Rob Zelt - Lighting Up The WebAJAX, Silverlight, WPF & MoreTarget ASP.NET AJAX 2.0 with VS 2008- December 21, 2007 One of the biggest complaints of heard the the past from developers when new versions of Visual Studio comes out is that the can not take advantage of the new IDE because their companyproject is still using the previous version of the .NET Framework. A major step that was taken in Visual Studio was to separate the IDE from the framework. This means you can use the goodness of VS2008 on existing 2.0 projects. Brad Abrams links to the ASP.NET Ajax 2.0 templates that you can install in...http://www.robzelt.com/blog/2007/12/21/Target+ASPNET+AJAX+20+With+VS+2008.aspx ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview- December 10, 2007 Tonight Microsoft took the covers off of the new ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview and the ASP.NET MVC Toolkit While I'm extremely excited by the new ASP.NET MVC (Model View Controller) I could not overlook the Silverlight Controls for ASP.NET that make it easy to integrate the rich behavior of Silverlight into a web application. It provides an updated MediaPlayer Server Control and Silverlight Server control. The MediaPlayer Server Control allows you to integrate media...http://www.robzelt.com/blog/2007/12/10/ASPNET+35+Extensions+Preview.aspx Mole 2 - Visual Studio Visualizer for WPF- December 9, 2007 Karl sent me a note a little while ago and I've been meaning to blog about this, but in the mean time I think Karl has gone without sleep since then and along with Josh Smith has already rolled out Mole version 2! You can get it HERE Mole 2 is "a high performance, full featured, multifunction visualizer that allows in-depth inspection of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) visual and logical trees. For each element in the visual or logical tree the developer can view all...http://www.robzelt.com/blog/2007/12/09/Mole+2+Visual+Studio+Visualizer+For+WPF.aspx 2008: Year of the Microsoft Conference- December 7, 2007 According to the Chinese Zodiac calendar 2008 is the year of the rat, but if you ask me it should be called the year of the Microsoft conference. Starting in March, just after the official launch of VS2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008, MIX08 is scheduled to take place in Las Vegas March 5-7 at the snazzy Venetian Resort Hotel Casino. According to recent announcements by Scott Guthrie, MIX08 will likely be the the big event for Silverlight 2.0 hitting the streets in a...http://www.robzelt.com/blog/2007/12/07/2008+Year+Of+The+Microsoft+Conference.aspx |