February 2008 Entries
There are so many great things about Silverlight 2.0... ScottGu introduces us to a few of them.
First Look at Silverlight 2
Last September we shipped Silverlight 1.0 for Mac and Windows, and announced our plans to deliver Silverlight on Linux. Silverlight 1.0 is focused on enabling rich media scenarios in a browser, and supports a JavaScript/AJAX programming model.
We are shortly going to release the first public beta of Silverlight 2, which will be a major update of Silverlight that focuses on enabling Rich Internet Application (RIA) development. This is the first of several blog posts I'll be doing over the weeks and months ahead that talk in more depth about it.
First Look at Silverlight 2 - ScottGu's Blog
I ran into this yesterday and was really confused about the simple change... I didn't get any errors, it was just connecting without being in console mode and I had too many disconnected sessions to get a connection. I triple checked that I was using the /console switch and wasn't aware that SP1 changed it.
It's actually there, just change /console to /admin which does make more sense syntactically, but it breaks any shortcuts you may have set up for /console.
I installed Vista SP1 the other week and today I wanted to access a server I am setting up by using the /console switch in Remote Desktop (to access the logged in user). But it didn't work, I just got a error "A unknown parameter was specified in computer name field". Strange, I googled for it and for some strange reason they've renamed it to /admin. Mental note: Refactoring is really annoying when you're the end user.
No more Remote Desktop /console in Vista - EPiServer Labs
This is great news and an excellent move by Microsoft.
Microsoft to give students free developer tools
Microsoft wants more students using its software tools and it thinks it has hit on the right business model.
It's going to give away its software.
Starting this week, college students in 10 countries will be able to get Microsoft's Visual Studio and several other programs for free as part of an effort dubbed DreamSpark. Over the next year, Microsoft plans to offer the program worldwide for college and high school students.
In addition to giving away its Visual Studio tools, Microsoft is also providing no-charge access to its Expression Web design tools and its XNA studio for developing Xbox 360 software. Microsoft already provides discounted academic versions of its software, as well as a free "express" version of Visual Studio. Students can also get free copies of Windows Server and the developer version of the SQL Server database.
Microsoft to give students free developer tools | Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News.com
Last night Simon and Mike revealed our new logo:
This is going to be a fantastic group to be involved in. Lets see... at last night's meeting I counted 4 MVPs. Any group getting started with a technical background and support from folks like that (as well as the trainers and MS employees there) will be an invaluable resource for any developer.
I am whole-heartedly throwing my support behind this group and hope to see it grow exponentially.
There is some concern that lots of people are still waiting to see what happens when Silverliught 2.0 is released and seem the think that is when it will become “relevant” as a technology. I think that if you really are interested in this, then working in 1.1 will get you 90% there, the new version will just enhance what we already have and make it work better.
One of the topics of discussion that came up was debugging... Simon reminded me of the Sys.Debug class of ASP.Net Ajax. If you place a TextArea on your page with the ID=TraceConsole then you can almost automatically send lots of debugging information there from both Client AND Server which can be really helpful to understand just what the heck is going on in events. I will be looking into how to leverage this with Silverlight in a few days.
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