!- December 7, 2007 Metablogging via Live labs: The announcement of Volta, downloadable as technology preview for Visual Studio 2008 (release). It is described as a developer toolset for building multi-tier web applications using existing and familiar tools, techniques and patterns in a declarative manner. This makes it possible for developers do make architectural decisions on which parts of their applications execute in which tier (backend, middle, user-interfacebrowser) very late in the project....http://www.corti.com/WebLogSascha/permalink.aspx/671ec2a2-f8e0-47c2-ae7b-c0e12f444ad8 Social Networking gone Berserk Or am I wrong- December 7, 2007 This is really weird. I keep getting invitations from <meetyourmessenger dot ch> (sorry no link love from this site...) that presents itself to me as a page that builds a virtual map on top of the Live Messenger network, helping me to enhance my social network. Yay. The first thing that I see is this dialog, that wants my name... check, my e-mail... okay, okay, my Live messenger account e-mail... hmmm. and - what - my messenger password Let's say I use my live ID to sign in to several...http://www.corti.com/WebLogSascha/permalink.aspx/ee178261-40b3-442d-8f8c-42c622319b2b Just the perfect Internet Radio- December 7, 2007 This is incredible! I like un-intrusive music to work as we are located in large, open offices - very nice but noisy at times (hello Rolf!). I listen to my albums on my UMPC, but they get stale after a while... I have now discovered "soma FM groovesalad" thanks to lifehacker. A continuous stream of great ambient music, great for work! To fully enjoy it with Windows Meida Player, there is a little tweaking to be done however... You get a .PLS (playlist) file from soma FM that Windows Media..http://www.corti.com/WebLogSascha/permalink.aspx/12d66996-4e8f-48db-a9be-ef74b0e8387a Expression Blend 2 December CTP- December 7, 2007 Today, Expression Blend 2 December CTP has been made available! It's the tool for WPF, Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 (soon to be called 2.0) projects. It works smoothly with Expression Design (now in SP1) and Visual Studio 2008. At a first glance, I am still missing the possibility to use the tool to add events to my Silverlight projects, but the new "Objects and Timeline" control is wonderful, allowing me to create, duplicate, reverse, delete and rename my storyboards. Also, code synchronization in..http://www.corti.com/WebLogSascha/permalink.aspx/8452270b-f2f8-409b-a399-9dab3a24bcbd |