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Recently DevConnections magazine spoke with Scott Guthrie about Silverlight and much more. Check out Scott's take on Silverlight versus Flash. DevConnections magazine: What inroads has Silverlight made competitively against Flash? Scott Guthrie: We...
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Microsoft has a slew of announcements for developers. Now we know when Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 will hit the street! Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 availability – Available to MSDN subscribers today! General availability will follow...
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At the Microsoft SharePoint conference Steve Ballmer, the company's CEO, announced the public beta of SharePoint in November. "It's kinda magical," Ballmer said. "It's one of my favorite products at Microsoft," Ballmer...
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We have some exciting news! Penton Media is relaunching asp.netPRO magazine as DevConnections magazine in November 2009. The last issue of asp.netPRO magazine will come out in early November. It will be followed a few weeks later by DevConnections magazine...
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Microsoft announced the release to web of the Web Platform Installer 2.0 and the Windows Web Application Gallery 2.0. This new release provides developers with a simplified installation of Microsoft products and technologies that reduces download complexity...
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Microsoft announced the launch of the WebsiteSpark Program, a new program designed to help business development for Web professionals. As the latest program in the ‘Spark’ family, including BizSpark and DreamSpark, the WebsiteSpark Program provides eligible...
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Microsoft is releasing a wave of August community technology previews (CTPs) of interest to SQL Server developers, including SQL Azure Database, SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 and SQL Server StreamInsight August CTP for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. These...
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At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Bob Muglia, President of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft, announced the immediate availablity of the Windows Azure platform. "It's available now for free now and will go commercial in November...
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Microsoft has announced the general availability of Silverlight 3 and the release candidate of Expressions 3. According to the company’s press release these products “in conjunction with Microsoft Visual Studio . . . offer a highly collaborative development...
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Dot Net Nuke (DNN) released its Dot Net Nuke Professional Edition version 5.1 this week. I spoke with the company’s president and CEO, Navin Nagiah, about the launch of DNN Professional Edition version 5.1 and about the company’s success at building open...
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A good number of the winners of the Best of TechEd 2009 awards sponsored by Microsoft and Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazines were companies with a developer focus. In a year where attendance at TechEd was down—I heard estimates that varied between...
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The asp.netPRO Magazine editors have done the final tally on the votes for this year's asp.netPRO Readers' Choice Awards. Thanks to all the visitors to the aspnetpro.com site who chose their favorite products. More than 8,000 aspnetpro.com readers...
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The asp.netPRO editors have tallied the votes for this year's Readers' Choice Awards. More than 8,000 aspnetpro.com visitors voted on approximately 300 products in 25 product categories. The winners will be announced at TechEd 2009 Monday May...
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Over the past few months I've had some interesting conversations with Embarcadero executives. They've seeing a trend in IT and development that they've called the blended career. Since the their acquisition of Code Gear last year, which gave...
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Keynoter Scott Guthrie packed the ballroom at the Orlando Marriott at the spring 2009 DevConnections conference. Guthrie, a Microsoft vice president and widely viewed as the father of ASP.NET, spoke on “Web Deployment: The Next Generation.” He gave the...