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Bing Silverlight Control with the Bing Web Service Application

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 Posted in .Net, C#, Silverlight | 2 Comments »

After reading Carl Dickinson's post on Mando Group Labs about the Bing Silverlight Control, I wanted to give it a try myself. I decided to set about using the Bing Silverlight control to display available hotels from LateRooms.com.  LateRooms.com have an ...

The Silverlight Masterclass!

Thursday, April 29th, 2010 Posted in .Net, Silverlight | 1 Comment »

The Silverlight Tour comes to the UK – and it’s called the Masterclass! This 3 day hands-on training with both designer and developer tracks looks awesome and (uniquely) has two expert trainers per course.  Currently scheduled in London, Manchester, and the Midlands ...

Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Link Post

Thursday, April 8th, 2010 Posted in Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 | No Comments »

With the recent announcements regarding Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7 Development, I thought I would share a few links to some sites I have found useful, both recently and in the past when starting to work with Silverlight and ...

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 Download Available

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.Net, Betas, C#, Entity Framework, Silverlight, microsoft, msdn, visual studio | 1 Comment »

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 has now been released to members of MSDN, with a public download available from Wednesday. Beta 2 brings many improvements to the table, including improvements in Sharepoint, WPF, ASP.NET, WinForms, as well as improvements ...

Silverlight Coming to Mobile

Friday, September 25th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Silverlight, Windows Mobile | 1 Comment »

Ok, so this is not exactly a surprise to many people, but as posted on the Expression team blog, the Silverlight team have announced that Silverlight will be integrated into Windows Mobile 7, the reboot of the mobile OS from ...

Scott Guthrie – Manchester – September 2009 – ASP.Net 4.0, MVC, Silverlight 3, VS 2010

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.Net, Silverlight, microsoft | 2 Comments »

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's Corporate Vice Presedent and all round .Net Guru is coming to Manchester, UK, later this month to talk about what's new with Visual Studio 2010, ASP.Net 4.0, Silverlight 3 and upcoming improvements to the MVC Framework! Seating for this event, ...

Expression Web 3 Released

Sunday, July 26th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Expression Web, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, microsoft, msdn, web design | 2 Comments »

Expression Web 3, part of Expression Studio from Microsoft has now been released and is available for purchase / download. MSDN license holders should find Expression Studio including Expression Web 3 available for download now from the MSDN web site, whilst ...

Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Uk Lunch Event in July

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Expression Web, Silverlight, microsoft | 1 Comment »

UPDATE: Expression Web 3, Sliverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 have now been released, which you can read about in my post, "Expression Web 3 Released" here. I received an email this morning inviting me to an exclusive launch event for Silverlight ...

Silverlight 3 Beta Download Available

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Betas, Silverlight | No Comments »

As Next Best Geek reported earlier, it looks like the Silverlight 3 Beta SDK and Tools for VS 2008 have been made available for download. There was also a link to a  new Blend Preview, but the link appears to be broken.  Maybe this is ...

MSDN Roadshow 2008 Review and Useful Links

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in .Net, C#, Silverlight, msdn | 2 Comments »

Ok, so a few weeks ago I posted about my plans to attend the MSDN Roadshow 2008 in Manchester and I said that I would post about the event once I had attended.  So as promised here is that very ...