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Silverlight 2 Got Tools (RC1) for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Microsoft has released Tools (RC1) for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for Silverlight 2. Among other features, the tools include Visual Basic and C# project templates, intellisense and code generators for XAML, XAML design preview, debugging, and integration with Expression Blend 2.
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Eclipse for Silverlight
In conjunction with Microsoft, the French firm Soyatec is developing a Silverlight development environment for Eclipse. Soyatec, an Eclipse Foundation member, is known for its eFace product, a technology that combines XAML/WPF and Java.
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Silverlight 2 RTM
Microsoft announced that Silverlight 2 will be released to manufacturing and available for download on Tuesday, October 14th.
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Spying on Silverlight
The success of Microsoft Silverlight, as seen in the recent Beijing Olympics, shows the capabilities of the technology and is attracting more developers. The addition of end-users and developers using Silverlight will also drive more tool development and one such useful tool is Silverlight Spy by First Floor.
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Robert Bell on Java and Silverlight Interop
Robert Bell, Microsoft Solution Architect, introduces interoperability scenarios for using Silverlight from Java and provides architectural guidance using sample code snippets.
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Talking with Ivan Porto Carrero about IronNails
A new project has been created for developers using IronRuby to write applications with a Ruby on Rails like experience. The project is called IronNails and is ready for developers to give it a go today.
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Windows Live Tools July CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio
Windows Live Dev has released the Windows Live Tools July CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio, a set of VS add-ins allowing developers to incorporate Windows Live services into web applications developed with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008.
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Silverlight 2 Unit Test Framework
Microsoft has released an updated version of the Microsoft.Silverlight. Testing framework. This framework allows developers to create unit tests covering Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 projects.
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Presentation: Mark Smith on Exploring Silverlight
Mark Smith of DevelopMentor explores Silverlight 2.0 in this presentation from QCon San Francisco.
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Microsoft Releases Silverlight 2 Beta 2 at TechEd 2008
During his keynote at TechEd for Developers 2008 in Orlando, FL this week, Bill Gates announced the release of Silverlight 2 Beta 2.
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New version of .NET Disguised as a "Service Pack"
The beta for Service Pack 1 of .NET 3.5/VS 2008 brings with is a host of new features and libraries including the ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services, a client-only version of the Framework, and changes to most of the 3.0 and 3.5 libraries. Despite its name, to many developers this release is as significant as 3.5 itself.
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Silverlight 2 Beta Controls Source Code Available for Download
Microsoft has made available the source code and unit tests for Silverlight 2 Beta controls.
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Free Phalanger IDE Released
A free IDE has been released for Phalanger, a PHP that runs on the .NET platform. The IDE is based on Visual Studio Shell.
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Presentation: Laurence Moroney on Silverlight
In this presentation Laurence Maroney provides an overview of the Microsoft UX platform focusing on Silverlight.
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Stephan Janssen On Parleys.com And The RIA Landscape
InfoQ.com sat down with Stephan Janssen to learn about Parleys.com and ask his perspective on the emerging RIA platforms. Stephan is the founder of the JavaPolis conference held annually in Belgium. JavaPolis is currently the second largest Java conference, behind only JavaOne.