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Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5

Microsoft has released an updated version of the Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 which provides support for creating Silverlight 5 and Silverlight 5 SketchFlow projects.

You may probably recollect that Expression Blend Preview for SL 5 … Continue reading

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Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Download Links

In the BUILD Developer conference a couple of days ago, Microsoft introduced the next version of Windows called Windows 8 and next version of Visual Studio called Visual Studio 11. Microsoft released the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and Windows … Continue reading

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Entity Framework 4.2 Beta 1 Released with Bug Fix – The given assembly name or codebase was invalid

The Entity Framework 4.1 Update announced in July contained a bug that affected third party EF providers using a generic class for their provider factory implementation. A FileLoadException occurred with the message “The given assembly name or codeba… Continue reading

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Entity Framework 4.2 Beta 1 Released with Bug Fix – The given assembly name or codebase was invalid

The Entity Framework 4.1 Update announced in July contained a bug that affected third party EF providers using a generic class for their provider factory implementation. A FileLoadException occurred with the message “The given assembly name or codebase was invalid”. Microsoft recently announced EF 4.2 Beta 1 which fixes this bug.
To refresh your memory, with EF 4.1 Update 1 there’s no need to Continue reading

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Windows Azure Tools v1.4 for Visual Studio 2010

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio 2010 to enable the creation, configuration, building, debugging, running, packaging and deployment of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure.
The tool is now available as a standalone download as well as via the Web Platform Installer. Microsoft recommends installing Azure Tools using the Web Platform Installer. Continue reading

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Windows Azure Tools v1.4 for Visual Studio 2010

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio 2010 to enable the creation, configuration, building, debugging, running, packaging and deployment of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure.
The tool is now availabl… Continue reading

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WCF RIA Services Toolkit Update

There is an update to the WCF RIA Services Toolkit and new features have been added including:Linq to SQL support
EntityFramework 4.1 (EF CodeFirst support)
T4 Template based Code Generation
ViewModel (MVVM) support for CollectionViews
Windows Azure Ta… Continue reading

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WCF RIA Services Toolkit Update

There is an update to the WCF RIA Services Toolkit and new features have been added including:Linq to SQL support
EntityFramework 4.1 (EF CodeFirst support)
T4 Template based Code Generation
ViewModel (MVVM) support for CollectionViews
Windows Azure Ta… Continue reading

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IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released with better HTML 5 support

Microsoft just released Preview 2 of the new Internet Explorer 10 and it’s getting better! You can download it from http://www.ietestdrive.com.

Here’s a broad list of what’s new in preview 2:
Support for the Web Worker API which allows to run complex JavaScripts in the background
Support for Web File API providing browsers controlled access to the local file system, HTML 5 sandbox and iFrame Continue reading

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IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released with better HTML 5 support

Microsoft just released Preview 2 of the new Internet Explorer 10 and it’s getting better! You can download it from http://www.ietestdrive.com.

Here’s a broad list of what’s new in preview 2:
Support for the Web Worker API which allows to run comp… Continue reading

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