Silverlight resources for Flash developers
AlvinAshcraft 
via timheuer.com
Two new resources came to my attention recently that could be helpful resources for Flash developers wanting to learn Silverlight. The first has been... more »
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How to randomly reorder an ArrayList and refresh the ComboBox contents at runtime
In this short article, we will take a look at how to randomly reorder an arraylist and update the contents of the ComboBox at runtime, each time the... more »
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IE8: Robbing Peter to pay Paul
For those of you unfamiliar with the idiom, it should be taken to mean "benefiting one at the expense of another. In this case, Paul is the end-user... more »
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Are You Having A Laugh?
Microsoft liked The Office so much that they decided to hire its creators to do a Microsoft skit and here they are. Have a laugh this Friday!
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Chrome's jittered JavaScript kills Silverlight?
The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight Web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts... more »
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How to Save XAML as an Image
Here’s a quick note to self that you may enjoy. I suck at art. Didn’t use to always, but it requires too much brain power. But I’m not bad at getting... more »
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ASP.NET 3.5 MVC Application
This post gives you the basic overview on ASP.NET Models, Views and Controllers. It explains how all parts in MVC Application work together and... more »
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Flash say's screw you Silverlight.. Sort of.
Yesterday Adobe and the NFL teamed up and announced that Adobe® Flash® will be used to deliver live online video streaming of NBC Sunday Night... more »
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14 DataGridView Tips, Tricks and Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)
In this article, we will discuss 14 DataGridView frequently asked questions and their solutions. These questions have been collected from a variety of... more »
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Google Chrome - the question people SHOULD ask...
Google Chrome has literally spangled the web the last 36 hours, and I have seen most questions being answered, again and again and again. Though the... more »
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Visual Studio Shell 2008: Bringing More .NET Languages into the Visual Studio Fold
Visual Studio Shell was released in January of 2007 without much fanfare. Even though it's free to download, at the time it was not very useful for... more »
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Exploring Some Common Conversion Functions in C# and VB.NET – Part I
This article explores some very handy and commonly used conversion functions that we encounter in our day to day development. This is the first part... more »
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Introduction to Castle Windsor - Getting Your IoC On
A short screencasts on Windosor Castle that is meant to get you up to speed with what Windsor can do and how you can use it.
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Four books to pre-order
AlvinAshcraft via community.bartdesmet.net
I love technical books and it's hard to resist the temptation buying new ones :-). This fall is especially difficult with four great titles coming up.
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Automating PowerPoint with Ruby
PowerPoint exposes a full-featured object model for automating, so there's virtually nothing that you can't do with PowerPoint via Ruby code.
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Microsoft Learns the Wrong Lesson from Apple
bloid via sitepoint.com
In its first month, Apple’s App Store, which sells applications for its iPhone and iPod Touch devices, raked in $30 million, and is on track to do... more »
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Emulate Image Zooming in a PictureBox Control at Runtime
Zooming images in a PictureBox control is not something that comes out of the box. However with a little bit of code, basic emulation of zoom in and... more »
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Good Bye FireBug. Hello IE8 Developer Tools.
My favourite 10 things about the new IE8 developer tools
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Silverlight 2 Database Updating
The recent Silverlight 2 Beta 2 release it has become easier to access and manipulate database data. Since Silverlight applications cannot directly... more »
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Is Microsoft digging in the wrong place?
.net has really taken off, especially ASP.net. The question is, are they going at full throttle in the wrong direction?
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Why I made the switch to Microsoft and Expression Web
AlvinAshcraft via codebetter.com
As I was making the move to Microsoft and the Expression Web team, a number of people asked what drew me to Expression Web. A notion that I believe... more »
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.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Sources are available!
AlvinAshcraft via blogs.msdn.com
During the past weeks we have been working on preparing the source code for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 release and we are happy to announce that we... more »
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Why Can't LINUX Win Against Windows?
an articale disscuss reasons makes linux can not win against windows in the computer world
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Functional programming and F#: Introduction
Computer programmers sometimes mistake brevity for elegance, especially when discussing the relative merits of programming languages. Haskel... more »
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 released
AlvinAshcraft via codeclimber.net.nz
Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex. Some changes happened...
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